FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
August 17, 2025 | 10:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Welcome
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Co-Pastor
*Call to Worship
Leader: God calls us beside still waters.
People: Here our weary spirits are renewed.
Leader: God walks with us through every valley.
People: Here we find love, here we find home.
*Opening Hymn
187 Savior, like a Shepherd Lead Us (Bradbury)
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
God of mercy and love,
you know our hearts and hear our cries.
We confess that we have turned away
from your ways of love—
in what we have done and in what
we have left undone.
We have been silent when we should have spoken,
and spoken when we should have listened.
Forgive us, guide us, and renew us,
that we may walk in your light. Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response To Thee, Great One in Three
*Passing of the Peace
LISTENING FOR GOD’S WORD
Word to the Children
When the music begins, children are invited to gather on the chancel steps as we sing, “This is where children belong, part of our family, part of our song. Be with us, pray with us, help us grow strong: this is where children belong.” Please note that this service is livestreamed and your child’s image may appear on the video.
Sacrament of Holy Baptism
*The Baptismal Creed (Unison)
In life and in death we belong to God.
Through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit,
we trust in the one triune God, the Holy One of Israel,
whom alone we worship and serve.
We trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God.
We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father.
We trust in the Holy Spirit, everywhere the giver and renewer of life.
With believers in every time and place,
we rejoice that nothing in life or in death
can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Glory be to the Creator, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Excerpted from A Brief Statement of Faith.)
The Presentation
Pastor: This candle represents the new life in Christ. It is entrusted to you to be kept burning brightly. May all who have received this sacrament walk as children of the light and may God keep the flame of faith alive in them forever.
People: With joy and thanksgiving, we welcome you into Christ’s church, to share with us this ministry, for we are all one in Christ. Amen.
Prayer for Illumination (Unison)
Lord, open our hearts and minds
By the power of your Holy Spirit,
That as the Scriptures are read
And your Word is proclaimed,
We may hear with joy
What you say to us today. Amen.
First Lesson
Psalm 23 (Pew Bible Old Testament Page 464)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Anthem
Sarabande/No Woman No Cry
Bach/Marley
Gospel Lesson
John 10:22-30 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 90)
Sermon
The Cry, The Comfort, The Promise
Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist, Associate Pastor
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
Salut D’Amour
Edward Elgar
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts Rev. Dr. Jason Hays, Executive Minister
Making a financial gift makes Montview’s programs and ministries possible, including this worship service. You are invited to give generously at www.montview.org/giving or by texting a dollar amount to 720.452.6449. Offering boxes are stationed at the exit for cash and checks. We’re grateful for your support.
All are invited to sign and pass the Friendship Pad and greet each other by name.
*Prayer of Dedication (Unison)
God, you have so greatly loved us, long sought us, and mercifully redeemed us. Give us grace that in everything, we may yield ourselves, our wills and our works, a continual thank offering to you. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
*Response
607 Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Doxology)
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Christ, all people here below; Praise Holy Spirit evermore; Praise Triune God, whom we adore. Amen.
Prayers of the People and The Lord’s Prayer (Unison)
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
*Closing Hymn
836 Abide with Me (Eventide)
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
*Charge and Benediction
Postlude
UPCOMING EVENTS
Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Dewey Williams, D.Min.
Sunday, August 24 | 10:00am
Rev. Dr. Dewey Williams is the Chaplain for Alamance Orange Prison Ministry in Orange County, North Carolina. He served as a Baptist Pastor for seventeen years in Colorado and North Carolina. Dewey has a Master of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry from Virginia Union University. His focus was on prison ministry reform. He is the author of Finding Joy On Death Row: Unexpected Lessons from Lives We Discarded.
CELEBRATION SUNDAY
Celebration Sunday – Back to Fall!
Sunday, September 7
8:30am
Worship
9:30am
Sunday School for All Ages
Pastors’ Forum
11:00am
Worship
12:00pm
Celebration on the Outdoor Plaza
Join us on Sunday, September 7, as we begin the new programming year. We’ll have music, food, festivities and fun. Come celebrate this return to fall with us!
