FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
March 15, 2026 | 8:30 and 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Flux (8:30am)
Ike Sturm (b. 1978)
Envisage (11:00am)
Ike Sturm
Welcome
Rev. Dr. Jason Hays, Executive Minister
*Call to Worship
Leader: We have wandered far.
People: Yet God has not abandoned us.
Leader: We come with questions we cannot answer.
People: Yet Christ receives our honesty.
Leader: We come in the middle of our journey,
some of us still learning to see.
People: Yet the one who opens eyes meets us here.
Leader: Come, let us worship God, who brings us
from darkness into his marvelous light.
Gathering Hymn 165 The Glory of These Forty Days, Verse 3
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
Merciful God, we have not loved you with our whole hearts.
We have turned from our neighbors in their need.
We have chosen our comfort over your call.
We have mistaken silence for peace, and distance for safety.
We have grown comfortable in our blindness.
Forgive us, Holy One, and restore us to yourself,
and reconcile us to one another. Amen.
*Assurance of God’s Love
*Response What Wondrous Love Is This
*Passing of the Peace
*Hymn
450 Be Thou My Vision (Slane)
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
The Way (8:30am)
Ike Sturm
Peter Song (11:00am)
Ike Sturm
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 Lesson
John 9:1-41 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 89)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
Mud Is How the Light Gets In
Rev. Clover Reuter Beal, Co-Pastor
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
Envisage (8:30am)
Ike Sturm
Come Home (11:00am)
Peter Eldridge (b. 1962)
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts
Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist, Associate 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
649 Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound (Amazing Grace)
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
*Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response (11:00am)
Kyrie
Plainsong
Postlude
Cortège
Gordon Young (1919-1998)
UPCOMING EVENTS
AGAPE LATTE
MARCH 22 | 5-7:00PM (MILLER CENTER)
Join us for Agape Latte, Montview Youth’s coffeehouse-style concert and fundraiser supporting summer trips to Puerto Rico, Ghost Ranch, and our JAM InTown Mission Immersion. With more than 60 youth participating, our goal is to raise $15,000. Enjoy live performances, Caribbean bowls, festive beverages, and a silent and live auction. The silent auction will be online, so you can browse and bid from your phone. Childcare is available for birth–7 years old. Click here to register, preview auction items, donate, and learn more.
MINISTRY HIGHLIGHT: THE WAYMAKERS (YOUNG ADULTS IN THEIR 20S/30S)
The Waymakers is Montview’s newest group for young adults in their 20s/30s. Today, join in the Sacred Slowdown Brunch for food and conversation with other young adults at 12:00pm in Fellowship Hall. We will take time to get to know one another, pray for each other, and brainstorm future events together. Please RSVP so we can plan food and childcare. Connect with colleen@montview.org with any questions.
ADULT FAITH FORMATION
Four Voices of Resistance and Hope: Faith in Times of Crisis
March 15 and 22 | 9:40am (Miller Chapel)
Today, March 15: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Theologian. Martyr. – Rev. Peter Marty – Few people of faith have done more than Dietrich Bonhoeffer to remind the church of its conscience before the state and its responsibility to those who are defenseless. His decency in the face of totalitarian evil, and his courage in the midst of Christian cowardice, create a witness our world needs to see more of.
March 22: James Cone: Black liberation theology – Rev. Dr. Ben Sanders III –
Rev. Dr. Sanders currently serves as Chief Equity Officer for the City and County of Denver. He is also on the ministerial staff of New Hope Baptist Church in Denver.
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: Rev. Clover Reuter Beal
Liturgists: Rev. Dr. Jason Hays and Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist
Piano/Conductor: Adam Waite
Organ: Benjamin Corwyn
2025 Artist-in-Residence: Ike Sturm
Soloist: Shelley Goldberg (11:00am)
Reader: Mark Lovell (8:30am)
Reader: Craig Maginness (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
Chorus: Westminster Choir (11:00am)
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
The clergy of Jamaica as they support those affected by Hurricane Melissa; Jolene Cranston; Rev. Emory Gillespie; Meg Glazner and family; Cindi Graves; Mark Haynes; Joe Hickman; Tim Hobbins (relative of Cindy and Terry Oakes); The Hoeft Family; Sherwood Lingenfelter (brother of Paul Lingenfelter); Sam Mateo; Dianne Briscoe McKenzie; Vanessa Owen and family (mourning the death of Vanessa’s mother); Jim Polsfut; Keren Roewe; Jan Tazelaar; Anne Tennant; Stuart Tessler (friend of Barbara Furutani)
Births
March 3 | Auggie James Orzolek, child of Madison Smith and Louis Orzolek
January 20 | James Merrifield Weschler, child of Sarah and Charley Weschler
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
JAM in the AM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
9:40am
Four Voices of Resistance and Hope: Faith in Times of Crisis
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Theologian. Martyr.
Rev. Peter Marty
Location: Miller Chapel
10:00am
Sunday School (Grades K-5)
Location: Second Floor
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
12:00pm
Sacred Slowdown Brunch (20s/30s)
Childcare Available
Location: Fellowship Hall
Jubilate Singers
Location: Sanctuary
4:00pm
JAM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
6:00pm
MOB (Grades 9-12)
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