For Christians, every First Day of the Week—Sunday is a Festival of the Resurrection. The 3rd Sunday of Easter occurs this weekend and continues our celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Our triumphant refrain continues to be Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!

God strengthens us Sunday by Sunday with His Word and the Means of Grace, including the Preaching of His Word, Holy Communion, and the Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

On the 3rd Sunday of Easter our Epistle Lesson comes again from the Book of Revelation, now in Chapter 5. Some of the images are strange to our experience, but the identification of Jesus as the Lamb of God has deep roots in God’s Word going back centuries before Christ’s death and resurrection. Christ, the Lamb, by His blood, “ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,” and has “made them a kingdom and priests to our God, . . . .” (Revelation 5:9-10).

Worship this Sunday will focus on these words from Revelation.

The other Lessons for the Day each deserve full attention. The First Lesson from Acts 9 tells of St Paul’s conversion to Faith in Christ. The Holy Gospel records another of Jesus’ appearances to his disciples along with his restoration of Peter to full apostolic work as a Pastor/Shepherd, feeding Christ’s sheep.

You can access this Sunday’s Service Folder and Bible Study Guide directly at this link.

Following Worship, we are all invited to regular fellowship with refreshments in the Christian Family Center. Today we continue our Sunday morning Bible Study around 10:30 am. We always take time to discuss any questions raised by the Day’s Lessons, and then we turn to the current topic of study which is God’s Word concerning our enemy Satan. We’ll make our study time available on Zoom at 10:30 am through the same link used for Sunday Worship. During May we are not having Thursday morning Bible Study.

May God make it possible for you to join us in person or on Zoom at 9am this Sunday for hearing God's Word and offering prayer, praise, and thanksgiving to God.

If you cannot be among God’s people in person this Sunday, you can join us by Zoom.

To join Zoom by computer, go to our website. On the website, to the right of the photo slideshow, click on “Sunday Worship” and you will be taken directly to the Zoom link.

To join Zoom by phone, call (720) 707-2699. When prompted, enter this number: 581 701 506 ## (including the two pound signs at the end).

You can access this Sunday’s Resources directly at this link. The Zoom recording of the Service, if successful, will be available to any who ask by email to Pastor.MtCalvaryep@gmail.com and may be posted on the website, depending on availability of space.