Mt Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church

Mt Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church We preach the historic Faith, we celebrate using the Church's classic forms of worship, and we show t

09/05/2026

Ack! I left the church before posting the sermon intro for tomorrow - and because I'm essentially a Luddite at heart, tomorrow's sermon only exists as a thing written on paper with pen.
That said, it's the 15th Sunday after Pentecost tomorrow. As we continue working through the Gospel according to Matthew, we arrive at the beginning of the "Discipleship" Discourse in Matthew 18:1-20. What's the upshot? The call to care for the "little ones" in the Kingdom/Community of Faith. Who are they? Turns out it's not just children....
Join us for in-person worship tomorrow if you are able - at either 9:00am (Sung Divine Service) or 11:45am (Spoken Divine Service). You can also watch the service live-streamed on our You Tube channel (https://www.youtube.com/.calvaryevangelicalluthe8130) - at 9:00 am Central *Daylight* Time. It will remain available for view later if you so choose. If you just want the audio of the sermon, it will be available at our website (www.mtcalvarypeoria.org) under "Media." It usually gets posted on Tuesday.

God bless!

08/29/2026

It's 14 Pentecost tomorrow, and we pick up in Matthew right where we left off last week - hearing Matthew 16:21-28. Last week the Apostles had confessed, with Peter, that Jesus is the Christ. This week He tells them what all that means. Peter balks. And Jesus calls him back to the place of a disciple: "Get behind Me!" Jesus goes on to instruct them all on how to stay in the "after of Him" so that the can benefit from the way He forges ahead of them.
Join us for in-person worship tomorrow if you are able - at either 9:00am (Sung Divine Service) or 11:45am (Spoken Divine Service). You can also watch the service live-streamed on our You Tube channel (https://www.youtube.com/.calvaryevangelicalluthe8130) - at 9:00 am Central *Daylight* Time. It will remain available for view later if you so choose. If you just want the audio of the sermon, it will be available at our website (www.mtcalvarypeoria.org) under "Media." It usually gets posted on Tuesday.

Here's the intro to tomorrow's sermon....

"From thsat time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must got to Jerusalem and suffer many things...."

He must go. Mus t suffer. It was a divine necessity. There was no other way for Him to complete the work He was given to do. Yet, to the Twelve, it sounded like things were going to go from bad to worse - worst, even. If you remember Peter's confession, "You - You are the Christ," from last week, then you know this apostolic proclamation was made in the face of Jesus' rejection by the leaders in Jerusalem, the plotting of the Pharisees to have Jesus killed, and the falling away of many in Galilee who found Jesus' teaching too hard.

It was already bad - some two years into His public ministry. Yet the Twelve were still moved to call Jesus the Christ, the Anointed One, by the revelation of the Father.

Yet now Jesus said rejection and falling away were not the end - but only the beginning. He must suffer. And die. And the third day, rise.

It made no sense.

Catch the rest of this tomorrow in person, or onlin when it gets posted. God bless!

08/22/2026

As we continue with our "year of Matthew" as the lectionary would have it, this Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost bring us to "Peter's Confession" in Matthew 16:13-20. Join us as we explore the meaning, and promises, that are part of the Apostolic proclaimation that Jesus is "the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Join us for in-person worship tomorrow if you are able - at either 9:00am (Sung Matins) or 11:45am (Spoken Divine Service). You can also watch the service live-streamed on our You Tube channel (https://www.youtube.com/.calvaryevangelicalluthe8130) - at 9:00 am Central *Daylight* Time. It will remain available for view later if you so choose. If you just want the audio of the sermon, it will be available at our website (www.mtcalvarypeoria.org) under "Media." It usually gets posted on Tuesday.

Here's the intro to tomorrow's sermon....

"You - You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Now it may seem odd that Jesus is being so effusive in His response to Peter's confession. After all, the Twelve had just recently confessed Jesus as the "Son of God" when He got intop the boat with them after walking a few miles on the Sea of Galilee to greet them at 3:00 in the morning. And, if you remember John's Gospel, then remember that John and Andrew both called Jesus "the One written about by Moses and the prophets" when they came and told their brothers about Jesus. So, that Jesus is the Son of God and Messiah is hardly a new revelation to the Twelve. Yet, Jesus calls Peter "bless-ed," and says that this recognitin of Jesus' identity was a matter of Peter cleverly deducing it from an examination of the evidence, but was revealed to him by the Father in heaven.

Why?

To catch the rest of this, join us tomorrow in person if you can - or find it online. God bless!

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Peoria, IL
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Monday 9am - 3pm
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Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
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