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Becoming One Flesh
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 19, 2024
“Becoming One Flesh” In the story of creation, it says that the Lord created male and female and then there is a beautiful phrase near the end of the story where the Lord says that the man and his wife shall become one flesh. We will be looking at what it really means to become one flesh in the eyes of the Lord, and how by making males and females wonderfully unique and different, actually allows for the Lord to create a more perfect whole when they are joined together in marriage. However, some people worry that if a husband and wife seek to become one, then they will inevitably lose their sense of individual identity. We will explore if this is really the case, and whether it is something to worry about! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn CathedralAnxiety
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 19, 2024
Anxiety is all around us in today’s world. It is in ourselves, our friends, our communities. Does this abundant anxiety exemplify a lack of faith in the Lord? Not necessarily. It is true that faith in the Lord can help overcome anxiety; and as we grow in faith we may find that anxiety lessens. But as long as we love what is good, we will feel fear when that good thing is put at risk. The real question is what will we do with the anxiety that we feel, and can we be motivated by it to make a more loving, safe, world? | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAHow to Love
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 19, 2024
In the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46) the Lord teaches us how to love people the ways they need to be loved, and by loving others, we love the Lord. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral UndercroftThe Law - Good and Plain
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 19, 2024
1st Lesson: Deuteronomy 27:1-4, 8 2nd Lesson: Joshua 4 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 222.3 Sermon: “The Law - Good and Plain” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAMemorial Service for Christa K. Bedford
Memorial Service - May 18, 2024
| By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Widow's Oil
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 12, 2024
(2 Kings 4:1-7) A poor widow saved her two sons when her small jar of oil kept pouring and pouring into borrowed vessels. As the Lord prepares us for life in heaven, there’s a lot we can learn from other people. But in the end, the Lord wants us to use the goodness and truth He provides as if it actually belonged to us. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn CathedralBorrow Vessels, Shut the Door
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 12, 2024
2 Kings 4: 1-7. To make possible the miraculous regeneration of her small jar of oil, Elisha instructed the indebted widow to “borrow vessels” and “shut the door.” The imagery here suggests that our spiritual lives develop as a result of some combination of both “borrowed states” and the private decisions of our conscience. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn CathedralHannah: A Woman Who Gave All
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 12, 2024
And she made a vow, saying, “LORD Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.” (1Samuel 1:11) | By Rev. J. Bheki Dube | Westville, RSAMothering Moses
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 12, 2024
Several women played mothering roles in the life of Moses: his own mother, his sister, Pharaoh’s daughter. We will celebrate the mother figures in our own lives, and we will reflect on the church as spiritual mother, nurturing us and encouraging us to nurture one another. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral UndercroftBaptism: Finnian Asher Eads
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 12, 2024
1st Lesson: NJHD 202-203; Josh. 24:15; Ps.127; Mark 10:13-16 2nd Lesson: NJHD 204; TCR 677:5; CL 396; Deut. 6:4-9 Talk: “Baptism and Mother's Day” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PAReaching Out
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
At this Community Service will be talking about having the courage to reach out—reaching out to offer help and reaching out to ask for help. Let’s talk about what stops us from reaching out and how the Lord can help us to reach out anyway. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Battles We Never Fight
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
Have you ever seen a person who struggles with some particular evil and thought to yourself, “I’m so glad that I’ve never had to deal with that”? It helps to put our own struggles into perspective when we can see how much harder other people have it. We could put much of this up to chance: we happened to be born into a certain family, at a certain time in history, in a particular location. But on closer inspection, none of this is random chance: all of us, like it or not, incline towards the same struggles and challenges as anyone else. It is only through the Lord’s almighty power that we can be held back from falling headlong into unimaginable evils. Today we will explore the ways that the Lord fights battles on our behalf that we will never be aware of, and how much we have to be grateful for. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAUnderstanding the Holy Supper
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 22:8-20 Talk: “Bread and Wine” (Text: Luke 22:8-20) 2nd Lesson: True Christian Religion 670 Sermon: “Understanding the Holy Supper” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PAMemorial Service for Lauretta Klein
Memorial Service - May 04, 2024
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralGiving and Receiving, Part 2, How to Be Helped
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 28, 2024
Everyone needs help; none of us can get through life on our own. And yet when help is available there are many times when we don’t take advantage of it. Why is that? Why especially do we not take advantage of the help that the Lord offers? We’ll explore what gets in the way and how to have a better attitude towards the help that we are given by other people. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAWhy Does the Lord Need Guards to Protect Him?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 28, 2024
In several stories in the Word the Lord is surrounded by guards. Why is this? What do they do? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Guardians of Holiness
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 28, 2024
One of the most brilliant devices that the Lord has built into creation is His way of protecting us from His overwhelming power, leaving us in freedom to think and do what we want. The heavenly watchdogs that appear in both the Old and the New Testaments show how He does this. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Great Commission
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 28, 2024
We will be exploring the Great Commission with an interactive discussion on all the ways we “make disciples” in the world today. This service will also include commissioning eight newly trained Stephen Ministers into this important lay use. You are all warmly invited to witness this special event. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral UndercroftSeek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 28, 2024
1st Lesson: Matt. 6:19-21, 25-33 2nd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 487 (portions) 3rd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 489 (portions) Talk: “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAMemorial Service for June Marie Smith
Memorial Service - April 26, 2024
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral“Spiritual Buying and Selling”
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 21, 2024
“Spiritual Buying and Selling” (Matthew 13:45) The Word sometimes compares the spiritual process of regeneration to the process of buying and selling. Often the “selling” part seems difficult, as when the Lord tells the rich young man to sell all that he has. But the selling does not always have to be sorrowful. How can we sell gladly? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn CathedralGiving and Receiving - Part 1 - How to Give Help
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 21, 2024
When someone you care about is in need, you give them help. That is a good thing, obviously! But what if they don’t want our help? Or if they need a different kind of help? Or if they reject our help? Our immediate response can be hurt; after all, we are trying to help them! But if we are going to truly help people, we need to learn to make it less about us and how we are received, and more about what the person actually needs. Giving help is about the receiver, it is not about the giver. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAThe Pearl of Great Price
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 21, 2024
One of the ways that the Lord describes the kingdom of heaven is as a man buying and selling pearls. What is it about pearls that makes them a picture of what heaven is like? And how can we be like the man who buys and sells them? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn CathedralGo To Thy Brother
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 14, 2024
1st Lesson: Matthew 18:11-17 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 4197:7 Talk: “Going to Thy Brother” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PA"Build houses, plant gardens..."
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 14, 2024
(Jeremiah 29:3) Gardens feature prominently in the Scriptures, beginning with the Garden of Eden in Genesis and ending in Revelation with the garden appearing again, this time in the midst of the Holy City New Jerusalem. It’s significant too that the Lord chose to rise from the tomb in the midst of a garden. All of the physical delights of a garden - the sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes – represent what happens when we invite the order and symmetry of the truths of the Lord’s Word into our lives. In this service we will explore the profound spiritual principle that our choices determine our spiritual environment. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral