FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT
February 22, 2026 | 8:30 & 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
This is My Story, This is My Song
arr. Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)
Welcome
Rev. Dr. Jason Hays, Executive Minister
*Call to Worship
Leader: We set our hearts toward Jerusalem.
People: We turn our spirits toward resurrection.
Leader: The way is demanding.
People: And yet, it is filled with grace.
All: With open hearts and steadfast souls,
let us journey this path together.
Gathering Hymn Heavenly Sunlight
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
Merciful God,
As we journey through Lent,
grant us the courage to speak truth
of our beauty and our brokenness.
Remind us that we bear your image,
and forgive us when we forget,
hungering for what does not satisfy,
clinging to what does not give life,
ignoring those who need our love.
In your mercy,
renew us, repair us, resurrect us.
Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response What Wondrous Love Is This
*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 the 11:00am service is livestreamed and your child’s image may appear on the video.
Anthem
Feeling Good (8:30am)
Nina Simone (1933-2003)
True Colors (11:00am)
Cyndi Lauper (b. 1953)
Prayer for Illumination (Unison)
Lord, may your Holy Word
be for us the seed of new possibilities
that blossoms in ways we cannot yet imagine.
Amen.
Scripture Lessons
Psalm 19:1-6 (Pew Bible Old Testament Page 461)
Mark 10:35-40 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 40)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
The Musicality of God and the Drum Major Instinct
Dr. Raymond Carr, Guest Preacher
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
Come Sunday
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts Rev. Clover Reuter Beal, Co-Pastor
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 223 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Verse 4
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
729 Lord, I Want to Be a Christian (Spiritual)
This morning’s singing of “Lord, I Want to Be a Christian” – an American Negro Spiritual – is presented in accordance with our reparations royalty pilot program: a practice of valuing the musical contributions of enslaved Africans to American worship and song. All are invited to make a reparation royalty contribution via the pew offering envelope (write “reparations royalty”), at Montview.org/giving (One-time gift: Reparations Royalty Fund) or by clicking here.
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
*Charge and Benediction
Postlude
Well You Needn’t
Thelonious Monk
GUEST PREACHER: DR. RAYMOND CARR
Today, February 22 | Worship and Adult Faith Formation
8:30 & 11am Worship: Dr. Raymond Carr is an internationally recognized public theologian whose work advances ecumenical, historically rigorous, and radically inclusive approaches to theology, centering Black religion, theological aesthetics, and theomusicology. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union.
9:40am: Light That Will Not Be Hidden: Black Faith, History, & Justice – Hearing the Light: Faith, Soul, and All That Jazz
Dr. Raymond Carr explores God’s musicality by using a jazz legend to help us interpret theologians Karl Barth and James Cone.
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Guest Preacher: Dr. Raymond Carr
Liturgists: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal, Rev. Dr. Jason Hays and Sandy Prouty
Piano/Conductor: Adam Waite
Organ: Benjamin Corwyn
Vocals: JoFoKe (8:30am)
Drums/Trumpet: Shane Endsley
Bass: Patrick McDevitt
Conductor: Becki Cornwall (11:00am)
Assistant Conductor: Heidi Shriver (11:00am)
Piano: James Craft (11:00am)
Children’s Chorus: Bel Canto Choir (11:00am)
Reader: Ellen Reath (8:30am)
Reader: Zofia Burney (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
Chorus: Westminster Choir (11:00am)
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
Jolene Cranston; Cindi Graves; Mark Haynes; Joe Hickman; The Hoeft Family; The Holleman Family (mourning the death of Mary Holleman); Jody and Hannah Hunnicutt (mourning the death of William Hunnicutt); The Jensen Family (mourning the death of Joe Jensen); Sherwood Lingenfelter (brother of Paul Lingenfelter); Sam Mateo; Jim Polsfut; Jan Tazelaar; Anne Tennant; Kate Williams; The Young Family (mourning the death of Dick Young)
Deaths
February 12 | Joe Jensen
February 9 | Mary Holleman
January 7 | Dick Young (Memorial Service February 27 at 2pm 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.
TODAY AT MONTVIEW
8:00am-12:30pm
Childcare – Ages Birth-7
Location: Preschool Floor
Enter via the Commons past Heritage Center to the Education wing.
8:30am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
8:45am
Youth Bells (Grades 3-8)
Location: Room 206B
9:30am
Bel Canto Choir (Grades K-5)
Location: Room 205
Assembly: Choir Alternative Fellowship (Grades K-5)
Location: Room 204B
Sunday School (Preschool)
Location: Room 112
Confirmation Elective: Faith That Sets Us Free
Location: Confirmation Room
JAM in the AM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
9:40am
Light That Will Not Be Hidden: Black Faith, History, & Justice
Dr. Raymond Carr
Location: Miller Chapel
10:00am
Sunday School (Grades K-5)
Location: Second Floor
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
12:00pm
Jubilate Singers (Grades 6-12)
Location: Sanctuary
4:00pm
JAM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
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 the 11:00am worship service will be livestreamed to several social media platforms and your image may appear on the livestream video.
MONTVIEW BOULEVARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1980 Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80220
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org