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Greenbank Parish Church, Edinburgh
Sunday 8th March 2026
Third Sunday in Lent
In-Person and Livestreamed Worship, 10.30am
Worship Leader: Rev Ian Gilmour
Organist: Alberto Massimo
Order of Service
(Hymns are from CH4 and readings are from NRSV, unless otherwise specified)
Organ
Introit: God is a Spirit, by W Sterndale Bennett
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship (Psalm 32)
Hymn 482 (CH3): Yield not to temptation [Tune: Fortitude]
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Young Church on Kenya
Hymn 243: Touch the earth lightly [Tune: Tenderness] [The Band]
Reading: Genesis 2: 15–17, 3: 1–5 (OT pp2–3) [Reader: David Reid]
Hymn 337: Forty days and forty nights [Tune: Aus Der Tiefe (Heinlein)]
Reading: Matthew 4:1–11 (NT p3) [Reader: David G Reid]
Anthem: Domine, non secundum, by César Franck
Sermon
Hymn 338: Jesus, tempted in the desert [Tune: Ebenezer (Ton-Y-Botel)]
Prayers of thanksgiving and for others, led by Brendan Whitty
Hymn 465: Be thou my Vision [Tune: Slane]
Benediction, with sung Amen at Hymn 822
Organ