Non-Denominational Evangelical (Calvary Chapel) · Modern Evangelical

Gregory Albert Laurie

December 10, 1952 – present

Senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, and founder of Harvest Crusades. One of the leading evangelistic preachers in the Calvary Chapel movement.

Tradition

Non-Denominational Evangelical (Calvary Chapel)

Era

Modern Evangelical

Preserved Sermons

2,000+

Biography

Gregory Albert Laurie was born in Long Beach, California, lived through a turbulent childhood with seven stepfathers and an alcoholic mother, and was converted on his high school campus in 1970 during the Jesus Movement. He was discipled at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa under Chuck Smith, who later asked him to lead a Bible study in Riverside — that study became Harvest Christian Fellowship, where Laurie has been senior pastor since 1972 (he was only nineteen at the time). Harvest has grown into a multi-campus church of over 15,000 weekly attendees across Southern California and Hawaii. In 1990 Laurie founded the Harvest Crusades, large-scale evangelistic events in stadiums and arenas modeled in spirit on Billy Graham crusades; over the past three-plus decades the crusades have drawn more than 10 million attendees and reported hundreds of thousands of professions of faith. Laurie hosts the daily radio program A New Beginning, has authored more than seventy books including Steve McQueen: The Salvation of an American Icon and Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, and co-produced the feature film Jesus Revolution (2023) about the spiritual awakening of his youth.

Legacy

Laurie has been a primary bridge between the Calvary Chapel movement and Billy Graham–style mass evangelism. Harvest Ministries has trained dozens of younger pastors and evangelists, and the Harvest Crusades model has been adopted across multiple evangelical networks.

Notable Sermons

Copyright & Usage

All sermons by Greg Laurie remain copyrighted by Harvest Ministries with Greg Laurie. The archive below links to the official ministry site where sermons, devotionals, and study materials are freely accessible for personal study but not redistribution.

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