Calvary Virginia Beach Church

#LoveLikeJesus

“Will we be the lighthouse for God or not? we be the one that shows the love for one another? Not just love for one another, but love for one another the way Jesus loved us. Meaning everybody's welcome at the foot of the cross. Mean that if they screw up, understand that you screw up and I screw up and love them the way Jesus loved us through that screw up.”

#GreatCommission

“You see, there's one way. One Jesus, one mission. Not 42,000 missions. There's one. That's seeing people come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. Can I get an amen? That's then discipling him in his ways so people will know the problem with people that get saved and prayer prayer and get saved is that we get them to pray a prayer, baptize them, and get them saved. But then once they're saved, we just leave them there. And honey, if we're doing that, we're not fulfilling the great commission. You won't know not to do something because you've never been taught.”

#FollowJesus

“Is this time to take a deep breath, look into God's face, and say, right, we're ready for a new challenge. For every one of us to be willing to say, yes, Jesus. I will follow you. I don't just believe in you. I'll follow you to become a disciple who makes disciples. Because Jesus, you know what? There are 8,400,000,000 people in this world, and every one of them needs to know you. And I wanna play the part you want me to play to ensure that those in my world can be reached.”

#KeepYourEyesOnJesus

“When Peter's attention became divided, his faith collapsed. soon as you start taking your eyes off of Jesus, because of filling the blank, your pride, your arrogance, whatever it is, as soon as you get distracted by the world or the wrong friends, as soon as you start self relying again, you start to sink. sink everywhere. You sink in your heart, you sink in your mind, you sink you sink in how you speak to yourself and how you speak to others. You're no longer speaking life unto yourself because you're sinking in your relationships.”

#ArmorOfGod

“Lord, I'm putting on the helmet of salvation. Lord, I'm putting on the plate of righteousness. Lord, I'm putting on the belt of truth. Lord, I'm shodding my feet with the preparation of the gospel. Come on. Lord, I'm picking up the sword. Because it's on here too. I'm picking up the sword. Lord, you've gotta go before me. Give me boldness to be able to proclaim your gospel, your truth, your grace, your mercy. hide me behind the cross of Calvary. May they not see me, but may they see you.”

#LivingSacrifice

“God is telling us that we need to be a living sacrifice. What does that mean to us today? That means that we need to come to the altar. And we need to say, God, here I am. My everyday life I give to you. Help me to raise my children. Help me to be a better mother, father. Help me to be a better helpmate to my mate, to my husband, or to my wife. Help me to be the aunt and the uncle, the brother, the sister. Father, help me to be the church member I need to be for the body of Christ. Use everything about me that you get the glory. Everything about my life that you get the glory.”

#BiblicalSelfReflection

“The only way you can do it and wanna walk with God as part of the royal priesthood, you cannot use the bible as a weapon to get what you want or a weapon to make people hurt that you want them to hurt. But you've got to love the word of God, and you've got to draw a circle around yourself and do a sober self assessment. And that's you being honest with God just between you and God and saying, Lord, here I am. All my mess up, everything that I am, here I am. I know that only you can straighten it out.”

#RenewMindBeHoly

“The human nature and say, Lord, I know that I'm saved. I'm born again. Amen? You're you are deposited. You have sealed me until the day of redemption. asking for your help. Come on, talking to God and admitting where we fail and asking him, that's the way we lay it aside. We have to start by taking the word into our minds, by reading it, by renewing our hearts. It goes from the mind to the heart, and then it comes out in conversation. And that's what God says when he says, be holy for I am holy. What are your actions? What are your conversation? Is it holy? Or can they hear you talking about everybody else under the sun?”

