Sermons from January 2022

Sermons from January 2022

Feeling Deeply Depressed? Go Deeper to Stay Buoyant!

Epiphany Season Celebration—Westport Presbyterian Church January 30, 2022, 11:00 am PRELUDE: Song Without Words in E-flat major, op. 30, no. 1-Felix Menselssohn CALL TO RETURN TO OUR SOULS Leader:          For stars guiding and doves descending! People:         For epiphanies glad surprising!…

An Epiphany Not Everyone Wants to Have !

Epiphany Season Celebration—Westport Presbyterian Church January 23, 2022, 11:00 am PRELUDE: Siyahamba/Thuma Mina (“Send Me, Jesus”)—arr. Mark Sedio CALL TO RETURN TO OUR SOULS Leader:        For stars guiding and doves descending! People:       For epiphanies glad surprising! Leader         For skies circling and streams singing! People:       For four leggeds talking…

Martin Luther King Celebration Service

Epiphany #2—Martin Luther King Celebration Service   January 16, 2022, 11:00 am PRELUDE: There Is a Balm in Gilead—setting, Bradley Sowash CALL TO RETURN TO OUR SOULS Pastor:       A man went forth with gifts. People:     He was a prose poem. Pastor:       He was a tragic grace. People:     He was a warm music. Pastor:       He tried to heal the vivid volcanoes. People   …

Living Inside the Epiphany Story!

Celebration of Epiphany January 9, 2022, 11:00 am PRELUDE: What Star Is This (PUER NOBIS) —Thomas Keesecker CALL TO CELEBRATE EPIPHANY Pastor: Epiphany is the holy season of illumination!—the birth of the Life Light! People: Epiphany is the holy season of revelations!—the birth of the Life Light! Pastor: Epiphany is surprising appearances! People: Cosmic signs! Pastor:…

Christmas: The Sequel 

Westport Presbyterian Church Order of Worship Service, January 2, 2021   11:00 am    Days of Christmas Tide PRELUDE:  Go Tell a Wonderful Child – Bradley Sowash  (based on two African American spirituals) A CALL TO BE PRESENT AT THE MANGER (Pastor) Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, the flying cloud, the frosty light; (People) Ring, happy bells, across the snow:…