Search results clear search
Simple Obedience
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 25, 2020
| By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAEveryday Miracles
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 11, 2020
One way to strengthen our faith in the Lord our Creator is to notice the everyday miracles that He has provided that are all around us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAOnly the Lord Could Do It
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 20, 2020
Jesus asked the people to think about the origin of the good works that He was doing. They could only have come from God Himself. This was proof that He and the Father were One. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAFinding What is Good in Us
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 30, 2020
We might compare the various parts of our lives to different colored gumballs in a jar. Some colors represent positive things from the Lord. Others represent problems. We need the Lord's help to grow the number of good ones while weeding out the ones that need to go. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAWhat Becoming Like a Little Child Means
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 16, 2020
Jesus said that we must become like a little children in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. Elsewhere He says that we must be born again. We investigate what it means to become the type of humble and wise child who can be part of His kingdom. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAJonah - Part 3
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 09, 2020
The final section of the Jonah story focuses on his hatred of the people of Nineveh. The question here is, why would we hate people when the Lord encourages us to feel joy when another person feels joy. Or, put differently, to look for reasons why we should love others rather than despise them. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAJonah - Part 2
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 02, 2020
Jonah after being rescued from the sea by the sea creature that the Lord prepared, went to Nineveh as commanded. The people of Nineveh heeded the warning and showed their remorse. This is a message about how we all should be listening to both the Lord and the people in our life who help us to see that something about our life is harmful and needs to change. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAJonah - Part 1
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 26, 2020
The Jonah story describes a human situation in which false assumptions and prejudices almost cost Jonah and the other people on the ship with him their lives. Being rescued by the Lord in the belly of a sea creature gave him the chance to truly reflect on his life and on the Lord's mercy. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAFrom a Mustard Seed
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 19, 2020
In the Lord's parable He tells us that His kingdom within us starts tiny like a mustard seed. We are encouraged to work with Him so that the seed will grow into something wonderful and we will truly be part of His kingdom. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAOvercoming Tyranny
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 05, 2020
The American colonists knew that they needed to go to war to overcome, King George III of England who had become a tyrant. In the same way, we need to fight with the Lord to overcome the spiritual tyrants who seek to harm us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAVoices of Good and Evil
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 28, 2020
With each person there are at least two evil spirits connected to hell and two good spirits of angels connected to the Lord and heaven. Are we allowing the Lord to talk to us through that soft angelic voice? | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PANew Church Day, 2020
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 21, 2020
This message looks at the birth 250 years ago of the era of the New Church. It considers the role of the New Church, not only on ending slavery, but on every aspect of human life. The end effect is a heaven from the human race in the Lord's heavenly kingdom, His Holy City New Jerusalem. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PARestoring Innocence
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 07, 2020
In Revelation 5 the Lord is pictured as a Lamb that appeared to have been slain. It is a picture of how humanity has been continually trying to destroy innocence. This is because He is Innocence itself. In our world of racial conflict and pain, imagine how better things would be if we were all more innocent. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PAEaster Sunrise - He Rises Daily
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 21, 2019
The Resurrection is the miracle of New Life which shows us the Lord, and which He performs in our hearts and minds. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAEaster - He Came to Show Us God
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 21, 2019
The Lord made God visible to us. Lord's resurrection both shows us that Jesus is God and made Himself fully united with God. By being fully united with God He not only shows us God but makes himself the way to God. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAA New Commandment
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 18, 2019
The Lord teaches us to love others as He loves us. He teaches this at the Lost Supper with His disciples, where He also washes their feet. These two events which precede the commandment something about the way the Lord loves us, and how we should love others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Reason He Came, Part 4 - Bear Witness to the Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 14, 2019
The Lord Jesus Christ came to bear witness to the truth. When we live as Jesus teaches we make ourselves citizens of heaven and part of His Kingdom. The Lord is truth because he fulfilled the Word and because He is the Word made flesh. When we do the truth we bring together the Word outside with the Lord within which brings us into heaven from the inside out. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Reason He Came, Part 3 - To Send Fire to the Earth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 07, 2019
Lord came to send fire and bring a sword not peace. In other places the Lord says He bring peace. So how do we understand this paradox? The Lord goal for us is peace, but his process is division. We need the truth to get to love. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Reason He Came, Part 2 - To Save the Lost
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 24, 2019
The Lord came to seek and save what was lost. The stories of the Word demonstrate the lost as those in good who have wandered from truth. The Lord came to restore truth to them rather than falsity, and save them as a result. A sign to us that we are in good and love, if we love truth. A lack of desire to pursue truth is an indication we are not in good. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAReason He Came, Part 1 - To Teach and Heal
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 17, 2019
The Lord came to preach and heal. These actions represent the spiritual help the Lord can offer us to teach us a new way of thinking and to heal us from spiritual challenges which are pain, limitations, and misdirected desires of our heart and mind. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove over Ego, Part 6 - Love and Wisdom Win
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 10, 2019
Daniel faces a trial when he chooses his pursuit of and dependance on the Lord even with the potential consequences of death. The only thing that can bring us to this place of peace and confidence in the midst of trial is the marriage of love and wisdom. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAMemorial Service - Sandy Johns
Memorial Service - March 10, 2019
Memorial service for Sandy Johns. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove Over Ego, Part 5 - Holiness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 03, 2019
Belshazzar makes a feast and uses the sacred vessels from the temple of Jerusalem in his feast, and God sends a message of judgement for his abuse of these sacred things. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove over Ego, Part 4 - Humility Over Shame
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 24, 2019
Nebuchadnezzar learns humility before the Lord through the loss of his sanity. Our sense of humility before the Lord can be a chief virtue that guides and directs our sense of shame. At the same time, having a community that pegs our sense of shame in relationship to the Lord's values is useful to our spiritual health. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PALove Over Ego, Part 3 - Confidence Over Arrogance
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 17, 2019
Nebuchadnezzar demanded that the Jews in exile, participate in the court worship of idols on the threat of death. The three Jews in question refused because they were not going to commit idolatry. Idolatry in our age is ways of thinking and living, it is the things that we make most important in our life. Can we have the courage to think and live as the Lord invites us to even at pain of persecution and rejection by others? | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA