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Understanding the Holy Supper
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 22:8-20 Talk: “Bread and Wine” (Text: Luke 22:8-20) 2nd Lesson: True Christian Religion 670 Sermon: “Understanding the Holy Supper” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PA
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Memorial Service for Lauretta Klein
Memorial Service - May 04, 2024
Laurie Klein passed peacefully into the spiritual world in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 6. She was 89 years old. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Giving and Receiving, Part 2, How to Be Helped
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 28, 2024
Everyone needs help; none of us can get through life on our own. And yet when help is available there are many times when we don’t take advantage of it. Why is that? Why especially do we not take advantage of the help that the Lord offers? We’ll explore what gets in the way and how to have a better attitude towards the help that we are given by other people. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Why Does the Lord Need Guards to Protect Him?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 28, 2024
In several stories in the Word the Lord is surrounded by guards. Why is this? What do they do? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Guardians of Holiness
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 28, 2024
One of the most brilliant devices that the Lord has built into creation is His way of protecting us from His overwhelming power, leaving us in freedom to think and do what we want. The heavenly watchdogs that appear in both the Old and the New Testaments show how He does this. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Great Commission
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 28, 2024
We will be exploring the Great Commission with an interactive discussion on all the ways we “make disciples” in the world today. This service will also include commissioning eight newly trained Stephen Ministers into this important lay use. You are all warmly invited to witness this special event. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 28, 2024
1st Lesson: Matt. 6:19-21, 25-33 2nd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 487 (portions) 3rd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 489 (portions) Talk: “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Memorial Service for June Marie Smith
Memorial Service - April 26, 2024
June Marie Smith of Lansdale, PA passed into the spiritual world on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. She was 92 years old. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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“Spiritual Buying and Selling”
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 21, 2024
“Spiritual Buying and Selling” (Matthew 13:45) The Word sometimes compares the spiritual process of regeneration to the process of buying and selling. Often the “selling” part seems difficult, as when the Lord tells the rich young man to sell all that he has. But the selling does not always have to be sorrowful. How can we sell gladly? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Giving and Receiving - Part 1 - How to Give Help
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 21, 2024
When someone you care about is in need, you give them help. That is a good thing, obviously! But what if they don’t want our help? Or if they need a different kind of help? Or if they reject our help? Our immediate response can be hurt; after all, we are trying to help them! But if we are going to truly help people, we need to learn to make it less about us and how we are received, and more about what the person actually needs. Giving help is about the receiver, it is not about the giver. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Pearl of Great Price
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 21, 2024
One of the ways that the Lord describes the kingdom of heaven is as a man buying and selling pearls. What is it about pearls that makes them a picture of what heaven is like? And how can we be like the man who buys and sells them? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Go To Thy Brother
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 14, 2024
1st Lesson: Matthew 18:11-17 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 4197:7 Talk: “Going to Thy Brother” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PA
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"Build houses, plant gardens..."
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 14, 2024
(Jeremiah 29:3) Gardens feature prominently in the Scriptures, beginning with the Garden of Eden in Genesis and ending in Revelation with the garden appearing again, this time in the midst of the Holy City New Jerusalem. It’s significant too that the Lord chose to rise from the tomb in the midst of a garden. All of the physical delights of a garden - the sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes – represent what happens when we invite the order and symmetry of the truths of the Lord’s Word into our lives. In this service we will explore the profound spiritual principle that our choices determine our spiritual environment. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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"The Word is like a garden"
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 14, 2024
“The Word is like a garden…” (TC 259). “Build houses, plant gardens.” (Jeremiah 29:5)) Gardens feature prominently in the Scriptures, beginning with the Garden of Eden in Genesis and ending in Revelation with the garden appearing again, this time in the midst of the Holy City New Jerusalem. It’s significant too that the Lord chose to rise from the tomb in the midst of a garden. All of the physical delights of a garden - the sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes – represent what happens when we invite the order and symmetry of the truths of the Lord’s Word into our lives. In this service we will explore the profound spiritual principle that our choices determine our spiritual environment. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Two Great Prophets
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 14, 2024
Elijah and Elisha were two prophets who followed in quick succession. Elijah, who came first, was poorly received and lived a troubled existence. Elisha, who succeeded him, was better received and accepted by the leaders of his day. These two prophets represent two stages in our relationship with the Lord. At first we must struggle and fight to apply His truths. But as we grow and progress it becomes easier and easier, until we live His truth with hardly a second thought. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSA
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The Road to Emmaus
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 07, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 24 portions Talk: “The Road to Emmaus” 2nd Lesson: Divine Love and Wisdom 378 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 3863 (portions) Sermon: “Road to Emmaus” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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The Lord's Orders
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 07, 2024
"Children, have you any food." (John 21.5) After the Lord's resurrection, He sent the eleven disciples out to preach the gospel to all nations. Soon after He again appeared to them as they were fishing and asked "Children, have you any food?" and they replied no, for they had not caught any fish. Why were the disciples fishing when the Lord clearly gave them a command to go and preach the gospel? The disciples learned one more valuable lesson after the Lord’s resurrection. | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Receiving Food from the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 07, 2024
"Truths cannot be implanted except by means of affections which well forth as from charity and love." (AC 4018.3) When the Lord sent His disciples out to preach the gospel, they already had practically all the knowledge needed for this important work. The Lord wanted His good news to spread to every nation, but He also hoped for the salvation of these very disciples. This Sunday we will see through the story of the Lord appearing to the disciples after His resurrection how it is only in doing the work of love that faith can save. | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Embracing Weakness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 07, 2024
If someone called you weak, you would take it as an insult. But what about when the Lord calls you weak? Because He most certainly does: compared to Him, we are utterly powerless. And yet far from being insulted, if we embrace our own weakness, we can let down the burdens of perfection and self-reliance, and receive from the Lord a greater power than we could ever muster on our own. We may be utterly helpless, but the greatest force in the universe is on our side. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Effects of Easter
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 31, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 24:1-9, 13-36 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 8455:1-2 Talk: “The Effects of Easter” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PA
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"He Will Raise Us Up"
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 31, 2024
| By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Power of Goodness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 31, 2024
The word “omnipotent” can be attributed only to the Lord; He alone is all-powerful. The Easter story is a manifestation of that power, in that He restored to order everything in His kingdom and took on the power to be our Savior. As He said to His disciples, “All power has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18). On Sunday we will talk about how to receive some of that power into our own lives. There is power in goodness, in doing the things the Lord asks, in sharing what is ours with others, in extending ourselves of the benefit of others, in praying to the Lord for help. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Westville, RSA
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The Blood of the Lamb
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 27, 2024
Around Easter there are many images, some gruesome, of the Lord dying on the Cross, shedding His blood. The New Church, with good reason, does not emphasize these images. But why then did the Lord talk in terms of giving His flesh and blood? This imagery was not made up from nothing, but from the Lord’s own words. We need to listen to what the Lord taught about spilling His own blood for us; but we have to understand these word spiritually. When we do, our minds can rise above the gruesome imagery, and see the beautiful reality of the Lord giving of His own life, through the truths of Word, to regenerate us and recreate us as new and heavenly people. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Spreading Palm Branches before the Lord
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 24, 2024
1st Lesson: Mark 11:1-9 2nd Lesson: Revelation 7:9-17 3rd Lesson: Portions of Arcana Coelestia 9212; Apocalypse Explained 195; Apocalypse Revealed 367 Talk: “Spreading Palm Branches in the Way” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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What Kind of Savior Do You Need?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 24, 2024
When Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the people cheered and cried out for Him to save them. They were hoping that a king of the natural world was riding into town to throw off their Roman oppressors. That wasn’t what the Lord was there to do but He was there to save them. If a powerful person could ride into your life and change things drastically, what would you want them to do? Maybe the Lord won’t do that, but what sort of spiritual salvation could He give you? This year we will have two identical services, both in the nave (there will be no Young Children’s or Informal Family Service in the Undercroft). There will be one talk for the whole family. At the end of the service, people will be invited to pick up palm branches on their way out of the building to then form a crowd outside and an actor playing the Lord will come past with a live donkey, while people sing and cheer. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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