Sunday service for 22 March 2026, fifth Sunday in Lent

Sunday 22 March 2026, fifth Sunday in Lent
Gourock St. John’s Church of Scotland
Service prepared by Rev. Teri Peterson
Manse phone: 632143
Email: TPeterson(at)churchofscotland.org.uk
Email Charlene, Parish Assistant: CMitchell(at)churchofscotland.org.uk

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Sanctuary Prelude Music (praise band)

Welcome
God-sightings

We Gather As God’s Family (As the Bible is brought in, we stand and sing)
A family gathered in love,
striving for justice and joy,
blessing the broken-hearted,
and sharing the hope of God’s kingdom.

Call to Worship
One: Jesus says: I am the resurrection and the life.
All: And so we come seeking possibilities we don’t yet know how to name.
One: Jesus says: You will see the glory of God.
All: And so we look, though all around seems bleak.
One: Jesus says: Unbind him and let him go.
All: And so we take our part in a new future.

Sanctuary Hymn 187: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy (organ)

Prayer (interspersed with Kyrie in the sanctuary)
God of life and love,
you know the fullness of human life,
from the heights of joy to the depths of sorrow,
and you dwell with us in it all.
Sit beside us today in the shadows,
and teach us to be real
with each other and with you,
trusting your presence.

Kyrie Eleison (organ)

You are a powerful God
which is why we wonder why things happen as they do.
We confess we wonder where you are
when people suffer,
when death comes too soon,
when pain or violence or hunger or abuse or despair rule the day.
If you were here,
if you truly loved,
surely things would be different?

Kyrie Eleison (organ)

In our hurt and confusion we call out to you,
we beg you to come and see the reality of this world you so love.
Bring your abundant life for all,
and set us free from the fear that keeps us bound.
Forgive us when we struggle to let go of the grave-clothes,
preferring the bindings we know to the freedom of unknown.
Forgive us,
and give us eyes to recognise you sitting down beside us,
sharing our humanity,
weeping with those who weep.
Call us out of shadows into the light of new life,
and unbind us and let us go.
We ask in the name of Jesus who is the resurrection and the life.
Amen.

Kyrie Eleison (organ)

Friends, Jesus came that we may have life, and have it abundantly. Trust his power to bring us out of the old and into the new, this day and every day. Be unbound and at peace. Thanks be to God. Amen.

Online Hymn 187: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy (organ)

Sanctuary Children’s Time

Scripture Reading: John 11
Last week we heard Jesus say “I am the gate for the sheep” and “I am the good shepherd who lays down my life for the sheep.” The religious authorities wanted to stone him, but he continued on his way and people began to notice that everything John the Baptist had said about Jesus was true so far. Today we begin in the next verse at John chapter 11, verse 1, and I am reading from the New Revised Standard Version.

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the religious authorities were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble because they see the light of this world. But those who walk at night stumble because the light is not in them.” After saying this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.” The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.” Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, and many people had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”
When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him. Those who were with her in the house consoling her saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping and the people who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus began to weep. So the people said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Many of the people, therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.” But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.” He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God. So from that day on they planned to put him to death.
Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness, and he remained there with the disciples.
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. They were looking for Jesus and were asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?” Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

For the word of God in Scripture
For the word of God among us
For the word of God within us
Thanks be to God.

Sanctuary Hymn GWA191: Only You, O God (organ)

Sermon: the power of life
We usually call this whole story “the raising of Lazarus” which makes some sense because that is the most astounding moment in the story…but also kind of doesn’t make sense because it’s actually a tiny part of what happens here. It’s only about 2 verses out of more than 50! Two pretty spectacular verses, to be fair — Lazarus come out! A mummy walks out…unbind him and let him go. Incredible! People would barely have believed their own eyes.

But a lot else happens in this story too. And the consequences of this story ripple out and carry on for the whole rest of John’s gospel. This story is the pivot point, the moment when everything changes.

