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Being Content With Our Daily Bread
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 31, 2016
This morning we have a guest preacher: The Reverend Grant Odhner. Grant was once the Pastor of this congregation. He is currently teaching at the Theological School in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Grant will be preaching on the subject of being content with our daily bread. He will be reading the story of Jehovah proving the Children of Israel with manna from heaven. | By Rev. Grant H. Odhner | West Concord, MA
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You Must be Born Anew
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 17, 2016
Is it possible to really change? At the beginning of the year, it's a question we may find ourselves asking. The startling answer from the Lord's Word: both yes and no. According to the Word, we have two "selves" or "wills" at the same time: a fleshly one, and a spiritual one. The fleshly will doesn't change and will always be fleshly, but the good news is that we can choose to act from the spiritual one instead - if we put the fleshly one to death. How do we do that? Listen on! | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Our Whole Life is in Each Single Affection
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 10, 2016
This message considers the Parable of the Wedding Feast. In the internal or spiritual sense it is a story of how parts of us might currently want to reject the Lord's invitation while other parts of us readily accept it and want to be joined with Him in His kingdom. These different aspects of the person we are inside are found in every affection that we feel. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Seeing Patterns by Eric Carswell
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 10, 2016
This Sunday we will be hearing a sermon by Eric Carswell called “Seeing Patterns.” It takes a funny and not very well-known story from the Old Testament and uses it to explore how we can come to see negative patterns in our lives, even when we don’t particularly want to. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Four Reasons New Year's Resolutions Fail
Worship Service: Childrens Talk only - January 03, 2016
Four Reasons we fail to live out our New Year's Resolutions and other life changes are: making resolutions we don't want to keep, not being willing to suffer self compulsion, not bringing the Lord into the process, failing to fail successfully. If we want to stick to a life change we have to work through these challenges: know that part of us doesn't want to change and that we are going to have to do it anyway, ask the Lord for help, and don't let failure discourage us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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The Paths of Life
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 03, 2016
"You will show me the path of life." (Psalm 16:11) | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Human Blind Spots
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 29, 2015
This message looks at how we might have "blind spots" when it comes to our attitudes and the things that do, that might interfere with our relationships with others and perhaps even with our spiritual progress. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Contempt or Rebellion on the way to Maturity
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 22, 2015
"And Hagar saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was despised in her eyes." (Genesis 16:4) When young people begin to develop the power of reason it is often used to find fault with others. Why do our rational powers develop at first in a rather negative way? It is part of God's plan to lead to true intelligence. Closing prayer by Rev. EH Carswell. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Living Gratefully Part 4: The Gift of Love
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 25, 2015
Part 4 of the "Living Gratefully" series. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Austin, TX
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Money 1-What Does Money Mean to You and About You
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 18, 2015
We spend a lot of our time and energy on money. Earning it, saving it, budgeting it, arguing about how to spend it, worrying about having enough of it. It’s easy to get bogged down by it all. We need a higher perspective on money to help us figure out what to do. It’s not as simple as money is all bad or money is all good. Let’s see if we can learn from the Lord how to think about and handle money. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Living Gratefully Part 3: The Gift of Change
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 18, 2015
In this episode we discuss the process of repentance, and how it may feel difficult, but it is actually a gift from the Lord. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Austin, TX
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Longing For Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 11, 2015
When we're desperate for an answer from the Lord--when we're desperate to make sense of something or to find a way forward--sometimes then the Lord seems most absent. It feels like we're desperately thirsty in a wilderness with no water anywhere in sight. This Sunday is a lay service and the sermon being read is by the Rev. Brian Keith and it has some great insights about how to turn to the Lord for guidance in the right way. | By Rt. Rev. Brian W. Keith | Westville, RSA
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Spiritual Seasons
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 04, 2015
Just like there are seasons in this world, there are seasons to our spiritual life. We can know that hard times will come and that in hard times, better times are coming back. But most important, the Lord Jesus Christ leads us through them to a happier state. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Waiting For the Harvest
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 04, 2015
Have you discovered some motivations in yourself that are not so good--in fact that are ugly and hellish? What should you do about that? This Sunday I'll be reading a sermon by the Rev. Brian Smith about the parable of wheat and the tares and what we can learn from it about how and when evil can be removed from our lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Living Gratefully Part 1: Gratitude and Happiness
Worship Service: Children & Adult - October 04, 2015
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Austin, TX
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Naaman's Leprosy
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 27, 2015
When the great commander Naaman came to Israel to be cured of his leprosy by the prophet Elisha, he expected a big visible miracle. Instead, Elisha told him to simply wash in the Jordan River seven times and he would be clean. We can want spiritual healing to be big and instantaneous; but the reality is, spiritual healing usually happens in small, boring everyday things. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Introduction to "Living Gratefully"
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 27, 2015
Introduction to the Journey Campaign "Living Gratefully" | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Austin, TX
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Good News - He Is Risen
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 20, 2015
The Lord God Jesus Christ who is Jehovah can help you. He is able to lead you through a process to a new life, a new resurrection of life which can heal your very character. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - Sacrifice
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 13, 2015
The Lord sacrificed His life to bring us closer to the Divine. The details of His death demonstrates the ways people can separate truth from love, humanity from divinity. To follow the Lord and not deny, we have to take an affirmative attitude toward Scripture and ask “How is it true?” rather than “Is it true?” | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Dealing with Spiritual Cravings
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 06, 2015
New Church teaching tells us that the cravings the Israelites experienced were normal and reasonable, just like we ourselves have felt, but the inner meaning of the story describes desires that rise up in us that are not reasonable and which cause us and others grief (AC 999) | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Demons We Face Along the Way
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 30, 2015
This message reflects on how we all have demons that we need to fight, and how the Lord with His love and power is always there to fight those demons and take them away from us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Weakness and Strength Part 3: After the Battle
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 23, 2015
The Gideon story unfortunately doesn’t end with the glorious victory over the Midianites. There’s some confusing, brutal conflict with other Israelites; there’s an execution of two Midianite kings; and then there’s an idol that Gideon makes that people start worshipping. It’s not the kind of story that we like to read and yet, if we want to gain an accurate picture of what is involved in living a spiritual life, it’s important to also look at the uncomfortable reality of what can happen after the times of strength and victory. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Weakness and Strength Part 2 “ The Rout of Midian
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 16, 2015
In part 2 of our series on Gideon we get to explore the story of his victory over the Midianites - a battle in which his men were outnumbered 450 to 1. What can we learn from how the Lord orchestrated this miraculous victory about how He can orchestrate a similar victory in our inner landscape over the enemies that seem to vastly outnumber us? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Finding a New Innocence
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 02, 2015
This message is for those who feel like their innocence has been lost. The Lord offers His reassurance that He is gently leading you into a new type of innocence, which is angelic innocence. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Being Healed of Our Spiritual Blindness
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 26, 2015
The story behind the song Amazing Grace is used as an illustration of the way in which the Lord gradually changes us. If we allow Him to, He takes out of a condition of spiritual blindness and brings us into spiritual sight. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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