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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, AZHealing 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, AZEaster - 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, PAHealing 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, AZHealing 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, AZRaising 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 HallHealing 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, AZTake 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 HallHealing 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, AZPutting 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, RSAJeremiah - 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, MDAbraham 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, MDProcrastination
This talk looks at the normal human problem of procrastination. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZRebuilding 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, RSARebuilding 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, RSARebuilding 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, RSAPossibilities 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, AZWord 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, PAFacing Floods, Part 4 - Rebuild
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 19, 2017
What do we do after a crisis? How do you go back to normal? This Sunday we're going to talk about what happens after Noah and his family can finally leave the ark after the flood and what we can learn from the story about how to rebuild our lives once a crisis has passed. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAFacing Floods, Part 3 - Ride it Out
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 12, 2017
Two weeks ago we talked about seeing the floods, or challenges, coming and understanding that there is a better life on the other side. Last week we talked about preparing for the floods, or challenges, by making sure hat we are walking hand in hand with God and following Him wherever He leads us. This week we are going to talk about being in the middle of the flood itself, coping with the challenges as we experience them. In the midst of struggle we suffer from doubt but the Lord's promise is that He has prepared you and that He will bring you through alive, to find a new beginning. There is no challenge that you cannot overcome. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAFrom Seedtime To Harvest - What Is Stunting My Spiritual Growth?
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 22, 2017
There are many places in the Scriptures where the Lord compares the process of spiritual growth to the growing of a seed. This week's inspiration looks at three things that may be preventing this seed from growing. Why does my faith, my love for the Lord and my spiritual life in general seem to be wilting away? | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MABehold I Am Coming Quickly: Patience & Persistence
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 15, 2017
When the Lord says He will come or do something "quickly" He means that He will come or do something certainly. How does knowing this help us develop two important spiritual disciplines: Patience & Persistence. | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MAA Residue In The Land
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 08, 2017
What exactly are "remains?" "Remains" are all the states of good and truth that the Lord implants within us during the course of our entire life. We have the choice to either cover these remains over, or allow the Lord to draw them forth. | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MAReflection
Doctrinal Class - September 27, 2017
Two classes about human consciousness and awareness: Sep. 13 & 27 Some discussion not recorded. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralLittle by Little
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 24, 2017
Spiritual change takes time and learning. In Exodus 23, the Lord tells the Israelites that He will drive out their enemies little by little. Our traits and tendencies are all interconnected, and must be removed gradually. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall