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Like A Fruitful Tree
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 11, 2018
The Lord tells us that our lives can be like fruitful trees and grapevines that bear bountiful grapes. They also can be like prickly thorn bushes or withered and barren plants. Our choices are what make the difference in what kind of plant we are. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Joshua, Part 4 - Losing Battles
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 11, 2018
We will face failure, loss, and our own sins in life. It is part of the process and we should not expect otherwise. If we approach failure as feedback and take our failures to the Lord and look for our inner falsities that are part of the problem, we can face every failure and grow through process. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven is Not Transferable
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 11, 2018
Wouldn't it be nice if someone else could do all the work of getting into heaven for us? In traditional Christianity this idea takes the form of "substitutionary atonement," the idea that because Christ suffered for our sin, we don't have to. This idea is rejected in the New Church, but it is still appealing to believe we don't have to do spiritual work because the Lord is doing it for us. While we could do nothing without the Lord, we actually need to take full responsibility for our spiritual lives. After all, no one else can do it for us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Soldiers In Heaven
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 11, 2018
Family Service - Talk Title - Soldiers In Heaven 1st Lesson: 2 Kings 6: 8-17 2nd Lesson: Heaven and Hell 391 (portion) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Preparing For Taking The Holy Supper
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - November 11, 2018
Evening Service with Holy Supper - Talk Title - Preparing For Taking the Holy Supper 1st Lesson: Luke 22: 7-20 2nd Lesson: True Christian Religion 89 ; 726 (portions) | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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To You We Throw the Torch
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 11, 2018
Sermon from service on Canadian Remembrance Day. This Nov 11th marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I. The title of this sermon references the famous battlefield poem written by Lt Colonel John McCrae "In Flanders Fields". | By Rev. Michael K. Cowley | Toronto, ON
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A Song for the Sabbath Day
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 11, 2018
"Sanctify them by Your truth." (John 17:17). "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth." (John 17:19) Closing prayer by Rev EH Carswell. | By Rev. Grant H. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Healing on the Sabbath Day
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 11, 2018
And He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" (Mark 3:4) | By Rev. Grant H. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Doubt, Complaining, and Patience
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 11, 2018
Doubt, Complaining and Patience: As the Children of Israel walk through the desert they are quick to blame Moses and the Lord. Are we any slower to complain and blame when our life feels like a slog? - BDG | By Rev. Brian D. Smith | Mitchellville, MD
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Charity in War
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 11, 2018
Judges 4 Psalm 23 Charity 166 Divine Providence 251 | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Atlanta-Morningstar Chapel (Alpharetta GA)
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Creation
Talk from regular meeting of the Forward Sons of the Olivet Church | By Rev. James P. Cooper | Toronto, ON
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Love Over Ego
Doctrinal Class - November 07, 2018
A Journey Program series of six doctrinal classes based on the first six chapters of the Book of Daniel. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cairnwood Village
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Psalm 34 - Taste and See
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 04, 2018
The Lord cares for us. When we trust in Him and pursue the life He teaches, we will be protected and blessed spiritually. Even if things are hard at times, the Lord will lead us to see the goodness of what He teaches. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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First Things First
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 04, 2018
First Things First: Daniel in the lion's den. This is the final week of the Love over Ego series, and the story illustrates that ego eventually bends to see what is right if we are willing to hold firm to following the Lord. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Love Wins
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 04, 2018
In the final week of “Love Over Ego,” we look at the story of Daniel in the lion’s den (Daniel 6). The Babylonian governors got King Darius to make a law that everyone had to worship him. Daniel continued to pray to the Lord, and so he was thrown in the lion’s den. How does this story illustrate love finally winning over ego? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Heaven is Not for Everyone
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 04, 2018
We’re doing a series called “Appealing Heresies” which is about ideas that sound good and sound true but actually are quite problematic when you think them through. This Sunday evening we’re talking about the appealing idea that everyone can go to heaven, no matter what they believe. Many people believe this. Many people think this is what the New Church teaches. It’s not. What’s wrong with this idea? Come on Sunday evening as we unpack the implications of this appealing heresy and try to understand what the Lord actually teaches on this topic. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Daniel in the Lion's Den
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 04, 2018
First things first: Daniel prayed to the Lord even when he might get in trouble for it, and the Lord protected him. How does this work for us? | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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What is Faith Alone?
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 04, 2018
| By Rev. Jared J. Buss | Toronto, ON
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Witnesses Of The Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 04, 2018
Sunday School Service - Children's Talk Title - The LORD Alone Is God 1st Lesson: Exodus 20: 1-6 (portion) 2nd Lesson: Deuteronomy 17: 2-7 , 19: 15 (portions) 3rd Lesson: Matthew 18: 15-16 (portion) 4th Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 4197.7 (portion) | By Rev. Brett D. Buick | Kempton, PA
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Rt. Rev. Alfred Acton II Memorial Address
Memorial Service - November 03, 2018
August 21, 1934 to October 23, 2018 | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Contentment over Materialism
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 28, 2018
Can we avoid letting anxiety and worry diminish our feelings of contentment, peace and satisfaction? Can material things reduce our quality of life as well as increase it? We continue our Journey series about the book of Daniel and Love Over Ego with the story of the next king of Babylon (Daniel chapter 5). Belshazzar has a great feast using the gold and silver vessels stolen from the temple in Jerusalem. A hand appears writing a mysterious warning. It seems that Belshazzar cares only about power and wealth. Daniel has no desire for the rewards of power and wealth that the king offers. He trusts the Lord for all his needs. We too can choose “Contentment over Materialism” like Daniel, who did not covet the rewards and riches that Belshazzar so highly valued. | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Joshua, Part 3 - Spiritual Combat
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 28, 2018
The Lord leads us into spiritual combat, the conflict between truth and falsity, between lusts and love. The key to victory is marching according to the 10 Commandments. If we encircle false thinking and lustful behavior with the Ten Commandments, the Lord fights for us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What Do You Value?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 28, 2018
King Belshazzar sees the writing on the wall. "Change My Heart, O God" replaced by Hymn from the next service because of copyright protection. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Contentment over Materialism
Worship Service: Sermon only - October 28, 2018
King Belshazzar and his one thousand guests drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and Iron, wood and stone. In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. (Daniel 5:4-5) | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Heaven is Not for Sale
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 28, 2018
You can’t buy your way into heaven, no matter how much wealth you amass. That won’t come as a surprise to most of you. Yet somehow, subconsciously, we end up trying. Every time we feel entitled to reward because of our good deeds, we have diminished good deeds to a mere currency with which we can buy a slice of heaven. Every time we feel slighted for the ill fortune that befalls us in spite of our goodness, we have reduced God’s living Providence into a mere balance sheet of good countered by evil. It is only when we realize that goodness is its own reward that we can be free from the allure of heaven as a reward. Heaven is not a reward; heaven is the natural result of a life of goodness. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSA
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