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Borrow Vessels, Shut the Door
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 12, 2024
2 Kings 4: 1-7. To make possible the miraculous regeneration of her small jar of oil, Elisha instructed the indebted widow to “borrow vessels” and “shut the door.” The imagery here suggests that our spiritual lives develop as a result of some combination of both “borrowed states” and the private decisions of our conscience. | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh | Bryn Athyn CathedralHannah: A Woman Who Gave All
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 12, 2024
And she made a vow, saying, “LORD Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.” (1Samuel 1:11) | By Rev. J. Bheki Dube | Westville, RSAMothering Moses
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 12, 2024
Several women played mothering roles in the life of Moses: his own mother, his sister, Pharaoh’s daughter. We will celebrate the mother figures in our own lives, and we will reflect on the church as spiritual mother, nurturing us and encouraging us to nurture one another. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Bryn Athyn Cathedral UndercroftBaptism: Finnian Asher Eads
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - May 12, 2024
1st Lesson: NJHD 202-203; Josh. 24:15; Ps.127; Mark 10:13-16 2nd Lesson: NJHD 204; TCR 677:5; CL 396; Deut. 6:4-9 Talk: “Baptism and Mother's Day” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PAReaching Out
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
At this Community Service will be talking about having the courage to reach out—reaching out to offer help and reaching out to ask for help. Let’s talk about what stops us from reaching out and how the Lord can help us to reach out anyway. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Battles We Never Fight
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
Have you ever seen a person who struggles with some particular evil and thought to yourself, “I’m so glad that I’ve never had to deal with that”? It helps to put our own struggles into perspective when we can see how much harder other people have it. We could put much of this up to chance: we happened to be born into a certain family, at a certain time in history, in a particular location. But on closer inspection, none of this is random chance: all of us, like it or not, incline towards the same struggles and challenges as anyone else. It is only through the Lord’s almighty power that we can be held back from falling headlong into unimaginable evils. Today we will explore the ways that the Lord fights battles on our behalf that we will never be aware of, and how much we have to be grateful for. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAUnderstanding the Holy Supper
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 05, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 22:8-20 Talk: “Bread and Wine” (Text: Luke 22:8-20) 2nd Lesson: True Christian Religion 670 Sermon: “Understanding the Holy Supper” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PAMemorial Service for Lauretta Klein
Memorial Service - May 04, 2024
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralGiving and Receiving, Part 2, How to Be Helped
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 28, 2024
Everyone needs help; none of us can get through life on our own. And yet when help is available there are many times when we don’t take advantage of it. Why is that? Why especially do we not take advantage of the help that the Lord offers? We’ll explore what gets in the way and how to have a better attitude towards the help that we are given by other people. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAWhy Does the Lord Need Guards to Protect Him?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 28, 2024
In several stories in the Word the Lord is surrounded by guards. Why is this? What do they do? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Guardians of Holiness
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 28, 2024
One of the most brilliant devices that the Lord has built into creation is His way of protecting us from His overwhelming power, leaving us in freedom to think and do what we want. The heavenly watchdogs that appear in both the Old and the New Testaments show how He does this. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Great Commission
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 28, 2024
We will be exploring the Great Commission with an interactive discussion on all the ways we “make disciples” in the world today. This service will also include commissioning eight newly trained Stephen Ministers into this important lay use. You are all warmly invited to witness this special event. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral UndercroftSeek Ye First the Kingdom of God
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 28, 2024
1st Lesson: Matt. 6:19-21, 25-33 2nd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 487 (portions) 3rd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 489 (portions) Talk: “Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAMemorial Service for June Marie Smith
Memorial Service - April 26, 2024
| By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons | Bryn Athyn Cathedral“Spiritual Buying and Selling”
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 21, 2024
“Spiritual Buying and Selling” (Matthew 13:45) The Word sometimes compares the spiritual process of regeneration to the process of buying and selling. Often the “selling” part seems difficult, as when the Lord tells the rich young man to sell all that he has. But the selling does not always have to be sorrowful. How can we sell gladly? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn CathedralGiving and Receiving - Part 1 - How to Give Help
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 21, 2024
When someone you care about is in need, you give them help. That is a good thing, obviously! But what if they don’t want our help? Or if they need a different kind of help? Or if they reject our help? Our immediate response can be hurt; after all, we are trying to help them! But if we are going to truly help people, we need to learn to make it less about us and how we are received, and more about what the person actually needs. Giving help is about the receiver, it is not about the giver. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAThe Pearl of Great Price
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 21, 2024
One of the ways that the Lord describes the kingdom of heaven is as a man buying and selling pearls. What is it about pearls that makes them a picture of what heaven is like? And how can we be like the man who buys and sells them? | By Rev. Stephen D. Cole | Bryn Athyn CathedralGo To Thy Brother
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 14, 2024
1st Lesson: Matthew 18:11-17 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 4197:7 Talk: “Going to Thy Brother” | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs | Kempton, PA"Build houses, plant gardens..."