Before we get too far into this, I want to tell you all about some research that has been going on over the past ten years about this story (*). Ten years ago a bible scholar noticed that the most ancient manuscript we have seems to have a lot of “corrections” — things crossed out and changed by scribes — in this story. And the thing being changed was a name. Over and over again, the name Maria was being changed to Martha. It’s only one letter different in Greek. And the other change was from “sister” to “sisters.” So this scholar, whose name is Elizabeth Schrader, started looking into this, and found that a number of early church fathers also wrote about this story as if there’s only Lazarus and his one sister. And she traced the development of the gospel into the form we have it today, with two sisters. Her conclusion is that scribes along the way adjusted the manuscript to include both the sisters who are mentioned in Luke’s gospel in a completely different story — a story of two sisters but no brother, in a different town — to try to make this one family in both gospels…and also to try and diminish the Mary of this story, who is the one, according to the manuscript before the cross-out-changes were made, who declared Jesus to be the Messiah and Son of God. Because if Mary of Bethany is the only person in John’s Gospel to declare Jesus to be the Messiah and Son of God, and then she is the only one who understands enough of what is coming to anoint him for his death, then it is possible that she may also be the same Mary who was at the cross and then at the empty tomb on Easter morning — the one we now call Mary Magdalene…because the word “magdalene” is a title, one we have often interpreted as meaning she was from Magdala, even though there’s no evidence of a town called Magdala during the time of Jesus. But the title comes from the word “migdol” which means tower. So what if this story, when Mary of Bethany declares the true identity of Jesus, leads onto the next where she anoints him for his burial, and then leads on to the next where she stands at the cross, and then the next where she refuses to leave the empty tomb and so meets the risen Christ and is commissioned to be the apostle to the apostles…she would be indeed Mary the Tower, the anchor point, the equal to Peter the Rock. Now this interpretation is still under a lot of discussion by scholars, though almost all agree that the manuscript has been changed and that early church writings agree with the unchanged version — but if this interpretation is correct then this story is also a pivot point for Mary. This is when she becomes not just a close friend of Jesus, but when she too is transformed and empowered and begins to grow fully into her discipleship and leadership.

It’s a lot to think about and is only one part of what happens in this story, and we will have to wait and see where the scholarship leads as more research is done on ancient manuscripts, but it does give us something beautiful to think about in our own discipleship journeys — to think of Mary as one whose trust in Jesus even at the worst moment in her life carries her through more dark valleys and enables her to share the good news, to deepen her relationship with Jesus through it all, to stand firm despite the difficulties she faces. What an example she can be to us!

So Mary and Lazarus were well known to Jesus and the twelve, and it says that Jesus loved Lazarus — many think he could be the one later described as the “beloved disciple” since he is the only individual that John says Jesus loved — and yet, when he heard that Lazarus was sick, Jesus did…nothing. He had previously healed a young boy without ever even getting close to his town. He had opened the eyes of a man born blind. But when one of his closest friends was ill, nothing. He did, however, say the same thing he had said about the man born blind: this is so that God’s glory will be revealed, and keep your eyes on the light even when it feels like walking through the valley of the shadow of death.

The twelve didn’t understand, of course, and yet Thomas was so brave and honest about it anyway. He’s aware that this next stage of the journey will be dangerous, and willing to go for it…and encourage all the others to be brave too. Keep that in mind as we go through the gospel because poor Thomas gets a bad rap but honestly he’s probably the most courageous of them all!

On the outskirts of Bethany, the mood shifted. Poor Lazarus had been gone four days and his family were beside themselves. The community had come out to console them, to grieve together, to sit in the strangely empty house and share stories and tears and whatever was the first century equivalent of cups of tea and sausage rolls. They were getting used to the grief. But when Jesus finally turned up, that grief bubbled over in the same way it probably would for us too: “if you had been here this wouldn’t have happened.”

How often do we think or say that ourselves? We sometimes blame ourselves — if we had been there, it might have gone differently. We sometimes blame others — if they had paid attention, none of this would have gone so horribly wrong. We sometimes blame God — he took our loved one from us when we weren’t ready, and all the cliches in the world about angels or God’s time or a better place don’t make that feel any better to us in the moment.

