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The Good News of the New Church is that the Lord has come, that he has saved all humanity, and that He can save us as individuals. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Good News, Part 1 - Repentance

Worship Service: Informal Family - August 05, 2018

The good news of the New Church is that we can be different. The Lord offers us the ability to repent and to change if we are willing to let go of who we were to become who we can be. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Kingdoms, Part 2 - Kingdom of Others or Kingdom of the World

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 29, 2018

Love to the neighbor and love of world are opposed to each other. What love rules in us, love of others or the world. These opposing loves will make us rich in heaven or on earth, we can choose which we want to rule in our hearts. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Kingdoms, Part 1 - Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Self

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 22, 2018

Love to the Lord and love of self are opposed to each other. If we enter the kingdom of God, love to the Lord rules. If we do not enter the kingdom of God, it is probable that love of self will rule. If we wish to enter the kingdom of God, by ordering our outward activities to act in conjunction with the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Praise the Lord

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 15, 2018

The Lord invites our praise not because he needs or wants it, but because it opens us up to receive what he wants to give us. We can praise the Lord for all the good He does and all He is with everything in us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Last Judgment, Part 3 - Personal Last Judgment

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 24, 2018

The Bible uses the image of standing before the Judge to help us understand the process of evaluating our lives to determine our place in the next world. The devil prosecuse use. The Lord acts as our counsellor and our judge. Our end state is determined most ultimately by our character more than the a moment of truth. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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New Church Day - Pray for the Coming of the Kingdom

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 17, 2018

At the Book of Revelation ends with a promise, a warning, an invitation, and an assurance. All of these make up the blessings of entering the Lord's kingdom, and we are instructed to pray for the coming of His Kingdom. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Last Judgment, Part 2 - Consequences of the Last Judgment

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 10, 2018

The Last Judgment took place in the year 1757. Because the Lord has completed the Last Judgment, we are in a new era with new inner freedom to understand the Lord and live His teachings. We can, from a new inner freedom, work for heaven on earth from the inside out. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Last Judgment, Part 1 - What about the Last Judgment

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 03, 2018

The Last Judgment took place in the year 1757 and Swedenborg was called to witness and testify of that occurance. Without that witness we would not know that the Last Judgment took place. How we face the problems of the world will depend on what the future holds in store. Knowing that we are not waiting for the Last Judgment puts us in the position of needing to clean up our act and take seriously that the Kingdom of the Lord comes only from within. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Remembering Dale Shultz - Loss and Meaning

Worship Service: Informal Family - May 27, 2018

Dale Shultz died in Vietnam from wounds received from a booby-trap. The meaning of his sacrifice was not in his death, but in his character and his intentions. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Joseph and Protecting

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 20, 2018

The Lord Jesus Christ needed an natural father and Joseph accepted that role. Joseph both adopted, provided, protected, and sacrificed for Jesus. The story of our Lord Jesus Christ does not spend much time on Joseph as natural father, but more on Jesus as Son of God. Jest like Joseph our fatherhood depends on our heavenly father. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Motherhood and Nurturing

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 13, 2018

Mary was the mother of Jesus, the man who became God. The relationship between Many and Jesus can teach us about motherhood. The role is to feed with goodness and the goal is to launch a successful human being. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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From Heaven? Or from man?

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 22, 2018

The question we must answer is Scripture from heaven or from man. If Scripture is from heaven we have a different obligation to believe it. The academic evidence can sometimes be used to indicate a belief in Scripture from man, but the evidence affirms our belief in Scripture and our Lord Jesus Christ. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Affirmative Attitude

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 15, 2018

When we approach the Word we can come with an affirmative or negative attitude. The negative attitude withholds belief in the Word of God until it can be proved by facts and rational arguments. The affirmative attitude approaches the Word of God as true because it is the Word of God. The question to ask to pursue a rational faith is not: is it true? The question to ask is: how is it true? | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Easter - The Lord Rises Again

Worship Service: Informal Family - April 01, 2018

The Lord rises again for each of us when we accept His good and truth into our lives. And the New Church is a movement for the Lord to resurrect Christianity and bring our world new life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Palm Sunday - If You Had Known . . .

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 25, 2018

The Lord teaches us that if we don't know what makes for peace we will not be able to have it. To have people we have to seek it a pursue it. The pursuit of peace is a pursuit of trust in and following the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Will of God, Part 4 - Covenant

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 11, 2018

The Lord invites to enter into a covenant or agreement with Him. Our part is to do what He says and His part is blessing and happiness. Taking the Holy Supper is like a signature on our part of the covenant. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Will of God, Part 3 - Marriage, Children, Service

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 04, 2018

The Lord teaches us that His will and care prioritizes marriage, children, and society in that order. If we wish to follow the will of the Lord, we should develop these as the ordered priorities for our life and find ways to pursue and support these priorities in the people around us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Will of God, Part 2 - Abide in Life

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 25, 2018

The Lord teaches us to abide in Him as the source of life. It is the Lord's will that we love Him and love others. If we abide in this love, we will want what is good and therefore whatever we want can be brought to being. The way to get there is to unplug from our will and plug into the Lord's will. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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Will of God, Part 1 - Why We Need to Seek the Will of God

Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 18, 2018

What is God's will for you? This is a central question for our spiritual lives. We can listen to false messages about what that is. But if we really want to know and pursue God's will for us, we must become discipline students of the Lord Jesus Christ—we must become disciples. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA

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