#BeyondSalvation

“Here it is. He's telling us. Peter's telling us here. He's saying, look, therefore, what happened before? Go back to that. Preparing your mind for action. We need to prepare our mind for the very action of being and then it says, being what? Preparing being sober minded. Now that doesn't mean that's the difference between drunk. Come on. Some people get so drunk on religion. They start acting crazy. They think, well, you know, I've made it. And this has been the problem in the Baptist church for a long time is that we get saved, pastor Angelo. They get saved, they get baptized, and then we leave them right there. They think they've got they've hey, I've accomplished all I need to accomplish. No, you haven't. That's just the beginning. That's salvation. That is that vertical line of justification. You are justified with God through the blood of Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross. Your sin debt, my sin debt has been paid in full. But don't stop there in the doorway of the house of God. You need to get on in and walk in and see the pleasures that he has for you today as a child, his child.”

#VerticalPeace

“And see that crucifix, they did what they needed to do so we could stand up here doing what we're doing today. It all works in harmony together. The vertical beam must be driven into the ground first, so too with peace, it must be made vertically before it can be extended horizontally to everybody else. You gotta have that peace with god.”

#VerticalFaithFirst

“But I'm gonna tell you what, if you understand how God the father loves you and sent his son, Jesus Christ, to take your place on the cross. And when you understand that and when you believe that with your whole heart, and you'll start walking in the faith that you have, amen, instead of struggling in the faith. When you start really walking under the power of the Holy Spirit, and you get in line, that vertical line is right, then you can go horizontal. But you can't go horizontal and reach out to other people for Christ until you get the vertical line just right. Problem is we wanna we wanna work on the horizontal and talk about everybody else. But we don't wanna get the vertical right. If conviction is gonna come to people around us, it's gonna come not because we're being God's policeman, but because we're living the way God would have us live.”

#HopeForTheLost

“We are here as a mass unit for the lost world out there. We are here to be able to say that in Luke chapter 15, the prodigal son is real, and God is a god of a hundredth of or or a million chance. Amen. Amen? He is not a god that says you three strikes and you're out. This is not baseball, baby. We're dealing with Christianity. We're dealing with where we as a church, the body of Christ as a whole, ought to give hope to everyone. The vilest sinner on earth ought to be able to walk into a Christian church. Yes, they make me convicted, but they ought to find hope in that conviction. Come on. Amen? And I'm a firm believer in that.”

#TalkToTheMountain

“``God wants to give us all freedom from every sin because he's paid it in full, but we, the children of God, have got to do it his way by going to him and naming it. You know, the bible says over Jesus said over, if there was a mountain in the way, what did he say? Talk to the mountain. Talk it to the mountain. It's not gonna move until you talk to that mountain. Don't talk to everybody else about it. Talk to the mountain. Amen? Amen. And so we need to go to in our prayer closets, and we need to get along with our God, and we need to name the sin. So we can be set free from it. Whether that's looking at porn, whether that's drinking too much, whether that's maybe drinking too many sodas. I don't know. Drinking too much. Whatever it is, if god if it gets between you and god, it's sin. Amen?”

#YouAreChosen

“But I'm telling you church, Jesus stands here today at the gates of Hades with you. In the shadow of every false god, in the face of every lie, he stands there and he says, you are chosen. You are forgiven. You are beloved, and you are his. You are someone that he can build his church upon to go out and be the disciples until every tribe and tongue has heard. And the gates of Hades will not prevail against you.”

#ForgivenAndFree

“``Beloved, if you understand the god that we have, we have a god that wants to forgive us, that died that sent his son to die on the cross to forgive us. You no longer have to be in the jail of that bondage any longer, That unforgiving spirit, that bitterness, you need to be freed from that by the blood of Jesus Christ. You need to let it go. It could be a child that has hurt you. It could be a parent that has hurt you. It could be a friend that has hurt you. Because a lot of stuff that we think in our mind is not even true.”

#ServeWithLove

“You're not here for yourself, but get you get your nose out your head. Get your nose out your mind. Put your nose back where it belongs going forward and look and with your spiritual eyes wide open and see the needs of the people around you and start serving them. Because when you do that, you serve others. It's an act of love. Amen? The Christ like love that shows through us. Amen? Now that doesn't mean to be a sucker.”

