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Planted by Water
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 03, 2021
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Responding to Opportunities for Growth
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 03, 2021
The beginning of a new year is a time that encourages people to think of the poast year and reflect on the new year beginning. Most of us would acknowledge that the last nearly ten months have been far from easy for many of us. What would the Lord like us to take away from these experiences? How can they serve the Lord's goals for our lives now and on to eternity? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Edward K. Asplundh
Memorial Service - January 03, 2021
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Keeping to a Spiritual Timeline
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 03, 2021
Transitions are a useful reminder to reflect on where we have been and where we are going. We see this most prominently with the New Year: it is a time of appreciating all that has happened in the previous year and looking forward to what the next year has to bring. Or in the case of 2020, trying to forget most of the previous year and hoping things improve in the new. But deep down, we all know that the changing of the calender does not actually change anything. Covid is still with is, the problems of yesterday are mostly the problems we still face today. Although these natural-world cycles are useful reminders, the reality is that spiritually, any moment can be a new day, a new year, a new opportunity for change. Instead of being chained to the steady march of time, we can make our own beginning at any point, when we look to the Lord and His spiritual goals for us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Why the Shepherds were the First to See the Lord
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 27, 2020
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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The Gentiles Shall Come To Your Light...
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 27, 2020
“The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:3 | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Gentile Heroes
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 27, 2020
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Perspective of Anna and Simeon
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 27, 2020
After Christmas life goes on. Life can seem pretty long and hard without something to look forward to. How can the stories of Simeon and Anna, two old people who meet Jesus shortly after His birth, help us to gain a different perspective on our lives? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Shepherds and Angels
Worship Service: Informal Family - December 25, 2020
When Jesus was born the Gospel of Luke mentions two groups in particular that were present: shepherds who protected their flocks by night, and angelic armies sent from God on high. Both groups, in their own way, are powerful images of truth. Truth is not ideas. Truth, Divine Truth, is the Divine power that protects all goodness. Just as shepherds protect their sheep and angelic armies protect the heavens, truth, when lived, protects against all the forces of hell. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Unto Us a Child is Born
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 25, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Jesus Our Savior
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 24, 2020
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Another Way
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 24, 2020
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Bethlehem, the House of Bread
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 20, 2020
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Watching Over Their Flock By Night
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 20, 2020
What would it have been like to be a shepherd watching over his flock at night? The angel appeared to the shepherds in their lonely vigil, which says something about how the Lord sends His angel to us too. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Loneliness and Community in the Christmas Story
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 20, 2020
At Christmas we normally celebrate by gathering together to rejoice in the Lord's birth. Sadly, that will not be happening this year. We will explore images and instances of loneliness in the Christmas story and reflect on its meaning for our lives, especially this year. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Light in the Darkness
Worship Service: Informal Family - December 20, 2020
We celebrate Christmas at the darkest time of year to symbolize the Lord bringing light into the world. “Light” is a theme throughout the Christmas stories, as well as the prophecies of the Lord's coming. How does the Lord bring “light" into our “darkness?” | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Babe Leaped in Her Womb
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 13, 2020
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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"Let It Be to Me According to Your Word"
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 13, 2020
Last week we looked at the significance of the angel telling Zacharias and Elizabeth that John the Baptist would be born; this week we come to the story of the angel telling Mary that Jesus would be born. These stories have a lot of similarities and some crucial differences. Understanding those differences can help us understand the kind of salvation that the Lord longs to give us. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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The Shepherd's Way
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 13, 2020
"There shall be one shepherd for them all; and they shall walk in My judgments, and keep My statutes and do them." (Ezekiel 37: 24) | By Rev. Philip B. Schnarr | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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No Room in the Inn
Worship Service: Informal Family - December 13, 2020
The Lord was born in a manger in Bethlehem because there was no room in the inn. What does “the inn” symbolize in our lives? Sometimes it might feel like our lives are too full, and it can feel like it's hard to fit the Lord in. What are the ways that we do or don’t make room for the Lord in our lives? And how is the Lord born into our lives anyway? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Memorial Service for Robert F. Klein
Memorial Service - December 12, 2020
February 3, 1931 to December 7, 2020. Bob Klein was a volunteer for New Church Audio and its precursor, the Sound Recording Committee, for over fifty years. He was key to the recording, editing and uploading of thousands of recordings on the New Church Audio website. He operated the sound system at Bryn Athyn Cathedral for many years and worked with the recordings from the services to make them available to all. He recorded doctrinal classes, lectures, and other events. He also digitized thousands of reel to reel tapes into mp3s for this website. We thank him and his family for his dedication and service. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Light of the Lord’s Coming
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 06, 2020
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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The Lord Was Born So We Can See and Love Him
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 06, 2020
The teachings for the New Church are clear: We cannot come to love or sense that we are loved unless we see and believe that the Lord is both Human and God. He was born as a tiny infant in Bethlehem as part of this process. Prophecies of old had long promised His coming, | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Why it is So Important to Turn to the Lord as both Human and God
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 06, 2020
If the Lord had not been born into this world at the first Christmas, we would be missing a very important recognition of who He is. It is impossible to truly love or feel loved by a God who is just an ill-defined forced, no matter how powerful that force is thought to be. We are invited to worship the Lord as both Human and God. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Promise of God-With-Us
Worship Service: Informal Family - December 06, 2020
The angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him that Mary would give birth to a Son from the Holy Spirit. This would fulfill the prophecy of a virgin conceiving and bearing a Son named “Immanuel,” which means “God with us.” The Lord was born in this world to be “God with us.” But what does this mean for us here and now, when we cannot see His physical body with our eyes or touch Him with our hands? How can we know that He truly is with us? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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