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Three Paths to the Kingdom
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 15, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Scott I. Frazier | Bryn Athyn CathedralMeditation
Doctrinal Class - July 11, 2007
| By Rt. Rev. Louis B. King | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood VillageMake Spiritual Victory a Habit
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 08, 2007
Today's message: Leading a good life sometimes seems hard, but if we just make a habit of repenting then the Lord will do all the heavy lifting. To understand and apply this, first read Matthew 11:30, Heaven and Hell 528, Psalm 51, and Heaven and Hell 533, and then listen to the audio of this sermon. It is important to realize, though, that the difficulty of thinking like this and also of resisting evils increases to the extent that we deliberately do evil things - €”in fact, to the extent we become used to doing them until ultimately we no longer see them. Then we come to love them and to excuse them to gratify our love and to rationalize them with all kinds of self-deceptions and call them permissible and good. This happens, though, to people who in early adulthood plunge into all kinds of evil without restraint and at the same time at heart reject everything divine. This sermon was preached at Pittsburgh New Church, and is available at TheoBlog.com, PittsburghNewChurch.org, NewChurch.org, and the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PARebirth of Your Mind
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 24, 2007
CD Single Track | By Rev. Douglas M. Taylor | Boynton Beach, FLRise Above Resentment: A Twelve-Step Talk
CD Tracks: 1-Introduction 2-Starbucks parking 3-Get free of ego 4-What to focus on 5-Can't satisfy the ego 6-He is a jerk 7-Starting the process 8-Quote from AA 9-Form: When I am Disturbed 10-Our ego believes our thoughts 11-Getting control of your thoughts 12-There is a price 13-I like alcohol 14-Ego destroys what is most important to us 15-Step One 16-Step Two 17-The ego can appear to be a great guy! 18-Step Three 19-You drink the poison hoping to kill them 20-Step Four 21-What the ego loves 22-What negative things I do 23-I convict my ego in court 24-Premeditated resentment 25-Most defensive when most wrong 26-Step Five 27-Step Six 28-A leap of faith 29-Step Eight 30-Step Nine 31-Step Eleven 32-11th Step Prayer 33-What religion is to me 34-Conclusion 35-New book: 'Observing Spirit' | By Peter Rhodes | Warrington, PAPart 5-Spiritual Community
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 13, 2007
A seven-part sermon series in conjunction with the workbook, "New Church Foundations" for people who want to take their understanding of New Church teachings to the next level. Part five discusses the universal nature of the Lord's Church, and the importance of building spiritual community. | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, COPart 4-Living and Growing Spiritually
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 06, 2007
A seven-part sermon series in conjunction with the workbook, "New Church Foundations" for people who want to take their understanding of New Church teachings to the next level. Part four discusses the process of spiritual growth, salvation and regeneration. CD Tracks: 1-Lessons 2-Sermon | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, COPart 3-Seeking Guidance from the Word
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 29, 2007
A seven-part sermon series in conjunction with the workbook, "New Church Foundations" for people who want to take their understanding of New Church teachings to the next level. Part three discusses, the nature of Revelation, the Bible and the Writings of Swedenborg. CD Tracks: 1-Lessons 2-Sermon | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, COSpiritual Renewal
Worship Service: Children & Adult - March 25, 2007
| By Rev. Mark D. Pendleton | Boulder, COHow to Heal Spiritual Suffering
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - February 25, 2007
Rev. Jeremy Simons also on chancel | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Tenth Commandment
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 19, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Society BuildingRise Above It - Week Ten - "All Ten For All Time"
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 19, 2006
The Last Sermon in our series on the Commandments is a commissioning - to live a new life from a new perspective. Jesus said: "If you want to enter into life, keep My Commandments." | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PAThe Ninth and Tenth Commandments
Doctrinal Class - November 17, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallPart 10-Do Not Covet
Doctrinal Class - November 15, 2006
CD Tracks: 1-44:03 2-15:26 | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood VillageThe House on the Rock
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 13, 2006
CD Tracks: 1-Hymn & Office 5:54 2-Lessons 6:23 3-Lesson & Hymn 5:05 4-Address & Closing 23:29 | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden | Boynton Beach, FLThe Ninth Commandment
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 12, 2006
You Shall Not Covet CD Single Track | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Ninth Commandment
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - November 12, 2006
Rev. Grant Schnarr also on the chancel | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Ninth Commandment
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 12, 2006
CD Single Track | By Rev. Charles E. Blair | Bryn Athyn Society BuildingPart 6-Building Healthy Relationships: Affirmation
Worship Service: Children & Adult - November 12, 2006
Includes the baptism of the Lester Children CD Tracks: 1 - Opening and Music (8:34) 2 - Children's Talk and Baptism (13:04) 3 - Music & interlude (17:52) 4 - Lessons (3:12) 5 - Music (4:02) 6 - Sermon (18:46) | By Rev. David C. Roth | Boulder, COYou Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's House...
