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Memorial Service for Marilyn P. Asplundh
Memorial Service - October 20, 2025
Marilyn Parker Asplundh passed into the spiritual world on Monday, October 13, 2025. She was 94 years old. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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In Search of Sacred Ground
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 19, 2025
For all the technological, material advances we’ve made as a society in the last 20 years or so, people report feeling lonelier and unhappier than ever before. The ground has shifted so much, people don’t know what’s real (sacred) anymore. The two great liberators of Israel, Moses and Joshua, couldn’t hear (or understand) the Lord’s message to them until it was pointed out that they were standing on sacred ground and that they needed to first remove their shoes. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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In Search of Sacred Ground
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 19, 2025
For all the technological, material advances we’ve made as a society in the last 20 years or so, people report feeling lonelier and unhappier than ever before. The ground has shifted so much, people don’t know what’s real (sacred) anymore. The two great liberators of Israel, Moses and Joshua, couldn’t hear (or understand) the Lord’s message to them until it was pointed out that they were standing on sacred ground and that they needed to first remove their shoes. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Heavenly Marriage
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 19, 2025
Everything in creation relates back to a kind of marriage: that between love and wisdom, or between goodness and truth. This spiritual union also defines our relationship with the Lord. When we accept truths into our mind and allow the Lord to fill them with goodness, we are conjoined with the Lord. This is why the Word over and over again uses the image of a marriage to describe the relationship between the Lord and the Church. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Who is My Neighbour?
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 12, 2025
Loving your neighbour is easy if it means loving the people you like. But if the neighbour includes people we aren't so fond of it becomes much harder. One of the ways we can get better at it is by remembering that we can love the Lord in other people, even if we don't like other parts of the person. There is always something worth loving in everyone you ever meet. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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“Speak, For Your Servant Hears”
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 12, 2025
(1 Samuel 3:10) Samuel’s words remind us that the Lord wishes us to hear many things from Him about how to live our lives. One place He speaks to us is in His Word, for we learn that “the Word's Divine truth is the voice of Jehovah” (Apocalypse Revealed 218). How else does the Lord call to us, and how can we get better at paying attention? | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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“Your Servant Hears”
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 12, 2025
(1 Samuel 3:10) How are you listening for the Lord’s voice in your life? We learn that the Lord constantly calls out to all of us, summoning us to “conjunction with Himself, thus to eternal life” (Apocalypse Revealed 831). There are, however, many things vying for our attention. In what ways can we actively come into the presence of the Lord to hear what He is asking us to do? | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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“Become Something!”
Charter Day Service - October 10, 2025
| By Rev. Dr Thane P. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Second Commandment
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 05, 2025
What does it really mean to “take the Lord’s name in vain?” For many of us, this commandment may feel like an easy check mark, but if we look below the surface, we will find that there is much more than meets the eye. In one interaction in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that not everyone who says to Him “Lord, Lord” shall enter the kingdom of heaven. What do His words teach us about the power of His name and how we should hold it? | By Steven Gunther | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Second Commandment
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 05, 2025
What does it really mean to “take the Lord’s name in vain?” For many of us, this commandment may feel like an easy check mark, but if we look below the surface, we will find that there is much more than meets the eye. In one interaction in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that not everyone who says to Him “Lord, Lord” shall enter the kingdom of heaven. What do His words teach us about the power of His name and how we should hold it? | By Steven Gunther | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Snakes in the Desert
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 05, 2025
Our topic will be a somewhat obscure story from the time the Children of Israel wandered in the desert. They grew tired of the food the Lord provided and complained. This brought a plague of venomous snakes. When the begged the Lord for help, He had Moses set up a bronze statue of a snake, and everyone who looked at it was healed. What can this story teach us about the times we crave pleasure and are desperate for things that pull us away from the Lord? | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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“The Very Hairs of Your Head Are Numbered...”
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 28, 2025
The Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. As He sat at the table with the twelve disciples at the Last Supper, we can picture the Lord looking each disciple in the eye, one by one, helping them see things they couldn’t have seen on their own. What did He see? How does it help us knowing that the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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“The Very Hairs of Your Head Are Numbered...”
