Sermons from 2024 (Page 4)
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…
My Father’s House Shall be a House of Prayer, not a Marketplace or Den of Thieves
Westport Presbyterian Church 1835 – present Third Sunday of Lent – Celebration of Holy Communion March 3, 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…
Who do YOU say that I am?
Westport Presbyterian Church 1835 – present Second Sunday of Lent February 25, 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) WELCOME PRELUDE: Honeysuckle; …