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CD Tracks: 1-Children Talk 9:38 2-Music 3:13 3-Renewal of Marriage Vows 10:01 4-Music 4:25 5-Lessons & Sermon 34:25 6-Music 6:32 | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, CO

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The First Commandment

Worship Service: Informal Family - September 17, 2006

CD Single Track | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn Society Building

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How to Worship the Lord Only: The First Commandment

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 17, 2006

Rise Above It: The First Commandment "'You shall have no other gods before Me.'" (Exodus 20:3) In our basically monotheistic culture, we often dismiss commandment number one as finished. We never go to satanic rituals, we never bow down to a golden statue, and we don't burn incense to icons in our homes. Congratulations! This is a success not to be disregarded, but it is obeying the first commandment in only its most natural and external form. This may have been enough for the Children of Israel, but the Lord wants us to be more spiritual. Through the New Testament and the Writings for the New Church, the Lord teaches us about internal and spiritual ways of understanding and obeying His law. In its spiritual meaning, the Lord is teaching us to worship Him in His Divine Human only, the Lord Jesus Christ. Further, we learn that true worship does not consist solely in standing and kneeling, saying prayers and singing songs. True worship of the Lord is living according to the true ideas that you have learned from the Lord's Word. It is in life that genuine worship exists. Anything that prevents you from living what you know to be true is also an idol. Evil spirits are skilled at distracting us away from thinking about the place of the Lord in our lives. They want us to pay attention to, and live our lives in dedication to, anything other than the Lord. Drugs, money, and sex are the easy ones to see, partly because they can be so spectacularly destructive. More difficult to identify in our own lives are the subtly destructive things like anger, pride, revenge, control, reputation, and cynicism. These can be idols that we do not wish to abandon as we learn to worship the Lord Jesus Christ with all our hearts, minds, and strength. This is the first commandment and it is the center of all religion. The acknowledgement of the Lord Jesus Christ as the one God of heaven and earth, Creator and Redeemer, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the essential feature of the life of religion. It is because of this acknowledgement, and only because of this, that the rest of religion contains anything of genuine life. "Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Revelation 19:10) To see that this is true, read Exodus 20:1-6, Revelation 19:6-10, and True Christian Religion 294, 295, 296:1. Full text available at http://www.PittsburghNewChurch.org/ | By Rev. R. Amos Glenn | Pittsburgh, PA

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I Am The LORD Your God

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 17, 2006

Sermon on the 1st Commandment - 1st in series of 10 | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA

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One True God

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 17, 2006

First in the Ten Commandments (Rise Above It) series | By Rev. Glenn G. Alden | Tucson, AZ

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Rise Above It: Week One - "The God We Worship"

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 16, 2006

Moses raising the Brass Serpent illustrates something very important for us to understand about our own relationship to the one true God. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PA

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Where Holiness Resides

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 10, 2006

| By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Boston, MA

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The Ten Commandments

Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 10, 2006

CD Single Track | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral

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The Ten Commandments

Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - September 10, 2006

Rev. Grant Schnarr also on chancel | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral

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At the Top of the Mountain

Worship Service: Informal Family - September 10, 2006

CD Single Track | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Society Building

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Finding Inner Peace

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 10, 2006

| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Boulder, CO

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A Willingness to be Led by the Lord

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 10, 2006

With those who compel themselves to do what is good: there is a willingness within, and thus a freedom, from which and for the sake of which they compel themselves, that is to say, they do so for the sake of obedience to what the Lord has commanded, and for the sake of the salvation of their souls after death, within which although the person is not aware of it, there is still more interiorly a regard for the Lord's kingdom, and even for the Lord Himself. (Heavenly Secrets #1937) Innocence is a receptacle of all things of heaven, and thus the innocence of little children is a plane for all affections of good and truth. Innocence is a willingness to be led by the Lord and not by oneself. Genuine innocence is wisdom. For so far as anyone is wise he loves to be led by the Lord, or what is the same, so far as anyone is led by the Lord he is wise. Therefore little children are led from the external innocence in which they are at the beginning, and which is called the innocence of infancy, to internal innocence, which is the innocence of wisdom. (Heaven and Hell #341) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA

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Feeding the Flock

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 10, 2006

CD Single Track | By Rev. R. Amos Glenn | Pittsburgh, PA

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Invest the Spiritual Wealth the Lord Has Loaned You

