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My Father's Business
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 20, 2022
At age twelve, the Lord declared that He must be about His Father's business. We too are called "to perform a use in accord with the Lord's gracious purposes" (Arcana Coelestia 1103:2). Our focus this Sunday is on our life's purpose or our way of contributing uniquely to the Lord's Kingdom. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Lamb on Mount Zion
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 09, 2022
The people stanidng with the Lamb on Mt. Zion in Revelation 14 were the people who would make up the New Heaven after the Lord's Second Coming. What made them believe in this when so many others did not? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Holy Ground
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 14, 2021
When Moses saw the burning bush in the wilderness, the Lord told him to take off his sandals because he was on holy ground (Exodus 3). What does it mean for us to spiritually remove our "shoes" in order to be on holy ground? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Four Steps of Healing
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 31, 2021
The Lord is a healer. Four miracles show a progression of unchecked spiritual sickness in our lives. These stories show how the sufferers approached the Lord for healing, and what He did in each case to heal them. | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Declarations and Revolutions
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 05, 2020
With Independence Day falling one day prior, we dive into the problems as well as the power of the "proprium" or selfhood of a nation, a church, and a person, and examine how the foundations that lead to greatness can also lead to division. | By Rev. Christopher A Barber | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Misconceptions of Providence - 3 - It's all God or it's all me
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 24, 2020
In this sermon series we’ve talked about how the Lord is working in every little detail of what happens in our lives. That can be a profoundly comforting thought but, in other moods, it can make us feel like it doesn’t matter what we do. If it’s all in God’s control, then our decisions mean nothing, really. In other moods, it can feel like God is just some distant force (if He’s there at all) and it’s entirely up to us to figure out what we need to do with our lives and what God is doing or not doing is largely irrelevant to our daily lives. The teachings of the New Church provide another option for how to understand this. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Misconceptions of Providence - 2 - Coincidence? I think not!
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 17, 2020
This week we continue our series on misconceptions about Divine Providence. There are moments when something so unlikely and unexpected, and yet so wonderful, occurs, that we cannot help but see it as the hand of God at work in the world. But if God intervenes so forcefully in the world sometimes, it serves to highlight the many times when He does not (apparently) intervene. Why is one person miraculously spared from cancer, while thousands of others are condemned to die? The truth is that God’s Providence is not just at work in the unlikely and the obvious ways we see. His Providence extends to each and every moment of our lives, even down to the most mundane. He is never absent. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Misconceptions of Providence - If it happened, it was meant to be
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 10, 2020
We’re starting a sermon series on misconceptions about Divine Providence. Often when something difficult happens we want to know why—why did this happen? Sometimes the answer that people come to is that “it was meant to be”. But is that true? What does that even mean? How should we think about all the different things that happen in our lives? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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The Tabernacle, Part 3 - Wrapped in Garments of Salvation
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 03, 2020
As we have seen in the past two sermons, the Word's description of the Tabernacle is, spiritually, a description of the many complex things that make up our lives. This week we look not at the Tabernacle itself, but the clothes that the priest had to wear to be able to work in the Tabernacle. These garments stand for the ways that we weave love and goodness into our outer lives so that we can truly reflect the Lord's work in the world. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Tabernacle, Part 2 - A Model for Life in a Complex World
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 26, 2020
This Sunday we’re talking some more about the Tabernacle—the mobile worship centre that God told the Children of Israel to build. If you read about the Tabernacle you can quickly become overwhelmed by the complexity and detail. Why is it so complicated? Well, life is also pretty complicated and in this complicated explanation of the structure of the Tabernacle we can find a model of how the Lord can help us to deal with the complexity of life. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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The Spirit of the Lord: Finding Safety
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 19, 2020
In Scripture we read about the Spirit of the Lord coming on people. This talk explores a passage in Isaiah about what can happen to us when we receive the Spirit of the Lord that He showed us in His resurrection. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Tabernacle, Part 1: A Dwelling Place for the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 19, 2020
The Tabernacle was a tent that served as the centre of Israelite worship. But in this archaic structure we can also see a heavenly model for our own minds. This week we will explore how the materials willingly given by the Children of Israel represent the many pieces of our hearts and minds out of which the Lord builds a place for Him to dwell within us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Seeing the Lord: The Veil Was Torn in Two
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 12, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Why the Lord Appeared First to Mary Magdalene
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 12, 2020
This Easter Sunday we are going to be focussing on the women at the tomb. Mary Magdalene, Mary (who had given birth to Jesus), and some other women were the first people at the tomb on Easter morning. And Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the Lord in His resurrection. Why was this and what can we learn from this about what in us will be most able to see and believe in the risen Lord? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Strengthen Ourselves in the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 29, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Powerless
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 22, 2020
So much of life is out of our control. We can feel helpless in the face of that. The Lord experienced similar circumstances when He was in the world. Before He was glorified, His conscious awareness was bound by limits, just as ours, so that He could be attacked by hell. In these moments, He was able to overcome because He could draw on an inner power that was His own. We are indeed powerless in such moments; but the Human God is with us. Can we trust in him? | By Rev. Grant H. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Water into Wine: Sermon of the Week
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 15, 2020
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Lord's Love in Troubled Times: Sermon of the Week
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 13, 2020
Where is the Lord's love during troubled times? Amidst an outbreak, like the corona virus and covid-19, what is the God's will? How can prayer help, and how can we be His angels? Recording from YouTube video available at https://youtu.be/46js4pVzW64. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MorningstarC... | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Atlanta-Morningstar Chapel (Alpharetta GA)
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Preparing Your Mind for The Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 05, 2020
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MD
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What Can I Do?
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 26, 2016
'Charity itself is acting justly and faithfully in the office, business, and employment in which a man is engaged, and with those with whom he has any dealings.' (TCR Chapter 8). | By Rev. Dr Thane P. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Conquering Doubt and Fear
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 26, 2013
Rev. Christopher A. Barber reads the lessons. Rt. Rev. TL Kline gives closing prayer. | By Rev. Alan M. Cowley | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Presence of the Lord
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - March 20, 2011
We often speak about the Lord's omnipresence but also speak of the Lord having a special presence at certain times and places. How can He be especially present if He is everywhere all the time? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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How Long Should You Be Unhappy?
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - October 24, 2010
JF Simons on chancel. | By Rev. Scott I. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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