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 Lessons for 6 February, the 5th Sunday after the Epiphany, connect with our discussion of the Wise Men and Herod back on 9 January as we began the Season of Epiphany. We learned then from God’s Word that the Wise Men were wise especially because they had an appropriate fear of the Lord. By contrast clever King Herod was a fool because he had no fear of God. We pondered at that time how The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10).

This Sunday the Old Testament lesson shows the Prophet Isaiah rightly fearing God and then the Gospel likewise shows Peter and the early disciples of Jesus rightly fearing their Lord. This Sunday we will consider how it is that, when people rightly fear the Lord, God’s grace leads them into productive discipleship.

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll continue our study of Isaiah 40-55. Bible Study will be available on the same Zoom link as used for Worship. The Sunday Bible Study Guide is posted with the Service Folder and can be accessed the same way you access the Service Folder.

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.

Here is the link for the Service Folder and for the Sunday Bible Study Guide.

When completed and received, the Zoom recording of the Worship Service and the Sermon Manuscript for 6 February will be posted also under the Service Folder link.

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.

We are now well into the Season of Epiphany. The Lessons for 30 January, the 4th Sunday after the Epiphany, range across many topics. We’ll continue focus on 1 Corinthians and God’s Gifts to each of us. The Epistle, 1 Corinthians 13, points us to the “more excellent way” of God’s Love. We’ll start from the ancient commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves (Mark 12:29-31).

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll resume our study of Isaiah 40-55. Bible Study will be available on the same Zoom link as used for Worship. The Sunday Bible Study Guide is posted with the Service Folder and can be accessed the same way you access the Service Folder.

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.

Here is the link for the Service Folder.

When completed and received, the Zoom recording of the Worship Service will be posted also under the Service Folder link.

We are now well into the Season of Epiphany. Sunday’s Gospel Lesson on 23 January shows Jesus at the beginning of His ministry, at Worship in His home town Nazareth, connecting Himself with Isaiah’s prophesy that God’s unique Servant would come to save the world. 

And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21).

The listeners were both impressed and angered by Jesus’ words.

And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth” (Luke 4:22).

But the people of Nazareth had their own ideas about how Jesus should do His saving work. Their worship ended with them seeking to throw Jesus “down the cliff” just outside of town.

But passing through their midst, he went away (Luke 4:30).

Faithful Christians learn not to let our own ideas overrule Jesus’s own Words. In Mt Calvary congregation we know our task is always to witness to Jesus and His own account of Who He is and what He does. In our Epistle Lesson today St Paul is helping the congregation at Corinth understand how congregations assemble the resources needed for the witness to Jesus.

On this Sunday we are installing Mt Calvary’s new and ongoing elected leaders. Guided by St Paul’s advice in 1 Corinthians 12, we will be celebrating how each one of us, as a Baptized member of the Body of Christ, is gifted to play a part in how God is building up the Body. The sermon this Sunday will take a focused look at the Gifts God promises to give each and all of us for our common work. 

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll have our regularly scheduled Voters Meeting in the Christian Family Center.

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.

Here is the link for the Service Folder. 

When completed and received, the Zoom recording of the Worship Service will be posted also under the Service Folder link.

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 beginning of the Epiphany Season is crowded with rich Scripture. Last Sunday we focused on the Wise Men (Matthew 2:1-12). This week we begin with Jesus' own Baptism in the River Jordan, but the Gospel lesson takes us to Jesus and new and superior wine at a Wedding in Cana in Galilee. The sermon will take up "Jesus! Who Knew how New?"

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll continue our study of Isaiah in 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.

Here is the link for the Service Folder. The link also takes you to the Bible Study study guide.

After the Service, at 10:30 am, the regular Sunday Zoom link will reopen so people can participate remotely in our Bible Study of the Book of Isaiah.

The Zoom recording of the Service will also be posted under this “Worship” tab later in the day. The Bible Study will not be recorded.

Blessed Epiphany! Now that the Church’s Epiphany Season has begun (6 January), we thank God that His salvation in Jesus has been freely revealed also to non-Jewish people.

January 6th begins the Season of Epiphany, and we use that day for remembering the visit of the Magi/Wise Men to Jesus. Some Christians call January 6th “Old Christmas,” and Eastern Christians tend to celebrate Christmas on that day.

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.

We will celebrate the Wise Men and Epiphany at our regular Worship on 9 January. The Gospel is Matthew’s telling of the visit of the Wise Men to the infant Jesus (Matthew 2:1-12). We will probe how God’s Word shows the difference between being “clever” and being “wise.”

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll resume our study of Isaiah in 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.

Here is the link for the Service Folder. The link also takes you to an explanation of the word "Epiphany."

After the Service, at 10:30 am, the regular Sunday Zoom link will reopen so people can participate remotely in our Bible Study of the Book of Isaiah. The Sunday Bible Study Guide is posted with the Service Folder and can be accessed the same way you access the Service Folder. Here is the link for the Study Guide. 

The Zoom recording of the Service will also be posted under this “Worship” tab later in the day. The Bible Study will not be recorded.

Sunday, 2 January, is the 9th Day of Christmas. We need at least the Twelve Days of Christmas to celebrate and give thanks for the Child Born for Us.

The Church’s Year and the world’s calendar year coincide on 25 December for Christmas Day and 1 January for the Naming of Jesus. St. Luke explains how the Naming takes place on the 8th Day of Christmas: “And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb” (2:21). Give thanks that our Savior takes the Name Jesus, “for he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

In regular Worship Sunday, 2 January, the 9th Day of Christmas, we will focus on the significance of Jesus’ Name and our own Baptismal naming.

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and we’ll together decide whether to resume our study of Isaiah in Bible Study this Sunday or next Sunday on the 9th of January.

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.

Here is the link for the Service Folder. The recording of the Service will be posted here after the Service.

Sunday, 26 December, is the 2nd Day of Christmas. We need at least the Twelve Days of Christmas to celebrate and give thanks for the Child Born for Us.

This Sunday our Lessons invite us to ponder similarities and differences between being God’s faithful person in the days before Jesus’s birth and being God’s faithful Baptized child in the days after Jesus’s birth. Hebrews 1:1 points to the difference:

In many and various ways, God spoke to His people of old by the prophets. But now in these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son.

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, but in this Holiday time we agreed not to have Bible Study this Sunday. We’ll resume our study of Isaiah on either the 2nd or the 9th of January.

Here is the link to the Service Folder. After the Service, the recording will be posted under this link as well.

No service on next Friday, New Year’s Eve nor on Saturday, New Year’s Day. We can each pray for a blessed New Calendar Year, based on what God has already shown us in the New Church Year that began on 28 November.

We will continue to celebrate Christmas on the 9th Day of Christmas, 2 January, 2022, at our regular 9am Worship with Holy Communion.