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 10, 2006

A sermon on The Parable of the Talents. The truths of our faith are valuable, and the more of them we have, the more spiritually wealthy we are. But the truths do not belong to us, for they are on loan from the Lord. Using "The Parable of the Talents", the Lord has taught us that He expects us to invest this spiritual wealth for the sake of the world. If we accumulate truth without putting our faith to work in the world, it is as if we are burying the Lord's wealth in a hole in the ground. If we are good stewards over the Lord's riches and practice what He teaches, we will enter into the joy of heaven. To see that this is so, listen to the sermon after reading Matthew 25:14-30 and Secrets of Heaven 5291:4. Full text available at http://TheoBlog.com/ | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Erie, PA

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How Does a Good Pastor Feed the Lord's Flock?

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 10, 2006

"The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them." (Ezekiel 34:4) The Lord gives a sort of job description to His New Church priests in Arcana Caelestia 10794 when He says that... "It is their duty to teachpeople the way to heaven and also to guide them. They must instruct them in the teachings of their Church and guide them to lead lives in keeping with those teachings. Priests who teach truths and guide people by means of them to goodness of lifeand so to the Lord are good shepherds; but those who teach yet do not guide people to goodness of life and so to the Lord are bad shepherds." In Latin, the language the Writings for the New Church were written in, the same word is used for "pastor" and "shepherd". To be a good pastor, then, requires that a priest teach the truths of the Church, not what he believes to be true. But that's not all. These truths are to be taught in such a way that those learning the truths are led to the goodness of life, like sheep are led to green pastures and clear water. Just telling the sheep that there is such a thing as green pastures and clear water is not enough to be a good pastor. As the Lord said in Ezekiel, "The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who are sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost" (34:4). A pastor doing his job justly, faithfully, and sincerely, will be doing all of these things. Why do you care what the pastor's job is? There may be many reasons, but one of the biggest is so that you recognize what your pastor's goals for the congregation are. Pastors are in unique positions to see the weak, sick, broken, driven away, and lost in the congregation. And it is the goal of a good pastor to strengthen, heal, bind, bring back, and seek, both individuals in his congregation and for the congregation as a whole. And he does this by teaching the truths of the church and leading by them to the goodness oflife. A good shepherd cannot lead "with force and cruelty" but can only suggest, encourage, and challenge. And then get out of the way! People have a direct connection with the Lord, not one through the pastor. The Lord is the door of the sheepfold through which both pastor and congregation must pass. In the church community of the Pittsburgh New Church, I hear about and see many examples of people who are feeling weak or sick or broken. And I try to bring them the strengthening, healing, binding leaves of the tree which are the Lord's truths. But most of all, I see and talk with people who are feeling distant and separated, people who feel like the sheep are wandering away from each other, or are being driven away from the flock. And this issomething that is not best addressed on an individual level. Instead, it is the pastor's responsibility to teach the whole church community about what holds a community together like a flock, and then to use those teachings to guide the whole into re-strengthening the ties that bind them together. Remember what the bishops told the priests in Conjugial Love: church communities are bound together and filled with goodness by working on bringing forth the fruits of love, that is, doing the Lord's truth. Working as a community to bring the Lord's truths into your individual lives is how congregations are really made because then people are performing a common use: helping each other find the green pastures and the clear waters where they will no longer be prey but will dwell together in security and peace. To see that this is true, read John 10:1-6, Ezekiel 34, and Conjugial Love 9. Archived at http://www.PittsburghNewChurch.org/ | By Rev. R. Amos Glenn | Pittsburgh, PA

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Pray Always

Worship Service: Sermon only - September 10, 2006

CD Tracks: 1-Lessons 5:33 2-Interlude 1:36 3-Sermon 15:46 | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL

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The Sequence of the Writings

Doctrinal Class - September 09, 2006

Doctrinal Class - why were the Writings written the way they were? | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | Boston, MA

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Promising New Life

Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - September 09, 2006

What Jesus meant when He called the Holy Supper a "New Covenant." Exploring the "new promise" the Lord makes with each of us and we return, in love, to Him. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PA

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Harry and Mary Learn the Ten Commandments

Childrens Story - September 07, 2006

Eight children's stories and poems based on the Ten Commandments. CD Tracks: No Other Gods, Lord's Name in Vain, Remember the Sabbath, Honor Your Father and Mother, Do Not Kill, Do Not Hurt Marriage, Do Not Steal and Do Not Lie, Do Not Covet, Conclusion | By Sasha Silverman | Bryn Athyn Cairncrest

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