Worship Bulletin for June 26th

This Sunday we enter into a new season of the Church’s Year with the Day of Pentecost. In the first half of the Church’s Year we have the major celebrations of Christmas and Easter along with the seasons of Advent, Epiphany, Lent and Holy Week. We now enter the season of Pentecost that occupies the second half of the Church’s Year. Pentecost season helps us settle into regular rhythms of the Christian Life apart from the major festivals. 

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 Day of Pentecost celebrates God’s Gift of the Holy Spirit who brings about the birth and continuing life of the Christian Church, including our Mt Calvary Congregation.

The First Lesson from Genesis 11 shows us chaos in language and communication brought about by human sin: “the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed humans over the face of all the earth” (11:9).

The Second Lesson from Acts 2 reveals the Holy Spirit creating the Church to be the agent of God’s forgiveness in Christ and the restorer of productive language and communication among us. The Apostles witnessed to the Good News of Jesus Christ to people of all the different languages in Jerusalem. St Peter sums it up this way: “And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (2:21).

The Holy Gospel from John 14 reminds us of Jesus’ promise to us all: “the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you” (14:26).

This week we welcome our new Pastor, Pr Robert Stevens, to give his first sermon among us. The Holy Spirit will bless him and us through God’s Word to learn again what Jesus said and did so that we all continue in the way of Christ’s Salvation.

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 informal conversations with our new Pastor. We'll not use Zoom for these conversations. 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 Today, 5 June, at 3 pm. Our District President, Pr Roger Schlechte, will preach and will install Pr Stevens. Plan to join us! The Installation will also be streamed live through Zoom on the same link we use for Sunday morning Worship.

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.

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.

For Christians, every First Day of the Week—Sunday is a Festival of the Resurrection. The 6th 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.

The 6th Sunday of Easter brings our attention to both new and old Jerusalem in the Epistle from Revelation 21 and the Gospel from John 5.

In Revelation 21 John recounts the vision granted to him of “the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal” (vv. 10-11).

In John 5 we see Jesus in the old city of Jerusalem healing an invalid by the Pool of Bethesda near the Temple. John 5:2 reads “Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.”

On recent Sundays of Easter God’s Word has pointed us to His new creation—both earth and heaven. This Sunday we are reminded that our vocations remain yet in the old creation where, by God’s grace, we are privileged yet to do much good.

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 the Seven Letters to the Seven Churches in Asia, Revelation 2-3. The Sunday Bible Study Guide is posted with the Service Folder and can be accessed at this link. During May 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.

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.

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.

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.