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Ten Commandments, Part 6 - Murder vs Charity
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 14, 2018
The Lord's commandment against murder provides boundaries against hurting another's body, reputation, and soul. If we follow flee from hurting people in this way, the Lord will lead us into loving our neighbor. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Forgiveness, Part 2 - Forgiven
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 12, 2017
The Lord teaches us to forgive by reflecting on our relationship with Him and what He has given us. Our duty to forgive flows from that forgiveness, but our reception of His forgiveness depends or our response to Him in our relationship with others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Ten Commandments, Part 5 - Inherit Eternal Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 29, 2017
The Lord Jesus Christ calls us to share His goals for our life—His precepts. Obeying the Ten Commandments as God's precepts for our life and fleeing violations of those precepts as sins against Him is the path to new life and healing from the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven and Hell Pt. 14 - The Joy Found in Heaven is a Function of Sharing and Being Useful
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 22, 2017
Here in Part 14 of our series following the book 'Heaven and Hell', we consider the incredible joy that is experienced by everyone in heaven. It is enjoyed because everyone there loves to share with others and they all work to make other people happy. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Ten Commandments, Part 4 - Honor Your Father And Mother
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 22, 2017
The Lord commands us to honor our father and mother. The reason for this is the family is the basis of community—economic, political, and religious. From a religious perspective the care of children has been delegated specifically to the family, not to the church. The application of this begins with honoring our parents. Task: Write a tribute to your parents and either frame it and give it to them or give it to other family members. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Behold I Am Coming Quickly: Patience & Persistence
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 15, 2017
When the Lord says He will come or do something "quickly" He means that He will come or do something certainly. How does knowing this help us develop two important spiritual disciplines: Patience & Persistence. | By Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger | West Concord, MA
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Happiness, Part 4 - Happiness and Relationships
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 24, 2017
True happiness comes from love, and love is to feel the joy in another as joy in ourselves. And because we are emotionally interconnected we either contribute to happiness of others by loving them, or destroy it by loving a selfish delight. With the Lord's help we can become truly loving which means we are happy and a source of happiness for others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Rewards & Punishment
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 24, 2017
| By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Happiness, Part 3 - Attitudes that Improve Happiness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 17, 2017
There are two attitudes that combine to form the basis of all deeper happiness. Happiness takes work, and happiness comes from trusting in the Lord. Holding these two attitudes in balance is the key to lasting happiness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Anointing With Love
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 10, 2017
Family Service - Talk Title - Anointing With Love 1st Lesson: Psalm 133 2nd Lesson: Mark 14: 2-9 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 9954.3 | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Happiness, Part 2 - 3 Ways We Undermine Happiness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 10, 2017
Three ways we undermine our happiness: 1) we pursue false gods, 2) we focus on unhappiness, 3) we focus on happiness. The first step in any spiritual growth process is to clear the field of mistakes so the Lord can work, and in this case give us happiness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Happiness, Part 1 - Happiness Is a Choice
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 03, 2017
We often think of happiness a matter of achievement and circumstances, but the Lord teaches us that happiness has a significant component of life choices and attitude. Some kinds of happiness are like chaff and some are like roots. A challenge to you this week is to pay attention to the kinds of happiness you are choosing. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Jonah, Part 4 - Right to be Angry?
Worship Service: Informal Family - August 27, 2017
The Lord asks us to look at the source and value of our anger. It is not wrong to be angry, but there are different kinds of anger and we are responsible to evaluate our anger and act appropriately. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Jonah, Part 3 - Turn from the Evil Way
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 20, 2017
The sends Jonah to warn Nineveh that they are headed for destruction and they turn from their way. If we are to live a fulfilling spiritual life, we have to be sensitive to the Lord's teaching and warnings and turn from our way to His way. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Our Country, Our Neighbor
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 02, 2017
To love the country more than ourselves is a great good. We love all of those communities within a country when we love and sacrifice for our country. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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How Do We Show Love?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 21, 2017
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Feed My Lambs." (John 21:15) Because the offertory was copyright protected it was replaced by a hymn from the 11 AM service. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Standing Up for Her Children: A Mother's Day message
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 14, 2017
The mother of the disciples James and John approached the Lord and asked if it were possible for them to sit at His right hand and His left in His kingdom. Her understanding of the nature of the Lord's kingdom might have been faulty at the time, but, that doesn't mean that she wasn't being led by two powerful united forces from the Lord, the love of marriage, or conjugial love, and the love of children, or storge. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Peace Be With You
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 30, 2017
When the Lord suddenly appeared in the room with His disciples on the evening of Easter Sunday, His first words to them were, "Peace be with you." New Church teachings help us to understand that the risen Lord was Peace itself. Therefore, He was saying to, not only His disciples, but all people, "I am Peace, and I am with you!" | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Jesus Wept
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 02, 2017
Sometimes we feel that God is far away when we are going through difficult times. But He wants us to have this picture: He, the God of heaven and earth, weeps - why? Because He loves us so much. We are told that "Jesus weeps" in the internal sense is "love grieving." | By Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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What Would Love Do?, Part 5 - Love Visits
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 12, 2017
The Lord teaches us that when visit the sick we visit Him. We can do this physically and spiritually. We visit the spiritually sick by maintaining connections with people who are living a life contrary to what the Lord teaches because their desires lead them there. The Lord's miracles of healing the sick symbolize His healing of spiritual disease. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What Would Love Do?, Part 4 - Love Comforts
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 05, 2017
The Lord teaches us that when we clothe the unclothed we cloth Him. We can do this physically and spiritually. We clothe people spiritually by teaching them what the Lord says about a good life, but we have to do it with compassion and love. The Lord has literally been clothed and unclothed by the human response to Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Absolutely Everything is the Lord's
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 29, 2017
'Secrets of Heaven' 123 states that "Absolutely everything is the Lord's." This message explores the life-changing reality of truly believing this. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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What Would Love Do?, Part 3 - Love Welcomes
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 29, 2017
The Lord teaches us that when we take in or gather the sojourner we gather Him. We can do this physically and spiritually. We gather people spiritually by teaching them the life of the church. And of course the Lord is the one who wants to gather all to Him in love while He Lord sojourned in this world. And we too are sojourners here. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What Would Love Do?, Part 1 - Love Serves
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 15, 2017
The Lord teaches us that when we feed the hungry we feed Him. We can do this physically and spiritually. We feed people spiritually with use and things that lead to use. Challenge this week is to feed someone either physically or spiritually in a way you do not normally do it. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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