Bible teaching for practiced Christian devotion.
Calvary Monterey Podcast carries sermon-length biblical teaching from Calvary Monterey, often led by Nate Holdridge. The tone is pastoral and conversational, moving from close reading of Scripture into everyday concerns like worry, generosity, prayer, hope, and devotion.
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Calvary Monterey Podcast is a feed of biblical teaching from Calvary Monterey, centered on sermons and special church messages. The show is explicitly Christian and pastoral. Nate Holdridge is repeatedly introduced as lead pastor, and his teaching gives many recent episodes their shape. He works closely with biblical texts, then turns them toward ordinary spiritual life. A message on Matthew 6 can become a searching reflection on worry. A passage about treasure can become an examination of what sits at the core of a person's soul. Teaching on prayer moves from the Lord's Prayer into worship, God's names, daily dependence, forgiveness, and protection from evil. The show is serious about doctrine, but it is rarely stiff. Its illustrations are plainspoken and memorable. Family stories, church moments, children in an Easter service, and light self-deprecating humor sit beside references to resurrection hope, church history, and the work of the Spirit. Recent episodes spend significant time in the Sermon on the Mount. They also draw from Acts, Ephesians, 1 Peter, Psalm 119, and accounts such as Mary and Martha. The emphasis is not only on information. The teaching presses toward devotion. Listeners hear repeated calls to become people of the word and prayer, to practice generosity without performance, to seek God with the whole heart, and to live with hope grounded in the resurrection of Jesus. Guest teachers appear as well, including Leanne Tuggle in a message connected to Mary and Martha and Pastor Jeff in a Psalm 119 teaching on loving the Bible more. Those episodes widen the voice of the feed while staying within the same church-centered frame. Calvary Monterey Podcast is best suited to listeners who want sermon audio that feels anchored in a local congregation rather than produced as a studio religion show. It favors Scripture, prayer, humility, perseverance, and practical discipleship. The pacing is conversational, with enough repetition and illustration to make complex spiritual ideas feel reachable. The overall effect is a steady Christian teaching feed for people who want biblical reflection to touch habits, fears, relationships, worship, and hope.
Made for: This show is for Christians and spiritually curious listeners who want sermon-based biblical teaching connected to prayer, worry, generosity, resurrection hope, and everyday discipleship. It especially suits those comfortable with local-church language and Scripture-led instruction.
What sets it apart: The show pairs close attention to biblical passages with a warm, local-church cadence that leaves room for humor, family moments, and direct pastoral application. Its recent episodes turn major Christian themes into concrete practices rather than abstract religious reflection.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Calvary Monterey turns verse-by-verse biblical teaching into concrete practices for prayer, character, service, and life within a church community.
Calvary Monterey Podcast carries the pulpit into the feed, usually with lead pastor Nate Holdridge moving verse by verse through a biblical passage before pressing it into ordinary Christian life.
A Matthew passage turns into a question about whether your friends trust your calendar.
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Holdridge looks to the church in Ephesus as he considers how a church can grow and serve.
Nate Holdridge looks to the church in Ephesus as an example for Calvary Monterey. After a week when many people visited, he asks how the church family might take part in what God is doing.
Pastor Jeff uses Psalm 119 to explore loving the Bible beyond a sense of duty.
Pastor Jeff reads the opening verses of Psalm 119 as a call to love the Bible, rather than approach it as a duty. He pauses over the psalm's appeal to seek God "with our whole heart," then brings it down to the familiar problem of distraction. Staying steadfast is hard.
Nate Holdridge offers specific prompts for praying through the Lord's Prayer.
Nate Holdridge starts with Jesus' teaching on prayer: the warning against empty phrases, the Lord's Prayer, and the verses on forgiving others. Then he gives listeners something to do with those words.
A sermon on quiet giving and the praise a giver might keep for themselves.
Nate Holdridge brings Jesus' warning against practicing righteousness for an audience into a world of constant cameras and easy self-promotion. He moves from public recognition to gifts and acts of service done quietly.
Nate Holdridge on Matthew 5, keeping promises and becoming someone others can trust.
In this sermon on Matthew 5, beginning at verse 33, Nate Holdridge asks what it means to be someone whose yes can be trusted. He brings the question into ordinary plans and promises, recalling how, as a young pastor, he took on more responsibility than he could easily keep track…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
["Nate Holdridge uses Acts 19, Ephesians 4, 1 Timothy 3, and Revelation 2 to sketch \"An Admirable Church: A Brief Study of the Ephesian Church.\"", "He says Paul met 12 disciples in Ephesus, corrected their understanding of John's baptism, and taught daily in the hall of Tyrannus until \"all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord.\"", "Holdridge argues that a healthy church is rooted in the word and Spirit, united to Christ, and organized as \"the household of God\" and \"a pillar and buttress of the truth.\"", "He ends with Jesus' warning that Ephesus had \"abandoned the love you had at first,\" then applies that rebuke to Calvary Monterey's own future."]
A pastor delivers a short Easter sermon on 1 Peter 1:3-5, emphasizing the living hope and inheritance believers have through Christ's resurrection.
Pastor Nate Holdridge teaches on Jesus' teaching about worry from Matthew 6:25-34, encouraging listeners to trust God's provision instead of being anxious.
Pastor Nate Holdridge introduces Matthew 6:19-24 as an MRI for the soul, inviting listeners to examine their inner lives through Jesus' teaching.
A speaker introduces a Bible teacher who will discuss the biblical story of Mary and Martha, focusing on the importance of prioritizing time with Jesus over busyness.
Pastor Jeff, a 52-year ministry veteran recently retired after 15 years as assistant pastor at Calvary Monterey, delivers a practical teaching on how to love your Bible more using Psalm 119 — the longest chapter in the Bible at 176 verses.
Lead pastor Nate Holdridge of Calvary Monterey teaches on Matthew 6:7-15, presenting the Lord's Prayer as an 'upside down prayer' that inverts our natural impulse to lead with personal requests — starting instead with God's honor, kingdom, and will before moving to provision, forgiveness, and protection.
Pastor Nate Holdridge of Calvary Monterey teaches through Matthew 6:1-18, arguing that Jesus's core warning is against 'performative godliness' done to be seen by others rather than for God.
Calvary Monterey lead pastor Nate Holdridge teaches Matthew 5:33-48 as the second half of Jesus' six examples in the Sermon on the Mount.
Pastor Nate Holdridge teaches on John 15:1-16:4, exploring the concept of joy found in abiding in Christ, especially in the context of national trauma following an assassination.
Pastor Nate Holdridge teaches on how believers can partner with the Holy Spirit, continuing a series on the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Nate Holdridge introduces a sermon on Psalm 33, encouraging joyful praise and worship to God.
Pastor Nate Holdridge teaches from Psalm 32 about the happiness that comes from confessing sin and receiving God's forgiveness.