For Christians, every First Day of the Week—Sunday is a Festival of the Resurrection. The 4th 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 and the Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

On the 4th Sunday of Easter the Church always celebrates our risen Lord Jesus as the Great Good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep. We pray the Shepherd Psalm, Psalm 23, and the Holy Gospel comes from John 10. Here are Jesus’ own words as our Good Shepherd:

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand (John 10:27).

The Epistle Lesson comes again from the Book of Revelation, now in Chapter 7. We continue to hear of the Lamb of God. “For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their Shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (Revelation 7:17).

Our First Lesson is from Acts 20 and reminds us that Christ works through ordained Pastors who undertake the shepherding work under His direction. Speaking to Pastors from the congregation in Ephesus, St Paul says,

28 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the Church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Worship this Sunday will focus on our Great Good Shepherd and also on those Pastor/Overseers whom the Holy Spirit has tasked “to care for the Church of God.”

As most of you now know, the Holy Spirit has brought us Pr Robert Stevens to be our fulltime Pastor/Overseer at Mt Calvary. Our Lessons for the 4th Sunday of Easter are thus timely to help us grasp how God gifts us with His Pastors.

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. We will 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 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 Service Folder and Bible Study Guide 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.