Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 14 min read
How do you live a wise, steady life in a world that feels like it's falling apart? It's a question that weighs on a lot of Christians.
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View articlesThe Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris is an independent evangelical church affiliated with the international Calvary Chapel movement, holding to the CNEF statement of faith. The church meets at 3 rue des Wattignies, in Paris's 12th arrondissement, near the Daumesnil metro station. It holds a Sunday service at 10:30 a.m., open to anyone wishing to discover the Christian faith or deepen their relationship with God in a welcoming setting.
Calvary Chapel Paris was founded in 2002, when Pastor Mike Dente and his wife Becky, who had come from the United States after several years serving with Calvary Chapel Nice, began home Bible studies in Paris. Holding a master's degree in theology from the Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence, Mike Dente is also the author of two books, "Appartenance" and "De l'imprévu vers la volonté de Dieu." The church stands in the heritage of the Calvary Chapel movement, founded in 1965 in California by Pastor Chuck Smith, with the vision of glorifying God by pointing everyone to Jesus Christ.
Church life centers on biblical teaching, including preaching series such as one devoted to the Psalms of redemption. True to the spirit of the Calvary Chapel movement, the community cultivates a non-judgmental welcome for anyone on a spiritual search. Donations can be made online, and the church can be reached by email for any question about its activities or to join the community on Sunday mornings.
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 14 min read
How do you live a wise, steady life in a world that feels like it's falling apart? It's a question that weighs on a lot of Christians.
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Three groups ask John the Baptist the same question, what he tells each one reveals what real repentance looks like in your own life.
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"I have become all things to all people." Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 sum up a missionary posture that unsettles our comfort.
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You live in a world where injustice seems to have the final word. One person lords it over another to their harm.
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Micah 5:2-4 announces an eternal king born in the smallest village. Rediscover Christian hope through this prophecy read in its full context.
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Mounir Nosel called this passage from Ephesians 3:1-7 "the courtyard of the outsiders." The title sounds strange, until you picture the scene where Jesus overturns the tables in the temple of Jerusalem.
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How do you keep your bearings in a world that's always changing, where elections, crises, and passing time make everything feel uncertain?
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People talk a lot these days about artificial intelligence. Some of it is good, some less so, and some of it is downright unsettling — lonely people who end up confiding in a chatbot, sinking into their own delusio…
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"Citizen of Heaven, Feet on Earth" series, part 4. Sermon from Matthew 7:13-14 (Momentum).
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You've probably seen the show "Undercover Boss." An executive disguises himself, changes his look, invents a new name, and goes to work among his employees. Nobody recognizes him.
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You may have found yourself thinking about God and feeling a quiet, anxious question rise up: "Why did God save me? What does he really expect from me?
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There are three things that get you out of bed in the morning, that keep you going through the week, that make you feel like you're getting somewhere: knowledge, pleasure, and work.
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You've probably stood in a grocery line before and opened a little game on your phone to kill time. The preacher, for his part, plays the New York Times "Connections."
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A few years ago, during Covid, do you remember those evenings at 8pm when everyone opened their windows to applaud healthcare workers?
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Second week of Advent. The preacher tells about a scene he came across recently in a shopping mall: between two luxury stores, someone had set up a life-size nativity scene.
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The stories of the Old Testament are not simple tales for children. They are written with immense artistry, breathed out by the Holy Spirit, and they touch on deeply adult themes.
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Before you even open your Bible, stop for a second. What does God feel when he thinks of you? Does he merely tolerate you because it's his job? Does he love you on the surface but not really care deep down?
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There's one thing that always makes the preacher smile on his walks near home: watching a green parakeet fly by.
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You've probably noticed there's a fast way to bond with a stranger: making fun of someone else together.
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The preacher admits something about herself right away: she's not the best person to invite to a horror movie. Not because she's scared, but because she has a habit of talking to the screen.
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What does your perfect day look like? What actually makes you happy? And more importantly: what does God think about it?
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Christ's clarity for an inconsistent world. The series on Ecclesiastes reaches chapters 10 and 11, right before the conclusion.
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Ecclesiastes is a complex book, but rich and dense, a book of wisdom. The preacher at Momentum opens this series with a simple conviction: in our time, in our city, life is uncertain, and there's…
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 12 min read
For a few weeks now, you've been hearing about prayer in this series on our relationship with God. Together we looked at the Lord's Prayer, that model prayer Jesus gave his disciples.
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 12 min read
How do you find the balance of a wise life in a world gone mad? That's the question opening this sixth installment of the Ecclesiastes series (six of eight), with a title that carries real weight for the Church today: the clarity of Christ for an…
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 13 min read
For several weeks now we've been working through the book of Ephesians, and there's one last teaching left before we move on.
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Ephesians 2:11-18 is the third message in a series through chapters 2 and 3 of Ephesians: "See what God has done for us."
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The third part of our series on Ephesians 1, built around the same question: who are you in Christ?
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"Everything under the sun is vapor." In the most common reading, Ecclesiastes isn't first a book about joy. You picture a lucid, almost jaded sage looking at life and finding it inconsistent.
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A new series begins: Citizen of Heaven, Feet on Earth. For weeks now, the preacher has shown how Jesus teaches about the kingdom.
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You're following the series Our Relationship With God. Last week, Patrice Martorano spoke to you about worries that damage your relationship with your Father.
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Last Sunday, Mac explained what Jesus accomplished to bring us, the Gentiles we once were, near to God's people through his sacrifice on the cross.
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Some people's generosity marks you for life. During our first year in France, an Italian family settled in Nice adopted us.
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There are people you know who put you instantly at ease. Just being around them makes you want to become like them, because the kindness they carry is rare in this world.
Église Protestante Évangélique Calvary Chapel Paris · 9 min read
The preacher opens with an image. He's just back from Germany, where he taught church history at a Bible institute. As a gift, he was given a tour of Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate.
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Sixth message in the Our Relationship with God series, this sermon is built on Matthew 6:19-24. The passage seems to be about masters, but Jesus is aiming deeper: he's talking about your desires.
Watch the full teachings on their YouTube channel.
The church meets at 3 rue des Wattignies, in Paris's 12th arrondissement, near the Daumesnil metro station.
The Sunday service takes place every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
It is an independent evangelical church affiliated with the international Calvary Chapel movement, holding to the CNEF statement of faith.
The church's pastor is Mike Dente, who founded the church with his wife Becky in 2002 after serving at Calvary Chapel Nice.
The church began in 2002, out of home Bible studies led by Pastor Mike Dente and his wife.
Yes, the church publishes a sermon archive on its website and shares content on its YouTube channel @calvaryparisfr.