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Memorial Day - Purpose of a Soldier
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 24, 2015
The highest purpose of a soldier is love of country. Holding this purpose helps put the challenges and sacrifices in a spiritual context while also strengthening that love. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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New Life - Start by Looking Inside
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 12, 2015
The Lord prompts us to look inside and see our faults. This is the first step to becoming a new person and living a new life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - A Promise of New Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 05, 2015
The Lord's resurrection is a promise of new life in the Lord. We can accept new life in Him when we see what is in us that turns us away from Him and ask His help leave the old life behind and enter the new. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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The Lord's Last Supper
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 02, 2015
The Lord gave us Holy Supper as a way to connect with Him. He is present with us in this at of worship. By taking Holy Supper, the Lord touches our souls. The bread fills our souls with goodness, and the wine lifts our spirits with the truth. The Holy Supper sustains and heals our spirits. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Palm Sunday - Sweet Celebration, Bitter Reality
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 29, 2015
Palm Sunday is a celebration of the Lord as our King. He welcomes us to celebrate that idea and challenges us to work through the bitterness that will come up as we digest that idea and the changes it requires of us to fully acknowledge Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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My Walk with the Lord Part 6 - Sharing Our Experiences
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 22, 2015
The Lord wants to be known and love all people of the world. One of the most challenging spiritual practices is sharing the experiences of our walk. But if we take on this practices it challenges us to love others at a spiritual level. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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My Walk with the Lord Part 5 - Gathering Together (Partial Recording)
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 15, 2015
The Lord gathers us into a community, and we are supported and get spiritual life from the Lord through that community. We as a community have to follow the Lord so that the community can be full of His presence and love. (Partial Recording due to technical difficulties) | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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My Walk with the Lord Part 4 - Doing Good to the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 08, 2015
Turning away from what is destructive and evil makes room for the Lord to flow in what is healing and good. These two spiritual practices and intertwined and are like two legs with which we walk with the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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My Walk with the Lord Part 2 - Speaking in Prayer
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 22, 2015
The Lord tells us to pray so that we can receive good gifts from Him. If we grow in our relationship with Him, He will answer our prayers more fully than we can imagine. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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My Walk with the Lord Part 1 - Listening to His Word
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 15, 2015
We may have challenges or barriers to reading the Word, but if push through and read 1-2 chapters of the Bible a day as a way of listening to the Lord, we will grow in our understanding of the Word and our relationship with the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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My Walk with the Lord Part 1 - Listening to His Word - Sermon
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 15, 2015
We may have challenges or barriers to reading the Word, but if push through and read 1-2 chapters of the Bible a day as a way of listening to the Lord, we will grow in our understanding of the Word and our relationship with the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Caring about Others - Compassion and Mercy
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 08, 2015
Our ability to have compassion on others is tied to our relationship with the Lord. If we see our need for the Lord to love us in our faults and His grief at our faults, we have a better chance of loving other in their faults and experiencing grief and compassion for them. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Caring about Others - First Things First
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 01, 2015
There are three loves that all people have: heaven, world, and self. If these three are in the proper order, we are human. If these loves are out of order we are spiritually deformed and unhealthy. Arranging life to put the Lord and others as the first thing in our life makes us human. We do this through prayer, sacrifice, and following the example of our Lord Jesus Christ. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Being Open to New Ideas
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 25, 2015
To be open to new ideas we have to recognize the things that are closing us down. The Lord identifies three of them: our competing thought life, a shallow commitment to the ideas, and competing desires. If we turn to the Lord He will help us be open to new ideas. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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His Name, Part 3 - Prince of Peace
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 04, 2015
There are two parts that make up inner peace. Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and living His commandments. When we really engage with these two practices, we will have a deep peace in our soul. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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His Name, Part 2 - Mighty God
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 21, 2014
Jesus Christ is the Mighty God; He fulfills the prediction from Isaiah 9:6. He uses His might to save us and protect us, when we turn to Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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His Name, Part 1 - Wonderful Counselor
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 14, 2014
Jesus Christ is a Wonderful Counselor; He fulfills the prediction from Isaiah 9:6. For us to receive His counsel we have to go to the Lord in the Word. When we approach His Word with wonder, we can be in a frame of mind to hear His counsel, and we can get advise from Him about how to live a happy and content life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Boundaries for Generosity
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 30, 2014
If you would like to learn to be generous, the Lord gives you a guideline of 10%. This guideline allows us to be generous in a way that is challenging. It also allows us to receive the 90% more cleanly. Tithing provides boundaries that teach us to be generous. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Thanksgiving - A Feast for the Spirit
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 27, 2014
We have the opportunity to make our Thanksgiving meal (and all dinners with others people) a spiritual feast. It takes intentionally thinking about spiritual conversation and food, but by preparing to have a conversations about spiritual things with the same care you might prepare a the food, you can have spiritual feasts along with a feast of food. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Generous Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 23, 2014
Generosity is a choice we can make and a virtue we can practice. When we are generous with what we have, we will be blessed by the Lord. To receive the fullest blessings, we need to give generously and abundantly without focusing on the rewards from the Lord or from others. Trust in the Lord is a key perspective for freeing us to be generous. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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The Soldier who Saw God
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 09, 2014
One soldier observing Jesus Christ's last day recognized that He was the Son of God. May we also have eyes to see, and the courage to view Him that way. We can have this only from heaven through Him as the source of courage, endurance, and self-sacrifice. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What's New about the New Church? Part 6 - God Made Visible
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 02, 2014
How we see God is fundamental to how we see the world, ourselves, and other people. The Lord Jesus Christ who is Jehovah came to save us, and He comes again to give us a deeper understanding of who He is. When we understand Him better, we better understand the world, ourselves, and others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What's New about the New Church? Part 5 - Marriage Can Last Forever
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 26, 2014
In the New Christian perspective, marriage has a spiritual origin. Because marriage is spiritual and from the Lord, the most effective way to work on marriage in any state, is to work on the spiritual development. This means to take on the Lord's purposes, His processes, and His boundaries and make them our own. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What's New about the New Church? Part 4 - We Are not Waiting for the End Times
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 19, 2014
The Second Coming of Jesus is not a future event we are waiting for, but a continuing event we can participate in. The Lord is coming in His Word to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. We have the opportunity to open people to that possibility. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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What's New about the New Church? Part 3 - What Makes the Bible Holy
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 12, 2014
The Word is holy in every detail because there is a deeper meaning that has to do with what is happening in our own minds and hearts and a deeper meaning that has to do with what the Lord Jesus Christ and what he went through on earth. When we read the Bible, even if we do not know what that meaning is, we are conjoined with the Lord and connected with the Angels of heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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