Liturgy: Palm Sunday Lessons and Carols, Luke 19-21 (March 29, 2026)

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 Additional Hymns:

Hymn GTG #197, “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” [vv. 1 & 3]

Hymn GTG #198, “Ride On! Ride On in Majesty!” [vv. 1-2]

Liturgy: Lent 5 Lessons and Carols, Luke 16-18 (March 22, 2026)

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Additional Hymns:

Hymn GTG #396, “Brethren, We Have Met to Worship” [vv. 1 & 4]

Hymn GTG #383, “Dream On, Dream On” [vv. 1] 

Liturgy: Lent 4 Lessons and Carols, Luke 13-15 (March 15, 2026)

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Additional Hymns:

Hymn GTG #318, “In Christ There Is No East or West” [vv. 1 & 4]

Hymn GTG #771, “What Is the World Like” [vv. 1, 2, & 5] 

Liturgy: Lent 3 Lessons and Carols, Luke 10-12 (March 8, 2026)

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Additional Hymns:

Hymn GTG #62, “Love the Lord Your God”

Hymn GTG #300, “We Are One in the Spirit” [vv. 1, 3, 4] 

Liturgy: Lent 2 Lessons and Carols, Luke 7-9 (March 1, 2026)

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Additional Hymns:

Hymn GTG #543, “God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me” [vv. 1, 2, & 5]

Liturgy: Lent 1 Lessons and Carols, Luke 4-6 (February 22, 2026)

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Additional Hymns:

Hymn GTG #168, “Within Your Shelter, Loving God” [vv. 1-3]

Hymn GTG #163, “Wild and Lone the Prophet’s Voice”

Sermon: "People Over Principles", John 4:46-54 (February 8, 2026)

Today’s passage isn’t one that we encounter very often in the context of worship. It’s not in the Revised Common Lectionary at all, and even here in the Narrative Lectionary, it’s usually lumped together with the healing of a different, paralyzed man - a much better-known miracle that IS in the Revised Common Lectionary and usually gets all the attention. In fact, I had a lot of trouble finding ANY sources or commentaries that could provide insight into this story from the end of John 4. Which I think is unfair: why should this man and his son be neglected and forgotten? Sure, as a royal official, he was a Gentile at best and an instrument of Roman oppression at worst - either way, certainly not a member of Jesus’ community - but he was facing one of the most universal, human experiences there is: fear for the life of a loved one.