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Righteous Judgment
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 21, 2016
This message looks at the Lord's teaching that we should, "not judge according to the appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." Every day we are required to make important judgments about other people, and they are required to make similar judgments about us. Are we making these types of judgments according to the teachings that the Lord has given to us? | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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The Secret to a Long-Lasting Marriage
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 14, 2016
This message considers the secret to a long-lasting marriage; which is for each person to work on their own individual relationship with the Lord. The closer we are bound to the Lord, the better husband or wife we will be, whether married at the time or not. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Reaping the Answers
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 07, 2016
This message examines the Lord's promise that, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few." It is a statement declaring that He has gently been preparing people to receiving so that they have become hungry for the true ideas that only come from Him. He provides the answers to live's most important questions. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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If Only I Knew
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 31, 2016
This message reflects on how if we'd only known better we might have made less mistakes. But, we can only know what we know. And so, the Lord encourages us to seek knowledge so that we might be better able to do His will in leading a loving, moral and useful life. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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The Greatest are Those Who are Genuinely Humble
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 17, 2016
The focus is on the story of the Lord placing a child before His disciples and saying that to receive the child in His name is to receive Him. In other words, the Lord was encouraging the disciples, and indeed all people, to put away self-centeredness, and to grow to become truly humble. This was the way to become joined to Him and His kingdom. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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To Humbly Take Up Our Cross
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 10, 2016
This message looks at the personal meaning of the Lord's words when He said, "Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me." The focus here is on each of our fights against our native impulses and the taking on of heavenly things from the Lord. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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"Come Quickly, Lord, to Help Me"
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 03, 2016
This message looks at the story of the demons who had been possessing two men being allowed to escape into a herd of pigs. It is a picture of the Lord driving hell out of a person's life and leaving them free of the evil things that had previously possessed them. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Welcome to the Holy City New Jerusalem
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 26, 2016
This message looks at the vision given to John of the Holy City New Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven. We think about this city in terms of it being the Lord's promise to us if we go on a journey with Him. That promise is of a life enveloped by love together with the wisdom of knowing how to serve Him and others. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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The Great Red Dragon That Must Be Defeated
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 19, 2016
This message considers the vision given to John of the woman clothed with the sun, the child who was born, and the great red dragon. We see in the woman and the child, a metaphor for the love and happiness that exists when people are living from the Lord in charity and faith. This type of life is always being challenged by forces that want to keep selfishness together with the love of having power over others and the love of possessions active in our hearts and minds. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Becoming Truly New Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 12, 2016
This message considers what it means to truly be New Church. It seems that it is more than identification with a set of teachings or a religious community. Instead, it is something that a person grows into as they allow the Lord to lead them on a journey where they gradually become and angel and experience more and more of His peace and joy. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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How Do You Read the Bible?
Worship Service: Sermon only - June 05, 2016
This message examines one of the fundamental elements that makes the New Christianity, or New Church, "new". This is the appreciation of the fact that within the literal stories of the Lord's Word lives a deeper spiritual meaning that deals directly with the Lord, His love for us, and the nature of the steps of our regeneration as the Lord leads us toward heaven. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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The Complex Things That Make Us, Us
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 29, 2016
In this message we consider how complex we all are, especially when we think about our spiritual natures. Only the Lord knows everything about every part of us. If we allow Him to shed some of His light on the details of our life, and the details of the lives of those around us, we can work more fully with Him as He gently prepares us for heaven. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Confidence in the Lord's Love and Forgiveness
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 22, 2016
This message reflects on the depth of the Lord's unconditional love and therefore His continual forgiveness. It also looks at how He is always working to heal us from the things that ail us spiritually and to help us grow more spiritually perfect every day. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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The Church that the Lord Created
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 15, 2016
This message considers how the Lord's miracles were an expression of the love that He brought into the world. They are also an illustration of how much He will always love each of us and of how His "new" Church would be built on our love for Him and our love and service of others. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Baptism: The Spiritual Within the Natural
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 08, 2016
This message looks at the power that lies within the sacrament of baptism, and consider the spiritual motivation that is reflection in the natural ritual. This motivation is to more fully understand the Lord of God and to progressively become more the person that he would like each of us to be. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Out of Negative Influences, Into Freedom
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 24, 2016
This message looks at both the positive and the negative spiritual influences that affect our lives. We only experience true spiritual freedom when we allow the Lord to shut off the negative influences and we start to be influenced by Him alone via heaven and His angels. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Why Does God Allow It?
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 17, 2016
Because the Lord is all-loving and ultimately wise, He can see exactly how to intervene in every human situation both for the sake of the present and the future. He allows bad things to happen at times times, not because He wills those things, but because He knows what is best. A challenge for us is to trust that He always knows what He is doing and that He always cares. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Why Am I Here?
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 03, 2016
Many people in the course of their life will ask, "Why am I here?" This question often arises as a consequence of their self-doubts. The Lord assures us that are loved unendingly and beyond measure. He also helps us to see that we are not born for our own sake; we are born for the sake of others. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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The Morning of the First Day of the Week: An Easter message
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 27, 2016
This message uses the John 20 version of the Easter story. We think about how the world was shrouded in darkness, but the Lord's conquering of death and the grave brought a new light. He is ready and willing to intervene in any dark part of any of our lives, so that a new brightness can begin to shine for us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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A Divine Force Flowing Into Us: A Palm Sunday Message
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 20, 2016
This message considers how the Lord's inspiring life force flows into everyone depending on each person's individual reception of Him. The force was so strong on Palm Sunday that if the Lord's followers hadn't cried out in praise for Him, the stones on the ground would have. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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When We Feel Like We Have to Carry a Lie
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 06, 2016
This message thinks about the soldiers who were placed at the Lord's tomb and the lie they were bribed into telling regarding what really happened to His body. This is a message about the lies some people feel like they have been carrying, and it is especially a message about moving forward with the Lord's help. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Coming to Appreciate Remorse
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 21, 2016
Almost everyone has experienced remorse. This message looks at how the remorse we might feel is likely to be a sign of the Lord's love working within us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Elijah, the Widow, and Love That Never Runs Out
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 14, 2016
This is our annual "Honoring Caregivers" worship service. We consider the miracle that the Lord performed through Elijah ensuring that the widow's small amount of flour and oil never ran out. It is the same with our capacity to love. This is because love is continually flowing from its source, which is the Infinite God of love. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Fixing Fragile Hearts
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 07, 2016
This week we think about how challenging elements in our own imperfect natures can cause us to feel weak or fragile. The way the Lord deals with this is captured, in part, in the story of His turning out of the temple those who bought and sold, the money changers and those who sold doves. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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Crying Hosanna! or Lord, Save Me From Myself!
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 31, 2016
This message reflects on the Matthew version of the Palm Sunday story. The focus is on the cry, "Hosanna!" This is a word that literally means, "O Save!" The question is: Save from what? The "saving" that we think about here, is saving from the negative voices that want to discourage us. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Phoenix, AZ
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