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Plain Talk
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 02, 2024
For thousands of years knowledge about the Lord, the afterlife, angels and devils, faith and charity has been clouded with a certain degree of mystery and confusion. One of the promises of the New Church faith is that what was once a mystery can now be understood plainly. The Lord says, “I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language… I will tell you plainly…” (John 16:25). Plain talk seems like something we’d welcome anytime but is that always the case? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Seeking Clarity
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 02, 2024
We all crave clarity – no one goes in search of confusion. We’ve been wired to seek knowledge, truth, so that we may understand and understand ever more clearly. The Lord’s revelations (Old, New Testament, Writings) are a time-lapsed, sequential, unfolding of truth, moving from “figurative” language to “plain” language. This process has taken thousands of years to unfold but why so long? The Lord wishes to tell us “plainly” about Himself (John 16:25) and guide us “into all truth” (John 16:13). Is this something we can handle? Clarity can be freeing and threatening. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Put Your Trust in the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 02, 2024
With the recent elections many of us are reflecting on the future of this country. There is a decent amount of fear and worry, along with some hope perhaps. But how are we to think of these things spiritually? Sometimes we separate the political from the spiritual as if they are totally distinct parts of life. But the realm of laws and governance is supposed to be a support for a moral and spiritual society. If that support is shaky, morality and spirituality suffer. But regardless of the despair or hope we may feel, the Lord calls us to remember to put our trust in Him, and believe that He is still in charge, regardless of the apparent outcomes. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Seven Churches
Worship Service: Informal Family - June 02, 2024
John sees the Lord surrounded by seven lampstands, and the story tells us that these are the seven churches. These “churches” are us, and the people around us, that the Lord invites to His New Church. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Eligibility for Spiritual Combat
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 02, 2024
1st Lesson: Deuteronomy 20:1-9 2nd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 734.12-13 3rd Lesson: New Jerusalem and Her Heavenly Doctrine 191 Sermon: “Eligibility for Spiritual Combat” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Assyrians
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 26, 2024
The Assyrians were a large and powerful nation—not just another neighboring nation to squabble with, but an international super-power. The Assyrians represent something very powerful within us: our rational mind—our ability to figure things out and think things through. Our rational mind can be a powerful enemy to our religious life that takes us into spiritual captivity or it can be a powerful ally. Let’s learn from the Lord how to have the right kind of relationship with the Assyrians. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Assyrians
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 26, 2024
| By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Greta E. Bochneak
Memorial Service - May 26, 2024
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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A New Way to See the World
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 26, 2024
The Lord asks us to see in a new way. Maybe that is why healing from blindness was a such a common miracle. But it was not physical blindness the Lord healed but spiritual blindness as well. | By Rev. Charles E. Blair | Westville, RSA
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Remembering the Lord and Others
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 26, 2024
As we look toward Memorial Day, we consider the important part memory plays in feeling gratitude. How and what we remember is directly tied to our affections, what we love and what we choose. The Lord invites us to remember the blessing He offers us, if we choose. How? Come and see! | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Loving Our Country Carefully
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 26, 2024
1st Lesson: I Samuel 11 2nd Lesson: True Christian Religion 414 (part) 3rd Lesson: Charity 85, 86 (parts) Talk: “Loving Our Country Carefully” (Text: TCR 414) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Becoming One Flesh
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 19, 2024
In the story of creation, it says that the Lord created male and female and then there is a beautiful phrase near the end the story where the Lord says that the man and his wife shall become one flesh. We will be looking at what it really means to become one flesh in the eyes of the Lord, and how by making males and females wonderfully unique and different, actually allows for the Lord to create a more perfect whole when they are joined together in marriage. | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Audrey Merrell Smith
Memorial Service - May 19, 2024
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Becoming One Flesh
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 19, 2024
“Becoming One Flesh” In the story of creation, it says that the Lord created male and female and then there is a beautiful phrase near the end of the story where the Lord says that the man and his wife shall become one flesh. We will be looking at what it really means to become one flesh in the eyes of the Lord, and how by making males and females wonderfully unique and different, actually allows for the Lord to create a more perfect whole when they are joined together in marriage. However, some people worry that if a husband and wife seek to become one, then they will inevitably lose their sense of individual identity. We will explore if this is really the case, and whether it is something to worry about! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Anxiety
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 19, 2024
Anxiety is all around us in today’s world. It is in ourselves, our friends, our communities. Does this abundant anxiety exemplify a lack of faith in the Lord? Not necessarily. It is true that faith in the Lord can help overcome anxiety; and as we grow in faith we may find that anxiety lessens. But as long as we love what is good, we will feel fear when that good thing is put at risk. The real question is what will we do with the anxiety that we feel, and can we be motivated by it to make a more loving, safe, world? | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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How to Love
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 19, 2024
In the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46) the Lord teaches us how to love people the ways they need to be loved, and by loving others, we love the Lord. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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The Law - Good and Plain
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 19, 2024
1st Lesson: Deuteronomy 27:1-4, 8 2nd Lesson: Joshua 4 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 222.3 Sermon: “The Law - Good and Plain” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Memorial Service for Christa K. Bedford
Memorial Service - May 18, 2024
Christa K. Bedford passed into the spiritual world on Saturday, March 16. She was 86 years old. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Widow's Oil
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 12, 2024
(2 Kings 4:1-7) A poor widow saved her two sons when her small jar of oil kept pouring and pouring into borrowed vessels. As the Lord prepares us for life in heaven, there’s a lot we can learn from other people. But in the end, the Lord wants us to use the goodness and truth He provides as if it actually belonged to us. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Borrow Vessels, Shut the Door
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 12, 2024
2 Kings 4: 1-7. To make possible the miraculous regeneration of her small jar of oil, Elisha instructed the indebted widow to “borrow vessels” and “shut the door.” The imagery here suggests that our spiritual lives develop as a result of some combination of both “borrowed states” and the private decisions of our conscience. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Hannah: A Woman Who Gave All
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 12, 2024
And she made a vow, saying, “LORD Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.” (1Samuel 1:11) | By Rev. J. Bheki Dube | Westville, RSA
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Mothering Moses
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 12, 2024
Several women played mothering roles in the life of Moses: his own mother, his sister, Pharaoh’s daughter. We will celebrate the mother figures in our own lives, and we will reflect on the church as spiritual mother, nurturing us and encouraging us to nurture one another. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Baptism: Finnian Asher Eads
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 12, 2024
1st Lesson: NJHD 202-203; Josh. 24:15; Ps.127; Mark 10:13-16 2nd Lesson: NJHD 204; TCR 677:5; CL 396; Deut. 6:4-9 Talk: “Baptism and Mother's Day” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PA
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Reaching Out
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
At this Community Service will be talking about having the courage to reach out—reaching out to offer help and reaching out to ask for help. Let’s talk about what stops us from reaching out and how the Lord can help us to reach out anyway. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Battles We Never Fight
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
Have you ever seen a person who struggles with some particular evil and thought to yourself, “I’m so glad that I’ve never had to deal with that”? It helps to put our own struggles into perspective when we can see how much harder other people have it. We could put much of this up to chance: we happened to be born into a certain family, at a certain time in history, in a particular location. But on closer inspection, none of this is random chance: all of us, like it or not, incline towards the same struggles and challenges as anyone else. It is only through the Lord’s almighty power that we can be held back from falling headlong into unimaginable evils. Today we will explore the ways that the Lord fights battles on our behalf that we will never be aware of, and how much we have to be grateful for. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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