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Practicing Gratitude
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 11, 2020
For week three of the Resilience series, we will look at the story of Joseph interpreting Pharaoh’s dream, and Joseph’s rise to power where he helped Egypt prepare for a famine by storing up grain. “Storing up grain” is like practicing gratitude. How does practicing gratitude help us become more resilient? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallCall Upon Him While He is Near
Charter Day Service - October 09, 2020
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn CathedralLove Your Enemies
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 04, 2020
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PAStages of Life - Part 2 - Teenage Years
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 04, 2020
This week we continue our exploration of the stages of life as seen in the story of Moses. As a young man Moses faced the challenges of putting his ideals into practice. On the one hand he could see with clarity the injustice his people faced. On the other hand, he struggled to reconcile how his own people treated each other, and in the end was forced to flee to a foreign land. These experiences illustrate well the dichotomy of the teenage years: a growing sense of right and wrong, tempered by growing awareness of the complexity of life. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAMemorial Service for Peter R. Gyllenhaal
Memorial Service - October 04, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Butler and the Baker
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 04, 2020
When Joseph was in prison in Egypt he explained the dreams of two others who were confined in the same place. Those meanings are a message to us about becoming better people. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralInterpretations Belong to God
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 04, 2020
In week two of our five-week Journey series on "Resilience," we look at how Joseph thought about his situation. Last week we talked about noticing what is going on with us and around us. Today our topic is about interpreting these things and moving forward in life. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralRe-Seeing Challenges
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 04, 2020
Joseph was a slave and prisoner for 13 years, yet we were told that “the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.” (Genesis 39-40) We can reframe our challenges knowing that “the Lord bends everything bad into good.” (Secrets of Heaven 1079) | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallReflecting the Lord’s Light
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 27, 2020
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PANoticing What is Going On
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 27, 2020
Joseph was a beloved son who was not treated very well. As we begin our Journey program on "Resilience," we will look at the way Joseph and his brothers stand for parts of ourselves we need to be mindful of. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralPaying Attention
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 27, 2020
We begin our five-week Journey program on "Resilience" this week. We will be exploring the Joseph story for guidance on how we can move forward in hard times, just as Joseph moved forward. This week's focus in on mindful awareness of what is happening in our lives. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralStages of Life - Part 1 - Childhood
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 27, 2020
Are you an adult still trying to figure out what it means to be an adult? Are you a teenager or young adult trying to figure out where you fit in the world? Or, are you feeling like you might actually be getting old now? Over the next few weeks we’re going to be using the story of Moses as a way of exploring the challenges and opportunities of the different stages of life that we go through in our lives. This Sunday we’re going to start with the story of baby Moses being put in a tar covered ark in the Nile river and what this can teach us about the first few years of our lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAMindful Attention
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 27, 2020
This week we begin a five-part small group series on “Resilience,” in which we will look at the story of Joseph in Genesis. Joseph embodies resilience, as he goes through many hard times and yet continues to have faith in the Lord’s goodness. For week one, we will focus on Joseph’s dreams and his relationship with his brothers as an illustration of the ways that mindful attention can help us to be resilient. | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallMultiplying During Affliction
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 20, 2020
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAGetting Ready for Eternal Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 20, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Lord's Hope for Our Future
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 20, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralOnly the Lord Could Do It
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 20, 2020
Jesus asked the people to think about the origin of the good works that He was doing. They could only have come from God Himself. This was proof that He and the Father were One. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Sarver, PATechnology - Useful Tool or Useless Distraction
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 20, 2020
We live in a world of technology, all the more so since the advent of COVID-19. This pandemic has highlighted the blessing of technology, as it allows us to carry on work safely, to connect with loved ones around the world, even to attend church while not being able to attend in person. But it has also highlighted the downsides of technology, as we yearn to get back to in-person connection and struggle with the frustrating limits of technology. As with any tool, technology will be useful or useless depending on how much it is used in the service of what is spiritual. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAMemorial Service for Judith Pitcairn Rhodes
Memorial Service - September 14, 2020
| By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Bryn Athyn CathedralWhat Makes Us Not Feel Afraid
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 13, 2020
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PAWho is the Good One?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 13, 2020
We know some people look good on the outside, but are not inside, and others look not so good and yet can be good. We'll look at what makes us good and bad. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Unjust Steward - Corruption in Politics
Worship Service: Sermon only - September 13, 2020
We often hear people lamenting the seeming corruption in politics. The Lord speaks to this sad reality and offers us some perspective on how to think about what we see. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralSoulmates? Therefore....what? Part 2: After You Get Married
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 13, 2020
What do you do if you’re pretty sure that the person you’re married to is not your soulmate? That’s a big question and we’ll be doing our best to answer it on Sunday. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAStrengthening Ourselves in the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 13, 2020
The Word gives us examples of people facing hard times like David and his men arriving back at their town of Ziklag and finding it burned and their wives and children gone. How can we recognize the Lord's loving and wise care in the hard times we can face and how can we best respond? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall