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Back to Basics: Part 2, What is Salvation?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 09, 2025
Salvation is at the heart and soul of Christ’s message. But what actually is it? Salvation is meaningless if we do not understand what we are being saved from and how we can achieve that salvation. The New Church teaches that all of us have an inclination towards evil that would destroy us if we weren’t protected by the Lord; and that to be truly and fully saved, we need to look to the Lord, reject evil, and live a good life, based on His teachings. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Back to Basics Part 1 Who is God
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 02, 2025
The most important question that almost any religion tries to answer is, “Who is God?” In our day to day lives we may find other questions more pressing, such as “how do I keep my temper when my three-year-old scrawled crayon all over the wall AGAIN?” But how we see God actually filters into how we see all those basic day-to-day questions of life. So who is God, and how can we come to know Him better? That’s what we’ll explore this Sunday. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Belonging to the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 26, 2025
What is the Lord’s? In a broad sense all things are the Lord’s: He created and sustains everything in the universe. Yet we also feel as if we are our own masters. There is an innate sense that what goes on in our minds and hearts is ours and ours alone. Yet even here all that is good and true belongs to the Lord. Miraculously, when we acknowledge that truth and live it, we can actually feel more, not less, ourselves. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Overcoming Avoidance
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 19, 2025
Avoiding is something we all do. We do it with small things, like when we ignore our body’s signals that it’s time for bed or when we procrastinate on the dishes. We do it with bigger things, like when we put off that important but difficult conversation we need to have or when we put future decisions out of mind. And we do it even with the most important things in our spiritual lives, when we know we have an issue but it is to challenging to face. But if we are to grow spiritually we cannot put off or ignore our flaws. We need to address them head on. This Sunday we will look at some of the reasons we avoid spiritual challenges and what we can do to overcome that tendency. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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From Blindness to Sight
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 12, 2025
We are all born into ignorance. None of us knows how to do this thing called life well. But the Lord provides the tools that allow us to learn and to improve. We will never have perfect knowledge of right and wrong; but we can come to better know the truth, and so know better how to live good lives. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Looking Forward
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 05, 2025
The challenge with the future is the unknowns. It is easy to see how the Lord led us even in hard times when we look back. It is more of a challenge to look forward and trust that the Lord will continue to lead us. And this is as it should be: the Lord asks us to plan for an uncertain future, and work towards it, so that He can direct us down the right path. When we find the right balance of planning and trust we can face what is to come with confidence. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 05, 2025
1st Lesson: Matthew 6:7-13 Talk: “Our Daily Bread” 2nd Lesson: Psalm 104:24-30 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 5147 (portions) Sermon: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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The Reason He Came
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 29, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 4:14-30 Talk: “What did the Lord come to do” 2nd Lesson: Luke 7:18-22 3rd Lesson: Arcana Caelestia 10083 4th Lesson: True Christian Religion 528, 530 Sermon: “The Lord Came to Preach and Heal” | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Kempton, PA
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Countless Blessings
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 22, 2024
The Lord’s birth in a lowly manger in the crowded town of Bethlehem was set in motion by a census ordered by Caesar Augustus. Everyone was required to return to their home town to be registered, which meant that Joseph had to return to Bethlehem with Mary. This census, a fairly innocuous historical event, carries a deeper spiritual meaning: it represents the human tendency to put our worth in material things, to count them up and compare our worldly success with that of other people. This mindset crowds out the Lord, and ironically, it is only when we let go of our own success and ascribe all things to Him that we can receive the true success and happiness that we want. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Trampling the Serpent
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 15, 2024
There are prophecies of the Lord’s coming scattered throughout the Old Testament. Many of these are well known: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…” for example. But the first prophecy of the Lord’s coming is much more obscure and less well known. It is spoken by Jehovah to the serpent in the Garden of Eden: I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall trample your head, And you shall batter His heel. Not your usual Christmas cheer perhaps, but this prophecy describes the purpose of the Lord’s coming: to confront the selfishness that rises like a serpent within each of us and trample it down until we can be saved from it. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Flight into Egypt and Return
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 15, 2024
1st Lesson: Jeremiah 31:15-17 2nd Lesson: Matthew 2:13-23 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 695:15, 654:19; Arcana Coelestia 4964:3 Sermon: "Thy Sons Shall Come Again to Their Border"(Text: Jer. 31:17) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Good News to All People
Worship Service: Informal Family - December 08, 2024
