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Eating With Sinners
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 02, 2017
Family Service - Talk Title - Eating With Sinners 1st Lesson: Luke 5: 15-32 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 8365 (portion) | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Finding Hope
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 02, 2017
The sermon is about finding hope, the will to carry on, and the belief that it's worth carrying on because good things are going to happen in your life. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Making Choices
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 02, 2017
When confronted with hard choices the easiest thing to do is to make no choice at all. Yet this choice is often the worst choice of all: in trying to keep our options open we lose out on all of them. The Lord is adamant that we make a committed choice: He sets before us life and death and urges us to choose life. Commitment to a choice is the only way to succeed spiritually. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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You Are Not Alone
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 02, 2017
Finding Hope when we feel alone. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Judgement & Mercy
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 02, 2017
Worship Service on the subject of Judgement and Mercy. Lessons, children's talk and sermon. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Jesus Wept
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 02, 2017
Sometimes we feel that God is far away when we are going through difficult times. But He wants us to have this picture: He, the God of heaven and earth, weeps - why? Because He loves us so much. We are told that "Jesus weeps" in the internal sense is "love grieving." | By Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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7 Adages From The Cross
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 02, 2017
Throughout the year we offer services of worship that are designed to give people the opportunity to engage more fully with the week's message. People can ask questions, hear other people's thoughts and share their own ideas. These worship services are called Seekers Sundays. The format is as follows: 1. We start as we always do with a song, the opening of the Word and a talk for the children. 2. Next the children go downstairs for Sunday School and the adults enjoy a set of readings and a brief introduction to the week's lesson/topic. 3. Following this the formal service of worship is brought to a close. People are invited to gather downstairs to continue with a conversation: What questions do you have? What are your insights? How does this apply to our own lives in more practical ways? ---7 Adages From The Cross--- The Lord did not say much when He was being crucified. However, what He did say provides us with many insights into the meaning and use of His crucifixion and resurrection. This Sunday we will explore together the seven things that the Lord said on the cross. What do these words teach us about our own relationship with the Lord and what His crucifixion and resurrection accomplished for us? 1. "My God, My God, why have You fotrsaken Me?" (Matthew 27:46) 2. "I thirst!" (John 19:28) 3. "Women, behold your son!....Behold your mother!" (John 19:26, 27) 4. "Father forgive them for they do not know what they do." (Luke 23:34) 5. "Father, into Thy hands I commit My spirit." (Luke 23:46) 6. "It is finished!" (John 19:30) 7. "Assuredly I say to you today you will be with Me in Paradise." (Luke 23:43) | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MA
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Learning to See the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 26, 2017
The Lord healed a man who had been blind from birth by putting clay on his eyes and sending him to wash in the pool of Siloam. The man did as the Lord told him, even though he didn't know who the Lord was, and was able to see. How can we learn from this blind man's example and learn to see clearly? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Who Is Jesus?, Part 4 - Redeemer
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 26, 2017
The Lord redeems our life by taking broken areas and making them whole. He reveals to us the work of God by this redemption. It is by redemption that Jesus became justice and the one to whom we can look for help and hope. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Peter's Denial
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 26, 2017
Family Service - Talk Title - Peter's Denial 1st Lesson: Luke 22: 31-34, 54-62 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 10134:13 | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Mindful Communication Challenge - 5 Are You Willing?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 26, 2017
In our last service of the Mindful Communication Challenge program we're going to be looking at the question that underlies all the different ways of improving our communication that we've talked about: am I willing? Am I willing to try to improve how I communicate? Am I willing to put in the work that it will take to change the way I typically act? So.... are you willing? And if the answer (honestly) is no, what do you do about that? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Discerning Love; The Best Way to Help
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 26, 2017
"Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?" (Isaiah 58:6-7) Closing prayer by Rev EH Carswell. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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What Can We Do On Sunday?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 26, 2017
