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The Second Commandment: The Lord's Name
What is so significant about the second commandment, to “not take the name of the Lord your God in vain”, that it is the only commandment to have the consequences spelled out? What does it mean on a spiritual level to take His name in vain? | By Rev. Alan M. Cowley | Boynton Beach, FL
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Standing Against Injustice
How do we behave in times of injustice? What can we do? It is our duty to stand up to injustice, to stand against evil, and to stand up for our neighbor. These are paramount to creating a better world. Without them, we fall into chaos. Elmo's church: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Rb... This audio is from a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/gMu7tXDmhAs | By Rev. Elmo K. Acton | Glenview, IL
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The Lord is the Only Judge
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 31, 2020
| By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Does It Do Anything?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 31, 2020
Some things just look pretty, and some things accomplish something. The worse is when something is made to accomplish something but doesn't. We'll look at some of these things in our own lives. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Oil in Your Lamp
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 31, 2020
The Lord talks about what will make the transition to the New Church happen. As we look toward the church's birthday, we'll explore one of the parables that give us insight into what we can do to build His presence in our lives and in our church. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Protecting each Child
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 31, 2020
We can be assured that no matter what is happening in and around us, we are under the Lord's protection. | By Rev. Garry B. Walsh | Pittsburgh, PA
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How Are You Doing?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 31, 2020
Why would the omnipotent God of the universe ask a mere mortal a question? Wouldn't He already know the answer? Yet there are many examples of God asking questions in the Word. God does not ask questions so He can learn the answer; He asks questions so that we have a chance to reflect and respond in the context of His perspective. In a similar vein, there is value in letting the Lord know "how we're doing." He already knows of course; we don't have to tell Him anything. But this Sunday we will explore the value of reflecting on how we are doing and sharing that reflection with the Lord. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Loving Ourselves Part 1: The Catch
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 31, 2020
The audio track of a You Tube live broadcast made on Sunday May 31st, 2020. This is the first in a series about the Love of Self. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MD
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Your Inner Self
Can we hide who we are in the afterlife? It's easy to do on earth, you can just lie to others or lie to yourself, even, or pretend like things aren't the way they are. In the next life, we might not be so "lucky"... Heaven and Hell book: https://swedenborg.com/product/heaven... Elmo's church: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Rb... Audio from YouTube video: https://youtu.be/PMXNCvZuK-8 | By Rev. Elmo K. Acton | Glenview, IL
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The Death of Sampson
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 24, 2020
| By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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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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