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Vessels for the Future
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 24, 2020
We are taught that we should work to develop the vessels of love and wisdom within us so that we use those vessels to keep growing ever more wise and charitable toward others in the life to come. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Pittsburgh, PA
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Death and Rebirth
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 24, 2020
Every stage of our lives involves a new beginning, like hatching from an egg (Secrets of Heaven 4378), coming out of a cocoon (True Christianity 12), or being born again (John 3). | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Misconceptions of Providence - 3 - It's all God or it's all me
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 24, 2020
In this sermon series we’ve talked about how the Lord is working in every little detail of what happens in our lives. That can be a profoundly comforting thought but, in other moods, it can make us feel like it doesn’t matter what we do. If it’s all in God’s control, then our decisions mean nothing, really. In other moods, it can feel like God is just some distant force (if He’s there at all) and it’s entirely up to us to figure out what we need to do with our lives and what God is doing or not doing is largely irrelevant to our daily lives. The teachings of the New Church provide another option for how to understand this. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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How to Love your Country
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 24, 2020
The audio track only of a broadcast made by Pastor Glenn (Mac) Frazier on You Tube Sunday May 24th, 2020. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MD
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Saved by the Whale
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 24, 2020
Jonah the prophet was told by the Lord to go to Nineveh, to preach against their wickedness. But instead he went the opposite direction, and was eventually cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish, which was prepared by the Lord for him. What is the "whale" or the "great fish" that swallows us up? And how is that part of the Lord's love for us? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Saved by the Whale
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 24, 2020
Jonah the prophet was told by the Lord to go to Nineveh, to preach against their wickedness. But instead he went the opposite direction, and was eventually cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish, which was prepared by the Lord for him. What is the "whale" or the "great fish" that swallows us up? And how is that part of the Lord's love for us? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Allow Your Life to be Interrupted
In the story of Jesus and the centurion, Jesus allows himself to be interrupted. He does this all the time! And for a Jew and Gentile to interact in such a way at such a time exemplifies the power of healing. So maybe let's take a note from Jesus and allow some interruptions. Chuck's church: http://newchurchlive.tv/ | By Rev. Charles E. Blair | Bryn Athyn, PA
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My Yoke is Easy
How the Ten Commandments free us. The Lord’s commandments can feel pretty heavy at times. So what makes the Lord’s yoke “easy” and His burden “light”? From Pastor Alan Cowley of the New Church at Boynton Beach, Florida. Audio is from YouTube video: https://youtu.be/wxgqmhpPGx8 | By Rev. Alan M. Cowley | Boynton Beach, FL
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Fear and Self Honesty
Message of the Day. If you courageously face the things that bother you, and not let fear keep you from being honest with yourself, your problems will become smaller and your life will become better. (Audio is from YouTube video: https://youtu.be/kafnI5ugnTw) | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MD
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Going Forward
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 17, 2020
| By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs | Kempton, PA
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Knowing What to do with Conflicting Advice
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 17, 2020
Whether someone is young or older we all face a world in which people will tell us things that disagree with each other. Perhaps friends suggest doing something parents disapprove of. Perhaps adults disagree. How are we to make decisions about what is the best decision to make? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Making Decisions When Ideas are in Conflict
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 17, 2020
In so many areas of life in which we have decisions to make, both momentous and minor, it is easy to find directly contradictory advice and information about the issue and what we should do. Jesus warned of false prophets when He was in the world. Does His warning help us today? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Forgiveness
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 17, 2020
The message here is about our need to both forgive and be forgiven. The closer we move to the Lord and the more we allow Him to forgive us, the more we automatically forgive others. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Pittsburgh, PA
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Misconceptions of Providence - 2 - Coincidence? I think not!
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 17, 2020
This week we continue our series on misconceptions about Divine Providence. There are moments when something so unlikely and unexpected, and yet so wonderful, occurs, that we cannot help but see it as the hand of God at work in the world. But if God intervenes so forcefully in the world sometimes, it serves to highlight the many times when He does not (apparently) intervene. Why is one person miraculously spared from cancer, while thousands of others are condemned to die? The truth is that God’s Providence is not just at work in the unlikely and the obvious ways we see. His Providence extends to each and every moment of our lives, even down to the most mundane. He is never absent. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 17, 2020
Audio only from a YouTube broadcast made by Pastor Glenn Mac Frazier from The Washington New Church, Mitchellville on Sunday May 17, 2020. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MD
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The Angel with the Little Book
Worship Service: Childrens Talk only - May 17, 2020
| By Rev. Jared J. Buss | Toronto, ON
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Who Do People Say That I Am?
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 17, 2020
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, ‘Whom do people say that I the Son of man am?’” (Matt 16:13) The Gospel makes a point of telling us where Jesus was when He made these comments. Why would this be important to Him, to the disciples and to us?" | By Rev. Dr Andrew M. Dibb | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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How to Dispel Negative Impulses
Message of the Day. How do you deal with negative impulses, urges, and thoughts? Try this tool to help your better self overcome selfish or greedy desires and dishonest thoughts. Today's Readings: Matthew 15:11 "It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Secrets of Heaven 6206:1 All evil flows in from hell and all good from the Lord by way of heaven. The reason however why evil becomes a person's own is that they believe and convince themselves that they think and practice it all by themselves. In this way they make it their own. But if they believed what is really so, it would not be evil but good from the Lord that became their own. For if they believed what is really so they would think, the instant evil flowed in, that it came from the evil spirits present with them; and since that was what they thought the angels could ward that evil off and repel it. For influx from angels takes place into what a person knows and believes, not what they do not know or believe; there is nowhere else for it to become firmly established than in something the person knows or believes. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MD
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A Mother’s Love of Infants
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 10, 2020
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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How Good is Good Enough?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 10, 2020
We want to be good, but it seems very hard. How good is good enough? (Technical issues with microphones during this recording.) | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Seeing as the Lord Sees Us
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 10, 2020
When we look at our motives and actions we can be very critical and be filled with shame. The Lord sees our spiritual progress very differently, which explains why we can see such negative things, yet still be on a good path. "When the Lord is with anyone, He leads him, and provides that all things which happen, whether sad or joyful, befall him for good: this is the Divine providence." Arcana Caelestia 6303 | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Resurrection Service for Rev. Kurt Horigan Asplundh
Memorial Service - May 10, 2020
| By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Misconceptions of Providence - If it happened, it was meant to be
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 10, 2020
We’re starting a sermon series on misconceptions about Divine Providence. Often when something difficult happens we want to know why—why did this happen? Sometimes the answer that people come to is that “it was meant to be”. But is that true? What does that even mean? How should we think about all the different things that happen in our lives? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Spiritual Sunlight
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 10, 2020
In Joshua chapter 10, the children of Israel and their allies were under attack from a larger enemy. In order to help them win the battle, the Lord miraculously made the sun stand still. How did this happen? And what does it symbolize in our lives? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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