by Webmanager | Oct 9, 2017
Grant Hawley serves as Pastor of Bold Grace Fellowship where he serves the north Dallas/Fort Worth area with his wife Tamara and son Rock.
A burden to see the community of grace-loving people working together to reach those who haven’t heard a clear grace message led Mr. Hawley to begin Bold Grace Ministries, where he serves as Director. With support for publishing, church planting, and training Bold Grace Ministries comes alongside those involved in the grace movement to facilitate reaching beyond the boundaries of established communities.
He is the author of The Guts of Grace: Preparing Ordinary Saints for Extraordinary Ministry, Easy Peasy Biblical Greek: The Easiest Way to Learn Greek Well, Dispensationalism and Free Grace: Intimately Linked, and Let the Text Speak: An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics. Grant is also the editor of 21 Tough Questions about Grace and Free Grace Theology: 5 Ways It Magnifies the Gospel.
Mr. Hawley is a member of the Free Grace Alliance Executive Council and the Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics.
Join us October 24-27, 2017; Lectures will be at 11:00 a.m. each day on campus in Liberty Chapel
Calvary University introduced the Ryrie Lecture series in the fall of 2016 to enhance the educational experience at Calvary, and to reinforce student’s ability in explaining the person and work of Christ at any level.
Scholar. Professor. Author. Mentor. These words describe the legacy of Dr. Charles C. Ryrie. Built across 70 years of faithful ministry, this legacy continues in the lives of those who use the more than fifty books and the popular Ryrie Study Bible.
Dr. Ryrie had an uncanny ability to explain doctrine and theology in simple terms that anyone could understand. Calvary University seeks to instill this characteristic in our students – the ability to articulate doctrine and theology to people of all ages, and help them put these things into practice in their daily lives.
by Webmanager | Oct 8, 2017
Ana Sharp, CU Theatre’s first student lighting designer, at the board during our technical rehearsals last weekend.
Cast and crew alike spent most of last Saturday perfecting and running lighting and sound cues in technical rehearsals for Traveler in the Dark.. It was our technicians’ time to rehearse, and we guarantee the fruit of their labor will create a unified artistic whole when you come to see this challenging production. The show opens this weekend, October 12-15, with a Thursday matinee show at 11:00 a.m., a Friday and Saturday show at 7:30 p.m., and a Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman creates the world of a brilliant surgeon suddenly shattered by the death of his nurse. Sam tries to find a way to piece his life back together as he journeys with his family back to his boyhood home for her funeral. Once there, he’s confronted by the demons of his youth: the death of his own mother, his alienation from his fiery, evangelical preacher-father, his boyhood immersion in fairy tales, and his disillusionment with the woman he married. A deep crisis ensues, and Sam’s relationships with his wife, young son, and father, as well as his own direction in life, swing precariously in the balance. In the rejection of the faith of his father, he has also lost access to its light, and he discovers his journey as a traveler in the dark renders life difficult to navigate.
Tickets to Traveler in the Dark are now available online! Click here: https://www.calvary.edu/theatre-box-office/
by Webmanager | Oct 4, 2017
Calvary University is saddened to learn that Grace University will be closing after this academic year, and is reaching out to Grace University officials to aid in any way possible. Calvary University is also offering Grace University students transfer options so that, if desired, they can transition seamlessly and complete their educations at Calvary University. Grace University has been a mainstay in the Midwest since 1943. Please pray with us, as we pray for the staff, faculty, students, and alumni of Grace University during this especially difficult time.
by Webmanager | Oct 2, 2017
Student designers took leadership as the set we’ve been working on since mid-August was moved into the Chapel last Saturday by the cast and crew of Traveler in the Dark. Designed by senior Theatre Arts major Christy Stone, the set includes the backyard garden of a country preacher’s home. This set is the second set designed by Ms. Stone, who is not only a talented artist, but a plays Glory Carter in the production, wife of world-famous surgeon Sam Carter, and the only female in the cast.
Converting the Chapel into a theatre isn’t the easiest task in the world, especially when you have to transplant a tree! The normally flat seating was reconstructed into a tiered configuration, specially-designed and painted flooring is installed, the set is assembled, and lighting is hung and focused. Ana Sharp, junior Theatre Arts major, is our very first student to take on the formidable task of lighting design. Also this weekend, Ana oversaw the hanging of the instruments and the beginning of the difficult process of focusing and programming the lighting.
Kaleb Krahn, CU Theatre’s Technical Director, lent his considerable expertise to the efforts. Saturday night was a late one, but there was much accomplished that you’ll have to see to believe. You won’t want to miss it!
by Webmanager | Sep 24, 2017
Corey Ruehling as the lead character and world-famous surgeon, Sam Carter, and Aaron Clabough as his son, Stephen, rehearse a scene from “Traveler in the Dark.”
Calvary Theatre Arts is pleased to announce the beginning of some new traditions that continue with our current production of Traveler in the Dark by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Marsha Norman. Theatre offers powerful potential collaboration between the academic disciplines at Calvary, and one of the most challenging and interactive times this happens is during the Calvary Conversations that occur during our all-campus chapels. Traveler in the Dark is up for discussion during this Wednesday’s chapel on September 27.
The play revolves around an intense inter-generational crisis incited by the death of Sam’s surgical nurse. The conversation will begin with a seven-minute confrontational scene between Sam Carter (played by Corey Ruehling) and his preacher/father, Everett Carter (played by Jon Van Pelt). This will be followed by a conversation featuring Biblical Counseling chair Pat Miller and her colleague, Dr. Luther Smith. Also joining director Bobbie Jeffrey and her cast from Traveler in the Dark will be Tim Hange, Calvary’s missionary-in-residence from Moscow.
After having read the play, here’s what our conversation panelists had to say about the script:
- “What I like most about this play is the title! We are all travelers in the dark without the Light of the World – Jesus. We often lose our way and stumble in the dark. Only in the truth of God will we ever be set free.” – Mrs. Pat Miller
- “The title is appropriate for this particular play…I am convinced of the human experience and how this is the way some of us deal with death and loss. Death makes us powerless, it makes us helpless and vulnerable. It causes us to see that life is so short, and that we don not have any control over our lives….This is a fantastic play! There are many lessons to be gleaned from this play, and I advise anyone (especially Biblical counseling majors) to attend and see this play!” – Dr. Luther Smith
- Traveler in the Dark hits upon a number of tough themes. Death, grief, loss are present, yes, but in the end I feel it is a battle between the cold world of cynical empiricism and the realm of faith, imperfectly expressed though it may be. At its deepest core is the battle with the concept of a God who allows death and suffering in the world, combined with the bitterness and cynicism that results when man desperately shakes his fist at the universe and attempts to be the captain of his own soul. We just aren’t designed for this. I’m looking forward to engaging in the discussions that result from this performance.” – Tim Hange
Of course we don’t want to leave our audience out of the interactive energy! There will be talk back sessions after every performance:
- Thursday, 10/12 after our 11:00 a.m. matinee
- Friday 10/13 and Saturday, 10/14 after our 7:30 p.m. performances
- Sunday, 10/15 after our Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be both challenged and moved! Tickets are now on sale at https://www.calvary.edu/theatre-box-office/
