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Building Our Faith
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 07, 2010
| By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, CO
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Priestly Leadership
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 07, 2010
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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How To Be Free
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 07, 2010
A three-part series. (3 CD set) | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Worship Service: Children & Adult - March 07, 2010
The Lord always finds us. Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." (Matthew 12:40) "There is joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, more than over ninety and nine just people who need no repentance." (Luke 15:7) Because ten signifies all and much, that number is therefore used by the Lord in [many] passages, where all and much is to be understood, as of the woman having ten pieces of silver (drachmas); if she lost one piece, would she not light a candle and sweep the house, and seek carefully till she found it? (Luke 15:8). Ten here signifies much. This is said of a woman, and of her lighting a candle, and sweeping the house, on account of the spiritual sense in every detail of the Word. In that sense woman signifies the church as to the affection for truth, thus also, affection for the truth which pertains to the church. A piece of silver (drachma) signifies truth, and losing the piece of silver signifies to lose one of the truths or of the cognitions of truth. Lighting a candle signifies self-examination from affection; sweeping the house signifies to go over the whole mind, and to examine everything therein, where the truth lies hidden. Such is the spiritual sense of these words. A hundred, like ten, signifies much; therefore a similar parable speaks of a hundred sheep, if one were lost (Matt. 18:12-13; Luke 15:3-7) (Apocalypse Explained #675) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Strength In Affirming The Word
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 07, 2010
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Translation
Doctrinal Class - March 03, 2010
Why is a good translation of Swedenborg's Writings is important? | By Rev. N. Bruce Rogers | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood Village
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Being Close to the Lord and Others
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 28, 2010
| By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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The New Covenant
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 28, 2010
February 28, 2010 Sermon | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MA
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Making Amends
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 28, 2010
Rev. Jeremy Simons is also on the chancel and gives the closing prayer. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Taking Responsibility
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - February 28, 2010
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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A Place for Every Stone
Worship Service: Informal Family - February 28, 2010
| By Rev. James H. Barry | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Having Our Eyes Opened
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 28, 2010
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Boulder, CO
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The Bronze Serpent
Worship Service: Children & Adult - February 28, 2010
The Lord heals all of our spiritual infirmities. With the most ancient people, who were celestial, a serpent meant being completely watchful, and so also meant their sensory perception by means of which they were to show vigilance to avoid being harmed by the evil. This is clear from the Lord's words to His disciples, Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and harmless as doves. (Matthew 10:16) And also "the bronze serpent" which was raised up in the wilderness and which meant the Lord's Sensory Perception. He alone is Celestial Man, and He alone is completely watchful and provides for everybody. Whoever beheld it therefore was delivered. (Heavenly Secrets #197) The Lord's natural Divinity was symbolized by the bronze serpent that Moses was commanded to set up in the wilderness, so that all who had been bitten by serpents were healed by looking at it (Numbers 21:6, 8, 9). That this symbolized the Lord's natural Divinity, and that those people are saved who look to it, the Lord Himself teaches in John: As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14, 15) The serpent was made of bronze because bronze, like fine brass, symbolizes the natural self in respect to good. (Apocalypse Revealed #49) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The First Miracle: Water to Wine
Worship Service: Chapel Talk - February 26, 2010
| By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Benade Hall
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Christianity: An Inside-Out Religion
Worship Service: Chapel Talk - February 25, 2010
| By Martie Johnson | Bryn Athyn Benade Hall
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Patience and Prayer
Worship Service: Chapel Talk - February 24, 2010
| By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Bryn Athyn Benade Hall
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The Ten Bridesmaids
Worship Service: Chapel Talk - February 23, 2010
| By Rev. Nathan Cole | Bryn Athyn Benade Hall
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Witnesses of Life
Worship Service: Chapel Talk - February 22, 2010
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Benade Hall
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Rise, Take Up Your Bed and Walk
Worship Service: Children & Adult - February 21, 2010
Living our lives according to our faith Readings John 5:8-14;Mark 2:4-12; Apocalypse Explained 163 Faith that is separate from charity can be likened to the paralysis of one side of the body, or hemiplegia. (True Christian Religion 367) In John: Jesus said to the sick man at pool of Bethsaida, "Rise, take up your bed and walk" And straightaway, the man was made whole, took up his bed and walked. Afterward, Jesus found him, and said to him, "Behold you are made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you." (John 5:8-14) And, in Mark: They uncovered the roof where Jesus was, and they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. Jesus said,"Which is it easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise, and take up your bed and walk?' Then, He said, "Rise, take up your bed and walk and go to your house." And immediately he rose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all. (Mark 2:4-12) The Lord saying to these sick, "Rise, take up your bed and walk" signifies doctrine, and a life according to doctrine; "signifies doctrine, and "to walk" signifies life. "The sick man" signifies those who have transgressed and sinned; consequently the Lord said to the sick man at the pool of Bethsaida, "Behold you are made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you" and to the paralytic let down on a bed through the roof, "Which is it easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you' or to say, 'Rise, and take up your bed and walk?' Those who know nothing of the internal sense of the Word may believe that the words that the Lord spoke involve nothing more than what is obvious in the sense of the letter, when yet every particular of what the Lord spoke has a spiritual meaning, for He spoke from the Divine and thus in the presence both of heaven and of the world. (AE 163) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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33 Years and How They Changed the World
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - February 21, 2010
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Kline is also on the chancel. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Nadine Synnestvedt
Memorial Service - February 21, 2010
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Angels with the Lord
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - February 21, 2010
| By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Community
Worship Service: Informal Family - February 21, 2010
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
See Event (43m 36s)