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Motherhood and Nurturing
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 13, 2018
Mary was the mother of Jesus, the man who became God. The relationship between Many and Jesus can teach us about motherhood. The role is to feed with goodness and the goal is to launch a successful human being. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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The Internal and The External Person
Doctrinal Class - May 09, 2018
A Three class series the first of which was not recorded. Some video portions not included. | By Rev. Christopher A Barber | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Social Hall
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The Lord's Prayer: Part 3 - Our Daily Bread
Here in Part 3 of our series reflecting on the Lord's Prayer, we think about how asking for our daily bread is much more than asking for the things that sustain our bodies. It is asking for the things that sustain our soul, both today and for eternity. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Offering Genuine Love
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 06, 2018
When we do good for others, we can check our intentions first. Love is not genuine unless we first remove evil (True Christianity 435). “First be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.” (Matthew 5:24). | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Finding Jesus in the Life of Joshua - Part 1 - The Early Years
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 06, 2018
People have been drawing parallels between the stories of Joshua and Jesus for a long time (which makes sense considering that Jesus is the Greek version of the name Joshua). But the teachings of the New Church indicate that the connections between the stories go much deeper than a shared name and some intriguing similarities. Every detail of the story can be read as a way for us to get a deeper understanding of the Lord's experience while He was on earth. This Sunday we will explore the early stories of Joshua, before he became the leader of the Children of Israel, and what those stories can show us about the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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The Lord's Prayer: Part 2 - Thy Will be Done
In Part 2 of our series exploring the meaning of the Lord's Prayer, we think about how His will is that we might be part of His kingdom. Those in His kingdom enjoy happiness because they keep His commandments from a spirit of love to Him and toward their neighbors. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Freedom from Anxiety
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 22, 2018
Fear and anxiety are inevitable in life. Nor is that a bad thing. Fear of failure motivates us to succeed, anxiety brings our attention to problems that we need to overcome. But when we are crippled by these things, and our choices are limited by our fears, we cannot grow the way we would want. The Lord tells us what we can do then: seek first the kingdom of God. If we manage to get our priorities right, then our anxieties, although still present, will be longer control us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Healing Death Itself - Jesus' Healing Miracles: Part 6 of 6
In this final part of our series considering Jesus' Healing Miracles, we think about His healing or His overcoming of death itself. The backdrop is the story of the raising of Lazarus. Did the people mourning Lazarus' death and who saw him brought back into earthly life, know that being in the presence of Jesus meant that they were in the presence of Life itself? | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Healing Torment - Jesus' Healing Miracles: Part 5 of 6
In this part of the series on 'Jesus' Healing Miracles', we consider the healing of the centurion's servant. We notice that it was the centurion's faith, not the sick man's that opened the door for his healing. The story is a sign of the Lord healing the natural from the spiritual, and of how we can help make the spiritual realm a place of ever more healing. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Easter - The Lord Rises Again
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 01, 2018
The Lord rises again for each of us when we accept His good and truth into our lives. And the New Church is a movement for the Lord to resurrect Christianity and bring our world new life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Healing Physical Challenges - Jesus' Healing Miracles: Part 4 of 6
Jesus' healing of the paralyzed man (Luke 5:17-26) is one example of how a person's faith opened the door for them to receive healing. Do we have faith, not so much in whether the Lord can heal us physically, but whether He can heal our spirit of the types of things that interfere with our ability to experience heaven? | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Healing Leprosy - Jesus' Healing Miracles Series: Part 3 of 6
We are taught that Jesus' healing of people suffering from leprosy, is symbolic of his healing every person who comes to Him, acknowledging that they are falling short of living up to His standards as they understand them. New Church teachings say that leprosy symbolizes profanation. We profane whenever we mingle something holy with something unholy. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Raising Lazarus: Inviting the Confrontation
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 11, 2018
Jesus, though well aware of the brewing anger of the religious leaders, intentionally chose to perform an amazing miracle very close to Jerusalem. He knew how the religious leaders would respond and accepted the confrontation that His actions would provoke. We also can recognize qualities in our own minds that would harm us and others and confront them. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Healing Demon Possession - Jesus' Healing Miracles Series: Part 2 of 6
Here in Part 2 of our series reflecting on Jesus Healing Miracles, we consider what the modern day spiritual equivalent is to being demon possessed like the boy in the story from Matthew and Mark. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Take Your Shoes Off, Moses
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 04, 2018
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 Heilman Hall
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Healing Blindness - Jesus' Healing Miracles Series: Part 1 of 6
This message is Part 1 in a 6-Part series that looks at different types of healing miracles performed by Jesus while He was in the world. The focus here is on what is means, not to be without natural sight, but what it means to lack understanding of how we should live and how to overcome the problems that life presents to us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Putting Others First
Worship Service: Informal Family - February 18, 2018
The world tells us that to be great we must be better than others. We must be stronger, richer, more skilled and so on. If someone is ahead of us we are not, obviously, the best. The Lord redefines greatness. Greatness is not to excel others. Greatness is putting others first. Not only does putting others first make us great; it removes the competition. When we put others first we do not need to feel superior to anyone. We can be content that we have done our part to make the world a better place. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Jeremiah - The Prophet and his Prophecies
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 18, 2018
Jeremiah was one of the most courageous characters in the Bible and yet we know very little of his work. Learn, and be inspired by what he has to teach us today. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Abraham and Ishmael
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 11, 2018
Abraham depicts the highest level of humanity, the Lord's, and by reflection, our own. Yet his firstborn is Ishmael - a rough and stubborn beginning on the path of regeneration. - BDS | By Rev. Brian D. Smith | Mitchellville, MD
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Procrastination
This talk looks at the normal human problem of procrastination. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Rebuilding the House of the Lord - Part 3 - Taking it to Heart
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 28, 2018
When we have made the Lord a priority and started to work on living better we often expect things to change dramatically. Sadly, that is not the case. Changes in our external lives are an important beginning but we will not see real change until the change happens in our hearts. When the children of Israel built a house for the Lord not just as a place of worship but also as a state of mind, then the Lord could begin to bless them again. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Rebuilding the House of the Lord - Part 2 - How to Keep Working
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 21, 2018
When the people obey the Lord and rebuild the house of the Lord it doesn't meet their expectations of what it should be. The Lord's response to them, through the prophet Haggai, can be very useful for us when the results of our spiritual efforts aren't quite what we think they should be. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Rebuilding the House of the Lord - Part i - Is it Time?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 14, 2018
At this time of year we're often taking stock of who we are and where we are in our lives and thinking about what we might need to do to improve our lives. This Sunday and next we will be exploring the somewhat obscure but very relevant story in the book of Haggai of the Children of Israel being called to rebuild the house of the Lord and what it can teach us about the process of trying to do better about prioritising the Lord in our lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Possibilities Moving Forward
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 31, 2017
The final portion of the Christmas story describes how Joseph, Mary and the young Child Jesus traveled from Bethlehem to the safety of Egypt. Later, when it was safe to return, they settled in Nazareth of Galilee. We consider how these moves, plus the moving and other traveling described in the Lord's Word, speak to us about the forward spiritual movement that we to be making throughout the course of our lives. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Word Became Flesh, Part 2 - Receiving the Light
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 10, 2017
John was sent to bear witness of the light. Bearing witness of the light is a matter of ideas and of life. This preparation is for the coming of the light, and the question is do we receive that light? If we can receive that light, we will be born as children of God. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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