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The Twelve Sons of Israel
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 12, 2019
The first in a series on the spiritual significance of the number twelve, this sermon about the 12 sons of Jacob examines what they repesent as we journey through our lives in this world. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Changing Our Spiritual Landscape
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2019
You can tell a lot about someone by the things and people they surround themselves with. On the one hand, this is because where we choose to put time and effort is a reflection of what we value. On the other hand, it is also because we are shaped by our environments: we become like what we are surrounded by. This statement is true spiritually. If we surround ourselves with heavenly influences, we will become heavenly. If we surround ourselves with hellish influences, we will become hellish. Where and how we spend our time is not just a matter of personal preference. It is a matter of choosing who we will become. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Easter Sunrise - He Rises Daily
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 21, 2019
The Resurrection is the miracle of New Life which shows us the Lord, and which He performs in our hearts and minds. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - He Came to Show Us God
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 21, 2019
The Lord made God visible to us. Lord's resurrection both shows us that Jesus is God and made Himself fully united with God. By being fully united with God He not only shows us God but makes himself the way to God. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Order and Anarchy
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 07, 2019
In the western world we tend to value individuality above almost anything else. The freedom of the individual is sacrosanct. The Lord also values individual freedom. Without the freedom to make personal choices we would not be able to choose heaven over hell. Yet that does not mean that all freedom is equal: one kind of individual freedom leads to hellish anarchy while the other leads to heavenly order. If we want to follow the Lord, we need to spend time distinguishing between the two. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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What Would Jesus Do?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 31, 2019
In the western world we tend to value individuality above almost anything else. The freedom of the individual is sacrosanct. The Lord also values individual freedom. Without the freedom to make personal choices we would not be able to choose heaven over hell. Yet that does not mean that all freedom is equal: one kind of individual freedom leads to hellish anarchy while the other leads to heavenly order. If we want to follow the Lord, we need to spend time distinguishing between the two. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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We are all Children
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 31, 2019
When the great king Solomon prayed for wisdom in 1:Kings 3:7 he declared himself "a little child," not knowing how to go out or come in. In fact, we are all little children in the Lord's eyes. We explore what this really means and why our acknowledgement of that fact is so important. - MDG The children's talk is based on selections from Joshua:9 on the treaty with the Gibeonites. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Wrestling With Who We Are
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 24, 2019
In Genesis 32, right before Jacob was reunited with his brother Esau, Jacob appeared to wrestle with God, and was given a new name: “Israel.” What does this symbolize in our lives about the nature of who we are, and how we can change? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Purifying Motives
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 24, 2019
Doing good things is relatively easy. But what about when you've done your good deed for the day only to be assaulted by the nagging feeling that maybe, just maybe, your motive for doing it was a selfish one? Changing our motives is hard be cause unlike actions, motives cannot be changed directly. We cannot just choose to be motivated by good will at the drop of a hat. Luckily, the Lord lays out a process that we can go through, and if we follow it, over time, our motives will become more and more pure. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Bad Anger and Good Anger
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 10, 2019
Starting very early in life, anger can show up in our reactions. Sometimes it can be very destructive, and sometimes it can have something heavenly within it. The Lord wants us to seek His help to fight destructive anger, and to strengthen us to be ready to defend good things with power when this is important. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Building an Upper Room for the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - February 24, 2019
A woman in the city of Shunem asked her husband to build a small upper room on the wall of their house for Elisha the prophet to stay in when he passed by. Elisha was no longer just a visitor to their home, but now he dwelt with them. Come and hear how we can build an upper room in our minds and lives where the Lord can dwell with us. | By Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Zeal or Anger ?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - February 24, 2019
Family Service - Talk Title - Zeal Or Anger ? 1st Lesson: Zechariah 1: 14-17 2nd Lesson: John 2: 13-23 3rd Lesson: Conjugial Love 365-366 (portions) | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Close Enough to Catch
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 10, 2019
It is often said that the Lord will never give us more than we can handle. And yet, sometimes we still feel totally overwhelmed, just like Peter, who tried to walk on water, but found himself sinking. - JB | By Rev. Jared J. Buss | Mitchellville, MD
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Building The Tabernacle
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 03, 2019
