For Christians, every First Day of the Week—Sunday is a Festival of the Resurrection. The 5th 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.

The 5th Sunday of Easter presents us with a rich range of Words from Holy Scripture. In the First Lesson from Acts 10-11 Peter and the earliest Christians are struggling with the question whether God wants everyone to become a practicing Jew before becoming a Christian. They are learning that even being part of God’s chosen Old Testament people gives no ground for boasting. “God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him” (Acts 10:34-35).

The Epistle Lesson comes again from the Book of Revelation, now near the end in Chapter 21. God, who shows no partiality, is making a new Heaven and Earth where He is pleased to dwell with us humans. In this new world of His grace “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4)

This Sunday we will concentrate on the Holy Gospel from John 16 where the Disciples are perplexed when Jesus teaches them about “little whiles” of suffering. “Little whiles” can also be translated as “micro moments,” for the Greek word is τὸ μικρόν. We too can be perplexed in our micro moments of suffering, so we’ll examine closely Jesus’ words to His disciples.

As most of you now know, the Holy Spirit has brought us Pr Robert Stevens to be our fulltime Pastor/Overseer at Mt Calvary. His installation as Pastor of Mt Calvary will take place in a festival service on Sunday, 5 June, at 3 pm. Our District President, Pr Roger Schlechte, will preach and will install Pr Stevens. Plan to join us!

You can access this Sunday’s Service Folder directly at this link.

Following Worship, we are all invited to regular fellowship with refreshments in the Christian Family Center. Today we will have our quarterly Voters Meeting around 10:30. We will resume Bible Study next week. During May we will not have 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 home page. On the home page, 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.