And Jesus himself grieved too. He was upset, it says, though it’s sanitised in English with “he was deeply moved.” He was upset and grieving and the word can even mean angry. He didn’t just cry, he burst into tears and sobbed — again, sanitised in English but in Greek it’s an ugly cry. Jesus was in it with them, mourning and crying and raging at it all. See how he loved him? See how he loves us? See how he loves?

And then Lazarus’s sister says: even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.

And I wonder: what did she think might happen? What did she expect? What do we expect him to do? Even now, I know that God will give you whatever you ask.

Did she expect him to ask to bring her brother back?
Did she expect him to ask God to take away her pain and make her life joyful again? To carry her through the shadowed valley and into the light without having to go through that grief?
Did she expect him to move in and take up the place her brother held, as provider and protector?

What did she think she was saying? Or was it just one of those things where in the haze of tears and upset bubbling over, she said the words of faith without actually thinking about what she meant by them?

Jesus offered what sounded at first like a platitude: your brother will rise again. And you can hear her frustration as she sounds like she’s repeating Sunday school answers to a catechism, just the rote “right answer”: I know he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day. Like yeah yeah yeah, I know, and I know that knowledge is supposed to help me live the rest of my life without him, trusting we will be reunited in the resurrection at the last. But honestly, Jesus, what good is that when I’m this sad now? When I don’t know how to go on with my life now? We want faith to be a comfort and it is…and also it can sometimes feel far off, while we are in the sharp acute pain.

But Jesus’ response changes everything. Remember this is still long before the tomb is even opened…Jesus says “I am the resurrection and the life.”

Not just in the future. Right now.

Remember all the way back in the very beginning of John’s Gospel, in the prologue, it said “through the Word all things came into being, and what has come into being in him was Life, and the Life was the Light of all people…” Right there, standing in front of her on the road. Not at the last day. Here and now. Wherever we are. Whatever we have said to him. Whatever grief and fear and rage and suffering we are carrying. He can take it, and stand there with us in it, and bring life to us out there. We don’t need to get into the right place or the right mindset first: here and now, in every situation, Jesus is the resurrection and the life.

And finally, after all of that… The Word made flesh, still upset, still sobbing, came to the tomb. He gave an order no one could understand: roll away the stone. They plugged their noses, they tried not to gag, they reached for a bundle of herbs to hold to their face. But not Jesus. Jesus looked up to heaven and spoke to God, and then looked at the tomb and shouted.

When did the miracle happen? Was it before they even took away the stone? Was it while Jesus was praying? Was it when he shouted for Lazarus to come out? Much like the water turning into wine, we’ll never know the moment Lazarus woke up…but the result was immediately clear! A walking mummy comes out, trailing his shroud, blinded by the cloth covering his face, moving toward the light of the world and the voice of the shepherd who called him out into life.

For Lazarus and his sister, everything changed that day. For many in the crowd, everything changed that day — they came to believe in the One who brings life out of death, too.

For the religious authorities, everything became much more urgent. They understood this was not just a miracle — this was a sign, and they did not like where the sign pointed. This sign points to something very dangerous for them: that Jesus is not subject to or controlled by the greatest power that leaders have. All they have to control people with is fear, mainly fear of death. They can stone people, or they can collaborate with Romans to get people executed. But if Jesus is not subject to the powers of death, then neither he nor his followers can be manipulated or controlled by it…he sets them free from the power of death. And people set free from the power of death are dangerous to the empire and to those who work with it.

The religious authorities have a vested interest in the status quo — they need everyone to stay within the bounds of what Rome has allowed them to do, so that they can stay safe. They are walking a fine line between practicing their faith and culture and keeping the empire happy. They don’t see that they are actually trapped in the tomb, bound by the grave clothes…and they certainly have no intention of coming out. Instead, they do what many authorities and powers do: they sacrifice him to maintain the status quo. They are so threatened by the power of Life in the world that they do all they can to put it back in the grave.

