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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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The Inheritance of Caleb
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 19, 2025
1st Lesson: Numbers 14 (Portions) 2nd Lesson: Joshua 14 (Portions) 3rd Lesson: Portions of Arcana Coelestia 730:4, 2909 and Apocalypse Explained 768 Sermon: “The Inheritance of Caleb” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Take Up Your Bed and Walk
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 19, 2025
Here we are at the start of another year, and you might be in the habit of making a few New Year’s resolutions of things that you would like to do better in the year ahead. Often when we do that, we notice that many times our resolutions are the same as the year before and realize that we failed to carry through on them. So how can we avoid staying stuck in the same unhealthy spiritual place? The answer may be simpler than you think! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Take Up Your Bed and Walk
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 19, 2025
Here we are at the start of another year, and you might be in the habit of making a few New Year’s resolutions of things that you would like to do better in the year ahead. Often when we do that, we notice that many times our resolutions are the same as the year before and realize that we failed to carry through on them. So how can we avoid staying stuck in the same unhealthy spiritual place? The answer may be simpler than you think! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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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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Crossing the Jordan
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 12, 2025
1st Lesson: 2 Kings 5:1-5, 9-15 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6539 Talk: “Crossing the Jordan” | By Rev Olaf Hauptmann | Kempton, PA
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Abram and Melchizadek
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 12, 2025
Abram’s daring rescue of his nephew, Lot (who had been taken captive by the kings of the north), is followed immediately by Melchizedek, priest and king of Salem, bringing out “bread and wine”" to the weary victors (v. 18). This pre-cursor to the Holy Supper pictures the peace that comes after conflict, and how the Lord “refreshes us” (AC 1726). | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Abram and Mechizadek
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 12, 2025
Abram’s daring rescue of his nephew, Lot (who had been taken captive by the kings of the north), is followed immediately by Melchizedek, priest and king of Salem, bringing out “bread and wine”" to the weary victors (v. 18). This pre-cursor to the Holy Supper pictures the peace that comes after conflict, and how the Lord “refreshes us” (AC 1726). | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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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 Journey
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 05, 2025
The Wise Men followed the star until it led them to the Lord Himself. Life is a journey. Can we follow the star that led the Wise Men, until we see the Lord and bring the gifts of our lives to Him? | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Journey
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 05, 2025
The Wise Men followed the star until it led them to the Lord Himself. Life is a journey. Can we follow the star that led the Wise Men, until we see the Lord and bring the gifts of our lives to Him? | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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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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Come to the Lord
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 29, 2024
When the Lord came into the world, many people went to some effort to come to where He was and were blessed because they did. How can we come to the Lord? And, as we begin to move beyond Christmas, how can we continue to come to the Lord in the new year? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Come to the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 29, 2024
When the Lord came into the world, many people went to some effort to come to where He was and were blessed because they did. How can we come to the Lord? And, as we begin to move beyond Christmas, how can we continue to come to the Lord in the new year? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Prince of Peace
Worship Service: Children & Adult - December 25, 2024
How do we turn to the Lord as the “Prince of Peace?” What kind of peace does He offer? How does the Lord ‘make’ or create peace in our lives? His peace is only produced by Him and it is only available to us today because of His birth subsequent Glorification! Christmas, therefore, is an opportunity to take steps to enjoy this special gift from heaven. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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In the Company of Angels
Worship Service: Children & Adult - December 24, 2024
The Christmas story is woven together by the glad tidings of angels. The angels didn’t simply announce the birth of Christ; they gave specific directions, counsel and support to the participants of this holy event. This Christmas Eve service will be a wonderful reminder that we live in the company of angels and that we have the opportunity to let their glad tidings reign in us in new and different ways. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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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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Innocence and its Enemies
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 22, 2024
1st Lesson: Exodus 1:1-22 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 5052 Sermon: “Innocence and its Enemies” (Text: Exod. 1) | By Rev. Judah E. Synnestvedt | Kempton, PA
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Open Your Treasure
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 22, 2024
The Lord encourages us to lay up treasures in heaven (Mt. 6:20) but it’s also a good practice to “open” our treasures so that they can be seen and shared with others. The wise men did this when presenting their gifts to the young Child. It says, “and when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him…” (Mt. 2:10). Why didn’t the wise men let Jesus’ parents open the gifts? Why did they open them first? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Open Your Treasure
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 22, 2024
The Lord encourages us to lay up treasures in heaven (Mt. 6:20) but it’s also a good practice to “open” our treasures so that they can be seen and shared with others. The wise men did this when presenting their gifts to the young Child. It says, “and when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him…” (Mt. 2:10). Why didn’t the wise men let Jesus’ parents open the gifts? Why did they open them first? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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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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