The best ways to help. Lori and John Odhner hold copyrights on two hymns. The General Church holds copyright on one. All used by permission. The closing hymn was replaced by a hymn from a later service because it was copyright protected. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Building Community in the Church
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 26, 2017
| By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Becoming Whole and Clean
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 19, 2017
The Lord washed His disciples' feet as a symbolic way of showing us that we need to focus on avoiding any areas of filth in the way we live our conscious lives. In other words, we need to work on being an outwardly cleaner person so that the Lord can subsequently cleanse us on the level of our spirit. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Abram & Lot (Part 2) -Lot is Separated
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 19, 2017
Today is part two of a two part series on Abram and Lot. In Genesis chapter twelve, Jehovah tells Abram to get out of his country and to leave his father's house. As Abram begins his journey to a new land Lot (his nephew) comes with him. Last week we learned that Lot represents the more sensual/external part of us - The part of us that learns various facts and experiences various affections based on the input we receive through our physical senses. Lot lived with Abram and began this journey with him, showing us that this sensual/external part of us is useful and important! The Lord wants us to use our physical senses to gather in much information and good experiences. These external ideas and affections we receive early in life act as vessels for the more spiritual truths and affections the Lord is leading us towards. In today's story both Abram and Lot have enlarged their possessions. The land can no longer support them both, and strife is arising between their herdsmen. Abram asks Lot to separate from him. This separation between Abram and Lot wonderfully represents a time in our own regeneration when we must separate ourselves from two kinds of external things: 1. Empty memory knowledges we learned in childhood. 2. Pleasures from the selfish and worldly loves we favor. While it is important to separate ourselves form certain unhelpful things in our sensual/external self, we will also see that our sensual/external self (Lot) can grow into something beautiful! This happens only if we allow our sensual/external self to serve and come into harmony with our more spiritual/internal self; ridding ourselves of this things that prevent this from happening. This week reflect on things in your more external self that the Lord may be asking you to separate from. Separating from Lot can be difficult, but it allows us to experience the true blessings the Lord created us for! | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MA
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Being Born Again - Spiritual Pregnancy and Birth
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 19, 2017
Becoming a better person - and eventually an angel - is a process called “regeneration,” meaning: “re-birth.” In John chapter 3, Nicodemus was surprised and incredulous when Jesus told him this. Sometimes we can be surprised and incredulous about this process too. What do pregnancy, morning sickness, braxton hicks, transition, labor pains, contractions, and birth have to do with our spiritual growth? What does it mean to take our first spiritual breath as a spiritual newborn? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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How Much Guilt Is Enough?
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 19, 2017
"And Reuben answered them, saying, 'Did I not speak to you saying, "Do not sin against the boy"; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us."" (Genesis 42:22) | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Losing Our Souls For The LORD'S Sake
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 19, 2017
Sunday School Service - Children's Talk Title - Feeding The 4,000 1st Lesson: Mark 8: 1-9 2nd Lesson: Mark 8: 9-15, 22-38 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 740. 11 (portion) | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Mindful Communication Challenge - 4 - Is it Useful?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 19, 2017
We have spent time exploring the questions "Is it true?" and "Is it kind?" This week we ask "Is it useful?" At the heart of this question is putting truth and kindness into action. Truth and kindness without use are simply airy ideas. By asking "Is it useful?" we bring our focus to the actual impact that our words will have on the people around us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Holding On To Resentments
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 19, 2017
People hurt us , sometimes badly. Inevitably we feel pain and resentment as a result. How do we let go of that resentment? Because the offertory was copyright protected it was replaced with the offertory from the 11 am service. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Covenant with Noah
Worship Service: Children & Adult - March 19, 2017
| By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Becoming More Christ-Like
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 12, 2017
Christianity, at the organizational or individual level, suffers when there is no genuine charity. Therefore, to be more Christian, or to be more Christ-like, requires a transformation that sees a growing focus on loving the Lord and loving others. When true charity is combined with a true understanding of the Lord's message, the church and the individual, rather than facing destruction, grows into what the Lord and other people need the church and the individual to be. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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