#FaithWhenShaken

“``Have you ever been going through life? And it seems like everything that you knew, the bottom dropped out? It could be money issue. It could be a a child. It could be going through different things in life with a spouse, other family, stuff that you were not even aware of, and it you started and got up one day and everything was fine and then seven days later, you didn't even know your life. Has that ever happened to you? Amen. Have you ever been to where your tree was shaken? Amen? And it shook your faith. It shook you if we're honest, that kind of stuff can shake our faith. Some even quit. And I wanna tell you today, there's no reason to quit. We have somebody that's in control. Amen? Amen. Even when we're not.”

#RunToTheFather

“The father loves us. If you do but you don't know what I've done. No, but he does and he still loves you. You go back over to Luke chapter 15, the same god that rent the daddy. That pictures the father running after us when he sees us afar off. When we change our mind and we'll repent and we'll come to him and we'll allow him, he comes running after us. It's not what you've done. It's all about he's already forgiven us, and will you walk in that and accept that? You say, but, preacher, you don't know what I've done. Honey, he does. And he says he still loves you and still sent his son to die on the cross for you and you alone. Amen?”

#FaithInAction

“``See, if you're gonna live a testimony for Christ, you've gotta make a difference. Making a difference is we've gotta do our part and believe by faith that if we if we get in the word of god, god's gonna use us. Let me tell you something. There are people under the sound of my voice today. God wants to use you in a mighty way. It's ordinary people walking in a ordinary life that's gonna change the world around us for Christ. Stop looking for the big moments. Stop looking for the spotlight, and start living your life in such a way understanding that you wanna be connected to the holy spirit for when he shows you an opportunity that you act and speak Christ into somebody's life.”

#BewareSelfRighteousness

“The younger brother was lost in rebellion. The older brother is lost in religion. The younger brother broke the father's rules. The older brother missed the father's heart. That this is was Jesus' direct challenge to the pharisees who criticized him for welcoming sinners in. Right? So the danger of self righteousness is that it often hides behind that outward mortality. Right? Jesus warned in Luke eighteen nineteen nine through 14, I'm not gonna read it, through the parable of the Pharisees and the tax collector that pride can just be just as destructive as open rebellion.”

#ProtectTheSpirit

“That keeps the spirit from moving and we all need to we all I need to do my part as an individual. You need to do your part. We need to draw circles around ourselves and we need to ask ourselves if there's anything that we do quench the spirit. And if it does, simply ask the lord to forgive you and don't do it. Can I get an amen? One heart, one soul, sharing everything that they had. We can do that too if we'll come together. Can I get an amen? We need to understand that we are in a time today where people are hurting. Amen? Amen? And we need to be that church that says we have the answers. His name is Jesus. Amen.”

#TrainLeaders

“You wanna make a good leader? You want a good leader growing up under you? You want a good team? You need to train them. If there's no training, you're not gonna have a good team. These people that wanna come in here and be Sunday morning quarterbacks and they wanna hit me on Sunday, and then on Monday, they wanna call me and tell me or go on Facebook and say how bad all life is. The reason it's bad is because you're not in the book and you've not done any training because I'm gonna tell you something. If god's in charge of your life, you can speak to that mountain and tell it to move.”

#WorshipWithRightAttitude

“``Hey, if you're not getting anything out of the worship or the preaching, you're coming into the sanctuary with the wrong attitude. You are just as important as the person that's holding the mic and singing and a man that's streaming the guitar. You've gotta come in with the right attitude to praise God. And when you do and understand what Jesus has done for you and you start raising your hands, it's good to holler amen. Holler hallelujah. Amen? Ain't nothing wrong with that. You ought to get a little excited because I'm gonna tell you something. If you were down there in Revelation in that class, you're gonna understand. If you don't like these songs, you ain't gonna like the ones in heaven.”

#EternalKingdom

“See, the world offers us a counterfeit kingdom. The world offers us a counterfeit kingdom that is built on desire, built on image, and pride. But John tells us in verse 17 here that the world is passing away. Underline that. Circle it. The world is passing away. Everything that you long for, everything that you gain. If you're if you're walking in the world, just know that it's temporary. It's passing away. But he or she who does the will of god abides forever.”

