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Looking Deeper at Teachings on Charity
Doctrinal Class - November 12, 2010
We know that we are put in this world to learn how to love the Lord and our neighbor better. Explore some unusual laws from Exodus that help us think a bit more deeply on how we can show that love to others. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Habits - The death of Samson
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 07, 2010
How our natural and spiritual habits affect our daily life "The same applies to everything implanted in someone since childhood. It does not become his own until he acts according to it, and does so from affection. For when he acts from affection that which has been implanted in him passes into his will. Then it is no longer put into practice by him simply because he knows that he should or because he has been taught to do it, but because some delight unknown to himself and so to speak his own disposition or nature lead him to do so. For everyone acquires such a disposition or nature from frequent practice of habit, and that practice of habit from the things he has learned." (Heavenly Secrets #3843) | By Rev. Calvin A Odhner | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Happiness in Deliverance and Trust
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 24, 2010
Trusting the Lord by living life, being yourself, and giving thanks (Matt 6:25-34; Psalm 34; Arcana Coelestia 1422) Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness, then all these things will be added to you. Do not therefore be anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will take care of the things that belong to it. (Matthew 6: 33-34) They who trust in the Lord continually receive good from Him; for whatsoever happens to them, whether it appears to be prosperous or not prosperous, is still good, because it conduces as a means to their eternal happiness. (Heavenly Secrets #8480) [In a marriage] with one wife, truly conjugial friendship, trust and potency is possible, because it is a union of minds. It is the place and origin of the celestial blessedness, the spiritual happiness and so the natural pleasures which have been provided from the beginning for those who enjoy truly conjugial love. (Conjugial Love #457) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Rise, Take Up Your Bed, and Walk
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 17, 2010
The Lord's message for us is uplifting and moves us forward (Micah 6:8; John 5:8; Arcana Coelestia 519) To"walk with God" is to teach and live according to the doctrine of faith, but to "walk with the LORD (Jehovah)" is to live the life of love. To walk is a customary form of speaking that signifies to live, as to "walk in the law," to ";walk in the statutes," or to "walk in the truth." To walk has reference properly to a way, which has relation to truth, consequently to faith, or the doctrine of faith. What is signified in the Word by "walking" may in some measure appear from the following passage in Micah: He has shown you, O man, what is good, and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly and to love mercy, and to humble yourself by walking with your God? (Micah 6:8) "To walk with Jehovah (the LORD)" or "before Jehovah" signifies, in the Word, to live the life of love. (Heavenly Secrets #519) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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How the Lord Makes Us Feel Safe
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 17, 2010
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Deceiving Path of Reverence
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 10, 2010
The relevance of idolatry in our lives: who do we worship?. (Jer. 10:1-5; Mark 11:20-24; AC 1363) Idolatrous worships are internal and external; the internal are those which condemn man; the external not so much. The more interior the idolatrous worship is, the more it condemns; but the more exterior, the less. Internal idolaters do not acknowledge God, but adore themselves and the world, and make idols of all their cupidities; whereas external idolaters are able to acknowledge God, although they do not know who is the God of the universe. Internal idolaters are known from the life they have acquired; and in proportion as this life departs from the life of charity, in the same proportion are they more interior idolaters. External idolaters are known solely from their worship; and, although idolaters, they can still have the life of charity. Internal idolaters can profane holy things, but external idolaters cannot; and therefore external idolatry is tolerated, in order to prevent the profanation of holy things. (Heavenly Secrets #1363) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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I Am The Vine
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 10, 2010
Week 2 of 7 The spiritual growth series, "Pause: Make Space for God" brings some breathing room back into our day, giving us a chance to consciously renew and strengthen our relationship with God. This program asks us to designate a portion of time every day to explore the Bible and listen for God's messages, to ask meaningful questions and to experience the presence of the Lord in a new and powerful way. Each week explores Biblical answers to a new topic: Week 1-How Does God Speak to Me? Week 2-Why Did God Create Me? Week 3-Who is Jesus and How Does He Relate to My Life? Week 4-How Does the Lord Work in My Life? Week 5- What Does the Lord Want from Me? Week 6-How Do I Follow the Lord? Week 7-How Does the Lord Want Me to Serve Others? Focus of Week 2: Why Did God Create Me? Featured Story: Vine and Branches (John 15) Most of us have wondered at some point, "Why am I here, and what is the purpose of the universe?" Many people believe that "God is love." What does this imply about why He created us? What does the Bible say about this question? What is God's plan for our lives? | By Rev. James H. Barry | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Created New Every Day
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 10, 2010
Week 2 of 7 The spiritual growth series, "Pause: Make Space for God" brings some breathing room back into our day, giving us a chance to consciously renew and strengthen our relationship with God. This program asks us to designate a portion of time every day to explore the Bible and listen for God's messages, to ask meaningful questions and to experience the presence of the Lord in a new and powerful way. Each week explores Biblical answers to a new topic: Week 1-How Does God Speak to Me? Week 2-Why Did God Create Me? Week 3-Who is Jesus and How Does He Relate to My Life? Week 4-How Does the Lord Work in My Life? Week 5- What Does the Lord Want from Me? Week 6-How Do I Follow the Lord? Week 7-How Does the Lord Want Me to Serve Others? Focus of Week 2: Why Did God Create Me? Featured Story: Vine and Branches (John 15) Most of us have wondered at some point, "Why am I here, and what is the purpose of the universe?" Many people believe that "God is love." What does this imply about why He created us? What does the Bible say about this question? What is God's plan for our lives? | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Stay Awake, and Pray
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 03, 2010
The Lord warns us about falling asleep spiritually (Matt. 26: 41; Arcana Coelestia 5210; Apocalypse Revealed 158) And He came to the disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch [or stay awake] and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:40, 41) "And he fell asleep" means a state of obscurity. This is clear from the meaning of "sleeping" as a state of obscurity. 'Sleep' has no other meaning than this in the spiritual sense, even as "wakefulness" means nothing else than a state of brightness; for spiritual sleep is a time when truths remain in obscurity, spiritual wakefulness when truths exist in brightness. And to the extent that truths are in the one state or else the other, spirits are awake or asleep. From this it is evident that 'falling asleep' is a state of obscurity. (Heavenly Secrets #5210) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Armed with Truth
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 26, 2010
What the Lord does to empower us now and experience heaven now. (Luke 22:35-38; Arcana Coelestia 9088, 10026) Truths teach a person in whom he ought to believe, and what he ought to believe, also what he ought to do, thus how he ought to will; for whatever one does he does from the will in accordance with his understanding. Since then, a person's will itself is evil by birth and the understanding teaches what good and evil are, and a person can will either good or evil, it follows that he must be reformed by means of the understanding. As long as anyone sees and mentally acknowledges that evil is evil, and good is good, and thinks that the good ought to be chosen, he is in what is called the state of reformation. But when his will leads him to shun evil and do good, the state of regeneration begins. (True Christian Religion #587) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Six Days You Shall Labor, and Do All Your Work
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 05, 2010
Spiritual Life... Work It! (Genesis 2:2,3; Exodus 20:8-11; Arcana Coelestia 9431) "Six days" means passing through the state of truth, because "six days" means a state of labor and conflict. A person who is being regenerated by the Lord experiences two states of mind - the first of which is called the state of truth and the second the state of good. The reason why the first state is called the state of truth is that during it the person is being brought by means of truth towards good; and the reason why the second state is called the state of good is that the person, when governed by good, has been brought to it. Also, while the person is in the state of truth he is outside heaven; but when governed by good he is in heaven, and has accordingly been brought to the Lord. Furthermore while the person is passing through the first state or the state of truth he experiences labor and conflict, since he undergoes temptations then; but when he is in the second state or the state of good he experiences rest and the serenity which peace brings. The former state is what has been represented in the Word by the six days which come before a seventh, whereas the latter state is what has been represented by the seventh day or the Sabbath. (Heavenly Secrets #9431) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Being Born Again
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 29, 2010
| By Rev. Frank S. Rose | Tucson, AZ
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The Hated but Good Person
Worship Service: Children & Adult - August 22, 2010
Our idea of love can be so subjective... is that always good? (Luke 10:29-37; Matthew 22:39; Arcana Coelestia 351, 9780) "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22:39) Charity means love to the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own. (Heavenly Secrets #351) The Samaritan..."came to the man who was wounded by thieves, and bound up his wounds and poured in oil and wine" (Luke 10:33, 34). Here are not meant oil and wine, but the good of love and of charity, by "oil" the good of love, and by "wine" the good of charity and of faith; for the subject treated of, is the neighbor, thus charity toward him. (Heavenly Secrets #9780) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Healing the Leper
Worship Service: Children & Adult - August 15, 2010
Dealing with people in disorder And He laid His right hand upon me, signifies life from Him. This is evident from the signification of "right hand," as being, in reference to the Lord, life from Him... "to touch with the hand" signifies to communicate and transfer to another what pertains to oneself, and also to receive from another. To communicate and transfer to another what pertains to oneself, in reference to the Lord, as here, is to communicate and transfer life such as those have who are in a state of illumination and who see and hear such things as are in heaven.' "To touch with the hand" is to communicate and transfer to another, because the whole power of man is transferred from the body into the hands; consequently what the mind wills that the body should do, that the arms and hands do. (Apocalypse Explained #79) | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Greater Than Others?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 08, 2010
| By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Where There's A Will
Doctrinal Class - August 04, 2010
Handout: References available | By Rev. Philip B. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood Village
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Should We Be Tithing ?
Panel Discussion - July 31, 2010
| By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger; Rev. Nathan Cole | Jacob's Creek
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Letting the Lord Be In Charge
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - July 18, 2010
Rev. Jeremy Simons is also on the chancel. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Man Called Melchizedek
Worship Service: Children & Adult - July 11, 2010
The King of Salem and Priest to God Most High (Gen. 14:18; John 6:35; Arcana Coelestia 1728) "And Melchizedek, King of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, and he was priest to God Most High." (Genesis 14:18) "It is the Lord who governs all things in the universe, in general and in particular, as King by Divine Truth, and as Priest by Divine Good. . . . This was what Melchizedek represented as King of Salem and as Priest of the Most High God." (Heavenly Secrets #1728) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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A Harmony of Many
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 04, 2010
| By Rev. James H. Barry | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Ark of the Covenant - Lost and Found
Worship Service: Children & Adult - June 27, 2010
Holding and preserving the Lord's truth I Samuel 4:1 - 7:1, parts; AR 529 Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. (Rev. 11:19) This symbolizes the New Heaven, in which the Lord is worshiped in His Divine Humanity, and where people live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, which constitute the two essential elements of the New Church that are the means of conjunction. The temple of God symbolizes the Lord in His Divine Humanity in heaven where angels dwell. The ark in the temple means the Ten Commandments, for the ark had as its sole contents the two tables on which the Ten Commandments were written. The temple's being opened means, symbolically, that these two, the Divine Humanity and the Ten Commandments, which are the two essential elements of the New Church, are now visible. The ark is called the ark of His covenant in His temple because a covenant symbolizes conjunction. (Apocalypse Revealed #529) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Balancing Work And Leisure
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 27, 2010
| By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, CO
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Community and Country
Worship Service: Informal Family - June 27, 2010
| By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Staff of Power - Why the physical matters
Worship Service: Children & Adult - June 13, 2010
Exodus 4:1-5; Luke 24:36-43; Arcana Coelestia 6954 A person who is aided by the Lord looks upwards towards heaven and the Lord. The more internal parts are raised, and so too are the sensory parts raised. When this happens, goodness and truth flow in from the Lord and are received. (Heavenly Secrets #6954) | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Ivyland New Church, PA
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More Wheat, Less Weeding - Removing evil in life without destroying the good
Worship Service: Children & Adult - June 06, 2010
Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43; TCR 653 He that puts away the evils of his will, by repentance, is like one who in due time plucks up the tares sewn in his field by the devil, so that the seed implanted by the Lord God the Savior finds a clear soil and grows to a harvest. (True Christian Religion #532) | By Rev. Todd J. Beiswenger | Ivyland New Church, PA
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