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The Serpent of Old
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 16, 2024
1st Lesson: Genesis 3:1-5 2nd Lesson: Revelation 12:3-9, 13-17; 20:1-3 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6952.4 Sermon: “The Serpent of Old” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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An Open Door
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 09, 2024
What does it take to walk through the door to heaven that the Lord holds open to us? Our focus on Sunday will be on responding to the Lord’s invitation by steadfastly putting effort into doing as the Lord asks. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Hold Fast to What You Have
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 09, 2024
(Revelation 3:7-13) The people of the church in Philadelphia were praised for their perseverance in the midst of struggle. They were commanded to “hold fast” to what they have. We are called to a kind of spiritual tenaciousness that has us rely on the Lord and the things in His Word, and to the extent that we can we will be blessed. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Last Judgement Out With the Old
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 09, 2024
One of the most astonishing teaching of the New Church is that the Last Judgment and the Second Coming of the Lord have already taken place... and hardly anyone noticed! This is because they are spiritual events rather than physical ones. This Sunday we'll talk about how a Last Judgment, which took place in the spiritual world hundreds of years ago, paved the way for a new spiritual era and impacts all of us even today. Then the following Sunday we'll explore how the Lord can come again into our lives, as His Second Coming continues with every individual. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Cherubim around the Throne
Worship Service: Informal Family - June 09, 2024
In Revelation 1 John sees the Lord with seven lampstands on the Isle of Patmos. In chapter 4 he enters heaven and sees Him on a throne surrounded by many more things, including four cherubim in the forms of a lion, a calf, a man and an eagle. The roles that these cherubim play in the ongoing story in Revelation are the same roles that they play in the lives of every one of us. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Adorned for her Husband
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 09, 2024
1st Lesson: Revelation 21:1-4, 9-11, 18-21 2nd Lesson: Apocalypse Revealed 881 Talk: “Adorned for her Husband”(Text: Rev. 21:2) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Plain Talk
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - June 02, 2024
For thousands of years knowledge about the Lord, the afterlife, angels and devils, faith and charity has been clouded with a certain degree of mystery and confusion. One of the promises of the New Church faith is that what was once a mystery can now be understood plainly. The Lord says, “I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language… I will tell you plainly…” (John 16:25). Plain talk seems like something we’d welcome anytime but is that always the case? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Seeking Clarity
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 02, 2024
We all crave clarity – no one goes in search of confusion. We’ve been wired to seek knowledge, truth, so that we may understand and understand ever more clearly. The Lord’s revelations (Old, New Testament, Writings) are a time-lapsed, sequential, unfolding of truth, moving from “figurative” language to “plain” language. This process has taken thousands of years to unfold but why so long? The Lord wishes to tell us “plainly” about Himself (John 16:25) and guide us “into all truth” (John 16:13). Is this something we can handle? Clarity can be freeing and threatening. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Put Your Trust in the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 02, 2024
With the recent elections many of us are reflecting on the future of this country. There is a decent amount of fear and worry, along with some hope perhaps. But how are we to think of these things spiritually? Sometimes we separate the political from the spiritual as if they are totally distinct parts of life. But the realm of laws and governance is supposed to be a support for a moral and spiritual society. If that support is shaky, morality and spirituality suffer. But regardless of the despair or hope we may feel, the Lord calls us to remember to put our trust in Him, and believe that He is still in charge, regardless of the apparent outcomes. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Seven Churches
Worship Service: Informal Family - June 02, 2024
John sees the Lord surrounded by seven lampstands, and the story tells us that these are the seven churches. These “churches” are us, and the people around us, that the Lord invites to His New Church. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Eligibility for Spiritual Combat
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 02, 2024
1st Lesson: Deuteronomy 20:1-9 2nd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 734.12-13 3rd Lesson: New Jerusalem and Her Heavenly Doctrine 191 Sermon: “Eligibility for Spiritual Combat” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Assyrians
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 26, 2024
The Assyrians were a large and powerful nation—not just another neighboring nation to squabble with, but an international super-power. The Assyrians represent something very powerful within us: our rational mind—our ability to figure things out and think things through. Our rational mind can be a powerful enemy to our religious life that takes us into spiritual captivity or it can be a powerful ally. Let’s learn from the Lord how to have the right kind of relationship with the Assyrians. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Know Your Spiritual Enemies: The Assyrians
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 26, 2024
| By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Greta E. Bochneak
Memorial Service - May 26, 2024
| By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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A New Way to See the World
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 26, 2024
The Lord asks us to see in a new way. Maybe that is why healing from blindness was a such a common miracle. But it was not physical blindness the Lord healed but spiritual blindness as well. | By Rev. Charles E. Blair | Westville, RSA
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Remembering the Lord and Others
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 26, 2024
As we look toward Memorial Day, we consider the important part memory plays in feeling gratitude. How and what we remember is directly tied to our affections, what we love and what we choose. The Lord invites us to remember the blessing He offers us, if we choose. How? Come and see! | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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Loving Our Country Carefully
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 26, 2024
1st Lesson: I Samuel 11 2nd Lesson: True Christian Religion 414 (part) 3rd Lesson: Charity 85, 86 (parts) Talk: “Loving Our Country Carefully” (Text: TCR 414) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Becoming One Flesh
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 19, 2024
In the story of creation, it says that the Lord created male and female and then there is a beautiful phrase near the end the story where the Lord says that the man and his wife shall become one flesh. We will be looking at what it really means to become one flesh in the eyes of the Lord, and how by making males and females wonderfully unique and different, actually allows for the Lord to create a more perfect whole when they are joined together in marriage. | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Memorial Service for Audrey Merrell Smith
Memorial Service - May 19, 2024
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Becoming One Flesh
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 19, 2024
“Becoming One Flesh” In the story of creation, it says that the Lord created male and female and then there is a beautiful phrase near the end of the story where the Lord says that the man and his wife shall become one flesh. We will be looking at what it really means to become one flesh in the eyes of the Lord, and how by making males and females wonderfully unique and different, actually allows for the Lord to create a more perfect whole when they are joined together in marriage. However, some people worry that if a husband and wife seek to become one, then they will inevitably lose their sense of individual identity. We will explore if this is really the case, and whether it is something to worry about! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Anxiety
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 19, 2024
Anxiety is all around us in today’s world. It is in ourselves, our friends, our communities. Does this abundant anxiety exemplify a lack of faith in the Lord? Not necessarily. It is true that faith in the Lord can help overcome anxiety; and as we grow in faith we may find that anxiety lessens. But as long as we love what is good, we will feel fear when that good thing is put at risk. The real question is what will we do with the anxiety that we feel, and can we be motivated by it to make a more loving, safe, world? | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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How to Love
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 19, 2024
In the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matthew 25:31-46) the Lord teaches us how to love people the ways they need to be loved, and by loving others, we love the Lord. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
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The Law - Good and Plain
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 19, 2024
1st Lesson: Deuteronomy 27:1-4, 8 2nd Lesson: Joshua 4 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 222.3 Sermon: “The Law - Good and Plain” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Memorial Service for Christa K. Bedford
Memorial Service - May 18, 2024
| By Rev. Jeffrey Smith | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Widow's Oil
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 12, 2024
(2 Kings 4:1-7) A poor widow saved her two sons when her small jar of oil kept pouring and pouring into borrowed vessels. As the Lord prepares us for life in heaven, there’s a lot we can learn from other people. But in the end, the Lord wants us to use the goodness and truth He provides as if it actually belonged to us. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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