For Christians, every First Day of the Week—Sunday is a Festival of the Resurrection. The 7th Sunday of Easter occurs this weekend and continues our Easter celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Our triumphant refrain continues to be Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! 

The 7th Sunday of Easter concludes our weeks of celebrating Easter. Worship on June 5th begins the Season of Pentecost.

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 7th Sunday of Easter gives us an opportunity to reflect on the Ascension of our Lord, 40 days after His Resurrection. Our Lessons from the Book of Acts, Chapter 1, and the end of the Gospel according to St Luke describe Jesus blessing us today as well as His original Disciples. Notice how St Luke’s words apply to us too:

While Jesus blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem [Estes Mt Calvary!] with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God (Luke 24:51-52).

The words in our First Lesson also apply to us:

“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

The Epistle Lesson this Sunday brings home to us “the immeasurable greatness of God’s power toward us who believe.” St Paul wants us to know “what is the hope to which God has called us” and “what are the riches of God’s glorious inheritance in the saints” (Ephesians 1:18-19). God urges us to witness to all these immeasurable riches in Jesus our Risen Lord.

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. During fellowship, beginning around 10:30 am, the regular Sunday Zoom link will reopen so people can participate remotely in our Bible Study. Our study of occurrences of the name “Satan” has now taken us to references in the Book of Revelation. The Sunday Bible Study Guide is posted with the Service Folder and can be accessed at this link. During June we will not have Thursday morning Bible Study.

God 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!

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.