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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, PAThat Your Joy May Be Full
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 08, 2017
The Lord desires us to have complete joy in our lives. We get this joy by remaining in the Lord, remaining in His Commandments, and by loving others. We experience heavenly joy when charity and faith exist in action. And we grow spiritually we develop more capacity for charity and faith, and therefore joy. [Apologies about the sound quality] | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAChristmas - Coming of Peace
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 11, 2016
God came down to bring you into a kingdom of peace. We enter the Lord's kingdom through choosing to follow Him as our King and Savior. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAThanksgiving - Joy and Gladness
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 24, 2016
The Word of the Lord is written with many pairs to describe to us joining together our head and our heart. When we read the Word we learn about what will make us happy. When we live it, the Lord gives us happiness. Thanksgiving is important as a reminder to think about the gifts of the Lord, then our heart can be joyful and our head can be glad. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAHearing the Still Small Voice
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 20, 2016
Are we open to hearing the still small voice of the Lord as He speaks to us? His voice is reaching out to us no matter our life circumstances. His words of comfort and guidance are constantly there if we take the time to stop and listen. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZDelight Yourself In the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 20, 2016
The Lord challenges you to not become distressed about the evil of others but to stay focused on Him and delight in Him. If pay attention to our delights, we can see what we care about. And by choosing to delight in the Lord, we can receive His blessings and peace. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAHidden Happiness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 20, 2016
Sunday School Service - Children's Talk Title - Seeing The LORD In Heaven 1st Lesson: Matthew 17: 1-9 2nd Lesson: Matthew 16: 21-28; John 16: 16-23, 31-32 3rd Lesson: Heaven And Hell 401 | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PAFaith, The Vessel of Love
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 06, 2016
This week we turn to the parable of the wise and foolish maidens. The Lord tells us that the kingdom of heaven is like being a wise maiden who brings extra oil with her so that if her lamp runs out, she will be ready. Oil represents love, but what does it mean to bring extra love, just in case? You can't have "extra love;" it isn’t a commodity, like oil. The Lord tells us that the key to having love is to also have faith. | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Sarver, PAI Never Deserted You
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 16, 2016
Why can't we just choose to love what's good and attain it without having to battle for it? The internal sense of the story of the older son in the Prodigal Son story gives the answer, and gives us serious encouragement. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSATaking Proper Care of Ourselves
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 09, 2016
In Luke 14 the Lord's words can make it seem as if we should hate the other members of our families, as well as ourselves. In reality He is telling us that we should hate the fact that we have negative tendencies like selfishness or perhaps self-pity. The Lord want us to work with Him to move away from the influence of these things and to start more fully enjoying His peace of mind and happiness. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZThoughts on Humility
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 02, 2016
Here are a few brief thoughts regarding the value of becoming truly humble. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZPart 1 - What's the Point of Life in This World
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 25, 2016
Sometimes, in the midst of all the busyness, bizarreness, and belly-punches that life in this world can involve, we need to take a step back and ask what’s the point? Why are we here? What are we spending all this time and energy for? The Lord can help us with this—if we’re willing to take the time to listen. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAPraying for Others
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 18, 2016
Our prayers are a reflection of our hearts. Therefore, if we are concerned because another person is feeling some type of pain, we might be inspired by the Lord to pray for them. We are not trying to tell the Lord something that He doesn't already know, or to instruct Him when He already is moving things in the best direction through His infinite love and wisdom. Instead, our prayers are simply expressions of our love. And love, we are told, can have amazingly positive effects, even when those affects are not immediately obvious. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZPlease Tell Me That I'm Good Enough
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 28, 2016
Sometimes we enter states in which we see ourselves in a negative light. The Lord wants to ensure us that we are loved for the person we are today, even when that person is flawed, and that if we listen to Him, He can lead us into a happier tomorrow. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZMarriage Is Not About You, Part 1 - Ask "What Can I Do?"
Worship Service: Informal Family - August 07, 2016
Marriage is a God given gift to us. The Lord wants us to be happy, but the nature of love is that happiness comes through enjoying another's joy. To have a better marriage, it is important to ask "What can I do to make your day better?" | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PASeeing the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 07, 2016
We trust our senses. If I see something with my own eyes I know it's real, and if I can't see it I might question if it's real. Yet we believe in the Lord and none of us has seen Him. We'll talk about how we can see the Lord and about why it's important, and even vital, that we see Him. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Westville, RSAIf Only I Knew
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 31, 2016
This message reflects on how if we'd only known better we might have made less mistakes. But, we can only know what we know. And so, the Lord encourages us to seek knowledge so that we might be better able to do His will in leading a loving, moral and useful life. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZTo Humbly Take Up Our Cross
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 10, 2016
This message looks at the personal meaning of the Lord's words when He said, "Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me." The focus here is on each of our fights against our native impulses and the taking on of heavenly things from the Lord. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZThe Breath of Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 10, 2016
Are you inspired, or are you just plodding along? Are you relaxed or are you tight and pushing hard to get through the day? We will explore the Lord's presence in our lives, how we open ourselves to what is good, and reject what is harmful. And, perhaps surprisingly, we will look at how the Lord links a lot of different spiritual ideas to breathing. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Westville, RSA"Come Quickly, Lord, to Help Me"
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 03, 2016
This message looks at the story of the demons who had been possessing two men being allowed to escape into a herd of pigs. It is a picture of the Lord driving hell out of a person's life and leaving them free of the evil things that had previously possessed them. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZHeroes - Doing What's Required
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 05, 2016
A common theme with people who perform heroic acts is that they say they were just doing their job. It is heroic in many circumstances to do what is required of us. We all have that calling to heroic obligation and spiritually we have to step into doing what's required by the Lord, especially when it is hard. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PAConfidence in the Lord's Love and Forgiveness
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 22, 2016
This message reflects on the depth of the Lord's unconditional love and therefore His continual forgiveness. It also looks at how He is always working to heal us from the things that ail us spiritually and to help us grow more spiritually perfect every day. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZLove Is Not a Feeling
Worship Service: Children & Adult - May 22, 2016
We truly show what we love by what we do. In what area of your life can you choose to develop and express love, even if you do not feel it at the moment? In what areas of your life can you deny the lies that strong feelings tell you? | By Rev. Erik J. Buss; Rev. Jared J. Buss | Sarver, PAThe Church that the Lord Created
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 15, 2016
This message considers how the Lord's miracles were an expression of the love that He brought into the world. They are also an illustration of how much He will always love each of us and of how His "new" Church would be built on our love for Him and our love and service of others. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZRemember the Commandments
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 01, 2016
The Ten Commandments which tell us what not to do actually teach us how to love the Lord and the neighbor. By removing the bad, the Lord gives us the good. If we fight as if of ourselves to live the commandments because they are from God, He gives us a new heart and spirit. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA