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I Can’t Complain… Can I?
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 14, 2024
Most of us spend more time complaining than perhaps we should, especially when hardships start to stack up. Should we complain less? Should we feel bad about complaining? Does complaining have any role in our spiritual lives? What might the stories in Genesis of Jacob’s and Joseph’s trials teach us? | By Rev. Dr Thane P. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Gayle Fors
Memorial Service - July 14, 2024
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Gift of Freedom and Peace
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 07, 2024
“The Gift of Freedom and Peace” The Lord is the source of all that is good, and our civil liberties certainly feel good. As we reflect on Independence Day, and the gratitude we may have for our freedoms and the peace in our country, we can consider the kind of freedom and peace the Lord wants to offer us. As He told His disciples "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:27) | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Natural and Spiritual Freedom
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 07, 2024
As we reflect on Independence Day, we can be grateful for our natural freedom. But natural freedom is not exactly the same as spiritual freedom, which is one of the most precious gifts the Lord offers. From Divine Providence 73 we read "Freedom is wholly a matter of love, so that love and freedom are united... In general, there are three kinds of freedom: natural, rational, and spiritual freedom." How can civil liberties be used to support spiritual freedom? | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Heaven Is Not For Sale
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 07, 2024
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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Doors and Gates
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 07, 2024
2nd Lesson: Revelation 3:7-13 3rd Lesson: True Christian Religion 721 Sermon: “The Open Door”(Text: Rev. 3:8) | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Kempton, PA
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A Higher Law
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 07, 2024
The law said that someone who prayed to anyone other than the king would be thrown into the lions’ den. But Daniel followed a higher law. America was founded in part on a belief that the laws of justice transcend temporary edicts of a king. How do we love our country while looking first to the Lord’s higher law? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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As It Is in Heaven
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 30, 2024
This Community Worship service is the culminating event for the 2024 General Church Assembly. We will be focusing on the phrase in the Lord’s prayer: “… as in heaven, so upon the earth…” and what this sacred promise means to us as a worldwide church organization as we say our goodbyes and go back out into the world. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Let There Be Light
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 30, 2024
1st Lesson: Genesis 1:1-5 2nd Lesson: John 1:1,3,4,9 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 20 Talk: “Let There Be Light” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Saturday Plenary: GC Assembly 2024
Saturday Plenary: Coming Down the Mountain - 2024 General Church Assembly Rt. Rev. Peter Buss, Jr. leads a plenary with three additional speakers. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Field House
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Curtis Childs: The Ones That Got Away
Curtis Childs talks about the future of the New Church during the GC Assembly and his work with "Off the Left Eye." This talk includes questions and discussions at the end. | By Curtis Childs | Bryn Athyn Benade Hall
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Freya Fitzpatrick: New Trends in Educational Models: Promise for New Church Education
| By Freya H. Fitzpatrick | Bryn Athyn Dining Hall
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The Church Growing in People's Hearts: GC Assembly 2024
| By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Field House
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Friday Plenary: GC Assembly 2024
Friday Plenary: Going Up the Mountain - 2024 General Church Assembly Rev. Malcolm Smith leads the plenary with three contributions from New Church members sharing their experience with faith. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Field House
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“High Walls, Open Gates"
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 23, 2024
(Rev. 21:9-25) The New Jerusalem has high walls to proclaim the truth of the Word and open gates welcoming everyone into the city. Why have high walls when the gates never close? The Lord wants us to understand how both are important if we are going to be the church. | By Rev. Scott I. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Beasts of the Land and Sea
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 23, 2024
"Beast of the Sea, Beast of the Land" These two beasts are negative images of laity and clergy. By understanding the warnings involved, both groups can cooperate with the Lord to be His church on earth. We can also reject these beasts in our own lives to join Him in His heavenly kingdom. | By Rev. Scott I. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 23, 2024
1st Lesson: Isaiah 1:16 2nd Lesson: Revelation 1:1, 4; 22:16-17, 20-21 3rd Lesson: NJHD 202-208, TCR 429, 431 Talk: “The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ” | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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The Lord Reigns
Worship Service: Informal Family - June 23, 2024
After the prophecies of the book of Revelation came to pass, the Lord called together His twelve disciples who followed Him in the world. They went to spread the good news that the Lord reigns. What is so good about this news? Come find out! | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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“I Saw Heaven Opened...”
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 16, 2024
“I Saw Heaven Opened...” (Rev. 19:11). The strange and mysterious symbols in the book of Revelation depict the birth, struggle and growth of the New Church on earth. The joyful refrain, “I saw heaven opened,” ushers in the wonderful news that the Word, the Sacred Scriptures, can now be seen in heaven’s light in a way like never before. This is cause for celebration. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Lord's Love
Worship Service: Informal Family - June 16, 2024
Today's service features marionettes portraying Revelation’s love story between the Lord and His people | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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The Power of Symbols
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 16, 2024
Symbols, like pictures, speak a thousand words. This is especially true for symbols in the Word – they hold great power and personal significance to us because they embody spiritual values and attitudes we wish to adopt and emulate. The symbols of the Word, especially in the book of Revelation, remind us of what’s truly important in life which is why we rejoice at the refrain, “I saw heaven opened…” (Revelation 9:11). | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Second Coming - In With the New
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 16, 2024
Last week we explored how the Last Judgment is not a future event that will sweep away all the evil of the world and bring an end to all our issues, but rather a spiritual event that took place hundreds of years ago, paving the way for us to freely deal with our issues. That was not the only thing that happened though: at the same time the Lord made His Second Coming, His long-awaited return to Earth. He made His advent not by appearing in person however, but through a series of books that we know today as the Heavenly Doctrines, or the Teachings of the New Church. This Sunday we’ll talk about how the Lord comes to each one of us through these new ideas. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Serpent of Old
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 16, 2024
1st Lesson: Genesis 3:1-5 2nd Lesson: Revelation 12:3-9, 13-17; 20:1-3 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6952.4 Sermon: “The Serpent of Old” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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An Open Door
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 09, 2024
What does it take to walk through the door to heaven that the Lord holds open to us? Our focus on Sunday will be on responding to the Lord’s invitation by steadfastly putting effort into doing as the Lord asks. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Hold Fast to What You Have
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 09, 2024
(Revelation 3:7-13) The people of the church in Philadelphia were praised for their perseverance in the midst of struggle. They were commanded to “hold fast” to what they have. We are called to a kind of spiritual tenaciousness that has us rely on the Lord and the things in His Word, and to the extent that we can we will be blessed. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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