About us
About Calvary Chapel
Calvary Chapel was established as a Christian fellowship of believers in Jesus Christ. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is fully God and fully man, born of the virgin Mary. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins; He bodily rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, where at the right hand of God, the Father, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.
Our supreme desire is to know Christ and to be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed to denominations. However, we do not agree with the overemphasis of the doctrinal differences which have led to division in the body of Christ.
Join us this Sunday at 10am!
415 North 66th St, Suite 8 | Lincoln, NE
Our Mission
To love and worship the true God as revealed in the Bible
To win lincoln to Jesus Christ through the sharing of the gospel, bring people into the kingdom of God, fulfilling the great commission
To grow in the image of our lord and savior jesus christ
To equip the saints for the work of the ministry by teaching the word of god and relying on the power of the Holy Spirit to transform us into the image of Jesus Christ
Our pastor
Dennis Waddelow
Dennis Waddelow was born in San Diego California in 1960, to a career Navy man and a stay at home mother.
I originally came to know the Lord when I was ten years old, at a Children’s Church setting. There was a period of 14 years where I was really rebellious. Caught up in the drug culture of the early 70’s I started a life of sin in the ninth grade that would last for the next 14 years. I left High School half way through the 10thgrade. It was a mutual agreement with the school. My father told me to go to work. In early summer of 1975 I started working on a commercial tuna fishing boat with my brother. I turned 16 years old off the coast of Canada. After years of drug and alcohol use and addiction, plus lawless criminal activity I found myself without hope at the age of 26. Feeling I must have committed the unpardonable sin, I considered ending it all by committing suicide. The mountain of consequences seemed insurmountable. Warrants for my arrest, back taxes in the thousands, addictions that couldn’t be kicked and my life being one big lie. In a rare moment of desperate honesty on a Friday in February 1987 I told my sister who was walking with the Lord about my“real” life. I then met with a Pastor from Calvary Chapel Chula Vista on Saturday morning. Not believing that God could possibly love me and not believing anything would happen.None the less I prayed with the Pastor to receive Jesus as my Savior. I knew immediately that I had been forgiven. I then went to work in the shipyard that night and read the whole New Testament from a Gideon’s bible (every word was for me). I went to Church the next Sunday. A couple were setting up for Sunday school so I helped them move some tables. The Lord spoke to my heart and told me to come early each Sunday to help setup. After about the third week I went to midweek Bible study at the Pastors house, I got there late so there was only room to sit on the floor, during prayer time I,out of love and gratitude, dedicated my life to serve the Lord in a public prayer (I didn’t realize people don’t normally do this). I was asked to be the Sunday School Director after two months at the Church (not normal but it was the Lord) I attended as many bible studies as I could, started listening to Pastor Chuck Smith’s teaching tapes, read everything I could from Haley’s Bible Hand Book, The Ryrie Study Bible and anything else I could get my hands on.I memorized about 40 verses in the first months of my walk with Jesus.
Marriage: I met my future wife Karen at Bible study and started dating, after getting engaged the IRS contacted me and wanted me to file taxes for the 7 lost years. I told Karen she could back out of the marriage until I cleaned up the mess I was in. Karen had just received a severance package for a large amount of money. She said “that this money would be a down payment on “their”debt”. WOW
We have been serving the Lord together since 1987, teaching adult groups since 1990. Ordained as a Pastor and Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by Calvary Chapel of Chula Vista. Three of the signatures on my ordination papers were men that had seen and watched my life since the first time I had stepped into Calvary Chapel on March 1, 1987.
Major influences in my teaching style and personal spiritual growth are and were, Pastor Chuck Smith, Dr. Chuck Missler, Dr. Warren Wiersbe, Pastor Leo Geovenetti, Andrew Murray , Phillip Keller, and Pastor Jim Cymbala.
Karen and I with four children moved from California in 1999 to plant a Calvary Chapel in Lincoln Nebraska.