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 28, 2025
The Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. As He sat at the table with the twelve disciples at the Last Supper, we can picture the Lord looking each disciple in the eye, one by one, helping them see things they couldn’t have seen on their own. What did He see? How does it help us knowing that the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Facing the Floods of Life
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 28, 2025
There are big, life-altering, spiritual challenges that we all face from time to time. Most of us would rather not have that be the case. But they are inevitable, and the truth is they are also necessary. We need to have opportunities to face our flaws, take on our selfishness, and allow the Lord to build us back up into better people. This Sunday we will look at how we can become more accepting of the fact that spiritual life requires times of turmoil as well as times of peace and contentment. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Choosing Your Heritage
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 21, 2025
You can’t pick your ancestors. The ones you’ve got are the ones your stuck with. The same is true of your heritage in general. For good or ill, your heredity is set. This is also true spiritually: you have inherited from birth an inclination towards certain evils. But that does not mean that we are stuck with them: we can, and indeed must, be truly born again from the Lord. While that will not change where we have come from, it will change our future. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Don’t Tell Anyone
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 21, 2025
In the Gospels, sometimes the Lord heals someone in an amazing way but then tells them not to tell anyone. Other times, He specifically instructs them to go and tell others what has happened. This Sunday, we will explore why the Lord might have done this, and what it means for us—when we should keep quiet and when we should spread the good news. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Don’t Tell Anyone
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 21, 2025
In the Gospels, sometimes the Lord heals someone in an amazing way but then tells them not to tell anyone. Other times, He specifically instructs them to go and tell others what has happened. This Sunday, we will explore why the Lord might have done this, and what it means for us—when we should keep quiet and when we should spread the good news. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Getting into Heaven is Easy
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 14, 2025
Jesus said: “Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). This teaching has led many to believe that it is difficult to get to heaven, but others wonder why God would make it difficult to get there. So, ask yourself this question: “Is it easy or difficult to get to heaven?” This is the question we will attempt to answer on Sunday! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Westville, RSA
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Covenant Renewal
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 14, 2025
The purpose of this service will be to explore ways in which we can re-dedicate ourselves as individuals and as a congregation to the covenantal relationships we’ve formed with each other and with the Lord. We’re taught that “covenants are made for the sake of love, friendship, and companionship, and therefore for the sake of union” (Life 60), but they can’t work unless we give our consent (AC 8778). The need for periodic covenant renewals is a strong and consistent theme in the Scriptures, and so we will be considering Joshua’s farewell speech (Joshua 24) as a template for how we can strengthen our loyalty and commitment to the Lord and each other. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Spoiling of the Nations
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 14, 2025
1st Lesson: 2 Samuel 8 (portions) 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6917 Talk: “The Spoiling of the Nations” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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The First Commandment
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 07, 2025
“You shall have no other gods before my face.” (Exodus 20:3) This is the first of the Ten Commandments and all the commandments that come after it relate back to it. What and who do we bow down to and serve instead of the Lord our God? How can we learn to identify those gods and reject them and instead love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our strength? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The First Commandment
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 07, 2025
“You shall have no other gods before my face.” (Exodus 20:3) This is the first of the Ten Commandments and all the commandments that come after it relate back to it. What and who do we bow down to and serve instead of the Lord our God? How can we learn to identify those gods and reject them and instead love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, and all our strength? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Look to the Lord Alone
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 07, 2025
1st Lesson: Luke 22:7-14, 19-20 Talk: “Why Two Sacraments” Sermon: “Look to the Lord Alone in Repentance” (Text: DP 122) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Memorial Service for Judith 'Jid' P. Smith
Memorial Service - September 06, 2025
Judith "Jid" Pendleton Smith passed into the spiritual world on Friday, August 15, 2025. She was 91 years old. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Saul’s Intentions
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 31, 2025
Is it OK to sort of or even mostly follow the Lord’s Commandments? Something is better than nothing, right? When King Saul was commanded to destroy the Amalekites, he mostly did what the Lord said. This Sunday we’ll find out how that went for him, and what it means for our intentions. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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