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist
Liturgists: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal and Rev. Dr. Jason Hays
Piano: Adam Waite
Organ: Yinying Luo
Viola: Margaret Dyer Harris
Reader: Ellen Reath
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
Brian and Amy Brown (family of Jim and Irene Brown, and Haley Figueroa); Dolores Collins (mourning the death of her aunt, Alberta Little); Sylvia Cordy; Jolene Cranston; Mary Gerwin (mourning the death of her mother, Marie Gerwin); Dick Getzinger (brother of Nancy Getzinger); Mark Haynes; Joe Hickman; Judy Hutchison and family (mourning the death of Dave Hutchison); Ben Meyerhoff; Eden Murphy; The Norman Family (mourning the death of Sue Norman); Jim Polsfut; Michael Prouty; Marthanne Simons (mourning the death of her brother, Edward); Bud and Mary Starker (mourning the death of their son, Adam); Constanza Hege de Tobasia (friend of Lisa Padilla); Nancy Withers (mourning the death of her husband, Robert)
Deaths
July 18 | David Hutchison
Memorial Services
Adam Joseph Starker | August 30 at 11:00am in the Sanctuary
Sue Norman | September 6 at 2:00pm in the Sanctuary
David Hutchison | September 26 at 1:00pm in the Sanctuary
Pastoral Care Concerns
Please reach out to the church with pastoral care concerns such as illnesses, hospitalizations, deaths, births, or any other change of personal circumstances or condition. Contact: caring@montview.org or (303) 355-1651 (general mailbox voicemail). For pastoral care emergencies, please call (303) 355-1651 and press 4.
Flower Dedication
The flowers in the chancel today are given to the glory of God by Bev and John Skinner in memory of their beautiful son, Tom. Happy Birthday.
TODAY AT MONTVIEW
9:30am-11:30am
Childcare – Ages Birth-7
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter via the Commons past Heritage Center to the Education wing.
10:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
11:00am
Fellowship Time with Refreshments
Location: South Plaza
MONTVIEW CHURCH STAFF
Co-Pastor: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Executive Minister: Rev. Dr. Jason Hays
Associate Pastor of Youth and Families: Rev. Amanda Osenga
Assoc. Pastor for Congregational Care and Older Adults: Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist
Minister of Music: Adam Waite
Minister of Children and Families: Sandy Prouty
Interim Senior Director of Operations and Finance: Rev. Dr. John Thexton
Director of Finance: Dan Gasser
Director of Video Services: John Goerner
Building Manager: Brandon Severinsen
Associate Minister of Music and Organist: Yinying Luo
Assistant Minister of Children’s Music: Becki Cornwall
Executive Assistant to the Co-Pastors: Beth Ellsworth
Membership Coordinator/Scheduler: Todd Rembe
Communications Coordinator: Christine Hofstad
Mission Life Coordinator: Jennifer Seward
Administrative Assistant for Faith Formation: Trisha Pshak
Music Ministry Administrator: Heidi Shriver
Administrative Assistant to Older Adult Ministries: Debby Sycamore
Sunday Sound Engineer: Cate Thieme
Sextons: Christina Chavez and Zach Slowik
ABOUT THIS SERVICE
Assistive listening devices are available in the sound booth in the back of the sanctuary.
Restrooms are available in the Commons. An all-gender restroom is available on the lower level across from Youth Cellar.
A room for families with children who are not enjoying the service is below the sanctuary with livestream.
Childcare is available for ages Birth-7 on the Preschool floor.
Please note that this worship service will be livestreamed to several social media platforms and your image may appear on the livestream video.
What’s Happening at Montview?
Attend our Pastors’ Forum on September 7; explore contemplative spirituality at the next Second Gaze Fellowship meeting; take part in our upcoming Sunday School teacher meeting and more in our This Week @ Montview email. Click here to access the latest edition.
MONTVIEW BOULEVARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1980 Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80220
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org