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End Times - Is the World Getting Better or Worse
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 10, 2012
The last 2 weeks we have talked about the Last Judgement. The New Church teaches that the End Times predicted in the Bible have already taken place and we are living in a new era of human history. If that is true, what is the potential of humanity? And what is happening now? Are things a mess? Or are we making progress? | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Westville, RSA
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The Church: A Seedbed for Transformation and Growth
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - May 20, 2012
Rev EJ Buss leads the service and prayers. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Image and Likeness of God as Firstfruits to God
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 24, 2011
This Thanksgiving address concludes an 8-part sermon series on the image and likeness of God in man. In thanking the Lord for the good gifts He has given us, we give them back to the Lord. Especially do we do so with our rationality and freedom by using them, as if of ourselves, for His purposes. | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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Don't Diminish, but Use Rationality and Freedom
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 20, 2011
The sermon is the seventh in an 8-part series on the image and likeness of God in man. Foreknowing the future is forbidden lest it take away rationality and freedom, destroying our humanity. | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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Homosexuality And The Image Of God
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 13, 2011
3 lessons, children's talk & sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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Faculties for Ridding Oneself of Drunkenness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 06, 2011
3 Lessons, Children's Talk, & Adult Sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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Wars: Why the Lord Allows Them
Doctrinal Class - November 04, 2011
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Spiritual Influences on Freedom and Rationality
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 30, 2011
3 lessons and sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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A Shift of Motivations: Seeing the Odd-Colored Sheep
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - October 23, 2011
| By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Rational Dominion Over The Natural Man
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 23, 2011
3 Lessons, children's talk & sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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Responding In God's Image
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 16, 2011
2 lessons & sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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Made After God's Likeness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 09, 2011
3 lessons, children's talk & sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FL
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SHIFT - Week 1 - Shift of Awareness, Noticing Conflicts
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 25, 2011
Quotes, Divine Providence #284, Secrets of Heaven #3332 | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Choose Life
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - July 03, 2011
"Independence." Every blessing the Lord gives us, every impulse to love or serve and every bit of delight we find in what is good comes to us as if it were our own, through our own freedom and choices. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Choose Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 03, 2011
"Everyday Choices." The Lord gives us many opportunities to be free and independent, and every good choice we make brings us to greater freedom and independence. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Freedom
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 03, 2011
Freedom from Slavery in this day - "If you remain in my Word you are truly my disciples. And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free... Everyone who commits sin, though, is a slave of sin" (John 8:31-36). | By Rev. Howard Thompson | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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No Strings Attached
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 10, 2011
The book, "Divine Providence" teaches that bad habits and evil actions come with strings attached - a lot of them! And guess where those strings lead? Fortunately, with the Lord's help, those strings are easily broken one by one. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Reflecting On All That Had Happened To Them
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - March 20, 2011
| By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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I Was Blind, But Now I See
Worship Service: Children & Adult - February 06, 2011
How the Lord opens our intellectual, rational and spiritual eyes. | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Appearance That We Live On Our Own
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - January 02, 2011
Rev. Jeremy Simons also on the chancel. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Why Did Adam Name the Animals?
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - September 26, 2010
All love comes from the Lord. Evil comes from Hell. You get to pick between them. (Rev. Erik Buss also on the chancel.) | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Do Not Weep...
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 12, 2010
How the Lord comforts us in times of need (Luke 7:11-17; Arcana Coelestia 379, 5691, 9737) In many passages in the Word, mention is made of praising God, which signifies to confess Him with the heart and mouth, thus also to worship Him. Praising God is signifies the same thing as Hallelujah, for [the word] Hallelujah signifies "Praise ye God." The reason why praising God signifies to confess and worship is that the Lord does not desire to be praised or glorified from any love for Himself, but from His love for man. For a person cannot do otherwise than praise and glorify the Lord…when he acknowledges in heart that there is nothing good in himself, and that he can do nothing from himself, and on the other hand that all good is from the Lord, and that the Lord can do all things. When a person is in this acknowledgment he then puts away his proprium, whose origin is the love of self, opens the whole of his mind, and thus enables the Divine to enter by influx with good and with power. It is therefore necessary that a person be in humiliation before the Lord, and that such humiliation be from no other source than the acknowledgment of his own [nature] and the acknowledgment of the Lord; according to these things reception takes place. (Heavenly Secrets #1210 - portions) | By Rev. Ryan Sandstrom | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Bringing Good Out of Evil
Worship Service: Children & Adult - August 08, 2010
The Lord allows the hells in the next life to lead the good into temptation, consequently to introduce falsities and evils. But at that time the Lord Himself is present directly - and by means of angels indirectly - with those undergoing temptation and is offering resistance by refuting the falsities of the spirits from hell and dispersing their evil. From this come renewal, hope, and victory. In this way the truths of faith and forms of the good of charity present with those who are governed by the truths of good are implanted more deeply and strengthened more firmly. The spirits who bring about temptations intend nothing but evil. But the Divine turns that evil into good, in accord with order existing from eternity; and life is thereby imparted to those governed by the truths of good. For it should be recognized that the spirits from hell who are allowed to attack the good in that way intend nothing but evil. They wish with all their might to drag them down from heaven and cast them into hell; for to destroy anyone's soul, thus to destroy him forever, is the sheer delight of their life. But they are not allowed by the Lord to do anything at all except for the sake of the end that good may come out of it, that is to say, so that truth and good may be made firmer and stronger with those who undergo temptation. In the entire spiritual world there reigns the end in view, emanating from the Lord, that nothing whatever should take place, not even the smallest thing, except in order that good may come out of it. This is why the Lord's kingdom is called a kingdom of ends and useful purposes. (Heavenly Secrets #6574) | By Rt. Rev. Brian W. Keith | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Turning It Over to the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - August 08, 2010
| By Rev. James H. Barry | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Be Still & Go Forward
Worship Service: Children & Adult - July 25, 2010
What to do at the edge of the sea, spiritually (Exodus 14:13-15; Joshua 1:9; Arcana Coelestia 8184, 10416) The meaning of 'dividing that sea' is dispersing the falsities arising from evil that are present in hell; for the falsities there are seen as waters. When the pillar of angels in which the Lord is present passes through that hell the falsities depart, and as a consequence the waters there, which are the falsities, are parted asunder. From this it is evident that 'dividing the sea' means dispersing the falsities belonging to the hell that is represented by 'the Sea Suph' (the Red Sea). (Heavenly Secrets #8184) The desire to celebrate resides inwardly in a person's feeling of freedom, and all feeling of freedom comes as a result of love, when nothing exists to frustrate it. Since outward things are used in the Word to describe inward ones, times of play and dancing are used to describe those of joy and gladness present in a person inwardly. Because of this, Miriam and the women went out with timbrels after the Egyptians had been drowned in the Sea Suph (the Red Sea) and started dancing. (Heavenly Secrets #10416) | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA
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