Leadership

Meet Our Pastor

David A. Harrell, PhD
Senior Pastor-Teacher

David Harrell is currently the senior pastor-teacher of Calvary Bible Church where he has served since 1994. After attending the Moody Bible Institute, he graduated from Grace College, Grace Theological Seminary, and the Omega (formerly Oxford) Graduate School where he earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Integration of Religion and Society. He is a former Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling at the Master’s University, Santa Clarita, CA., and founder of Shepherd’s Fire, www.shepherdsfire.org, the mass communication arm of his ministry. He and his wife, Nancy, have three children and seven grandchildren.

ELDERS AT CAVARY

  • David Harrell, PhD

    Pastor/Teacher, Staff Elder

  • Jake Hutchison

    Lay Elder

  • Tommy Lohman

    Lay Elder

  • Darrin Fuqua

    Lay Elder

  • Josh Lyon

    Lay Elder

  • Christian Legakes

    Lay Elder

  • Cory Piatt

    Lay Elder

DIACONATE AT CALVARY

  • James Black

    Deacon

  • Bob Lewis

    Deacon

  • Don White

    Deacon

  • Joseph Hochstetler

    Deacon

  • Danielle Wray

    Deaconess

  • Dena White

    Deaconess

STAFF AT CAVARY

  • Blake Pitney

    Director of Music

  • Brian Ufen

    Church Office

  • Pamela Ufen

    Church Office

Our Passion For The Pulpit

Our Passion For The Pulpit
". . . we exist to equip the saints through expository preaching, teaching . . ."

Saints cannot be equipped for godly living and service apart from precise theology (Ephesians 4:11-16). This is the goal of expository preaching and teaching. The term "exposit" literally means to expound or explain in a detailed manner. Expository preaching is therefore a doctrinal proclamation of the Word of God derived from an exegetical process that is concerned only with the revelation of God, not the wisdom of man, and therefore carefully conveys the God-intended meaning of a text, passionately applying that meaning to the contemporary issues of life with an internal zeal and authority that cannot be extinguished.

Although this kind of preaching and teaching is rare in contemporary evangelicalism, since this was the method exemplified in the Bible (Neh. 8:8; Acts 7:2-53; 8:27-35; 20:26-27; Luke 4:16-22; 24:27, 32, 44-47), and since we have a divine mandate to "preach the Word" (2 Timothy 4:2), we believe that this is the God ordained method and we remain committed to it.