Sermons from 2020 (Page 4)
Returning to the Burning City: Re-Imagining Lot’s Wife
Order of Worship Service—June 7, 11am Pentecost Sunday#2 (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) PRELUDE: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child—arr. Teresa Wilhelmi CALL TO…
Pentecost: A Story of Awakening
Link for worship video: Click here! (For some reason, I can’t get the actual video here this week) Order of Worship Service—May 31, 11am —Pentecost Sunday (Printable PDF Link) PRELUDE: There Is a Balm in Gilead Thomas Keesecker CALL TO WORSHIP HYMN: Glory to God# 66 Every Time I Feel the Spirit …..Add a 3rd stanza: Now my Lord does,…
Ascend!—to Transcend—Our Dead Ends!
Worship Service Order—May 24, 11am—Ascension Sunday and Memorial Day Sunday (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) PRELUDE: Sing Praise to God (Bohemian Brethren’s kirchengesange, 1566) -Roger Hellwege CALL TO WORSHIP: Call to return to our souls HYMN: Glory…
THE WAY!— is the way I am taking
Order of Worship Service—May 17, 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) PRELUDE: The Unclouded Day—Josiah Kelley Alwood, arr. Joel Raney WELCOMING and CALL TO WORSHIP HYMN: Glory to God#339 Lift Every Voice and Sing CONFESSION OF SIN –by Dr King …
A Mother’s Day
Order of Worship Service—Mother’s Day Sunday, May 10, 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) PRELUDE: Andante Cantabile in B Major Felix Mendelssohn WELCOMING and CALL TO WORSHIP HYMN: Hymn for Mothers Day – MELITA TIME OF SILENCE: for COVID-19 dead…
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…