Sermons from July 2025
Beloved Family
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF PENTECOST July 27, 2025 PRELUDE: Sonata in A Major Domenico Scarlatti CALL TO WORSHIP: (from Psalm 85) One: Show us your steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us the healing referred to as “salvation.” All: The Lord speaks peace to the faithful, to those who turn to God in their hearts. One: Surely goodness is at hand for…
Visualizing Vibrance
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF PENTECOST July 20, 2025 PRELUDE: Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Bradley Sowash CALL TO WORSHIP: One: God calls us here to worship. We carry many worries and are distracted by many things, but here, in this time and place, we are invited to set them aside, to be fully present. Let’s pause and take a deep…
Living Enthusiastically
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF PENTECOST July 13, 2025 PRELUDE: My Kind of Joy—based on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” C. Ricker CALL TO WORSHIP: (Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, by Maya Angelou) One: Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn’t frighten me at all All: Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud Life doesn’t frighten me at…
Becoming Beautiful Icons
Liturgy for 7.6.25 (Experimental Eastern Orthodoxy + Communion) Cover image: Andrei Rublev’s Trinity Icon (early 15th century) The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom* (See note) Prelude, Procession of Holy Scripture, Lighting of Candles Mystic Flute— Alan Hovhaness One: Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and…