Sermons by Rev. Jared Witt
Welcome To Your Weird, Wonderful Body
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE ASCENSION SUNDAY CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION June 1, 2025 PRELUDE: Embryons Desséchés: 2. D’edriophthalma Erik Satie CALL TO WORSHIP: One: How precious, how fragile, how short is life! Our lives are but a breath. All: The Divine brings us into being, weaves our lives together, and ushers us into eternal rest. One: Blessed are…
Joy That’s Deep and Wide
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF EASTERTIDE May 25, 2025 PRELUDE: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee John Purifoy CALL TO WORSHIP: (from Psalm 67) One: May God be gracious to us; May God bless us. All: We gather in worship, knowing God is here. One: May God’s face shine upon us. All: May God call us into the joyful work of creating peace. One: Let us…
Praying through Changes & Challenges
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF EASTERTIDE CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION May 4, 2025 PRELUDE: Prelude to the Dance David Lanz CALL TO WORSHIP: (from Psalm 30) One: You have turned our mourning into dancing; All: You have taken off our sackcloth and clothed us with joy. One: Our hearts may praise you and not be silent: All: O Lord our God, we will…
How To Live With Joy
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF EASTERTIDE April 27, 2025 (Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am and then cross-posted here afterwards. 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) PRELUDE: Thine Be the Glory Handel, arr.…
Dumbest. Question. Ever.
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE EASTER SUNDAY – CELEBRATION OF HOLY COMMUNION April 20, 2025 11am (Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am and then cross-posted here afterwards. 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) …
The Arrival of Joy
Westport Presbyterian Church 1835 – present “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! O give thanks to the Lord, for they are good, for God’s steadfast love endures forever.” -Psalm 118:26, 29 WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE PALM/PASSSION SUNDAY April 13, 2025 (Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am and then cross-posted here…
Re-imagining Our Relationships
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT March 30, 2025 PRELUDE: Variation on SOUTHWELL (“Lord Jesus, Think on Me”) Alfred Fedak CALL TO WORSHIP: (inspired by Psalm 32) One: In times of trouble, in days of fear, All: Steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord. One: When we are…
Small Stories versus Spacious Stories
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT March 23, 2025 PRELUDE: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light Kathleen Thomerson, setting by Sara Glick CALL TO WORSHIP: (from Isaiah 55 & Psalm 63) One: Everyone who thirsts: All: Come to the waters, seek the Lord, repent and return so that you may live. One: All who…
The Light In You
Bulletin 03-02-25 Communion
Move Slow, and Mend Things
WESTPORT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WORSHIP SERVICE SEASON OF EPIPHANY February 16, 2025 (Video will be posted LIVE on the church’s FB page at 11am and then cross-posted here afterwards. 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) PRELUDE: Harpsichord Sonata in G…