My teaching is on the webpage and also on the radio in southeast Nebraska.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
- THE SCRIPTURES
We believe that the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, fully inspired without error and the infallible rule of faith and practice. The Word of God is the foundation upon which the church operates and is the basis for which the church is governed. We believe that the Word of God supersedes any earthly law that is contrary to the Holy Scriptures (Isaiah 28:13; Nehemiah 8:8; John 17:17; II Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrews 4:12; I Peter 1:23-25; II Peter 1:3-4, 21). - THE TRINITY
We believe that there is one living and true GOD, eternally existing in three persons: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory; that this triune God created all, upholds all, and governs all things (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 44:8, 48:16; Matthew 28:19-20; John 10:30; Hebrews 1:3). - GOD THE FATHER
We believe in the person of God the Father, an infinite, eternal, personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love; that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; that He hears and answers prayer; and that He saves from sin and death all those who come to Him through Jesus Christ (Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalm 90:2, 102:27; John 3:16, 4:24; I Timothy 1:17; Titus 1:3). - GOD THE SON
We believe in the person of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings, his substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people and personal, visible return to earth (Isaiah 7:14; Micah 5:2; Matthew 1:23; Mark 16:19; Luke 1:34-35; John 1:1-2, 8:58,11:25; I Corinthians 15:3-4; I Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 1:8; I John 1:2; Revelation 1:8). - GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe in the person of the Holy Spirit, Who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify and empower for ministry all who believe in Christ (John 16:8-11; Acts 1:8; Romans 8:26, 15:13,16; II Corinthians 3:18; Hebrews 9:14). We believe the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide (John 16:13, 14:16-17, 16:8-11; Romans 8:26). We believe in the Baptism with the Holy Spirit as a distinct and separate experience to that of regeneration, occurring either subsequent to or simultaneous with salvation, evidenced by a greater dynamic in the Christian’s life, enabling that person to be a bold and more effective witness. The supreme evidence of the Spirit-filled life is the fruit of the Spirit, love. We believe in the present day ministry of the Holy Spirit in regard to the exercise of all biblical gifts of the Holy Spirit according to the instructions given to us (I Corinthians 12-14). - SIN We believe that all people are sinners by nature and choice, falling short of God’s standard and breaking His commandments – and therefore are under God’s righteous judgment. Yet, God saves and gives new life to all who come to Him in repentance and faith, trusting in the Person and work of Jesus Christ. At the cross, Jesus Christ died in our place as our substitute, absorbing God’s wrath that should have come upon us. Because Jesus died for the sins of the world the invitation to believe is open to all, and whoever desires may come unto Jesus for new life and the forgiveness of sins (Matthew 11:28; John 3:16; Acts 3:19, 20:21; Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:1-3, 8-9; I John 2:2; Revelation 22:17).
- MALE LEADERSHIP IN THE CHURCH We believe in the pattern and principle of male leadership and responsibility in both the home and the church, according to the sacrificial example of Jesus. We believe this limits the roles of pastoral leadership and doctrinal authority to qualified men (I Corinthians 11:1-12; I Timothy 2:1-15). We believe in the universal church, the living spiritual body, of which Christ is the head and all who are born again are a part of the Body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 4:15-16).
- ORDINANCES We believe that the Lord, Jesus Christ instituted two ordinances for the church: the full-immersion water baptism of believers and the Lord’s Supper (Matthew 28:19; Luke 22:19-20; Acts 2:38; I Corinthians 11:23-26).
- HEAVEN AND HELL We believe in a literal Heaven and a literal Hell and that all those who place their faith, hope and trust in Jesus Christ will spend eternity in Heaven with the Lord. Those who reject Jesus’ free gift of salvation will spend eternity separated from the Lord (Psalm 9:17; Matthew 5:3, 5:22, 18:9, 25:31-34; Mark 9:42-49; Luke 12:5; John 3:18; Hebrews 12:23; I Peter 1:4; Revelation 14:10-11, 20:11-15).
- CHRIST’S SECOND COMING We believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which is His personal, visible return to Earth and the establishment of His millennial kingdom, in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment and eternal blessing of the righteous and endless separation of the wicked (Matthew 16:27; Acts 1:11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:11-15). We believe in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church where all believers will meet the Lord in the air and be taken out of this world prior to the Tribulation that will come upon the earth (Isaiah 26:20; Matthew 24:29-31; Luke 21:36; Romans 1:18, 5:9; I Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-16, 5:9; II Peter 2:7-9; Revelation 3:10, 5:7-10, 7:13-14).
- MARRIAGE We believe that God created man and that He created them male and female. As such, He created them different so as to complement and complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. Therefore, we perform marriages in accordance with the Bible consistent with the Old and New Testament (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6; John 4:16-18; Romans 1:18-32; I Corinthians 5:11, 6:9-11,18-20, 7:1-3,8-9; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:3-7; I Timothy 1:9-11).
