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Palm Sunday: The Lord Coming to Help
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 28, 2021
The people of Jerusalem rejoiced as Jesus rode into the city on Palm Sunday. But they didn't know what kind of a leader He intended to be. Can we accept the Lord as a God who comes to help us? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralPalm Sunday: A King Who Comes to Serve
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 28, 2021
Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a lowly donkey. He came to serve all of us. How hard is it to both acknowledge Him as the Infinite God and also one who comes to help each of us in each moment to lead wiser and kinder lives? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Coming Kingdom
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 28, 2021
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey the onlookers took it to be an ancient symbol of kingship. And indeed, it was. Yet their expectations of that coming kingdom were far removed from the kingdom that Jesus sought to establish. Jesus knew that the people expected an immediate overthrow of oppression and the onset of an earthly kingdom with Jesus as their benevolent ruler. The kingdom Jesus actually established was one of hard work and repentance, in other words, a spiritual kingdom. This Sunday we will look at how our own expectations are contrary to what the Lord actually intends for us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAChoosing Sides
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 21, 2021
| By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Kempton, PA“I am Coming as a Thief”: The Lord’s Secret Guidance
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 21, 2021
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralDefense in the Spiritual World
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 21, 2021
Evil defends itself differently from good. Learning to recognize those differences can help us when we are dealing with conflict in our lives. Choosing heavenly defense mechanisms will always promote health and life in us and in others. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall"I Am Coming as a Thief": The Lord's Secret Guidance
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 21, 2021
| By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralFinding Jesus in the Lives of the Prophets - Ezekiel
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 21, 2021
The role of the prophets was to communicate God’s messages to the people. They did that by speaking and writing but also by embodying the message they were communicating in one way or another. The prophet Ezekiel was often commanded to do some rather weird things to embody the messages he was communicating. This Sunday we will be trying to understand why he did these things and what that can reveal to us about why Jesus did the things that He did as the Word made flesh who dwelt among us. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAMadeline Grace Waters Memorial Service
Memorial Service - March 18, 2021
Speakers: Rev. Lou Synnestvedt, Kathy Wyncoll | By Rev. Louis D. Synnestvedt | Colchester, ENGLANDThe Two Great Commandments
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 14, 2021
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAConjugial Love, a Most Precious Gem of the New Church
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 14, 2021
The Lord is constantly working in the most specific ways with each of us from the beginning of life to lead us to be happily married to eternity. While we are unaware of this, the Lord teaches us things we can also do to help prepare for marriage. This is why our religion, with its teachings, is so inseparably tied in with conjugial love and its promise for happiness. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn CathedralConjugial Love, a Most Precious Gem of the New Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 14, 2021
The New Church offers a unique view of marriage that is inseparably tied in with the life of the church and its teachings . By definition, because of its origin, and from the nature of its love, the New Church vision of marriage is different from the way marriage and its love is defined in our culture today. That unique view invites a different approach to attaining that love. It also promises a love that is eternal in nature and is in its essence heavenly. It is truly a most precious gift from the Lord alone. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth | Bryn Athyn CathedralFinding Jesus in the Lives of the Prophets - Jeremiah
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 14, 2021
This week we continue to look at how the Old Testament prophets reflect the life of Jesus. This Sunday we turn to Jeremiah. Jeremiah lived in a time when impending invasion and doom hung over the people of Israel, and yet the prophets promised peace and prosperity. Jeremiah's role was to proclaim the reality that things would get worse before they got better unless they changed their ways. This seemingly pessimistic message echoed the spiritual message that Jesus brought hundreds of years later: this time a spiritual doom threatened, and Jesus urgently pushed people to repentance lest they be overcome by sin. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAThe Law of Marriage
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 07, 2021
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PAThe Good Samaritan: Binding Up Wounds
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 07, 2021
Some wounds don't heal by themselves. We need to let others know when we are hurting and allow them to help. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn CathedralPracticing Kindness
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 07, 2021
The last in our series on "Practicing Kindness" is about "Accepting Kindness from Others." The Lord wants to help us, but He can only help us through other people. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn CathedralFinding Jesus in the Lives of the Prophets - Isaiah
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 07, 2021
The teachings of the New Church say that the whole of the Word relates to the Lord Jesus Christ and what He went through while on Earth. And so we’ve done sermon series in the past on finding Jesus in the life of Abraham, Joshua, and Elisha. This time we’re going to focus on three of the major prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. This will be a chance to learn a bit about these prophets, about what the Lord went through on Earth, and about the role of a prophet in difficult times. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAAccepting Kindness and Wise Kindness
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 07, 2021
For the final week of our “Practicing Kindness” series, we will look at the familiar story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). In this story, we see all the many kinds of kindness we’ve talked about in this series, represented in the acts of the good Samaritan. And we will also explore what it means to accept kindness from others, as the wounded man did in this story. | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallMemorial Service for Wayde Pitcairn
Memorial Service - March 04, 2021
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralDavid Numbers the People
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - February 28, 2021
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAStories from Heaven and Hell
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 28, 2021
In the New Church we talk a lot about the afterlife. A few weeks ago we talked some about the structure and process of the afterlife. But raw information never shows the full picture. Stories of daily interactions and interesting anecdotes flesh things out. That is why we are looking to the stories from the Teachings of the New Church that lay out just a glimpse of what we can expect in the afterlife. This week we will hear stories that take place in heaven and in hell. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAChallenging Kindness
Worship Service: Informal Family - February 28, 2021
For week four of the “Practicing Kindness” series, we’ll talk about times when showing kindness can feel like a challenge. Ham pointed out Noah’s faults, but Shem and Japheth paid little attention to his faults and graciously helped their father. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallKindness When Something Doesn’t Seem Right
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - February 28, 2021
Fourth in a series on kindness. Many of us grow up learning that some words and actions are good and some are not. When we see someone else being kind it can be easy to also be kind. But when we see someone doing something we think is wrong, we may have a less than kind response ourselves. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralKindness and Disorder
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 28, 2021
Part four in a series on kindness. How do you respond when you see someone do or say something you think is disorderly and destructive? For many this can evoke judgment and sometimes a sense of superiority to that person. The Lord wants us to recognize what true kindness means even when we face what seems to be disorder in others. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral