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God Remembered. Did He Forget?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 17, 2016
The Lord is always present with us, but at times He withholds His help until we can accept His help in a way that builds our trust and reliance on Him. Even at those times He is lovingly present waiting for the time we can remember Him and be lifted up by Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Remembering Through Scripture
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 03, 2016
Our hearts can burn with excitement when we meet the Lord in the Scriptures. Through them we can be present with Him, learn about Him, and be helped by Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - Dawn after the Night
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 27, 2016
Sunrise Service. The women come to serve the Lord and find the stone rolled away and the Lord risen. The dawning of the Lord in our lives comes after the night. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - Remember
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 27, 2016
Easter is a time to remember what the Lord did, and celebrate His resurrection. Remembering is an important part of what the Lord asks us to do so that He is able to give us hope and help us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - Last Supper
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 24, 2016
The Lord gave us Holy Supper as a way to connect with Him. He is present with us in this at of worship. By taking Holy Supper, the Lord touches our souls. The bread fills our souls with goodness, and the wine lifts our spirits with the truth. The Holy Supper sustains and heals our souls. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Palm Sunday - Between the Celebrations
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 20, 2016
The work the Lord did between Palm Sunday and Easter is the work that these holiday's celebrate. It is the work that came from His love for us. It models the deepest love. And from that love and work He can fight for us and overcome in our struggles. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - Teaching In the Temple
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 06, 2016
Between Palm Sunday and Good Friday the Lord spent His time teaching in the temple. By looking at some examples of the Lord's teaching, we can see that the leaders of the Jews were becoming more desperate and combative. The Lord responds with teaching them the truth which they reject and seek to kill Him. To be able to draw closer to the Lord We must be able to hear hard truth and accept it with humility. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - The Lord Is God
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 28, 2016
The Lord Jesus Christ is our God, Creator, Savior, and Redeemer. We are told in the New Christianity to turn to Him alone. It is through Jesus that we receive Divine strength and wisdom. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - End Times Were Not the End
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 21, 2016
The Lord told us there would be an end of the age or what is called the end times. He describes the end in prophetic and destructive language. Many have taken these teachings and applied them to the physical world, but if Jesus were speaking of His kingdom, then the destruction and recreation described would look and feel very different. We should not be expecting some great change of circumstances, but the freedom to make the changes we know we need to change. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - Marriage Can Last Forever
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 14, 2016
Married love is a gift from the Lord for those who approach Him and peruse a chaste love of their married partner. A person in a state of true married love loves their partner's happiness more than their own. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - Regeneration (Spiritual Growth)
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 07, 2016
The Lord gives us the Good News that we can be a new person. First we must learn about and desire heavenly life, then we have to do the work to let go of our previous life to receive a new life from Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - Deeper Meaning of the Bible
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 31, 2016
The Bible or Word of the Lord is given to us with layers of meaning folded into the very details of the way it is told. The beauty of power of this telling connects us with heaven and the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - Heaven
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 17, 2016
Swedenborg bears witness of the spiritual world, including heaven and hell. He tells us that heaven looks and feels much like this world, but better. And he tells us that it is what is inside of us that brings us to our place in the next world. Heaven is something we bring with us from this world into the next. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Swedenborg Made Simple - Swedenborg
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 10, 2016
Swedenborg claims to have published revelations that are to correct and heal the church. The evidence available prompts us to believe that Swedenborg did have connection with the spiritual world. But it is the works themselves that are his greatest witness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Four Reasons New Year's Resolutions Fail
Worship Service: Childrens Talk only - January 03, 2016
Four Reasons we fail to live out our New Year's Resolutions and other life changes are: making resolutions we don't want to keep, not being willing to suffer self compulsion, not bringing the Lord into the process, failing to fail successfully. If we want to stick to a life change we have to work through these challenges: know that part of us doesn't want to change and that we are going to have to do it anyway, ask the Lord for help, and don't let failure discourage us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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That Good Part
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 27, 2015
Christmas and the new year are opportunities to reevaluate our life and refocus on our priorities. It is easy for us to get distracted and for the most important things in life to get crowded out. To have peace in our life the most important thing we can do is sit at His feet. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Christmas - Hope in the Christmas Story
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 20, 2015
Hope comes when fear is taken away. The angels of the Christmas story come with a message of hope to take away fear. A message of hope in the Lord that He can help us and save us. And the hope of every new beginning in that direction. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Christmas - The Messier Side of Christmas
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 06, 2015
The Lord came to fight for us, to free us from bad ways of thinking and feeling. To accept His freedom, we have to stand against those thoughts and feelings that feel like part of and pierce our own soul. When we fight and die to our old self, the Lord can bring us into peace and good will. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Thanksgiving - Bless the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 26, 2015
Thanksgiving is a wonderful that sets us up to remember what the Lord does for us. As we bless the Lord with song, by sharing His teachings, and confessing Him from heart, He blesses us with all manner of happiness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Gratitude - Gracious Receiving
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 22, 2015
The Lord gives to us abundantly and graciously. We can graciously receive His loving gifts through gratitude. When we receive His love with gratitude it opens our hearts to a deep and lasting happiness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven on Earth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 15, 2015
It is possible for heaven, the Lord's Kingdom, to come to this world. It would come if we loved the Lord and loved our neighbor as our selves. It would come if we accepted His kingdom in our lives and shared the potential of His kingdom with others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven - Essence of Heaven
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 08, 2015
The Lord Jesus Christ teaches us that heaven is hidden, that heaven is something to wait and be prepared for, and that heaven is within. The New Church teachings add that heaven and hell are known by their delights. Delights are hidden and we have to choose which delights to enjoy so that we can be in heaven and be prepared for eternal life in heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven: Day in the Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 01, 2015
Heaven is a real place with a daily routine that we can relate to. Heaven is not something drastically different from our daily lives. In fact, we can bring a heavenly attitude to our daily life and it can become heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Healing Hurting Relationships - Reconcilation
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 25, 2015
Reconciliation is the final step in the process of healing hurting relationships; the burden of reconciliation rests on those who have wronged another. To step into this phase productively, we have to be able to own our faults and express regret. The ability to own our faults grows most productively out of our own reconciled relationship with the Lord and our sense of His love and forgiveness in our lives. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Healing Hurting Relationships - Forgiving Others
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 18, 2015
Forgiveness is a process that grows out of our relationship with the Lord and spiritual maturity. However, the work we have to do to forgive grows us. Forgiving actions or words calls on the best of us and helps us to begin real forgiveness. Especially if we do it prayerfully following the instructions of Scripture. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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