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 12, 2006
Part 9 in a series on the Ten Commandments. This part addresses Commandments 9 and 10. | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PAExercise Alone Can't Cure a Heart Defect: The Ninth and Tenth Commandments
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 12, 2006
"'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant nor his female slave, nor his ox nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'" (Exodus 20:17) The Lord is waiting for permission to replace your heart with a pure one. This is because right thinking and useful living cannot overcome selfishness and greed on their own. We are all born with sick hearts, and no amount of exercise will save us. Spiritually healthy living is important, but without a spiritual heart transplant, we're still doomed. We have already learned in the past eight weeks of studying the Commandments that there is not only natural murder, but spiritual, as well. We are to shun both. The problem is, spiritual murder actually feels good to us at times. How is this a spiritual form of coveting? Consider how coveting--longing to possess something that belongs to someone else--is like stealing in one's own heart. When we covet something, we haven't actually stolen it, but there's a part of us that wants to. This is how eventually all natural thefts, murders, false witnesses and acts of adultery come about. First comes the covetous desire, then comes the destructive act. So spiritual murder--attacking a person in your own heart--begins with the evil desire to do so. Now here's the frightening part of this teaching: satisfying our heart's desires gives us pleasure. That means that there's a dark part of us that feels good when we break a commandment, whether spiritually or naturally. The sin of adultery provides a powerful illustration of this. Everyone knows that physically committing adultery involves physical pleasure. That's a big part of the attraction of adultery. So our will rules over our intellect. Our will is our spiritual heart, and just like a natural heart, we can't directly control it. We can hold our breath but we can't hold our pulse from beating. Only the Lord can help us. For Him to do this, though, we have to freely decide on our own that we want Him to. We do this by repenting--or turning away from--evil impulses as they come to us, by praying to Him to ask Him for a clean heart, and by shunning--literally "fleeing"--evil when it presents itself within us. This is what the Lord meant when He said that, if our right eye or hand causes us to stumble, we should pluck it out and cut it off. He also said that it isn't what goes into the mouth but what comes out from the heart that makes a person unclean, meaning that it isn't our intellect that makes us evil, but our will. This is because love of self, along with its subordinate love of the world, warp our rational thinking, making whatever justifies our evil desires appear to be truth, and whatever satisfies them to feel good. Our hearts are corrupted by selfishness and greed, and full of murder, adultery, theft and deceit. So go back to the beginning of the Commandments., acknowledge the false god is you, and pray to the Lord for a new heart, and over time He will miraculously transform your life. To see that this is true, read Exodus 20:17, Luke 12:13-21, Mark 7:1-23, and True Christian Religion 325-328, then listen to the full audio of the sermon, and finally put it into practice for a week. This is the second-to-last sermon in the Journey / Rise Above It series on the Ten Commandments, preached at Pittsburgh New Church, this time addressing the ninth and tenth commandments. It is archived at TheoBlog.com, and also available through www.PittsburghNewChurch.org and www.NewChurch.org. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PARise Above It - Week Nine - "Walking with God - Do Not Covet"
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 12, 2006
Lessons from the Word of God concerning the commandment against coveting really point to our need to overcome worldly and selfish love. | By Rev. Ethan McCardell | Sarver, PAPart 9-Do Not Bear False Witness
Doctrinal Class - November 08, 2006
CD Tracks: 1-44:22 2-11:54 | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood VillageThe Second Great Commandment
Worship Service: Vespers - November 06, 2006
Special jazz vespers service: The Second Great Commandment: The Second is Like the First. Includes live recording of light jazz prelude, interludes, and postlude. | By Rev. Thomas H. Rose | Ivyland New Church, PA