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The first time I set foot in Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa was on Easter morning. The air was full of electricity as thousands of people…

The first time I discovered Chuck Smith’s teaching, my wife and I were on our honeymoon. The pastor mentoring us as a couple invited us…

I met Chuck Smith on a tractor at Murrieta Hot Springs. It was 1996, and I had just moved to California from my home state…

In 1971 or 1972, Mike MacIntosh asked me to capture the new worship songs that were being born during the Jesus Movement on vinyl. (Yes,…

That voice…that beaming smile…that sparkle in his eyes. Even after a decade has gone by, who could forget the man that thousands upon thousands have…

Even though it has been a decade since Pastor Chuck's passing, his voice still resonates in the ears of those who were touched by his…

Keeping Jesus At The Center - Ray Ortlund My wife Jani and I were at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa on New Year’s Eve 1971, going…

Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed Thy hand hath provided: great is…

Ten years ago, on October 3, Chuck Smith died. At the time, I wrote how it is hard to overstate the impact on the modern…

I have had a repeated and deepening experience of God’s grace throughout my time with Calvary Chapel. Although I only met him in passing, I…

I first met Chuck Smith in 1974 as a long-haired 20 year old serving as youth pastor at a nearby church. On weekends, I’d drive…

Join Pastors Wayne and Riley Taylor as they lovingly reminisce and share their memories of Pastor Chuck Smith, affectionately known to many as “Papa Chuck.”…