Sermons from April 2024

Sermons from April 2024

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…