#DailyQuietTime

“You've got people that'll do all that but they never take personal time with Jesus Christ. Listen to me. Please listen to what I'm saying today. It's all about who do you abide in. If you don't take time, how about making a decision today to spend ten minutes a day? One, if you only read one passage or two passages in the bible, but take ten minutes a day that after you do that, that you spend time with the father. No interruptions.”

#BetOnJesus

“This belief, by the way, is not just a minor, oh, I believe we're gonna go out to eat tonight. What do you think, Sarah? It's not a casual belief. It's the idea of a gambler putting everything he has in on this hand. There is no second chance. There is no other option. Every single thing he has is bet on this. That is belief. We have to believe that Jesus Christ is who he says he is, does what he says he does, did what he said he would and will do what he says he will.”

#takethoughtscaptive

“``He stopped and the deacon went over to him and said, doctor Spurgeon, why did you stop in the road? He said a dark cloud got between me and my god and I had to get it out of there. He didn't say nothing to anybody. It was in his thought life. How many of you know we need to take these thoughts captive? Some of us are living by thoughts, evil thoughts that we've had about people for so long and not took them captive and have allowed them to dictate our faith. You should never let your feelings dictate your faith. Can I get an amen? You see, when we understand that,”

#ReadyForHisReturn

“If he came back, would he be proud of you? And I know that just that just hoses down half a dozen of you because y'all all about self. Let me tell you something. I love you enough to say something and to be honest with you. If Jesus came back, there's nothing left for him to accomplish before he comes back to this earth to get his church. Will you be ready?”

#TetelestaiPaidInFull

“Tell a test die means this, that the debt was paid in full. Tell a test die. Jesus hollered from the cross, yelled from the cross. Also, not only is the debt paid in full but the debt was also used in in a in a court system context in a court when a sentence was fully served, not like somewhat somewhat served or kind of served but completely and fully once and for all served. Done. Paid in full. Then, Teletestai, the Greek word there, it is finished.”

#LoveMustBeUnconditional

“You can tell a hurting well world how much we love Jesus and how much Jesus loves them. We can tell a wayward family member the same thing. We can tell them how much we care. We can tell them, well, you just fill in the blank. You can tell them anything. But without love and without loving unconditionally, without loving sacrificially, and without loving forgivingly, you know what? Nobody's ever gonna hear it. It doesn't mean anything unless you love unconditionally, sacrificially, and forgivingly.”

#ThroneRoomAccess

“Because of the death when Jesus said it is finished from the cross, that veil that was 60 feet tall, that was 70 17 feet wide, four inches thick was tore from the top to the bottom. And what did that partition do? It separated the human race from the presence of God. Well, I want you to know right now because that veil was tore, there is no separation now. If you're a child of God, you can go boldly to Throne Room Of Grace and God himself will hear your prayers. Amen. Glory to God.”

#FaithOverExcuses

“Trish, your husband's overseas. You're not sure what's gonna happen. We're not sure what's gonna happen, but we know we're trusting Jesus. Amen? And she could still sing and get up. She didn't use as an excuse of not to do. Come on. Amen. So my thing is to you today in all love and compassion is what is your excuse for not doing anything? Jesus had a decision that he could have made. He could have made that Good Friday. He could have called a bunch of angels to come down, but instead he did what his father had called to them. Three times he asked, can this cup be removed? Three times. But Jesus accepted that cup and drank of that cup for us. Fact, not fiction.”

#NoSeparationInChrist

“Baby, when Jesus said it is finished from the cross, that very moment when he gave up the ghost, separation between him and all mankind, between God and all mankind was done away with. There is no separation now today. We are in the church age, baby. And I'm telling you, if you're a child of god, you have a high priest that you can go to. You don't need to come to this pastor. You don't need to go to the deacon. You don't need to go anywhere. You can get on your knees no matter where you're at. Hey, you can stop picking your nose in the car that think nobody can see it and you can start praying.”

