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:…