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The Inspiration of Scripture

Click on the following link for an audio teaching on the Inspiration of Scripture given by Mark Da Vee at a Wednesday evening service at Calvary Monterey. Inspiration of Scripture Click on the link...

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Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ

Click on the following link for an audio teaching on Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ taught by Mark Da Vee on a Wednesday night service at Calvary Monterey. Evidence for the Resurrection...

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Examining the claims of Darwinian Evolution

Click on the following link to hear an audio teaching by Mark Da Vee on the subject of Evolution given at Calvary Monterey Wednesday night service. Evolution Click on the following links to see notes...

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Examining the Claims of Mormonism

Click on the following link to hear an audio teaching by Mark Da Vee on the subject of Mormonism. Mormonism Click on the following link to get outline notes on the teaching on Mormonism. Examining the...

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Questions and Answers

This section is reserved for any questions you might have about the Bible, or concerning Christian faith and practice. I’ll be the first to admit that there are some questions that I simply don’t have...

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Why is it so hard to develop a prayer life?

If you were to ask most Christians about the health of their prayer life, you would probably hear something like, “I know I should pray more” or “I don’t pray as much as I would like to”, or “I have...

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His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. Psalm 11:4b

In this Psalm David uses some very interesting anthropomorphic language. How can God’s eyelids test the sons of men? We, by faith, believe that God beholds everything we do. The Bible clearly teaches...

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What does the Bible say about chuch government? How should the church be run?

I would like to answer this question in five parts. First, we first need to look at the terminology used in Scripture to describe the church and the various offices of the church; Vines Complete...

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“…when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

    (Large fig tree) Jesus said this to Nathanael when He first met him as recorded in the Gospel of John chapter one. There are valuable lessons to be learned from this first encounter between Jesus...

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Finding the beauty of God in the ugliness of the world

The ugliness of the world–which is its contempt and its adversity–is a profitable sort of bitterness that heals the just. The world’s beauty is its prosperity; and this is a flattering sort of...

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The Food of Christ

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.” John 4:34  One day when Jesus’ disciples were urging Him to eat something, He responded by telling them about His food. It...

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The Ledger

Have you ever had trouble forgiving someone? I recently walked by a person who I felt had wronged me in the past and even though I thought I had forgiven them, when I saw them my gut reaction was to...

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Following Jesus

“You enlarge my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.” Psalm 18:36 Notice the Psalmist, King David, is talking to the Lord about what God is doing for him; God is “enlarging his steps.” His...

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Planting A Church

It’s been more time than I realized since I last published a post on miningthesacredpage! The Lord has called my wife Carol and I to start a church in Gonzales CA! We have been having weekly services...

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Fragrant Prayer

“May my prayer be counted as incense before You; the lifting of my hands as the evening sacrifice.” Psalm 141:2  When we begin to cultivate a prayer life, one of our first concerns is how we should...

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Why Be Holy?

The Apostle Peter wrote: “As obedient children, do not be conformed to to the desires of your former ignorance but as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct; for...

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Why Does The Gospel Need To Be Defined?

If you were to ask fifty professing Christians to give you a definition of the gospel, you would probably get close to fifty different answers. It’s a term used so often in the church, many people...

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Are You A Christian Or A Disciple Of Jesus?

Words get their meaning primarily by the way they are used. Sometimes the meaning of words change over time, and that is certainly true in the case of the word “Christian.” This word is found only...

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We Were Made To Eat!

We were born with an appetite! When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them the tree of life to eat from, and live forever (Gen. 3:22). Food enables us to live. Before Adam and Eve fell into sin,...

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Israel and the Church

Having a correct understanding of what the Bible teaches us about Israel and the Church has a huge impact on how we interpret the Bible as a whole. Unfortunately, I believe the Gentile church has a...

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