#WashTheFeet

“Holy Spirit picked this sermon out just for you and I today. I've learned something from it. Listen to me. We gotta stop trying to clean everybody all up when all they need is a feet washed. If Jesus has saved you and you're saved born again, You may walk through the world and pick up like a sponge because if you're in the navy, you go to the water cooler, you're gonna pick up some language that you ought not say. Come on. Come on. Amen. You say, not me. You're a liar because you thought it in your head.”

#PraiseWithPurpose

“Now, I'm gonna tell you something. We need to wise up because we're gonna read a passage today where there was misconceptions. And how about us today? Are we on a praise of are we on a journey of praise and purpose? Are we on a journey to do it our way and have a Burger King faith and a Burger King life? Have it your way.”

#RepentanceIsHope

“You may have you may act a certain remember I said there might be a some type of sin that's persistent in your life or a sin that you got mad at God for something, there's all these different kinds of sins but you haven't rejected the Holy Spirit. You have this thing in your brain that says, maybe I need to then you haven't committed the unpardonable sin. So the fact that a person feels remorse proves that blasphemy against the holy spirit has not yet been committed. So this is what Jesus is doing. He was warning us not to not to reject truth but and not to abandon your faith. Don't reject truth. Don't abandon your faith regardless what happens. Okay? This is what will save you. You're here for a reason. You've come here for a reason today.”

#PraiseAndWorshipPower

“That'll get your blood going. Right? Praise and worship. You know what I love about that is I know what sermon I'm about to preach, and I know how much words in those songs just related to what we're about to talk about today. The holy spirit is moving in a mighty way. The title of this message today is let not your heart be troubled. people on the sound of my voice and not just in this room, people on the sound of my voice are dealing with unknown illnesses,”

#FoundationInChrist

“They gave the word of god. They gave Jesus Christ was the way and the only way. The church needs to understand. We can't build this any other way on the foundation of Jesus Christ, period. Those two offices that the the gifts that were given to the church are foundational. We need to build upon what the prophets did. You can't throw away the Old Testament and say you're a new you're a New Testament church. You have to have the Old Testament and the New Testament.”

#HolinessThroughChrist

“we're called to be like Christ and what did he say? He said, for I am holy, you be holy too. Ain't that what the Bible says? Amen? We can be holy through Christ Jesus. You say, pastor, you don't know what I've done. You don't know my thoughts. Baby, I'm a tell you something. You just give it to Jesus. Amen. And you learn that if you rely on him, you're holy through Christ not because our own, my righteous, your righteous, filthy rags in god's sight, the bible says. Without that, without the peace, without holiness, without which no man can see the lord.”

#WaitForTheHolySpirit

“``You see, here it is in Luke twenty four forty nine says, behold, I send you a promise of my father. Upon you, but but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endured with a power on high. Some of you need to understand today that Jesus told his disciples, you wait in Jerusalem till the power of the holy spirit's upon you. Some of you need to know today, you need to stop trying to tell your family and friends what to do until you study your bible and see what God's telling you to do. Come on. Allow the holy spirit when you study, meditate on the word of God. Come on. You can you know the power of the holy spirit with you. You can speak out to people then and they'll hear you. They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Can I get an amen? And that's the truth. That's in any leadership, whether it be at the church, whether it be at home, or whether it be at work. Any leadership.”

#LoveLikeJesus

“``My Jesus is not mean. My Jesus is not hateful. My Jesus loves you right where you're at and says that he came, died on the cross to give you life and give it more abundantly. Amen? He said they'll know you are my disciples by the love you have for one another, not by the sharp words, not by the hate. Amen? But the love you have for one another.”

#SoldierForJesus

“``You see, you've gotta be like that soldier and you've gotta understand, we're not a country club or social club. We need to get back to the essentials. We need to get back to the ABCs, and we need to tell a dying world that they need Jesus. Amen? It's not that they don't like god. They want god. They're searching for god. But the problem is they don't like what they see when they get here.”