To kick off our Carol Sing we will begin with a worship service in the church for the whole family. The news of Christmas was not just for a few people, but for all people, no matter who or where or when. Although “all people” covers a lot of diversity, we are all united when we come to the Lord together. We get a taste of this when we sing joyfully about the Lord together: all our individual voices are joined into one voice, united in our common love for the Lord. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Isaiah's Prophecy of Salvation
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 08, 2024
"Isaiah's prophecy of Salvation" (Isaiah 61:1-3) What is salvation, and what does it mean that the Lord is our Savior? As we prepare for Christmas, let's think about what the Lord came into the world to do, and how we can benefit from that today. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Isaiah's Prophecy of Salvation
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 08, 2024
"Isaiah's Prophecy of Salvation" When the Lord stood up in the temple and read from Isaiah 61, He said, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your ears" (Luke 4:21). In this sermon we will explore five specific things the Lord did to provide for our salvation. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Word Became Flesh
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 01, 2024
In two of the Gospels the Christmas story is told in the familiar way: Jesus was born to a virgin, Mary, born in Bethlehem, and visited by Shepherds and Wise Men. Yet the Gospel of John tells the same story in a far more enigmatic way: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." (John 1:1, 14) What was this “Word”? And what does it mean for it to have become “Flesh?” These details tells us something important about the Lord’s coming into the World, and even about how we still relate to Him today. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Recognizing the Lord
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 01, 2024
“Recognizing the Lord” The people surrounding the Lord at His birth recognized Him as more than an ordinary Child. The wise men in particular had knowledge and understanding of who He is. For us, recognizing people we love can cause a spontaneous and warm response. What would it take for us to react the same way to the Lord? | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Recognizing the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 01, 2024
“Recognition” It is common for us to rejoice when we see someone we love after a long absence. We know their face, we have history with them, and we look to continue the relationship by building new memories. The Lord invites us to that same relationship with Him, inspiring us to recognize Him, welcome Him, and build a life together with Him that consists of blessings and preparation for heaven. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Fear and Hope
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 01, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 1:26-38 Talk: “Message to Mary” 2nd Lesson: Arcaana Caelestia 2338 3rd Lesson: Matthew 1:18-24 4th Lesson: Luke 2:8-14 Sermon: “Hope Replaces Fear” | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Kempton, PA
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Thanksgiving Service
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 28, 2024
We welcome everyone to worship together for this holiday of gratitude. Rev. Jeffrey Smith will be leading the service and offering a talk for the whole family on grateful awareness and how, as our awareness grows, our gratitude can, too. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Field House
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Abundance and Famine, Part 2, Perservere
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 24, 2024
Hard times will come, no matter how prepared we might be. We cannot avoid them. What we can do is put our preparation to use, so that we can persevere through the hard times. In fact, through this perseverance we are strengthened in both love and wisdom, and may come out the other side better people. Even if we feel that we are inadequately prepared for the challenge, the Lord always provides what we need in order to get through it. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Are You the One?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 24, 2024
“Are You the One?” John the Baptist tells us that regardless of our efforts we will always have times of doubt, and wonder why things didn’t go our way. The beautiful thing is, when we follow the Lord, things do go His way! (John 1:6-8, 19-36; Matthew 11:1-10; True Christianity 510:2). | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Are You the One?
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 24, 2024
“Are You the One?” John the Baptist tells us that regardless of our efforts we will always have times of doubt, and wonder why things didn’t go our way. The beautiful thing is, when we follow the Lord, things do go His way! (John 1:6-8, 19-36; Matthew 11:1-10; True Christianity 510:2, 688). | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Hope in the Lord's Mercy
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 24, 2024
1st Lesson: II Kings 19:1-34 (portions) 2nd Lesson: Jeremiah 29:10-11; 31:16-17 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 2338 Talk: “Hope in the Lord's Mercy” | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Kempton, PA
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Faithful Gratitude
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 17, 2024
Is it easier to remember the Lord when things are going well or when things are hard? And why is it important to be thankful to the Lord? The story about the ten lepers can teach us a lot about gratitude as we step into the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Abundance and Famine Part 1 Prepare
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 17, 2024
We have a tendency to think that whatever we are going through right now is how things will always be. But whether you are going through a time of blessings or of hardship, this too shall pass. In this two part series we will look at how we can prepare for hardship in the good times, and persevere through hardships to get back to the good times. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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