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Bowing to Bloom: Humility and the Tree of Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 22, 2025
Bowing is an ancient custom symbolizing the need to lower ourselves before what is Higher. We will explore the connection between humility and eating of the tree of life over the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Bowing Before the Lord: The Humble Heart and the Tree of Life
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 22, 2025
As love of our own intelligence starts to give way to humility, we open ourselves to the experience the Lord’s blessings (barak, the primary Hebrew word for blessing, carries the connotation of what is higher flowing into what is lower) and a consequent uplifting of our life. We’ll explore the connection between this bowing before the Lord and the development of a spiritual life. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Doris A. Halterman
Memorial Service - June 21, 2025
Doris A. Halterman passed into the spiritual world on June 9, 2025. She was 89 years old. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Two Most Important Things
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 15, 2025
John saw a vision of two witnesses who were put to death and raised to life (Revelation 11). They represent the two essentials of the New Church: that the Lord in His glorified humanity is God and that people should live by the Ten Commandments. These two echo the two great commandments, showing us how to live heavenly lives. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Two Witnesses
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 15, 2025
In Revelation 11, John describes a vision of two witnesses. They represent the two essentials of the New Church. These two essentials are under constant threat of attack - in the vision, the two witnesses were even put to death - but the Lord protects them and can revive them, just as He revived the witnesses in John’s vision. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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"God has made me laugh…" (Genesis 21:6)
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 08, 2025
The Lord doesn’t just want to cheer us up – He wants our hearts and minds to be filled with joy and laughter. Our grumpy, skeptical side tends to have a hard time believing this is possible. What’s there to laugh about – life is full of serious business; bills to pay, pressures at work, health issues, relationship stresses, etc.? Turns out, we have a lot of reasons to laugh if we’re to take our cue from the angels in heaven for “everything they see seems to laugh and play and come alive” (HH 489). What are they seeing that we aren’t seeing? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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"God has made me laugh…" (Genesis 21:6)
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 08, 2025
The Lord doesn’t just want to cheer us up – He wants our hearts and minds to be filled with joy and laughter. Our grumpy, skeptical side tends to have a hard time believing this is possible. What’s there to laugh about – life is full of serious business; bills to pay, pressures at work, health issues, relationship stresses, etc.? Turns out, we have a lot of reasons to laugh if we’re to take our cue from the angels in heaven for “everything they see seems to laugh and play and come alive” (HH 489). What are they seeing that we aren’t seeing? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Alan Cedric King
Memorial Service - June 08, 2025
Alan Cedric King passed into the spiritual world on Friday, June 6, 2025. He was 75 years old. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Here I Am. Send Me
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 01, 2025
Isaiah’s words are in response to the Lord’s, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” (Isaiah 6). Within them is an invitation to step forward ourselves to serve in the ways the Lord asks. We will explore our responsiveness to the Lord’s constant call to show up as a good person who strives to make a difference. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Clear Truths
Worship Service: Ordination & Sermon - June 01, 2025
Ordination of Daniel Calvo and Thomas J. Jackson into the first degree by Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. Readings by Daniel Calvo. Sermon by Thomas J. Jackson. Elijah retreated to a cave in a state of overwhelmed sadness when Jezebel sought his life. While there the Lord came to him and asked him the key question, “What are you doing here?” He then provided the perspective and guidance he needed most. He offers similar guidance to us, urging us to consider our situation and our next steps in light of the clear truths of His Word. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Our Spiritual Reality: We Also Have Bodies
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 25, 2025
This Sunday we will pick up the topic of our spiritual reality again by reflecting on a curious and inescapable aspect of our spiritual reality: we also have bodies. Why did the Lord create our spirits to be embodied in these complex, frail collections of bones, muscles, and organs? And how can we better navigate our spiritual reality when we take our bodies into consideration? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Our Spiritual Reality: We Also Have Bodies
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 25, 2025
This Sunday we will pick up the topic of our spiritual reality again by reflecting on a curious and inescapable aspect of our spiritual reality: we also have bodies. Why did the Lord create our spirits to be embodied in these complex, frail collections of bones, muscles, and organs? And how can we better navigate our spiritual reality when we take our bodies into consideration? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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“I Will Remember…” Psalm 77:11
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 18, 2025
The Scriptures urge us to remember – the Sabbath, the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, many important things. And yet we forget, not in the sense that these truths are lost or wiped from our memory but in the sense that their value can be forgotten. Thankfully, “remembering” is an act of mercy, done by the Lord alone. Let’s talk on Sunday about how the Lord helps us remember and then consider what new, spiritual practices we might want to incorporate into our lives to safeguard against our own forgetfulness. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Everyone Who Asks Receives
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 11, 2025
On Mother’s Day we consider the origin of the love that leads us to care for children, that makes the birds sing, and that causes flowers to bloom. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Mother’s Day
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 11, 2025
"There is a divine field of heavenly love that constantly radiates from the Lord. From this field an earthly field arises. It is a field of love for babies and children. It is absolutely universal.” (True Christian Religion 308) As we honor this heavenly influx on Mother’s Day we also honor the ways that our church, our community, and our country are like a mother to us. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Pearl of Great Price
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 04, 2025
The Lord compared heavenly life to a merchant who found a very expensive pearl and went and sold all he owned to buy it. This short parable teaches about how important it is to know and follow the Lord. Learning about the Lord and growing in the ability to follow Him can start when a child is very young and continue on to eternity in the next life. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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A Gift to Give to Future Generations
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 04, 2025
As a church organization we have placed a high value in education, both formal and throughout life. Learning from the Word, coming to ever better know and believe in the Lord, and growing in the ability to follow Him are the key foundations for a happy and useful life. We have prioritized helping children and young people gain these foundations. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Go, Make Disciples of All Nations
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 27, 2025
After His resurrection, the Lord told His disciples, “Go, make disciples of all nations!” (Matthew 28:20). It is in the nature of love to share what one has with others (Divine Love and Wisdom 47), so when we receive the Lord’s love in our hearts, we also receive a burning desire to share that love with others. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Telling the Good News
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 27, 2025
After His resurrection, the Lord told His disciples, “Go, make disciples of all nations!” (Matthew 28:20). It is in the nature of love to share what one has with others (Divine Love and Wisdom 47), so when we receive the Lord’s love in our hearts, we also receive a burning desire to share that love with others. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Easter Family Festival “Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?”
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 20, 2025
The 9:30 and 11:00 am services will be identical family services, both in the nave. There is no Informal Family or Young Children's Service on Easter. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Maundy Thursday Holy Supper: A Sacrament of Repentance
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 17, 2025
Rev. Malcolm G. Smith will lead this reflective Holy Supper service with readings and a talk on the significance of the Last Supper and an opportunity to take Holy Supper. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Welcoming the King
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 13, 2025
When the Lord was preparing to enter Jerusalem, His followers laid their garments down in the way before him and shouted out, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Luke 19:37). What does it mean to welcome the Lord as the King of our lives? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Laying Our Garments Before the King
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 13, 2025
The Lord’s closest disciples laid their own garments on the donkey, and as the Lord rode the donkey into Jerusalem, the crowds laid their garments before Him on the road. In laying down their garments, all of them were giving up something of their own for the Lord, symbolically humbling themselves before Him. What does this mean for us? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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