That’s still true. The only power the worldly authorities have is the power of death, and they wield it with impunity. They use it to manipulate us into following their way, even when it is contrary to the way of God. They want us to fear death, so that we will fear them and the consequences they can threaten us with, and we will stay in line. But this sign points to a bigger truth: in Christ, we are not bound by the power of death. We are free from it. He is the power of Life, and that power is greater by far. Which means…we, the Body of Christ, are as dangerous as Jesus himself. We are not subject to the empire’s control, because we are not bound by fear of death. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. Not only for the last day, but for now. And so we can, like Lazarus, come out of the tomb. We can be unbound, and set free into abundant life, unafraid of what the powers of this world can do to us.

If we are called into life, unafraid…what would we do with that freedom? What would we expect when we say to Jesus “I know that God will give you whatever you ask”? How would we walk differently through the valley of the shadow of death? How might the empire tremble before the people of God today? What would change for us, as it changed for Lazarus, and Mary, and the crowd? What will we do if we are unbound and let go?

Perhaps it’s time to find out. The Shepherd calls us by name, raises us up, sets us free from death and leads us into life.

May it be so. Amen.

(*) you can find her original paper here, and some more recent discussion about it here and here.

Silence for Reflection

Online Hymn: There Will Be A Day (Resound Worship)
Sanctuary Offering Hymn: Raise Me Up (praise band)

Sanctuary Offering Response: Hymn 392 v. 4 (organ)
Were the whole realm of nature mine
that were an offering far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.

Concerns of the Church
*Lent Wednesdays (Westburn 1pm, here 12:15-12:45 and 7:30/soup 7)
*fashion show
*session meeting 24th
*Holy Week — Thursday, Friday walk, Saturday, Easter Day
*Easter breakfast
*Prayer groups

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Gracious God,
we come with thanks
for you walk alongside us on this journey of life,
from the heights to the depths,
from the beginning to the end,
from the celebrations to the sorrows.
You share this earthly life with us
and you invite us into eternal life with you, even now.
We praise you for your glory revealed
in the tears shared with loved ones
in the questions honestly asked
in the trust built in community.
We pray this day for those whose tears are their food day and night,
those whose grief is raw,
those who walk each day in the valley of the shadow of death.
Hold them close in your heart, O God,
for you too have known the grief that comes from having loved.
We pray this day for those who look for a miracle,
and for those who work miracles every day through your gift —
doctors and nurses and researchers, teachers and helpers of all kinds.
May your healing and transformation bring people to wholeness,
that they might live the abundant life you promise.
We pray this day for those who have been written off as collateral damage,
those dismissed as mere statistics,
those we so casually say are “names known only to you”
as if they didn’t have family and friends who knew them too.
May there be more for them than a line in the meeting minutes,
and for those for whom change comes too late, may their memories be a blessing.
May the stone hearts of those in power be softened by their stories,
that we may learn to live together in peace
without the need to manipulate or threaten one another with fear and death.
We pray this day for all on the cusp of something new,
those stepping over the threshold of possibility,
those coming out of shadows into new light.
May they be free to explore the life you have given them,
and to leave behind all that holds them back.
Don’t just call us out from death to life, living God,
but lead us our whole journey through.

On the 22nd day of the month we join our hearts as your St John’s family to pray
*For arts groups — theatre groups, choirs, bands, dance groups and classes, the art club and photography club, and others who support each other in artistic endeavours and expression.
*For the youth organisations of St John’s: for the Anchor Boys, Junior Section, and Company & Senior Section of the Boys’ Brigade, for the Smurfs, Brownies, Guides, and Rangers, and for the Exploratorium holiday clubs. For their leaders, volunteers, young people, and families. May they grow in faith, hope, and love together.
*For the land, people, and governments of the nations of China, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

We bring these and all our prayers in the name of the One who holds the power of life
and offers it to us all:
Jesus the Christ, who taught us to pray together:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever. Amen.

Sanctuary Hymn 580: Abide With Me vv. 1, 3, 4, 5 (organ)

Sending
Go out, unbound, unafraid to live the gift you have been given: life that cannot be overcome by any earthly power.
And as you go, may the Spirit of God go above you to watch over you. May the Spirit of God go beside you to be your companion. May the Spirit of God go before you to show you the way, and behind you to push you into places you might not go alone. And may the Spirit of God go within you, to remind you that you are loved more deeply than you can possibly imagine. May the fire of God’s love burn brightly in you, and through you into the world. Go in peace. Amen.

Sung Benediction Response (John L Bell, tune Gourock St John’s)
Now may the Lord of all be blessed,
Now may Christ’s gospel be confessed,
Now may the Spirit when we meet
Bless sanctuary and street.

Sanctuary Postlude Music (organ)

Announcements

* We worship in the sanctuary on Sundays at 11am, and Sunday worship is also online.

* The first Sunday of the month at 11am is an all-age service, with different ways of encountering God’s word without a traditional sermon. All people — young and old, different personalities and learning styles, are welcome! You’ll find a more informal service with a variety of music, a Bible story, prayer, and some more interactive elements. The online service for the first Sunday will therefore also be different — there will still be a reading, prayers, and music, but usually not a sermon.

* Starter Packs are in need of Shaving Foam, Shampoo, Soap, Hand Wash.

The FoodBank are short of diluting juice, cereal, noodles/microwave rice, jarred sauce, biscuits, UHT milk, and tinned meat/soups/vegetables.
Both are collecting Easter Eggs as well, to give our neighbours in need a wee treat!

You can bring donations to the church and place them into the boxes in the vestibule. Thank you!

* The Kirk Session meets on Tuesday the 24th at 7pm.

* During the season of Lent we have two midweek opportunities for prayer, reflection, worship, and discussion: on Wednesdays from 12:15-12:45 we’ll have Lent Lunchtime Reflections in the sanctuary, and at 7:30pm in the sanctuary will be Lent Evenings. We’ll be looking at what happened on the last night Jesus spent with his disciples before his arrest, in John chapters 13-17. Everyone is welcome as we dig deeper into the last words Jesus said to his disciples!

* During Holy Week, we will have a Maundy Thursday communion service in the sanctuary at 7:30pm, we will join the Good Friday cross-walk and pierhead service at 10:30am, and we will have an Easter Eve vigil service in the sanctuary on Saturday at 8pm (because the service needs to happen after sunset!). The Easter Eve “vigil” goes through the whole story of salvation, the ups and downs, light and darkness, and brings us to the full passion and good news of new life. All are welcome at all these services!

* Bowl & Blether is on the first Mondays of the month, with doors open from 11:30-1:30, and lunch served from noon. All are welcome for a bowl of soup, a toastie, a friendly chat in our warm hall! See you in a few weeks on Easter Monday, the 6th of April.

* Greenock Philharmonic Choir will be performing Britten’s St Nicolas alongside Vivaldi’s Gloria in Greenock Town Hall on Saturday 28th March at 7pm.   They will be joined by members of Voices of Inverclyde Senior Schools, and singers from St Mary’s Primary School. The tenor soloist is Euan McDonald. Tickets are available via choir members, or contact Calum Harbison (07847 250529) – also through TicketSource.  See the choir’s website for more information.

* We are having a fundraising Fashion Show with clothes from The Dressing Room (Saltcoats) on Sunday 29 March from 2-4pm at the Masonic Lodge. Tickets are £5 and you can get them from Norma or Anne L. Come along for a fun and funny afternoon of fashion!

* We are looking for someone to help with the Easter Breakfast on Sunday 5 April— it would mean joining the kitchen team from about 6am to help with preparation, and also staying to help wash up. Please speak to Graham Bolster or Anne Love for more info.

* Free period products are available in the church toilets for anyone who might need them, thanks to Hey Girls and Inverclyde Council.

* Did you know that the ministry we do at St John’s costs about £3000 per week and we are currently running about £500 short? Everything we do is funded by your generous giving — all our support for young people, older people, bereavement care, community outreach, worship, study, spiritual growth, and community work is because of your offering. If you would like to set up a standing order in order to facilitate your spiritual discipline of giving, or if you would like to make an extra gift to support the ministry St. John’s does in our parish, you can give online by clicking here. If you would like to set up a standing order, please contact Teri and she can give you the treasurer’s details. You can also send your envelopes to the church or the manse by post and we will ensure they are received. 
It is also possible to donate to the work of the parish assistant, speak to Anne Love about how to go about directing new donations to that item in the budget.

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