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April 22nd Pastor Tom Farewell
Pastor Tom explains he is going on disability & Bishop Kline runs Q&A | By Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline; Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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SHIFT - Week 2 - Shift of Perspective, Noticing the Presence of the Lord
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 02, 2011
| By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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SHIFT - Week 1 - Shift of Awareness, Noticing Conflicts
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 25, 2011
Quotes, Divine Providence #284, Secrets of Heaven #3332 | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Hope Restored
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 18, 2011
No matter what you have said, thought or done, God never gives up on you. (Jeremiah 46-52; AE 518.38; Prophets & Psalms 112-118) Towards the north, by the bank of the river Euphrates, have they stumbled and fallen. Who is this that cometh up like a stream, whose waters are tossed like the streams? Egypt cometh up like a stream, and his waters are tossed like streams; for he saith, I will come up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and those that dwell in it (Jer. 46:6-8). This signifies the destruction of the church and of its truths by false reasonings from confirming knowledges [scientifica]; the "north" signifies those in whom and from whom there is falsity, the "river Euphrates" false reasonings, "Egypt" confirming knowledges, the "waters that are tossed" falsities themselves, and "to come up, to cover the earth, to destroy the city and those that dwell in it," signifies the destruction of the church and of its doctrine, the "earth" meaning the church, the "city" doctrine of truth, and "those that dwell in it" its goods. Like things are signified by the Nile, "the river of Egypt," and by the Euphrates, "the river of Assyria," elsewhere in the Word (as in Isa. 7:18, 19; 11:15, 16; Ezek. 29:3-5, 10; 31:15; 32:2; Ps. 74:14, 15; 78:44; Exod. (Ps. 1377:17-21); also by "the rivers of Babylon":1). As all spiritual temptations come through falsities that break into the thoughts and infest the interior mind, thus through reasonings from falsities, so temptations are signified by the inundations of waters and by the erruptions of rivers and torrents. (AE 518.38) | By Rev. Todd J. Beiswenger | Ivyland New Church, PA
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I Was Blind, But Now I See
Worship Service: Children & Adult - February 06, 2011
How the Lord opens our intellectual, rational and spiritual eyes. | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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I Have Many Things To Say To You...
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 30, 2011
The Lord communicates with us on all levels. | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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What's the Matter?
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 23, 2011
The Lord's question to us, and how He can reach us in times of need. Genesis 21: 8-21; Arcana Coelestia 2689 It is known that all anxiety and grief arise from being deprived of the things with which we are affected, or which we love. They who are affected only with corporeal and worldly things, or who love such things only, grieve when they are deprived of them; but they who are affected with spiritual goods and truths and love them, grieve when they are deprived of them. Everyone's life is nothing but affection or love. Hence it is evident what is the state of those who are desolated as to the goods and truths with which they are affected, or which they love, namely, that their state of grief is more severe, because more internal; and in the deprivation of good and truth they do not regard the death of the body, for which they do not care, but eternal death. Arcana Coelestia 2689[2] | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Zaccheaus Climbs a Tree to See the Lord
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 16, 2011
The Lord sees us long before we see Him Habbakuk 2:1; Luke 19:1-10; Arcana Coelestia 3863, 9405 | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Fortune
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 09, 2011
[T]he Lord governs all things, even the most specific, through the truth that goes forth from Himself, not in the way a king governs in the world, but in the way God does so in heaven and over all creation. A king in the world takes only overall care of a country, while his chief ministers and officials take care of matters in particular. It is otherwise with God. God sees all things, knows all things from eternity, provides all things into eternity, and from Himself maintains all things in their order; from which it is clear that the Lord takes not only overall care but also particular and individual care of all things, unlike a king in the world. His regulation of things is achieved directly by means of God's truth that is going forth from Himself and also indirectly by means of heaven. Yet the indirect regulation by means of heaven is also tantamount to direct regulation by Him; for what comes from heaven comes by way of heaven from Him. This the angels in heaven not merely know to be so; they also perceive it within themselves. Arcana Coelestia 8717:2 | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Let me not be ashamed of my hope
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 02, 2011
Hearing the voice of the Lord over the taunting threats of hell. Psalm119:107-119; John 6:59-68; AE 817 Love such as the Lord has transcends all human understanding and is in the highest degree incredible... Arcana Coelestia #2077 | By Rev. George D. McCurdy | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Gifts of the Magi
Worship Service: Children & Adult - December 26, 2010
Christmas is all about presents Matt 2: 1-12; Is 60: 2-6; Married Love 335 The knowledge of correspondences remained with many of the people of the East even till the advent of the Lord. This can be seen in the coming of wise men of the East to the Lord when he was born. Therefore a star went before them, and they brought with them gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Matt 2:1,2, 9-11 "The start" that went before signified knowledge from heaven; "gold" signified celestial good; "frankincense" spiritual good; and "myrrh" natural good; from which three all worship proceeds. True Christian Religion 205 | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Power and the Glory
Worship Service: Children & Adult - December 05, 2010
Mark 6:45-56 Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened. Arcana Coelestia 1661:3 | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Lord's Coming
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 28, 2010
How the message of the Lord's coming can bring beauty into your life. Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom... to establish it with judgement and with justice, from henceforth even forever. Isaiah 9:6-7 JEHOVAH GOD CAME DOWN AND TOOK UPON HIMSELF HUMAN FORM, IN ORDER TO REDEEM AND SAVE MANKIND. Christian churches to-day believe that God the Creator of the universe fathered a Son from eternity, who came down and took upon Himself human form to redeem and save mankind. But this is an error and collapses of its own accord, so long as the mind concentrates on the oneness of God, and the reason looks upon as fiction or worse the idea that the one God fathered a Son from eternity, and also that God the Father together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, each of whom is severally God, is one God. This fiction is utterly exploded, like a meteorite in the atmosphere, when it is shown from the Word that it was Jehovah God Himself who came down and became man and also was the Redeemer. TCR 82 Conjunction is not possible with an invisible God. The one God who is invisible, had to come into the world, and had taken on the human form, not only so as to redeem mankind, but also so as to become visible and thus capable of being linked with mankind. TCR 786 | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Glorifying God
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 21, 2010
And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God. Luke 17:11-19 There were three reasons why faith in the Lord healed these; first, because they acknowledged His Divine omnipotence, and that He was God; secondly, because faith is acknowledgment, and from acknowledgment intuition; and all intuition from acknowledgment makes another to be present; this is a common thing in the spiritual world. So now, when a New Church was to be established by the Lord, it was this intuition from an acknowledgment of the Lord's omnipotence from which they were first to look to the Lord; and from this it is clear what is here meant by faith. The third reason was, that all the diseases healed by the Lord represented and thus signified the spiritual diseases that correspond to these natural diseases; and spiritual diseases can be healed only by the Lord, and in fact by looking to His Divine omnipotence and by repentance of life. AE 815:5 | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Forgiveness
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 14, 2010
Being loving, even in the presence of evil Luke 6:27-36; Arcana Coelestia 1079, 986 Peter said unto Jesus, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times? Jesus said to him,"I say not until seven times, but until seventy times seven." (Matt. 18:21, 22) When anything most holy or sacred was to be expressed [in the Word], it was said "seventy-sevenfold" as when the Lord said that a man should forgive his brother not until seven times, but until seventy times seven (Matt. 18:22), by which is meant that they should forgive as many times as he sins, so that the forgiving should be without end, or should be eternal, which is holy. (AC 433) Those who are true members of the Church are so far removed from guile that they utterly abhor it; and those among them who are like angels are willing, if at all possible, to have their minds laid open so that anyone may see plainly what they are thinking. For they intend nothing but good towards their neighbor; and if they notice anything bad in someone they make allowances for it. (AC 6655) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Habits - The death of Samson
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 07, 2010
How our natural and spiritual habits affect our daily life "The same applies to everything implanted in someone since childhood. It does not become his own until he acts according to it, and does so from affection. For when he acts from affection that which has been implanted in him passes into his will. Then it is no longer put into practice by him simply because he knows that he should or because he has been taught to do it, but because some delight unknown to himself and so to speak his own disposition or nature lead him to do so. For everyone acquires such a disposition or nature from frequent practice of habit, and that practice of habit from the things he has learned." (Heavenly Secrets #3843) | By Rev. Calvin A Odhner | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Glorification and Redemption
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 31, 2010
Jacob's Ladder and how the Lord changed everything (Arcana Coelestia 4075; John 14:27; True Christian Religion 418, 610, 599; Genesis 28:10-17) "When the Lord made the Human within Himself Divine, He too had communities of spirits and angels around Him; for it was His will that everything should be accomplished in keeping with order. But He chose for Himself the kind of communities that would be of service, and changed them as seemed good to Him. Yet He did not take any good or truth at all from them and apply it to Himself, but only from the Divine. And by acting in this way He also restored to order both heaven and hell; He restored them step by step until He had glorified Himself completely." (Secrets of Heaven 4075) "In the conflicts or temptations of men the Lord works a particular redemption; as He wrought a total redemption when in the world. By conflicts and temptations in the world the Lord glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine; in like manner now with man individually, when he is in temptations, the Lord fights for him, conquers the evil spirits who are infesting him, and after temptation glorifies him, that is, renders him spiritual. After His universal redemption the Lord reduced to order all things in heaven and in hell; with man after temptation He does in like manner, that is, He reduces to order all the things of heaven and the world that are in him. After redemption the Lord established a new church; in like manner He also establishes what pertains to the church in man, and makes him to be a church in particular. After redemption the Lord bestowed peace upon those who believed on Him, for He said: Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, give I unto you (John 14:27). Likewise He gives to man after temptation a sense of peace, that is, gladness of mind and consolation. From all this it is clear that the Lord is the Redeemer forever." (True Christian Religion 599) | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Happiness in Deliverance and Trust
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 24, 2010
Trusting the Lord by living life, being yourself, and giving thanks (Matt 6:25-34; Psalm 34; Arcana Coelestia 1422) Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness, then all these things will be added to you. Do not therefore be anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will take care of the things that belong to it. (Matthew 6: 33-34) They who trust in the Lord continually receive good from Him; for whatsoever happens to them, whether it appears to be prosperous or not prosperous, is still good, because it conduces as a means to their eternal happiness. (Heavenly Secrets #8480) [In a marriage] with one wife, truly conjugial friendship, trust and potency is possible, because it is a union of minds. It is the place and origin of the celestial blessedness, the spiritual happiness and so the natural pleasures which have been provided from the beginning for those who enjoy truly conjugial love. (Conjugial Love #457) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Rise, Take Up Your Bed, and Walk
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 17, 2010
The Lord's message for us is uplifting and moves us forward (Micah 6:8; John 5:8; Arcana Coelestia 519) To"walk with God" is to teach and live according to the doctrine of faith, but to "walk with the LORD (Jehovah)" is to live the life of love. To walk is a customary form of speaking that signifies to live, as to "walk in the law," to ";walk in the statutes," or to "walk in the truth." To walk has reference properly to a way, which has relation to truth, consequently to faith, or the doctrine of faith. What is signified in the Word by "walking" may in some measure appear from the following passage in Micah: He has shown you, O man, what is good, and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly and to love mercy, and to humble yourself by walking with your God? (Micah 6:8) "To walk with Jehovah (the LORD)" or "before Jehovah" signifies, in the Word, to live the life of love. (Heavenly Secrets #519) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Deceiving Path of Reverence
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 10, 2010
The relevance of idolatry in our lives: who do we worship?. (Jer. 10:1-5; Mark 11:20-24; AC 1363) Idolatrous worships are internal and external; the internal are those which condemn man; the external not so much. The more interior the idolatrous worship is, the more it condemns; but the more exterior, the less. Internal idolaters do not acknowledge God, but adore themselves and the world, and make idols of all their cupidities; whereas external idolaters are able to acknowledge God, although they do not know who is the God of the universe. Internal idolaters are known from the life they have acquired; and in proportion as this life departs from the life of charity, in the same proportion are they more interior idolaters. External idolaters are known solely from their worship; and, although idolaters, they can still have the life of charity. Internal idolaters can profane holy things, but external idolaters cannot; and therefore external idolatry is tolerated, in order to prevent the profanation of holy things. (Heavenly Secrets #1363) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Stay Awake, and Pray
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 03, 2010
The Lord warns us about falling asleep spiritually (Matt. 26: 41; Arcana Coelestia 5210; Apocalypse Revealed 158) And He came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch [or stay awake] and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:40, 41) "And he fell asleep" means a state of obscurity. This is clear from the meaning of "sleeping" as a state of obscurity. 'Sleep' has no other meaning than this in the spiritual sense, even as "wakefulness" means nothing else than a state of brightness; for spiritual sleep is a time when truths remain in obscurity, spiritual wakefulness when truths exist in brightness. And to the extent that truths are in the one state or else the other, spirits are awake or asleep. From this it is evident that 'falling asleep' is a state of obscurity. (Heavenly Secrets #5210) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Armed with Truth
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 26, 2010
What the Lord does to empower us now and experience heaven now. (Luke 22:35-38; Arcana Coelestia 9088, 10026) Truths teach a person in whom he ought to believe, and what he ought to believe, also what he ought to do, thus how he ought to will; for whatever one does he does from the will in accordance with his understanding. Since then, a person's will itself is evil by birth and the understanding teaches what good and evil are, and a person can will either good or evil, it follows that he must be reformed by means of the understanding. As long as anyone sees and mentally acknowledges that evil is evil, and good is good, and thinks that the good ought to be chosen, he is in what is called the state of reformation. But when his will leads him to shun evil and do good, the state of regeneration begins. (True Christian Religion #587) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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An Angel Protects Daniel from Lions
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 19, 2010
The Lord protects us in many ways and from many dangers. "Then Daniel said to the king, 'My God sent His angel and shut the lion's mouths, so that they have not hurt me....' So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God" (Daniel 6:21, 23) Let all those rejoice who put their trust in You; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them. (Psalm 5:11) People who are strong in truths are kept safe from harm wherever they go. (Heavenly Secrets #6769) Good and its affection do not protect themselves, but are protected by truth and the understanding of it. (Apocalypse Explained 1121) Nothing at all could harm people whom the Lord is protecting, not even if the whole of hell were surrounding them, both from without and from within. (Heavenly Secrets #968) The Lord protects against all evils and falsities that are from the hells. (Heavenly Secrets #8273) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Do Not Weep...
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 12, 2010
How the Lord comforts us in times of need (Luke 7:11-17; Arcana Coelestia 379, 5691, 9737) In many passages in the Word, mention is made of praising God, which signifies to confess Him with the heart and mouth, thus also to worship Him. Praising God is signifies the same thing as Hallelujah, for [the word] Hallelujah signifies "Praise ye God." The reason why praising God signifies to confess and worship is that the Lord does not desire to be praised or glorified from any love for Himself, but from His love for man. For a person cannot do otherwise than praise and glorify the Lord…when he acknowledges in heart that there is nothing good in himself, and that he can do nothing from himself, and on the other hand that all good is from the Lord, and that the Lord can do all things. When a person is in this acknowledgment he then puts away his proprium, whose origin is the love of self, opens the whole of his mind, and thus enables the Divine to enter by influx with good and with power. It is therefore necessary that a person be in humiliation before the Lord, and that such humiliation be from no other source than the acknowledgment of his own [nature] and the acknowledgment of the Lord; according to these things reception takes place. (Heavenly Secrets #1210 - portions) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Six Days You Shall Labor, and Do All Your Work
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 05, 2010
Spiritual Life... Work It! (Genesis 2:2,3; Exodus 20:8-11; Arcana Coelestia 9431) "Six days" means passing through the state of truth, because "six days" means a state of labor and conflict. A person who is being regenerated by the Lord experiences two states of mind - the first of which is called the state of truth and the second the state of good. The reason why the first state is called the state of truth is that during it the person is being brought by means of truth towards good; and the reason why the second state is called the state of good is that the person, when governed by good, has been brought to it. Also, while the person is in the state of truth he is outside heaven; but when governed by good he is in heaven, and has accordingly been brought to the Lord. Furthermore while the person is passing through the first state or the state of truth he experiences labor and conflict, since he undergoes temptations then; but when he is in the second state or the state of good he experiences rest and the serenity which peace brings. The former state is what has been represented in the Word by the six days which come before a seventh, whereas the latter state is what has been represented by the seventh day or the Sabbath. (Heavenly Secrets #9431) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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