Mount Calvary Lutheran Church on Good Friday
Join us this Holy Weekend for services Saturday and two on Easter Sunday
Good Friday is part of the sacred three-day observance of Christ’s Passion that stretches from the evening of Maundy Thursday to the celebration on Easter Sunday morning. The name may have originally been “God’s Friday,” but it is certainly also “good” because of the good gifts that Christ won for us on this day. Come and see more services at Mount Calvary this Holy Weekend.
“After all of this talk of the Thessalonians this Lent, I’d like to go there. I have been imagining in my mind taking in the scenery on Easter Monday after the long weekend and finding a chair to sit in and think. I am not sure that there is anything in the city I would want to see. Everything that I care about is in the past. As I would sit there, I might think about those people who were such an encouragement to Paul in his suffering that he said to them, For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.
As I was in my chair I would think about those people like Jason, who when a mob attacked his house because he was hosting Paul and the church services and other believers, he was dragged off to the marketplace, a mob calculatingly throwing the city into uproar, yet Jason was willing to take the heat so Paul could get out of town. I might think about how Jesus gave the advice to shake the dust off your sandals when you come to a city that does not receive you, but what to do when the dust you wiped off comes chasing after you? Paul was having good success in the next town, Berea, the people there gladly hearing him, yet when the Jews of Thessalonica heard Paul was there, they walked 45 miles to stir up massive trouble for him so that Paul had to flee to Athens.”
The Sermon Continues…
In the Good Friday sermon, we reflect on the theme “Sanctifying You” from 1 Thessalonians 5:23-28.
The sermon text can be found here.
The Good Friday Chief bulletin can be found here.
The Good Friday Tenebrae bulletin can be found here.
Our audio recording of this sermon can be listened to:
