Sermons from 2024

Sermons from 2024

Reconciliation is Possible

See our facebook page for our live, online service: www.facebook.com/westportpresbyterian/live WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION May 5, 2024 WORDS OF WELCOME                                                                             Pastor Susan Wesley Hartley PRELUDE:   Ballo del…

Bettie Taylor’s Memorial

A Celebration of the Life and Spirit of Bettie Taylor June 29, 1930 – January 6, 2024 PRELUDE                                      Emily Davidson, organist CALL TO WORSHIP:      Psalm 103      A Responsive Reading      Leader:     Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!      People:    Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his…

A Prayer for the Ages

WESTPORT RISING WORSHIP SERVICE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER April 28, 2024 WORDS OF WELCOME PRELUDE:   Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service                Setting by Benjamin M. Culli OPENING SCRIPTURE:   John 15: 1-8          Bob Russell, Liturgist OPENING HYMN:  Like the Murmur of the Dove’s Song   GTG#285 RESPONSIVE CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 118: 19-24       Leader:     Open to…

Created to Embody Love

WESTPORT RISING WORSHIP SERVICE EARTH DAY/GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY April 21, 2024  WORDS OF WELCOME PRELUDE:   Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds);       Ludovico Einaudi RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING:  The Message      Genesis 1: 1-25      The Story of Creation  Leader:     First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of…

Doubts and Mistakes Do Not Disqualify Us from Christ’s Love

WESTPORT RISING WORSHIP SERVICE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER April 14, 2024 WORDS OF WELCOME PRELUDE:   First Gymnopedie; Erik Satie OPENING SCRIPTURE:   John 20: 19-31 OPENING HYMN:    O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing   #255GTG RESPONSIVE CALL TO WORSHIP:   Psalm 40:  1-3 Leader:          I waited…

Astonishing Beginnings

Westport Presbyterian Church   1835 – present Second Sunday of Easter April 7, 2024­­ WORDS OF WELCOME                                                                             Pastor Susan Wesley Hartley PRELUDE:   O Filii et Filiae (O Sons and Daughters)                                    Jean-François Dandrieu CALL TO…

Easter Celebration Service: Christ has Risen for Us All

Westport Presbyterian Church   1835 – present Easter Celebration Service March 31, 2024­­  Chapel Window—Westport Presbyterian Church  CHORAL PRELUDE:   Ubi Caritas (Glory to God #205)                                       Choir (Sings Twice) OPENING SCRIPTURE:   John 20: 1-18                   …

Keeping Vigil with Jesus as the Balance Shifts

(Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am and then cross-posted here.  If the video doesn’t load properly here, you should be able to click on the Watch on Facebook link and watch as a guest, even if you don’t have Facebook) Westport Presbyterian Church   1835 – present…

Within our darkest night, you kindle a fire that never dies away

WESTPORT RISING WORSHIP SERVICE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT March 17, 2024 PRELUDE:   Dance setting: DEIRDRE                                                                       Thomas Keesecker WORDS OF WELCOME                                                                             Pastor Susan…

Draw us nearer, nearer, nearer, blessed Lord

WESTPORT RISING WORSHIP SERVICE FORTH SUNDAY OF LENT March 10, 2024 (Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am and then cross-posted here.  If the video doesn’t load properly here, you should be able to click on the Watch on Facebook link and watch as a guest, even if you don’t have Facebook) Pastor: Susan Wesley Hartley Liturgist: Bobbie Testa WORDS OF…
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