WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE
SEASON OF EPIPHANY
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SUNDAY
January 18, 2026
CHORAL INTROIT: Give Me Jesus arr. Fleming
CALL TO WORSHIP:
One: God calls us here together — each of us, all of us, our whole selves.
All: We bring our questions, our longings, our hopes, our dreams and our fears.
One: Jesus invites us to come and see where God is at work.
All: Across the street and across the globe, the living Christ is present.
One: Within these walls and within our hearts, God is here.
All: Let us worship the God who reaches out in love and invites us to come and see!
*OPENING HYMN (You may rise in Body or Spirit):
#299 Glory to God You Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim (verses 1-3)
UNISON CONFESSION OF OUR NEED OF GOD:
All: Mothering God, we have chased after foolish things.
We have spent our strength on small things.
We have worn ourselves out in quests for what can’t satisfy.
Deliver us from our prisons of self-regard.
Forgive us for living in ways that fail to reflect your dreams for a re-made world.
Help us to become your friends, servants of your dreams for creation. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF GOD’S GRACE:
One: Beloved, you are forgiven in Christ.
Happy are those who put their trust in God.
For God puts our feet on solid ground and makes a path for us.
All: Thanks be to God!
SUNG RESPONSE:
#468 Glory to God In My Life (verses 1-2)
[Time with Young Disciples]
SHARING THE PEACE OF CHRIST:
One: The peace of Christ be with you.
All: And also with you.
One: Let’s share the peace of Christ with one another.
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION:
One: Come, Holy Spirit. Open our hearts to receive the good news in ways that deepen our gladness, even when the world is spinning out of control.
All: Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 40: 1-11
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
One: May God bless the reading of Holy Scripture.
All: Thanks be to God.
CHORAL ANTHEM: Maya’s Prayer for Peace by T. Trenney
MESSAGE: Religion 2.0: Making the Shift to a New Kind of Faith Rev. Jared Witt
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*CONGREGATIONAL HYMN (You may rise in Body or Spirit):
#408 Glory to God There’s a Sweet, Sweet Spirit
WELCOME: News In, Around, and Beyond the Community
SUNG PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
#472 Glory to God Kum ba Yah (verses 1, 4)
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE, BLESSINGS, AND THE LORD’S PRAYER:
Our Mother and Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
THE OFFERING OF OURSELVES/INVITATION TO GIVE: (from Psalm 40)
One: Through steadfast love and faithful care,
God enriches us in every way.
Let us offer to God ourselves this day,
all that we have and all that we are –
as our heartfelt response to God’s goodness.
OFFERTORY SOLO: Hold Fast to Dreams R. Powell
Sarah Baxter, alto
PRAYER OF DEDICATION:
One: Loving God, we give you thanks that you have placed in our hearts
the gift of generosity and the desire to please you.
Use these gifts so that your creation may be healed and the world made well.
All: Amen.
*CLOSING HYMN (You may rise in Body or Spirit):
#378 Glory to God We Wait the Peaceful Kingdom (verses 1-2, 4)
*CHARGE AND BLESSING
*POSTLUDE: He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands arr. E. Lewis
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