#GraceNotPolice

“``God Didn't call You to be His policeman God Didn't call You to be The Holy Spirit He called You and I To a place Of grace And of Love Now that Doesn't mean Compromise And not tell The truth Because if You truly Love someone The way God loves Them You're Going to Be honest Can I Get an Amen You're not Going to Be hateful There's a Difference Between being Honest Today And hateful Can I Get an Amen You see We need To stop Cursing The dark And we Need to Be the Light And turn The light On”

#HumbleKingForAll

“folks I have good news I have good news this Christmas Jesus Christ came and died on the cross he was born a virgin from a virgin birth amen he came as the king of kings as a little babythat had nothing he was not born in in in a in a a big mansion or palace but in a stable so everyone no matter where you're at economically education wise everyone could come to know this Jesus as Lord and Savior”

#EmpoweredByGod

“``God had set me free. He saved me, and he set you free. And he came to the lowliest. All of them people that said, Pastor Angelo, old little Jimmy Pugh, you'll never amount to nothing. You'll never do nothing. Listen to me. You've had people in your ear that tell you that you would never amount to nothing. You would never do nothing. They were all wrong. God said he's going to empower you. God's never going to call you to do something that he's not going to give you the power to do.”

#NoPoundOfFlesh

“Joseph didn't want a pound of flesh. He did not want, because he loved her, he did not want a pound of flesh from her. Amy, how the world would change if the men of the gospel of Jesus Christ today that say they're saved and the women that say they're children of God would not demand their pound of flesh all the time. How would that really change?”

#SpiritLedLeadership

“When you are filled with the Spirit, you ought to be able to embrace that adversity and know when to step forward as a leader and when to step back. Can I get an amen? Amen. It's not about Bubba and what Bubba does. It's about whether you're growing in Christ Jesus. Amen. This pulpit, this main thing for me as pastor of this church is that not that I'm supposed to feed you, but I'm supposed to give you the tools so you can feed yourself. Amen. And have opportunities to explore and have a safe harbor where people can explore.”

#GraceNotWorks

“And this love is so important because whether you like to hear it or not, this may not be something that sits well with you. But every single one of us deserves nothing but death. It is a grace and a mercy and a gift. It is a gift that the Father, the love that God showed to send his only begotten son to die for you and I. That we have the gift of eternal life. That we can accept that gift. But make no mistake about it. There's no works that we could do to make us deserve. It's a gift that we receive.”

#WalkWithTheSupernatural

“I believe that if you want to have a relationship with God led by the Spirit, you're going to have to walk with God in a mighty way. And you're walking not with a God that's in a shoebox or another box that you put him in, but a supernatural God. Can I get an amen?”

#CalledForToday

“Preachers, listen to me. Listen to me, please. I beg you. Stop trying to be what we were yesterday, and be what God has called us to be today, in 2025. And if we'll do that, we'll honestly do that, you're going to see God use you, every preacher, every royal part of the royal priesthood, that's every believer that's in Christ Jesus. You're going to see Him use you in a mighty way, because God's still desire is that everyone in the human race comes to know Him as Lord and Savior.”

#AttitudeShapesLeadership

“We need to worship him in truth and in spirit, amen? And part of worshiping him is come with the right attitude. 90% of what we do is attitude, 10% ability, baby, amen? You can have all the ability of the world, but if you don't have the right attitude as a leader, as a human being, and you're selfish, or you can be a victim mentality, which is still the sin of pride, because you want all the attention on you, amen?”

#CutOffTheOxygen

“I’ve learned the hard way with 40 years of ministry to do this: cut the oxygen off to your enemies. Children, listen to me. Young adults, listen to me. Older adults, listen to me. Stop the drama. You need to live by the philosophy: save the drama for your mama. I’m not your mama.”

“``We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within the lives united by the Holy Spirit of God. And I'm a true believer in that.”

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. John 3, 16. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son. You can say it with me because you know it. That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”