Sunday School Service - Children's Talk Title - Building the Tabernacle 1st Lesson: Exodus 31: 1-11 2nd Lesson: Exodus 35: 20-35, 36: 1-3 3rd Lesson: Charity 168 4th Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 10331.4 | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Burn Out
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 27, 2019
A number of people online are discussing and writing articles about burnout at the moment, prompted by this article posted a few weeks ago. And so it seemed good to spend some time thinking about burnout from a New Church Christian perspective. What does the Lord teach about burning out and how can He help us to notice when we’re heading that direction and change course? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Ezekiel and the Valley of the Dry Bones
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 13, 2019
The sermon for this Sunday is one by Coleman Glenn, our former Associate Pastor. The text is a dramatic vision that the prophet Ezekiel had of a valley full of dry bones that come back together, have sinew, flesh, and skin cover them again and ultimately turn into a huge group of living people. It's a dramatic symbolic picture of how the Lord can take what's dead within us and bring us back to spiritual life. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Gospel - Good News for Repentance and Reformation
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 30, 2018
Addiction and repentance have a lot in common. And the good news, the _gospel_ that the Lord offers us is that He can fully reform and heal us. An introduction to a series on the Sermon on the Mount. "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of heaven is near; repent and believe in the gospel." Readings: Mark 1:15; Matthew 4:12-25; Heaven and Hell 533; True Christian Religion 571; Last Judgement posthumous 352 | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Atlanta-Morningstar Chapel (Alpharetta GA)
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Where Is He Who Has Been Born King of the Jews?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 16, 2018
The wise men pursued the Lord when they knew of His coming. Our knowledge of the Lord can be a star that leads us to Him, and it includes finding Him by way of organized religion and the wisdom collected there. Even when these organizations are corrupted, they are a place where we can learn and find the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Jesus' Family History
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 02, 2018
If you look closely at the family history of Jesus, you can see the mess. And that messy family history is absolutely necessary for the Jesus work of glorification and our salvation. Original sermon by Rev. Malcolm Smith | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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The Work of the Holy Spirit
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 25, 2018
The Lord Jesus Christ is present with us through the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth that leads to truth. We find this through Scripture and it is through Scripture that the Lord has a power effect to heal you and make you knew. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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The Two Gates
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 25, 2018
This Sunday we have the privilege of witnessing and taking part in the two sacraments: Baptism and Holy Supper. In some ways these two rituals seem worlds apart. In one, water is poured over a child's head as he is dedicated to the Lord. In the other we eat bread and drink wine, symbolic of taking in the Lord's love and wisdom. Yet these two rituals contain the whole span of spiritual life. Baptism represents the very first introduction to the Lord, the first glimmers of spiritual life. Holy Supper represents the fulfillment of that life, as we take in the Lord Himself to dwell within us. They are like two gates, and when we have gone through both, we are in heaven. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Controlling our Emotions
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 18, 2018
Did you know that the understanding does NOT lead the will? It is the other way around! So how can we stay centered and avoid being overly reactive to other people and things? ~ MDG | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Heaven is Not for Sale
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 28, 2018
You can’t buy your way into heaven, no matter how much wealth you amass. That won’t come as a surprise to most of you. Yet somehow, subconsciously, we end up trying. Every time we feel entitled to reward because of our good deeds, we have diminished good deeds to a mere currency with which we can buy a slice of heaven. Every time we feel slighted for the ill fortune that befalls us in spite of our goodness, we have reduced God’s living Providence into a mere balance sheet of good countered by evil. It is only when we realize that goodness is its own reward that we can be free from the allure of heaven as a reward. Heaven is not a reward; heaven is the natural result of a life of goodness. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Repenting from Stealing
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 07, 2018
The teachings are clear: we have to repent. We have to identify and acknowledge the ways in which we are breaking the Lord’s Commandments and we then have to ask the Lord for help and actually begin to live in a new way. Our spiritual lives depend on our willingness to do this work. For the next three Sundays we will be looking at some of the 10 Commandments and how a person could repent from breaking those commandments. This Sunday evening we will talk about stealing. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Safety In Jerusalem
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 07, 2018
Sunday School Service - Children's Talk Tile - Safety In Jerusalem 1st Lesson: II Samuel 16: 5-11, 19: 18-23; I Kings 2: 36-46 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 845 (portion) 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6822 (portion) | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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