Video will stream LIVE on the church’s Youtube on Sundays at 11am and the video will be cross-posted here and to facebook shortly afterward.
Loving Mother Earth
Order of Worship Service—Earth Day Sunday#2 , May 3, 11am (printable PDF link) (Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am. Livestream will be cross-posted here ASAP once the livestream starts, depending on how cooperative Facebook and my computer are) PRELUDE: Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque), by Claude Debussy CALL TO WORSHIP HYMN: Sing the…
Being Loved By Mother Earth
Order of Worship Service—Easter 2, April 26, 11am Gathering Music: Promises of a New Day (Debbie Center) (Video will be posted on FB Live on the church’s FB page. Livestream will be cross-posted here between 11 and 11:10am, depending on how cooperative facebook and my computer are) WELCOME Welcome response: Leader: We are instructed to make every…
Resurrection No. 2 – Livestream Service and Bulletin
Westport Presbyterian Church Livestream Order of Worship Service—Easter 2, April 19 Gathering Music at 11am: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (RESIGNATION), Southern Harmony; set by C.E. Walz —-(Our services currently stream through Facebook-LIVE. I hope to have the live video attached here…
Living Inside the Easter Story
Westport Presbyterian Church Livestream Order of Worship—Easter April 12, 11am WELCOMING STATEMENT OPENING HYMN: Glory to God Hymnal #243 Be Not Afraid (sing twice) PRELUDE: That Easter Day with Joy was Bright, by Rudy Davenport RESPONSIVE EASTER CALL TO WORSHIP: Pastor: Another Easter is here. Imagine – another Easter beginning now, within us! I will let faith…
Hope: The Light You Keep Lit Within
Video of Live Service above. Sermon text is below. COVID Message #5- Hope: The Light You Keep Lit Within Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-29 Matthew 21:1-11 Romans 5:1-5 Because this feels like a completely implausible time to talk about hope—with mounting infections and deaths!—escalating global pandemic!—local epidemic!—and unraveling economic disintegration!—that is precisely what…
On Sabotaging Fear
Message #4 During Covid-19 Pandemic: On Sabotaging Fear Psalm 121; Matthew 6:25-34; Mark 6:46-51; 1 John 4:18 In last Sunday’s message, I challenged you to engage yourself bravely and wisely in a struggle to save the world—including your world—from what the peerless Chronicles of Narnia author C. S. Lewis called “enemy occupied territory”— in our case—territory that…
Live sermon- Stay safe! Stay well! Stay alive! Stay aware! Stay in love!
Message #3 Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic Psalm 121, Matthew 25:31-45 Our mission is now completely clear! We are on a decisive mission to make the world safe. As the great Rev. Dr. Vernon Johns told one of his church deacons about the fight against evil racial segregation in Alabama, “When you see a…
Woman At the Well
John 4:5-42 (And link for Neil’s Offeratory solo) People everywhere today need to be filled. At the same time people everywhere need to be emptied. We live in an uncertain moment of paradox— In which we require a spiritual process of deep filling— And intentional emptying— In the same moment!—an inner movement in seeming opposite directions. The process of…
Transluce>Transform>Transcend!
Transluce>Transform>Transcend! John 3:1-17, Romans 2:2 (6 helium balloons—2 purple(Lent), 2 green(life), 2 white(hope), are floating above a nearby pedestal. They are secured by a weight) Although there are multiple threats to a renewal of hope in humanity’s fortunes today, I believe that millions of people around the earth are seeking renewal—and even spiritual…
More Ordinary Temptations
More Ordinary Temptations—Matthew 4:1-11 So many temptations are so ordinary that we hardly recognize them as temptations. We don’t even see them in the first place. Today, I want to share a few with you. They may resonate with you, but if not, you can just walk along with me and reflect on your own ordinary temptations, whatever they may be, and how you might cope with…