Our Elders have decided we shouldn't hazard having people get out into the weather to come to the Church for Midweek Lenten Service.

The Service will be held by Zoom at 6pm, and people can log in in the usual way.

The Service Folder is available at this Link

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 for this Wednesday evening service.

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).

This seems the wisest course for our congregation in this weather system.

Our Service of Lessons and Prayers focuses on St Luke’s portraits of people who looked forward in hope to the coming of the Christ, the Messiah. 

I pray that you can join with us this evening by Zoom.

Cordially, in Christ,

Pr Jim Bachman

Resident Transition Pastor

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 First Sunday in Lent is focused on Satan’s attempts to overthrow God’s Work in Christ. St Luke’s Gospel gives us an occasion to reflect on Christ’s use of Scripture against Satan, and Satan’s belated attempt to twist Holy Scripture to demonic purposes. We can take lessons for our own use of God’s Word against the wiles of the Devil.

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll be starting up some new study of Scripture, because we’ve finished our study of the Book of Isaiah. Bible Study will be available on the same Zoom link as used for Worship. A Sunday Bible Study Guide may be posted with the Service Folder but may not depending on what we study.

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 our Sunday Service Folder and, if available, for the Sunday Bible Study Guide. You can also find the Service Folder for Ash Wednesday, 2 March, at this link. The Zoom recording of the Service 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.

Our Call Committee has mailed all members bios of candidates to be considered for a Call as our full time Pastor. A congregational meeting is planned for Sunday, 13 March, at 2pm. The sole agenda item will be to decide together on a Pastor to call into our Fellowship and Mission.

Lenten Midweek Services continue this Wednesday, 9 March at 6pm. A light supper will be provided by our Hospitality Committee at 5:15 pm. More details will come in another email on Tuesday, 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, Holy Communion, and the Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

The final Sunday of the Epiphany Season is focused on The Transfiguration of our Lord. St Luke’s report of the Transfiguration has special information telling us that Jesus, joined by Moses and Elijah, discusses with them His coming “exodus” to be accomplished at Jerusalem. “Exodus” is a Greek word meaning a “going out” or “departure.”

Both Moses and Elijah each experienced an extraordinary “exodus” from this world to the next, and so did Jesus. We will examine the necessity and significance of “exodus” from this world, including the extraordinary beginning each of us has already made for our “exodus” from this world.

Our Sermon Hymn guides us:

“Death, you cannot end my gladness: I am baptized into Christ!

When I die, I leave all sadness To inherit paradise!

Though I lie in dust and ashes, Faith’s assurance brightly flashes:

Baptism has the strength divine To make life immortal mine” (LSB #594).

Fellowship will follow the Service as usual, and at 10:30 we’ll be wrapping up 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 at this link or through the Worship tab on our website.

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 our Sunday 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 20 February will be posted also under the link for the Service Folder.

Our Call Committee has mailed all members bios of candidates to be considered for a Call as our full time Pastor. A congregational meeting is planned for Sunday, 13 March, at 2pm. The sole agenda item will be to decide together on a Pastor to call into our Fellowship and Mission.

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday Worship on 2 March at 6pm. A light supper will be provided by our Hospitality Committee at 5:15 pm. More details will come in this Worship Tab on Tuesday, 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, Holy Communion, and the Fellowship of Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

During this Season of Epiphany we have focused our attention on the unique Love that comes from God and is ours to share, even in this fallen world.

On this 7th Sunday after the Epiphany God’s Word takes us even more deeply into His Love and the Love that is ours to share. In the Gospel for this Sunday Jesus instructs us: “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. . . . for your heavenly Father is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:27-28, 35-36).

So we are led to confess with our Sermon Hymn that

“We fled God and in Losing God we lost each other too. Each singly sought and claimed his own, each man his brother slew. But Thy strong Love, it sought us still and sent Thine only Son That we might hear His Shepherd’s voice and, hearing Him, be one” (LSB #569).

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 at this link or through the Worship tab on our website.

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 20 February will be posted also under the Service Folder link.

Many thanks to our Hospitality Committee for arranging our joyful Valentine’s Bingo Event last Sunday in our Christian Family Center. Many attended, great prizes were shared, and more than 1/4th of those present were invited guests.

More good news: Our Call Committee has mailed all members bios of candidates to be considered for a Call as our full time Pastor. A congregational meeting is planned for Sunday, 13 March, at 2pm. The sole agenda item will be to decide together on a Pastor to call into our Fellowship and Mission.

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.

During this Season of Epiphany we have been hearing Epistle Lessons from 1 Corinthians that have focused our attention on our Life together in the Body of Christ.

On this 6th Sunday after the Epiphany we have occasion to consider the “Tie that Binds our Hearts in Christian Love” (LSB Hymn #649). Our Women’s Choir will sing the Hymn, and Colossians 3:14 is the Scriptural basis for the Hymn text: “14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”

So we are led to reflect this Sunday on how Love is the Tie and how our being Bound by Love brings free and joyous Life. 1 Corinthians 15 will guide us along with Colossians 3:14. And yes, we have the extra connection with there having actually been at least one St Valentine in the Christian Church, and for more than a thousand years he’s been remembered on 14 February.

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 at this link or through the Worship tab on our website.

This Sunday afternoon at 2 pm is our Valentine’s Bingo Event in our Christian Family Center. Our Hospitality Committee says, “If you are able, please bring a snack to share. Drinks will be provided. There will be prizes for winning and door prizes for those bringing a friend (or 2). ‘Come & See’ how fun it will be!”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.

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.