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God allows things that are painful but our great enemy of death has been defeated on the cross.... - Pastor Barry Stagner #justaminute #cctustin

Join the men of CCT we're continuing our study in Mark: Jesus. Servant. Master. The studies are held in the Fellowship Hall each Thursday at 7:00 pm! Join us and invite a friend!

Come join us tonight at 7:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall to worship and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through recovery principles taught in God’s Word. #recovery

New blog post from Pastor Barry on fighting for a renewed mind!

Sunday, February 4: Join us for intercessory prayer and in observing the Lord’s Supper this coming Sunday in the Main Sanctuary of Calvary Chapel Tustin at 6:00 PM.

For we walk by faith, not by sight. - 2 Corinthians 5:7

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. - Psalm 46:1 #love #hope #faith #cctustin

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. - 2 Corinthians 12:9

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." -Romans 6:23 God offers forgiveness of sins and an eternal... home in Heaven- by far the greatest gifts ever- to any and all who will accept Jesus as their Savior. If you would like to live forever in Heaven with Him, just sincerely pray something like this- "Dear God, I know I'm a sinner and I'm lost without you. I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins, and He overcame death by rising from the dead. Please forgive me of my sins and give me an eternal home in Heaven with you. Thank you Lord for saving me!" It's a wonderful thing to have your eternity secure in Him! (If you have any questions, I am happy to help if I can- just let me know...)

The Law. What is it good for? Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit in his first letter to his spiritual son Timothy, reveals the answer! If you are fighting addiction, you'll need to know the answer to this question more so than many. See you Tues. 7:00 PM at CCT!

We’ve started a study in the first letter to Timothy from the Apostle Paul. Join us as we examine how the ministers of the gospel are to conduct themselves. Most think that this is all Paul discusses in his first letter to his true son in the faith, but hang in there. There’s something exciting in this letter for us all! Join our EPIC group at CCT on 17th Street in Santa Ana. The word of God never disappoints!

In the secular world today the line between right and wrong and good and evil has, at the very least, become blurred and that blurred line keeps moving. We should rejoice that we have a Father in heaven Who has set a standard of living for us and doesn’t change that standard under any circumstances.

The first annual EPIC food drive got off to a great start! Love our CCT family!!!

Had a great meal and fellowship at Pina's Bistro. Can't wait until the next time we meet there!

This Wednesday night we will be taking a break from our studies in Hebrews and addressing the topic of addictions. How to get free, stay free and how to love th...ose struggling to be free! Hope you can join us online or in person for this very important topic! We will be recording and producing a DVD for those unable to join us.

Come join us every Tuesday night at 7:00 PM in our Fellowship Hall for a time of fellowship, worship and to celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through recovery principles taught in God’s Word.

THIS SUNDAY OCTOBER 18TH: Invite family and friends and come for a special evening with Victor Marx as he shares his testimony and gives a recap of their recent mission trip to Iraq. We will also have a special music guest, Chuck Girard! Child Care is provided.

Come join us fellow E.P.I.C. sojourners on Tuesday, Oct.25 at 7:P.M. to celebrate God's grace as we dig into in His word at 500 E. 17th St. in Santa Ana.

Everything is possible in Christ! May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him!

Come join us THIS FRIDAY, August 21st, for a special evening as Marlene Barba shares her testimony of God’s amazing grace in her life. Service is at 7:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall!

Greetings fellow E.P.I.C. sojourners! Just a quick reminder to let you all know that in observance of the Independence Day holiday we will not be meeting tonight but will start up again next Friday 7/10/15. In view of this holiday, please remember when you say; "God Bless America" how much we as a nation have been blessed and pray for God's continued favor on this land we call AMERICA !!!

Today's Power Thought...

It's a package deal, NO compromises!!! :{ )

Naughty and Nice List Realizing it not near Christmas you might wonder why someone would call to mind the fictional idea of Santa Claus and his dreaded naughty and nice list. Well, it brought to mind the way we as sinners see our sins. Most times we feel that Christ will judge us as naughty or nice. The nice people or those who decided to be nice, can be saved but those who are naughty, or too naughty, cannot. The scripture is clear, there is none righteous (in right stan...Continue reading

Let us not imagine that the truth of the divine self-sufficiency will paralyze Christian activity. Rather it will stimulate all holy endeavors. This truth, while a needed rebuke to human self confidence, will when viewed in its Biblical perspective lift from our minds the exhausting load of mortality and encourage us to take the easy yoke of Christ and spend ourselves in Spirit-inspired toil for the honor of God and the good of mankind. For the blessed news is that the God,... who needs no one, has in sovereign condescension stopped to work by and in and through His obedient servants. A W Tozer The Knowledge of The Holy The Self Sufficiency of God

I have not once heard it said of anyone that they were a better person before they became a Christian. I have seen countless people however, ruined by false rel...igions and some even become extremely evil. Jesus changes all those who trust in Him for the better. He sobers up drunks, He frees drug addicts, He makes cheaters faithful, He turns liars into truth bearers, He makes the thief honest, He turns the religious into the righteous and makes the covetous person content. He is the King of Kings and He is the Lord of Lords! He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one comes to the Father but through Him!

Matthew 9:37 NKJV "Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few". It's not fall but it is HARVEST season and in observance of the Harvest Crusade at The Big "A" this weekend 8/15-17/14 we will not be meeting this Friday 8/15/14. Be a "laborer" and bring someone to Anaheim this weekend and introduce them to Jesus! Continued blessings!!! :{ )

Life Outside The Garden Prodigals Parents,... If you have read any Christian or secular book on parenting you have more than likely noticed that the parents bears, somewhere in the neighborhood of, 100 percent of the responsibility for the behavior of their children. Even admonitions from Our God tells parents to Train up and not exasperate but no where does it say parents are 100 responsible. God knew with a free will children needed to be instructed by His commandments such as Honor your father and mother plus children that curse their parents would be put to death Parents often find the guilt of having a prodigal placed completely on their shoulders and many bear it to great shame and depression. Well, I’m here to tell you the truth from God’s word that the very birth of that child created a prodigal, not you. Yes, that is correct, as soon as that child came screaming into this fallen world you had a prodigal on your hands. You might say, They were raised in a Christian home Well, that’s the exact reason I became a prodigal. All I knew was church and had not experienced the emptiness of the world. You might say, I made so many mistakes as a Christian parent. Well, let me deal with it this way. The Bible in Ezekiel 18 says, The soul that sins, it will die. Ezekiel then goes on to delineate this quite clearly through the whole of the chapter. The father is not responsible for the son nor the son for the father. (ie. The good father has a bad son and the bad son, becomes a father and has a good son.) Who then dies for their wickedness? The one that sins and did the wickedness. Our Heavenly Father made no mistakes and yet He has a planet, He created out of His love, that is full of prodigals. It’s not our responsibility to carry the load for a prodigal. It’s His! He speaks to every heart. Did I mention, He speaks to EVERY heart. He Loves Perfectly! How many of us know of people that had a horrible childhood yet came to Christ in their teens or twenties and love their Lord and Redeemer with abandon. There are others who knew, experienced and embodied all that Christ, the Christian life and church can offer and still rebel with abandon. This is solely in the purview and foreknowledge of Our Father. He created the free will. He knows the plans He has for everyone. He will accomplish His purpose through the wicked and the righteous. We must merely trust that He is good, which He is, and let Him do His best work. You were redeemed by Christ’s shed blood. You cannot redeem anyone by carrying shame, guilt, anger or depression. Let the redemptive work of Christ make the change, you wait patiently for the change to happen since we are living Life Outside The Garden.

Good evening all! Just a quick note to let all know that in observance of C.C.T's baseball night, we will not be meeting tomorrow 7/18/14. We apologize for any inconvenience and Lord willing look forward to fellowshipping with all those who answer the call next Friday 7/26/14 at 7:PM. Good night and may you all have a blessed week in Him. :{ ) <><

Life Outside The Garden Broken Clocks You will hear people say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. It’s a convenient way of saying, Even though this person, group or agency is predominately wrong, on most of the issues or information they espouse or peddle, on this one issue they are correct.... With truth being in such scarce supply it’s time to take issue with this saying. What we need to do is throw out the broken clock and get one that tells you the truth on a consistent basis, better yet, one that tells the truth always. Let’s define truth, in its objective and subjective forms. Jesus Is Truth. He not only told the Truth, represented Truth, lived Truth, He is Truth in all its forms, objective & subjective. When a minister, politician or close friend deviates from the truth of Jesus and their dogma or doctrine is completely against the principles that Truth (see above definition) declares we need to be weary of quoting, promoting or even entertaining that, and lets call it like it is, error. We see otherwise Godly men and women who will quote contemporary Christian ministers and even secular sources to substantiate their God ordained truth where if the sufficiency of scripture does not answer or is not pithy enough then there are men and women of Christian history who have earned the right by their stance for the Truth (see above definition) to be quoted and heard. Many men and women of Christian history have, to borrow a line from a movie, Stepped in time with the Truth of Jesus their whole life. Obviously their timing mechanism may have lost a second or two during their life time but we find that these men and women, who relished Truth, always found themselves back in True timing with Jesus Christ and His Truth. Should you find yourself four minutes off the True time, that for instance an atomic clock might tell you, then its time to reset the clock, get realigned, sync yourself to the Truth. Now if your clock is saying day is night and night is day (calling good, evil and evil, good i.e. Isaiah 5:18-25) then it’s time to repent. Change direction. Get Truth as your true source. So, throw out the Broken Clocks and make Truth your timing mechanism since we are living Life Outside The Garden.