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The Lord's Healing Power
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 31, 2021
The Lord is a healer. Four miracles show how people asked the Lord for healing, and what He did to heal them. What does this tell us about our approach to the Lord, and His response to us? | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Bryn Athyn CathedralFour Steps of Healing
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 31, 2021
The Lord is a healer. Four miracles show a progression of unchecked spiritual sickness in our lives. These stories show how the sufferers approached the Lord for healing, and what He did in each case to heal them. | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Bryn Athyn CathedralFalse Virtues
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 31, 2021
We put great pride in certain virtues, both as individuals and as a society. When we embody these virtues it is a sign that we are spiritually growing. But virtues are not as easy to identify as we like to believe. Certain qualities that we view as virtuous are in fact unrelated to meaningful virtue. To take a simple example, many people take busy-ness to be a virtue, as if always being busy reflects on their character. In actual fact, being overladen with work says nothing about one’s character: it may be a sign of love for others, but it could just as easily be nothing of the sort. We need to evaluate where we put our worth, and if it is in false virtues then we need to look to the Lord to find the virtues that truly reflect a good spiritual life. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAMemorial Service for Donnette Rose Alfelt
Memorial Service - January 30, 2021
11/12/1929 – 12/22/2020. Since we are unable to gather in person, please feel free to post any stories or words you would like to share on Donnette’s Facebook page. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn CathedralMemorial Service for E. Boyd Asplundh
Memorial Service - January 27, 2021
5/4/1926 – 1/14/2021 | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Lord’s Temptations
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 24, 2021
| By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Kempton, PAIf They Don't Hear Moses
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 24, 2021
What do you need to know to be happy? How much proof do you need? We will talk about what is real and what looks real. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralLift Up Your Eyes and Look
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 24, 2021
As we go through hard times we tend to look to the future when life, we hope, will be better. The Lord suggests that if we can look with the right eyes we also can see the good that is present right now. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralPracticing to Be Spiritual Through Meditation
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 24, 2021
How do we get better at being the kind of people we want to be? How can we get better at catching ourselves before we do the mindless or hurtful things that we find ourselves prone to doing? The same way that we get better at most things: by practicing. Practicing meditation is one way to practice being more spiritually awake. This Sunday we will talk about a New Church Christian approach to meditation and then we will practice it together. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSADoes the End Justify the Means
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 24, 2021
Jesus said, “Make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home.” (Luke 16:9) | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MDThe Ishmael and Isaac Rational Minds
Worship Service: Informal Family - January 24, 2021
In Genesis 16, Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Later, in Genesis 21, Sarah gave birth to Isaac. These children of Abraham represent two different modes of our rational minds. In what ways is our “Ishmael” rational mind both helpful and dangerous? And how can we move towards operating more in our “Isaac” rational mind? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallOnly the good of charity of infancy can survive vastation
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 17, 2021
| By Rev. Andrew J. Heilman | Kempton, PAYou're Seeing Him
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 17, 2021
Even though the Lord loves us, sometimes what the Lord tells us can seem harsh and hard to follow, like all kinds of commands. But the commands are the ones we need the most when we are having trouble following His ways. These are the teachings that will bring us real sight of how to live our lives, and lead to seeing the Lord present in our lives. | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn CathedralBelieving is Seeing: Healing Our Blindness
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 17, 2021
We are living in an unsettling time. Emotions are high, opinions stronger than ever, and charity wanes. We can think we are right and others are blind. But all of us are blind to some degree, from ignorance and from evil. But the key to seeing is the same - to allow the Lord to heal us with His strong truth and call to repentance, to open our eyes, even to the point that we not only see the truth about life, but our sight is opened to the Lord himself. | By Rev. Grant R. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn CathedralOne Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 17, 2021
It’s bad enough to not be in a great place, either outwardly or spiritually. But it’s much worse to not just be in a bad place, but to actually be going backwards, undoing any progress that has been made. When things are going the wrong direction it can lead to hopelessness about the future. It would be nice if the Lord said going backwards was fine, but He doesn’t: in fact, He makes it clear that it is dangerous and damaging thing to experience. Rather than accepting backsliding as just another part of life, the Lord can give us hope that our prior progress has not been lost and that a better future is possible. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAWhat Helps Good Decision-Making
Worship Service: Informal Family - January 17, 2021
No one hopes to make bad decisions. We all hope to accomplish good things which are our choices. King Jeroboam was promised that his descendants would continue to reign if he followed the Lord but then his fears led him to establish an idol for the people to worship. It was not a good decision. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallPolitics and Religion
Worship Service: Children & Adult - January 17, 2021
| By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MDResurrection Service for Bryan David Pike
Memorial Service - January 12, 2021
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PAMemorial Service for Robert H. Johns
Memorial Service - January 12, 2021
11/29/1930 – 1/1/2021 | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Coming of the Lord
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 10, 2021
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PAChoosing Sides
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 10, 2021
A theme throughout the Word is that the Lord continually urges the people to choose whether they will follow Him or not. A very real human tendency in all of us is to make this choice a whole lot more complicated than it needs to be; however, it is really a simple choice to make. We will be able to witness a young adult's confession of faith at the beginning of the service to demonstrate that she is choosing to service the Lord. | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn CathedralChoosing Sides
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 10, 2021
A theme throughout the Word is that the Lord continually urges the people to choose whether they will follow Him or not. A very real human tendency in all of us is to make this choice a whole lot more complicated than it needs to be; however, it is really a simple choice to make. In many ways after you strip away all of the shades of gray, it really becomes a binary decision. Understanding the simplicity of choosing a side can often help to strengthen our commitment to serving the Lord. | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn CathedralMemorial Service for John T. Acton
Memorial Service - January 10, 2021
| By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn CathedralTaking Refuge in the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 10, 2021
Things do not feel particularly safe or secure in the world these days. There are many reasons for people to feel upset, fearful, and anxious. This Sunday we will reflect on passages from the Word about taking refuge in the Lord. How can we take refuge in the Lord? And then, from that place of security and peace, how can we move back into the world to face whatever we need to face? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSARe-Creation
Worship Service: Informal Family - January 10, 2021
As we begin a New Year, we will look at the story of the beginning of all things in the depiction of Creation in Genesis. How does each day of the Creation story describe aspects of new beginnings in our spiritual growth and resolutions that we may focus on in the new year? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall