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What Life After Death Can Teach Us About Life Right Now
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 03, 2023
There are a lot of things to think about, care about, and stress about in this world. When someone dies it reminds us of how short life in this world can be and it can shift our perspective on what matters. We are blessed with many teachings about what life after death will be like; what can we learn from those teachings about what matters in our lives right now? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 06, 2023
A number of the enemies that the children of Israel encountered on their way to the promised land were their cousins, other descendants from the same family tree. And so, the children of Israel were forbidden to destroy these enemies or to take their land. And yet they were also forbidden to intermarry with them. This Sunday, as we learn more about the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, we will be trying to learn how to have the right kind of boundaries and relationships in our lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 06, 2023
A number of the enemies that the children of Israel encountered on their way to the promised land were their cousins, other descendants from the same family tree. And so, the children of Israel were forbidden to destroy these enemies or to take their land. And yet they were also forbidden to intermarry with them. This Sunday, as we learn more about the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, we will be trying to learn how to have the right kind of boundaries and relationships in our lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Amalekites
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 02, 2023
We’re getting back to our ongoing series on knowing our spiritual enemies by considering the Amalekites. The Amalekites were a nasty enemy—one that would attack the children of Israel when they were at their weakest—and so, multiple times, the children of Israel were commanded to utterly destroy the Amalekites. We will look at a few different battles with the Amalekites to try to understand how to guard ourselves against this enemy and to appreciate just how much the Lord has done and continues to do to protect us. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Amalekites
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 02, 2023
We’re getting back to our ongoing series on knowing our spiritual enemies by considering the Amalekites. The Amalekites were a nasty enemy—one that would attack the children of Israel when they were at their weakest—and so, multiple times, the children of Israel were commanded to utterly destroy the Amalekites. We will look at a few different battles with the Amalekites to try to understand how to guard ourselves against this enemy and to appreciate just how much the Lord has done and continues to do to protect us. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Two Gateways to Eternal Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 04, 2023
The teachings of the New Church call baptism and Holy Supper two gateways to eternal life. Last Sunday we got to witness a baptism; this Sunday we get to have Holy Supper. This may be the first time a number of children will be witnessing Holy Supper and so the short family talk for this service will be a basic overview of the use and purpose of Holy Supper. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Lord Wants to Have Supper with You
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 04, 2023
When considering whether to take Holy Supper, we are often focused on whether we feel worthy to take it. This Sunday the short sermon will focus on what the Lord would like. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Gathered, One by One
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 21, 2023
At our first Community Worship Service in September of last year we talked about gathering. This Sunday, at our last Community Worship Service of this school/fiscal year, we will again be talking about gathering—this time with a focus on the individual work that we need to do in order to be gathered by the Lord and the role we can play in helping the Lord to gather other people, one by one. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Egyptians
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 30, 2023
We’re continuing a series on knowing our spiritual enemies. This Sunday we’re going to focus on the Egyptians. The people in the Word have a long history with the Egyptians, starting back with Abram in the book of Genesis. To try to get a good understanding of what the Egyptians might mean in our lives we’re going to look at a number of different stories about the Egyptians from across the Word. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Egyptians
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 30, 2023
We’re continuing a series on knowing our spiritual enemies. This Sunday we’re going to focus on the Egyptians. The people in the Word have a long history with the Egyptians, starting back with Abram in the book of Genesis. To try to get a good understanding of what the Egyptians might mean in our lives we’re going to look at a number of different stories about the Egyptians from across the Word. (To find all sermons in this series, scroll down to "Know Your Spiritual Enemies" in the GROUP search field.) | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Be still, and know that I am God
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 23, 2023
This beloved and powerful verse from the Lord’s Word becomes all the more powerful when we read it in the context of the tumultuous psalm (Psalm 46) in which we find it. This Sunday we’ll reflect on the symbolism of breaking and unstringing bows and on how the Lord can bring us peace, even in the midst of stressful circumstances. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: Overview
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 26, 2023
The Children of Israel were attacked by Philistines, Syrians, Assyrians, Canaanites, Perizites, and many other enemies at different times in their history. The Lord tells us that each of these different enemies has a specific meaning and the Lord can help us to understand them and be ready for their attacks. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: Overview
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 26, 2023
The Children of Israel were attacked by many different enemies over the course of their history and those enemies represent different spiritual challenges that we have to deal with in our lives. This Sunday will be the first in a non-sequential series of sermons in which we will seek to better understand these enemies so that, with the Lord’s help, we can be better ready to meet their attacks when they come. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Although a Fool
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 05, 2023
We are all foolish in different ways. Can we learn to recognize the ways in which we might be foolish and let the Lord lead us forward, despite our foolishness? (Isaiah 35:8) Note: This recording has audio quality issues | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Foolishness
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 05, 2023
The Lord’s Word has a lot to say about foolishness. We will be looking at a number of different stories and passages about foolishness and trying to learn what is foolish, from the Lord’s perspective. We will also be trying to understand how the Lord can still lead us forward, despite our foolishness. (Isaiah 35:8) | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Anticipating Easter
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 19, 2023
(Community Service) Certain traditions are already part of the cycle of our year — we remember to be grateful around Thanksgiving in November, we have a variety of different things we do leading up to Christmas, we have a pageant and picnic for New Church Day in June. But what about February and March? Easter arrives sometime in March or April (depending on the year) but we don’t tend to anticipate and prepare for it in nearly the same way. Let’s talk about how the time leading up to Easter could become an equally powerful and significant part of the cycle of our year. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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"First Be Reconciled to Your Brother...."
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 29, 2023
Coming to church is about our relationship with the Lord but it is also a time to think about how our relationships with other people are going. Sometimes we will come to the uncomfortable realization that, to really be ready to worship the Lord, we need to work on being reconciled with other people first. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Worship and Reconciliation
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 29, 2023
It’s easy to think of our relationship with the Lord as something distinct from our relationship with other people and so we can think of coming to church as just a time for connecting with our God. Worship, however, is also about our relationship with other people and a number of teachings from the Lord’s Word indicate that we should also use coming to church as a time to check if we are holding anything against other people and then work towards reconciliation. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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When We Don’t Understand the Word
Worship Service: Informal Family - January 15, 2023
Maybe you started reading the Lord’s Word again in this new year or maybe you’ve been in the habit for years. It’s great when you feel like you’re understanding the Word and getting something out of it, but what do you do when you don’t understand the Word? Let’s talk this Sunday about how much we should expect to understand the Lord’s Word and how we can still benefit from reading the Word, even when we don’t feel like we’re understanding very much. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Why Joseph is Important
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 18, 2022
| By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Role of Joseph and Our Prudence
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 18, 2022
| By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Seeing Providence: Old Age
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 20, 2022
| By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Seeing Providence: Old Age
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 20, 2022
| By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Seeing Providence: The Early Years
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 06, 2022
In week 2 of our Journey program, “Seeing Providence,” we will be focusing on the early years of our lives. We will reflect on the dangers and the blessings of the early years of Moses’ life and try to see some glimpses of the Lord’s providence in the dangers and blessings of the early years of our own lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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