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Worship Service: Sermon only - July 29, 2007
CD Single track | By Rev. Daniel W. Heinrichs | Boynton Beach, FLNothing Left On Earth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 29, 2007
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Boulder, COWhy Are We Here?
Worship Service: Children & Adult - July 29, 2007
Childen's talk is given by the Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline. | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PAPart 3-Be the Church: Serve Humanity
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 29, 2007
This is part three of our summer series, "Be the Church"Âť. In part one ("Connect with the Lord") we reviewed the seven basic components of a life in the church. Then last week, in part two ("Love One Another"), we discussed what it meant to be the church to one another as part of the communion of saints. This week, in part three, "Serve Humanity"Âť, are are going to talk about doing good deeds as a church. Good works are not optional. Which good works we do, and how and when we do them, are left to us to decide. But the Lord does not want people in this world to suffer and it is our obligation as his church to do something to make the world better. We start by shunning evils and performing our daily occupations, and also by being good citizens and good spouses and parents. But the Lord asks more of us. The world is full of natural as well as spiritual suffering, and we are not meant to ignore either. When doing good works, it is important that we do them justly and from good judgment. Indiscriminately giving money to anyone who asks for it, for instance, may do as much harm as good. At the same time it is a mistake to let our fears of doing the "wrong" good deed stop us from ever attempting good works at all. So long as we try to use our best judgement, and try to do it out of the kindness of our hearts and not merely with the hope of some reward, the Lord will bless us and lead us to become ever better at it. Now, natural charity is meant to be a foundation for spiritual charity, so in two weeks we will have part four, "Proclaim the Good News"Âť. To see the truth of this message and to learn how to apply it to your life, read Matthew 25:34-40 and True Christian Religion 459:13-17, then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here, and then try out what you learn in your life. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (www.PittsburghNewChurch), where it was preached, TheoBlog.com, the New Church (www.NewChurch.org), and for free at the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PAEscape From Danger
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 29, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Donald L. Rose | Bryn Athyn CathedralSpiritual Life and Death
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 29, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Grant H. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallPart 2-Be the Church: Love One Another
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 22, 2007
In part one of our series, we reviewed our individual responsibilities to the Lord as citizens of his kingdom on earth, the Church. They are to live a life of piety (praying, reading the Word, and worshiping the Lord) and a life of charity (repenting, shunning evils, and serving other people) so that we may be born again. In Part 2, we are talking about how we can be the church to one another. In The Gospel of John, the Lord tells us, "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."Âť A very powerful and important way we can keep this commandment is by supporting each other in one another's personal spiritual journeys. True Christian Religion teaches that the Church as a person's neighbor provides true teachings and good deeds by which that person enters the Lord's kingdom. If each of us is to be the church, then each of us is responsible for supporting our spiritual brothers and sisters as they try to understand truths and to do good deeds. It is because the church - which is made up of each one of us - helps us in this way that we are to love and honor our spiritual mother the church as one of the highest forms of neighbor. And when we are the church to one another and are loving the church in one another, we form a spiritual community of individuals striving to help one another to become better people. This community the Writings for the New Church call the "communion of saints". But the communion of saints also includes people you have never met. In Part 3, we will look at ways we as a church can be a good neighbor to the rest of the world in "Be the Church, Part 3: Serve Humanity"Âť. To see the truth of this message and to learn how to apply it to your life, read John 13:31-24 and True Christian Religion 145-146, and then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (www.PittsburghNewChurch.org) where it was preached, TheoBlog.com, NewChurch.org, and for free at the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PAMagic and Miracles
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - July 22, 2007
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralMagic and Miracles
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 22, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralPart 2-Dealing With Stress: The Problem With Worry
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 22, 2007
Mp3 not available. This topic was repeated and video taped. Can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6LQTU9sl00&t=38s | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, COThe Fast That I Have Chosen
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 22, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallThe Mountain of the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 22, 2007
| By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PADealing with Anger
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 22, 2007
Learning the meaning of the Lord's words to , "Cease from anger and forsake wrath." What are we supposed to do when anger rises up in us? How do we tell the difference between anger and zeal? | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PATake the Water of Life Freely
Doctrinal Class - July 18, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Erik Sr. Sandstrom | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood VillageThree Paths to the Kingdom
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 15, 2007
| By Rev. Scott I. Frazier | Bryn Athyn CathedralThree Paths to the Kingdom
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 15, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Scott I. Frazier | Bryn Athyn CathedralPart 1-Be the Church: Connect with the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 15, 2007
Welcome to our series, "Don't Just Go to Church, Be the Church!"Âť The church is not the priesthood, nor is it some abstract thing apart from you. The church is simply the group of people who follow the Lord, and you are called to be one of them. For the next several Sundays we will be talking about what it means to be citizens of the Lords' kingdom on earth. In our first part, "Connect with the Lord"Âť, we begin by reviewing what our personal, individual responsibilities to the Lord are. Put briefly, there are seven things the Lord wants us to do: (1) Pray, (2) Read the Word, (3) Worship, (4) Repent, (5) Shun evils, (6) Serve other people, and (7) Regenerate, or be born again. The first three are what are sometimes called the "life of piety", and the next three are called the "life of charity"Âť; the last one is not something we do ourselves, but instead is something the Lord does for us as a result of the other six. To see the truth of this and learn how to apply it to your life, read Luke 17:20-21 and The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 124, 241-245 (included below), and then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (where it was preached), TheoBlog, the New Church, and the Apple iTunes Store. Next week we will begin to talk about our responsibilities to the church in "Be the Church, Part 2: Support One Another". | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PAThe Last Will Be First, and the First Last
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 15, 2007
| By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PAGod of the Mountains and Valleys
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 15, 2007
CD Tracks: 1-Opening Songs 12:39 2-Service 36:39 3-Closing Songs 5:55 | By Rev. Barry C. Halterman | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallHarnessing The Power Of The Lord's Prayer
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 15, 2007
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Boulder, COEnvy or Contentment
Worship Service: Children & Adult - July 15, 2007
CD Tracks: 1-Hymn & Office 6:48 2-Lesson & Children's Talk 15:18 3-Lessons & Interlude 10:16 4-Sermon 14:58 5-Closing 5:26 | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FLMeditation
Doctrinal Class - July 11, 2007
| By Rt. Rev. Louis B. King | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood VillageThe Good of Life
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - July 08, 2007
| By Rev. Dr Erik E. Sandstrom | Bryn Athyn CathedralReceiving an Angelic Face
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 08, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Donald L. Rose | Bryn Athyn CathedralMake Spiritual Victory a Habit
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 08, 2007
Today's message: Leading a good life sometimes seems hard, but if we just make a habit of repenting then the Lord will do all the heavy lifting. To understand and apply this, first read Matthew 11:30, Heaven and Hell 528, Psalm 51, and Heaven and Hell 533, and then listen to the audio of this sermon. It is important to realize, though, that the difficulty of thinking like this and also of resisting evils increases to the extent that we deliberately do evil things - €”in fact, to the extent we become used to doing them until ultimately we no longer see them. Then we come to love them and to excuse them to gratify our love and to rationalize them with all kinds of self-deceptions and call them permissible and good. This happens, though, to people who in early adulthood plunge into all kinds of evil without restraint and at the same time at heart reject everything divine. This sermon was preached at Pittsburgh New Church, and is available at TheoBlog.com, PittsburghNewChurch.org, NewChurch.org, and the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PA