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The Christmas Season
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - November 26, 2006
Rev. Jeremy Simons also on chancel | By Rev. N. Bruce Rogers | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Spheres Around Us
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 26, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Donald L. Rose | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Crying In The Wilderness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 26, 2006
| By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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How to Prepare for the Holiday Pandemonium
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 26, 2006
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness; Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God." (Isaiah 40:3) Too often, we allow the "holiday season" overwhelm us. What starts out with happy anticipation of joyful gatherings and peaceful worship, instead ends up covered with anxious shopping and distracting office parties. This is not to say that gifts and office parties are bad, but our culture allows the evil spirits to push us into thinking more about the correct celebration of Christmans than about what is being celebrated. I call this "Holiday Pandemonium," the craziness that distracts us from what we really would rather be doing, enjoying friends and family and the peaceful holiness that surrounds us. "Pandemonium" has taken on the meaning of "wild, lawless confusion" but originally was the name John Milton used in Paradise Lost for the capital city of hell (from the Greek "Pan-" meaning "all" and the Latin "demonium" meaning "evil spirit"). Both of these senses are meant in "Holiday Pandemonium". How do we prepare ourselves for the Holiday Pandemonium so that we might avoid the chaos and anxiety as much as possible? The prophecy in Isaiah, repeated in the New Testament, tells us to prepare the way of the Lord, or more literally, to "sweep" the path of the Lord. We start the beginning work of repentance by reading the Word and thinking about our lives and what we really want. By doing the preparation work ahead of time, before the Pandemonium sets in, we allow the Lord ino our lives in ways that, though unseen, are powerful. It is like a baptism before the work of regeneration takes place. To see that this is true, read Isaiah 40:1-8, John 1:19-27, and True Christian Religion 531, then listen to the full audio version of today's sermon, and then try putting it into practice. This Christams season sermon is archived at www.PittsburghNewChurch.org and is available as a free podcast at the Apple iTunes store. | By Rev. R. Amos Glenn | Pittsburgh, PA
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A Child Shall Lead Them
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 26, 2006
CD Tracks: 1-Children Talk 12:05 2-Music 5:34 3-Lessons 3:55 4-Music 2:11 5-Sermon 22:43 | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, CO
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Fire and Water
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 26, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Society Building
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Preparing for Holiday Pandemonium
Worship Service: Chapel Talk - November 26, 2006
| By Rev. R. Amos Glenn | Pittsburgh, PA
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What We're Thankful For: Forgiveness
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 26, 2006
An exploration of the connection between "giving thanks" and forgiveness of sin. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PA
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The Consequences of Evil
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 26, 2006
Sunday Worship | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Boston, MA
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The Consequences of Evil
Worship Service: Childrens Talk only - November 26, 2006
Sunday Worship - Children's Talk | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Boston, MA
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The Consequences of Evil
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 26, 2006
Sunday Worship - Sermon | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Boston, MA
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Praise the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 26, 2006
CD Tracks: 1-Lessons 6:48 2-Interlude 1:34 3-Sermon 15:04 | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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The Promise of Hope
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 26, 2006
| By Rev. Glenn G. Alden | Tucson, AZ
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Thanksgiving Family Service
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 23, 2006
| By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Thanksgiving Seeds
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 23, 2006
CD Tracks: 1-Horn Prelude & Hymn 10:52 2-Office: JF Simons 5:07 3-Lessons & Hymn: TL Kline 5:23 4-Address: TL Kline 9:57 5-Close: JF Simons 12:32 | By Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline; Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Field House
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"With Thankful Hearts"
Full Festival Service - November 23, 2006
Thanksgiving Festival Service. (November 23rd, 2006) Family Talk. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PA
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Thanksgiving Service
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 19, 2006
| By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Boston, MA
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The New Covenant
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 19, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The New Covenant
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - November 19, 2006
Rt. Rev. Thomas Kline also on the Chancel | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Rey W. Cooper
Memorial Service - November 19, 2006
| By Rev. Donald L. Rose | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Why Are the Ten Commandments So Negative?
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 19, 2006
"From these considerations it is clearly manifest that so far as a man shuns evils, so far is he with the Lord and in the Lord; and so far as he is in the Lord, so far he does good, not from himself but from the Lord. Hence results this general law: SO FAR AS ANY ONE SHUNS EVILS, SO FAR HE DOES WHAT IS GOOD. "(Doctrine of Life 21) When we turn away from hell, which way are we facing? We often think of the Ten Commandments as a list of "Thou Shalt Not"s - the Lord telling us, like parents tell their children, all the things they are not allowed to do. But as we have learned over the past weeks, the Ten Commandments are not about limiting our freedom or making us suffer. So why are they so negative? The Doctrine of Life, which is drawn directly from the Ten Commandments, teaches that everyone in this world is suspended between heaven above and hell below. We are kept this way so we can freely choose which direction we want to turn. By birth we would naturally turn towards hell, but the Lord maintains our freedom and equilibrium and then educates us on how to turn towards heaven. We would assume that we would therefore be taught about how to do good. But in the 10 Commandments, we're not taught how to do good, but how to not do evil. Why? Good and evil are opposites and destroy each other when they meet. Since we are born with an inclination to evil, we cannot do good right away because the evil within us would destroy it. So our first job is to get rid of the evil. And as we shun those evils as sins, the Lord replaces them with good. We cannot do good without first shunning evil. The amazing result is turning toward heaven, not because we are choosing to turn towards heaven, but because we are turning away from hell. If we choose to not look down at the ground, we can't help but look at the sky. Obeying the Ten Commandments by shunning evils as sins against the Lord is the surest way to reach heaven. To see that this is true, first read Doctrine of Life 53, Isaiah 1:10-20, and Doctrine of Life 18-21, then listen to the full audio version of this sermon, and, finally, try practicing it for a week. This is the tenth and final sermon in our Journey series, celebrating the Ten Commandments. It is archived at www.PittsburghNewChurch.org. | By Rev. R. Amos Glenn | Pittsburgh, PA
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Thankful for the Commandments
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 19, 2006
Summary of a series on the Ten Commandments | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Tenth Commandment
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 19, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Society Building
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Rise Above It - Week Ten - "All Ten For All Time"
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 19, 2006
The Last Sermon in our series on the Commandments is a commissioning - to live a new life from a new perspective. Jesus said: "If you want to enter into life, keep My Commandments." | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PA
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