FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
March 10, 2024 | 8:30 & 11:00am
GATHERING IN GOD’S NAME
Prelude
Stillness
Ike Sturm (b. 1978)
Welcome
*Call to Worship
Leader: We come to share one faith, one hope, one comfort,
People: We are baptized in one baptism.
Leader: We are one people, united by God’s love and mercy,
People: To be set free to live with joy.
All: Come, let us worship God together.
*Gathering Hymn 165 The Glory of These Forty Days, Verse 4
*Corporate Confession (Unison)
God of our Lenten pilgrimage,
Call us from our complacency,
and lead us into the wilderness of your love;
where we can remember what matters,
where we can be tested and proven faithful,
where we can find our home once again in you.
In Christ we pray, 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 . . . . . Sandy Prouty
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 the 11:00am service is livestreamed and your child’s image may appear on the video.
Anthem
Cover Me, from Let the River Flow (8:30am)
Ike Sturm/Chanda Rule
Reformation, from Let the River Flow (11:00am)
Ike Sturm/Chanda Rule
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
Luke 9:21-27 (Pew Bible New Testament Page 60)
Response to Reading
Leader: Listen to the voice of the Spirit speaking to the Church.
People: Thanks be to God.
Sermon
Nodual Love Part Three: Losing Your Life to Find It
Rev. Ian Cummins
Moment for Reflection
Musical Reflection
Heart (8:30am)
Ike Sturm
Peter Song (11:00am)
Ike Sturm/Tristan Cooley
RESPONDING TO GOD’S GRACE
Offering Ourselves and Our Gifts
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
697 Take My Life (Hendon)
Blessing of Prayer Shawls and Quilts (Unison)
May God’s grace be upon these shawls and quilts…
warming, comforting, enfolding and embracing.
May these shawls and quilts be a safe haven…
a sacred place of security and well-being…
sustaining and embracing in good times as well as difficult ones.
May those who receive these shawls and quilts be cradled in hope,
kept in joy, graced with peace, and wrapped in love.
The Prayer Shawls that are blessed at today’s service will be available in the Commons afterwards if you know someone in need of healing.
SENDING IN GOD’S LOVE
*Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response (11:00am)
Kyrie
Plainsong
Postlude
Lifetime (Kyrie), from Jazz Mass
Ike Sturm
MINISTRY HIGHLIGHT: PRAYER SHAWL KNITTERS AND QUILTERS
Montview’s Prayer Shawl Knitters create warm and cozy prayer shawls that are available for the pastors and the congregation to distribute to anyone in need of comfort and healing. Visit their tables in the Commons following today’s worship services. Contact: magreath@ecentral.com. The Quilters encourage and support each other while collaborating on beautiful quilts throughout the year. Visit the Quilt Show in the Reception Room below the sanctuary from March 10-April 7. Contact: brookesewcreative@gmail.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS
What’s Happening at Montview?
Help with the planning of our Easter Tea; attend Dr. Peter Hulac’s Retirement Reception on March 17; save the date for Agape Latte and more in our This Week @ Montview email. Click here to access the latest edition.
Easter at Montview
Celebrate Easter with us on Sunday, March 31. Worship services will be held at 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00am in the sanctuary.
8am – Worship with String Quartet
Sanctuary
9:30am – Worship with Westminster Choir & Brass
Sanctuary
9:15am – Easter Tea & Craft Fair
Fellowship Hall
11am – Worship with Westminster Choir & Brass
Sanctuary & Livestream
WORSHIP PARTICIPANTS
Preacher: Rev. Ian Cummins Liturgists: Rev. Dr. Lorraine Leist and Sandy Prouty
Piano/Conductor: Adam Waite
Organ: Yinying Luo
Bass: Ike Sturm
Violin: Leena Waite
Drums: Shane Endsley
Vocals: Phoebe Bawmann (8:30am)
Vocals: Kali Paguirigan (11:00am)
Reader: Bill Dobrenen (8:30am)
Reader: Kristin Weber (11:00am)
Sound: Cate Thieme
Video: John Goerner
Chorus: Westminster Choir (11:00am)
PARISH NEWS
Prayer Tree
Alex Adgate, daughter of John Adgate and Christina Carballal; Jay Conley; The Cummins Family; Madie Gustafson; Steve House; Soren Kirk, great-nephew of Janet Wolfer, and his parents; Nik Levinsky; Mateo; Jeri Mathes, mother of Rob Mathes; Eden Murphy; Mac Murphy; The Rudolph Family, mourning the deaths of Chuck and Charla Rudolph; Scot Sandoval, son of Juanita Martinez; Jewel Wegs; Barbara Lovelace
Williams, mourning the death of her husband, Clarence
Deaths
February 7 | Charla Rudolph (Memorial Service on April 12 at 11:00am)
January 27 | Chuck Rudolph (Memorial Service on April 12 at 11:00am)
Flower Donations
The flowers in the chancel today are given to the glory of God by Craig Maginness and Ellen Reath in loving memory of Craig’s mother, Elizabeth Maginness.
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
9:30am
Walking in the Wilderness: Growing Through Mental Health Challenges
Jenna Glover, Ph.D., Psychologist and Vice President of Care Services at Headspace
Location: Miller Chapel
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
Location: New Confirmation Room
JAM in the AM (Grades 6-8)
Location: Cellar
The 20/30s Group
Location: McCollum Room
10:00am
Sunday School (Grades K-5)
Location: Preschool and Second Floors
11:00am
Worship Service
Location: Sanctuary
12:00pm
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.
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.
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN
We are so glad your family is worshiping with us today. We also know that sometimes children tire of being in worship. We have a space for those times directly below the sanctuary. You can follow the service on a large screen there while your children enjoy toys, books and space. The ushers can direct you!
MONTVIEW BOULEVARD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1980 Dahlia Street, Denver, CO 80220
303.355.1651 | www.montview.org