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 14, 2024
(Jeremiah 29:3) Gardens feature prominently in the Scriptures, beginning with the Garden of Eden in Genesis and ending in Revelation with the garden appearing again, this time in the midst of the Holy City New Jerusalem. It’s significant too that the Lord chose to rise from the tomb in the midst of a garden. All of the physical delights of a garden - the sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes – represent what happens when we invite the order and symmetry of the truths of the Lord’s Word into our lives. In this service we will explore the profound spiritual principle that our choices determine our spiritual environment. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn Cathedral"The Word is like a garden"
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 14, 2024
“The Word is like a garden…” (TC 259). “Build houses, plant gardens.” (Jeremiah 29:5)) Gardens feature prominently in the Scriptures, beginning with the Garden of Eden in Genesis and ending in Revelation with the garden appearing again, this time in the midst of the Holy City New Jerusalem. It’s significant too that the Lord chose to rise from the tomb in the midst of a garden. All of the physical delights of a garden - the sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes – represent what happens when we invite the order and symmetry of the truths of the Lord’s Word into our lives. In this service we will explore the profound spiritual principle that our choices determine our spiritual environment. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Two Great Prophets
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 14, 2024
Elijah and Elisha were two prophets who followed in quick succession. Elijah, who came first, was poorly received and lived a troubled existence. Elisha, who succeeded him, was better received and accepted by the leaders of his day. These two prophets represent two stages in our relationship with the Lord. At first we must struggle and fight to apply His truths. But as we grow and progress it becomes easier and easier, until we live His truth with hardly a second thought. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSAThe Road to Emmaus
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 07, 2024
1st Lesson: Luke 24 portions Talk: “The Road to Emmaus” 2nd Lesson: Divine Love and Wisdom 378 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 3863 (portions) Sermon: “Road to Emmaus” | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PAThe Lord's Orders
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 07, 2024
"Children, have you any food." (John 21.5) After the Lord's resurrection, He sent the eleven disciples out to preach the gospel to all nations. Soon after He again appeared to them as they were fishing and asked "Children, have you any food?" and they replied no, for they had not caught any fish. Why were the disciples fishing when the Lord clearly gave them a command to go and preach the gospel? The disciples learned one more valuable lesson after the Lord’s resurrection. | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn CathedralReceiving Food from the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 07, 2024
"Truths cannot be implanted except by means of affections which well forth as from charity and love." (AC 4018.3) When the Lord sent His disciples out to preach the gospel, they already had practically all the knowledge needed for this important work. The Lord wanted His good news to spread to every nation, but He also hoped for the salvation of these very disciples. This Sunday we will see through the story of the Lord appearing to the disciples after His resurrection how it is only in doing the work of love that faith can save. | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Bryn Athyn CathedralEmbracing Weakness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 07, 2024
If someone called you weak, you would take it as an insult. But what about when the Lord calls you weak? Because He most certainly does: compared to Him, we are utterly powerless. And yet far from being insulted, if we embrace our own weakness, we can let down the burdens of perfection and self-reliance, and receive from the Lord a greater power than we could ever muster on our own. We may be utterly helpless, but the greatest force in the universe is on our side. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA