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Healing Hurting Relationships - The Lord's Forgiveness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 11, 2015
Healing a hurting relationship is a journey through forgiveness to reconciliation. That journey is a spiritual process that demands a reliance on the Lord God Jesus Christ and brings toward spiritual maturity. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PASpiritual Seasons
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 04, 2015
Just like there are seasons in this world, there are seasons to our spiritual life. We can know that hard times will come and that in hard times, better times are coming back. But most important, the Lord Jesus Christ leads us through them to a happier state. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAExperience and Spiritual Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 27, 2015
Experience is an important part of spiritual life. We need to hold in tension our own experiences and the experience of Divinely Guided experiences called revelation. Learning from our own experience and the experience of others is an essential part of building faith. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAMemorial Address for Betty Lindsay
Memorial Service - September 21, 2015
Memorial address for Betty Lindsay. A life well lived. A quiet yes to God and the quiet work of love. | By Rev. Charles E. Blair | Sarver, PAGood News - He Is Risen
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 20, 2015
The Lord God Jesus Christ who is Jehovah can help you. He is able to lead you through a process to a new life, a new resurrection of life which can heal your very character. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Sacrifice
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 13, 2015
The Lord sacrificed His life to bring us closer to the Divine. The details of His death demonstrates the ways people can separate truth from love, humanity from divinity. To follow the Lord and not deny, we have to take an affirmative attitude toward Scripture and ask “How is it true?” rather than “Is it true?” | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Paradox
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 06, 2015
Spiritual life challenges us to face the opposition of higher and lower realities – our natural desires and our spiritual desires. We have a divided mind because we are a spirit in a body. Because of this division, there is also the truth of paradox – the reality of truths that seem contradictory but are both true. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Watch and Pray
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 30, 2015
The Lord Jesus Christ teaches us that there will be a loss of spiritual direction at the end of the Christian era. As culture loses its spiritual center, the Lord challenges us to stay awake spiritually—to hold fast to His teachings—and to pray. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - In Enemy Territory
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 23, 2015
The Lord loves even those people who are against Him. We can see the loving and wise ways that the Lord interacts with those who oppose Him. If we are to follow Him, we can learn from His example. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - A New Heart
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 16, 2015
The nature of heaven and hell are tied up together in three areas of life: marriage, possessions, positions of power. To allow heaven to enter into these areas we need to beg the Lord to open our eyes to the spiritual reality that underlies His teachings in these areas. We can then follow Him more joyfully. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Seeing Clearly
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 09, 2015
The nature of spiritual sight is that we have a tendency to see what we want. The Lord teaches us many things that contradict our biased sight. If we desire to see reality, we have to keep coming back to the Lord. Following the Lord is a self correcting system that corrects in stages. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Be Opened
Worship Service: Informal Family - August 02, 2015
There are challenges and problems with being a part of a religious community. We can nullify the Word of the Lord by our tradition. We can make religion an external thing. We can be rude and arrogant to those not of our faith. We can be deaf to the Lord. But if we truly turn to the Lord, He can heal us of these faults. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Tell No One?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 19, 2015
The Lord can heal our hearts if we take His teaching and His healing to heart. He can heal us our lives and our heads, but we have to take these experiences into our heart with an acknowledgement and love for Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Who Is this Guy?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 12, 2015
The Lord calls disciples. If we are willing to hear His call, we will learn and grow spiritually. A turning point in our discipleship is when we see Jesus Christ as having Divine power to help us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - The Lord Can Heal You
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 04, 2015
The Lord performed many miracles of healing during His ministry. The reason He performed miracles of healing was to show us that He has the power to heal the soul. If we are really going to believe in the good news of spiritual healing, we have to believe that He can heal our soul and the soul of others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAGood News - Heaven Is Near
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 28, 2015
The Good News that Lord God Jesus Christ teaches is that the Kingdom of God is near. Our first step is to repent and believe in the good news. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAFather's Day: Challenge to Men
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 21, 2015
The Lord created men and women with gift particular to their gender. The gift the Lord gave to men is to be interested in and love ideas. He gave this gift to them in particular so that He could teach them about spirituality and religion. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Purpose of Church
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 14, 2015
The purpose of church is a partnership with the Lord and heaven on earth. We enter into a partnership with Him through repentance and through a partnership with Him we seek heaven now. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Purpose of Family
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 07, 2015
The purpose of the New Testament is to know that Jesus is Christ and the Son of God, and so we can live a life in His Name. The purpose of family is to raise children for heaven. Marriage was designed with all its potential to support that highest use. And marriage needs its own care, support, and guidance. The Lord ensures all people love their children, but only the spiritual can truly love their spouse. The Lord offers guidance to support the goal of a truly united marriage. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAPurpose of Government
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 31, 2015
The purpose of government is to observe and provide order. This is best done when we focus on the public good and through that the individual. Public good should be understood in a hierarchy of good ascending from civil, to moral, to spiritual. However, the most important truth is that the Lord governs all things. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAMemorial Day - Purpose of a Soldier
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 24, 2015
The highest purpose of a soldier is love of country. Holding this purpose helps put the challenges and sacrifices in a spiritual context while also strengthening that love. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PANew Life - Start by Looking Inside
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 12, 2015
The Lord prompts us to look inside and see our faults. This is the first step to becoming a new person and living a new life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAEaster - A Promise of New Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 05, 2015
The Lord's resurrection is a promise of new life in the Lord. We can accept new life in Him when we see what is in us that turns us away from Him and ask His help leave the old life behind and enter the new. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThe Lord's Last Supper
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 02, 2015
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 spirits. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAPalm Sunday - Sweet Celebration, Bitter Reality
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 29, 2015
Palm Sunday is a celebration of the Lord as our King. He welcomes us to celebrate that idea and challenges us to work through the bitterness that will come up as we digest that idea and the changes it requires of us to fully acknowledge Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA