Calvary Chapel was founded by Chuck Smith in 1965 and grew into one of the most significant church movements of the 20th century. The pastors below serve on the Calvary Chapel Association Leadership Council — the men Chuck Smith entrusted with the movement after his passing in 2013. Each maintains a free online teaching archive covering the whole Bible.
Calvary Chapel is built on expository verse-by-verse teaching through the whole Bible. Chuck Smith's commitment to teaching through Scripture sequentially — without skipping the difficult passages, without softening the doctrinal edges — produced a generation of pastors who do the same. The movement's doctrinal distinctives include a pre-tribulational, premillennial eschatology, a Provisionist soteriology that emphasizes God's genuine love for every person, and a high view of biblical inerrancy.
The pastors below are the men currently leading the Calvary Chapel Association. Their teaching archives represent thousands of hours of expository preaching through the whole Bible — available free online. These are not polished productions. They are working pastors teaching working congregations the Word of God, week after week, year after year.
Pastors with major broadcast ministries reaching audiences well beyond their local congregations.
Founder and senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. Verse-by-verse expositional teacher heard on radio and television internationally. Known for passionate biblical teaching and prophetic clarity on end-times issues.
Senior pastor of Calvary South OC and featured speaker on “A Daily Walk” — heard on 170+ radio stations worldwide. Grew up at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. Known for clear, relatable verse-by-verse exposition.
Calvary Chapel-adjacent pastors with major free teaching archives — not on the council but deeply connected to the movement.
One of the most thorough verse-by-verse teaching archives in the CC world. Covers the entire Bible.
Evangelist and pastor. Large archive of evangelistic and expository teaching.
For Chuck Smith's complete library of free PDFs and his C2000 Bible Commentary — the verse-by-verse teaching series that defined the Calvary Chapel teaching style — visit his dedicated resource hub.
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