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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.