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.

For Christians, every First Day of the Week—Sunday is a Festival of the Resurrection. The 2nd Sunday of Easter occurs this weekend and marks a continuation of hearing the Biblical witness to 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 2nd Sunday of Easter most Christian Churches turn to the Gospel of John and hear about the disciple Thomas’ doubts concerning the Resurrection (John 20:19-31). The story of Thomas, however, is set in a context of locked-up disciples meeting in fear, even though they have seen the risen Lord Jesus. We’re invited to ponder all the fearful lockings and courageous unlockings in our lives of faith. 

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 resume 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 April 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).

Again, 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. Easter Sunday this weekend marks the culmination of God’s Word about Jesus that we began to hear already last November. Our triumphant refrain will 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.

This Easter Sunday our Epistle Lesson states the facts plainly: “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:19-10). This means that our final enemy, Death, has been decisively defeated (v. 26).

God’s messengers in the Holy Gospel for Easter advise the women at the empty tomb not “to seek the Living among the dead” (Luke 24:5). And we, at Easter Worship, are advised not to look for Life in the midst of this world’s deadly sinning.

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

Fellowship will follow the Easter Service. The Hospitality Committee has arranged a Continental Breakfast to enhance our time together. 

This Sunday we’ll continue to set aside our ongoing study of what God's Word says about Satan. Instead, we’ll use our time together to discuss ways in which we can help unchurched family, friends, and neighbors turn to the Good News that Death has been decisively defeated. We will not set up any Bible Study Zoom during this Easter Fellowship time.

Many of us enjoyed visiting with Pr Robert Stevens and his wife Laurie when they visited. Mt Calvary Congregation officially Called Pr Stevens to be our next full time Pastor. We pray for him and his wife, for his current Congregation, and for our Congregation that God’s Will be done. Because of Pr Stevens’ commitment to focusing his current Congregation on Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Day, we have not expected to hear any decision from him until after Easter Sunday.

May God make it possible for you to join us in person or on Zoom at 9am this Easter 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 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.

We owe thanks to our Secretary Jeanne, our Organist Cheryl, our Altar Guild Chair Laurine, our “Joyful Noise” Women’s Choir organized by Char, our Hospitality Committee organized by Dorothy, Zoom operators led by the Fjares, Readers led by the Conleys, “Passover” Father and Mother, Pr Henry and Marian, Greeters and Ushers, and so many others for the rich experiences of Worship and Fellowship during Lent, Holy Week, and today’s Easter celebration.

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.

This Sunday begins Holy Week, and the Sunday has two emphases. We begin in the Christian Family Center with the Gospel report of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on that Sunday so long ago. Then we process with palms into the Sanctuary, and our attention turns to the Gospel narrative of Christ’s Passion, His suffering and death on our behalf.

The Service Folder contains the entire narrative from St Luke’s Gospel. Various people, including the whole congregation, will read various parts of the narrative. In place of a sermon, each of us will have opportunity to reflect in sorrow and in thanksgiving on Christ’s sacrifice for us.

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual. This Sunday we’ll set aside our ongoing study of what God's Word says about Satan. We’ll use our study time to discuss with one another our responses to the reading of St Luke’s Passion narrative in today’s Service. The narrative, in the Service Folder, will serve as our study guide. The discussion will be available at 10:30 am on the same Sunday morning Zoom link as used for the worship service. You can access this Sunday’s Service Folder directly at this link.

Many of us enjoyed visiting with Pr Robert Stevens and his wife Laurie when they visited. Mt Calvary Congregation officially Called Pr Stevens to be our next full time Pastor. We pray for him and his wife, for his current Congregation, and for our Congregation that God’s Will be done. Because of Pr Stevens’ commitment to focusing his current Congregation on Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Day (17 April), we will not likely hear any decision from him until after 17 April.

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).

The Service Folder for this Sunday can be found at this link. The Service Folder that is also the Bible Study Guide for this week will be there. 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.

In Holy Week our two special services will be on Maundy Thursday, 14 April, at 6 pm, and on Good Friday, 15 April, at 6 pm. No meal will be available before either service. On Maundy Thursday we will experience elements of a Passover Meal, but the ritual foods we will use will not make for a regular meal. On Good Friday we will experience the “Dark Hours” of Jesus’ death. More details will come in other emails before each service and will include Zoom information for whose who choose to worship from home.

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.

This Sunday the Holy Gospel speaks Jesus’ parable of the Wicked Tenants (Luke 20:9-20) and then reports His question to us all: “What then is this that is written: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

Jesus’ parable and the question open a way for us to understand why people rejected Christ 2000 years ago and why we still reject Him today. We are led to grasp what it means for us to receive Christ as our Cornerstone.

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and we will be continuing our study of what God's Word says about Satan. Bible Study will be available at 10:30 am on the same Zoom link as used for Worship. The Sunday Bible Study Guide has been posted with the Service Folder. You can access this Sunday’s resources directly at this link.

Many of us enjoyed visiting with Pr Robert Stevens and his wife Laurie last Sunday. Mt Calvary Congregation officially Called Pr Stevens to be our next full time Pastor. We pray for him and his wife, for his current Congregation, and for our Congregation that God’s Will be done. Because of Pr Stevens’ commitment to focusing his current Congregation on Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Day (17 April), we will not likely hear any decision from him until after 17 April.

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. To the right of the photo slideshow, click on “Sunday Worship” and you will be taken directly to the Zoom link.

You can access this Sunday’s resources directly at this link. The Service Folder and the Bible Study Guide will both be there. 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.

Lenten Midweek Services continue this Wednesday, 6 April at 6pm. A light supper will be provided by our Hospitality Committee between 5 and 5:15pm. More details will come in another email on Wednesday, including Zoom information for whose who choose to worship from home.

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.

This Sunday we turn from reflection on our own sin, repentance, and forgiveness, to God’s Reconciling Mission to the world. The Holy Gospel is the familiar parable of the Prodigal Son which might better be called the parable of the Waiting Father. God waits with patience and love for His rebellious children to return. As the son is returning, the waiting Father earnestly anticipates his return. In Jesus words: “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him” (Luke 15:20).

The Holy Gospel will be read by Pr Robert Stevens. He is the Pastor we have Called to serve as our next full time Pastor. He and his wife Laura are visiting Mt Calvary and Estes Park this weekend.

This Sunday’s Epistle Lesson urges you and me to be Ambassadors for Christ’s Ministry of Reconciliation to those around us.

18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us (2 Corinthians 5:18-20).

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and we will have an opportunity to welcome and become acquainted with Pr and Mrs. Stevens. We may omit our usual Bible Study at 10:30am in order to have more time with them. 

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).

The Service Folder for this Sunday can be found at this link. The Service Folder and the Bible Study Guide will both be there. 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.

Lenten Midweek Services continue this Wednesday, 30 March at 6pm. A light supper will be provided by our Hospitality Committee between 5 and 5:15pm. More details will come in another email on Wednesday, including Zoom information for whose who choose to worship from home.