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Why You Should Be An Optimist
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - January 11, 2009
The complete recording of this adult service is an online "Listen Only" audio file. The available CD includes the lessons and sermon only. Congregational singing may be included upon request. Rev. Jeremy F. Simons is also on the chancel. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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It's Going To Be Okay
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - January 11, 2009
The complete recording of this family service is an online "Listen Only" audio file. In accordance with current copyright law, the saleable CD will include the readings and talk only. However the congregational singing may be included upon request. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Habits
Worship Service: Informal Family - December 28, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Two Secrets to Enjoying Christmas
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - December 07, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Two Secrets to Enjoying Christmas
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 07, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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An Easy Way To Get Ready For Christmas
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 30, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Thanksgiving
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - November 27, 2008
The complete recording of this family festival service is an online "Listen Only" audio file. The available CD includes the lessons and sermon only. Congregational singing may be included upon request. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Field House
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Part 7-Let's Celebrate
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 16, 2008
Part 7 in a series of worship services given during the spiritual growth program, "Building Healthy Relationships". The Lord's teachings provide a strong foundation for building healthy relationships that can weather any storm. When we follow the Lord's teachings we will find, as others have, that they are astonishingly powerful and can transform our lives and our relationships. CD Single Track | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Society Building
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Part 3-How to Pray
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - October 19, 2008
Part 3 in a series of sermons given during the spiritual growth program, "Building Healthy Relationships". This week's focus is about Connecting with God. The associated task is to invite the Lord into your relationships so they may be strengthened, guided and improved. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Part 3-How to Pray
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 19, 2008
Part 3 in a series of worship services given during the spiritual growth program, "Building Healthy Relationships". We go to the doctor when we know that we need help in healing. Once we have identified our spiritual illness by observing our intentions, our next step is to seek healing. For that we need the Lord, the source of all healing. This week we are invited to deepen our relationship with the Lord through our prayers and to put more of our life in His hands. CD single track. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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By Invitation Only
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 28, 2008
CD Tracks: 1-Opening Songs 10:56 2-Service 17:13 3-Closing Songs 8:14 | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Society Building
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Be the Church: Serve Humanity
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - September 21, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Be the Church: Serve Humanity
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - September 21, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Be The Church: Love Each Other
Worship Service: Adult (full service with music) - August 17, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Be The Church: Love Each Other
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - August 17, 2008
| By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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The Four Keys to Building Heavenly Communities
Worship Service: Children & Adult - August 10, 2008
How love, service, harmony and people combine to make healthy and happy churches | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Ivyland New Church, PA
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Don't Just Go to Church, Be the Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 13, 2008
CD Single Track | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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Don't Just Go to Church, Be the Church
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - July 13, 2008
CD Single Track | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn Cathedral
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How to Be Part of the Christmas Story
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 02, 2007
Two thousand years after Jehovah, creator of the universe, came down and lived among us as Jesus, there are still people walking in darkness. This is why the He came again in the revelation of the internal sense of the Word, and it is why He continues to strive to be born in the hearts of individuals even today. He came to the world in the dark of Christmas Eve, then again in the Age of Enlightenment. He has also come into the individual lives of you and I, first when we learned of His existence and love for us, then again when we first began to understand the deeper implications of His presence in our lives. Now He is calling you to help him be born-€”either for the first time or more fully a second time-€”in the lives of those people around you who walk in spiritual darkness or are trapped by a dragon of false teachings. Answer His call. Be an angel. Bring the good news to those who desperately need it. Tell the world that Jesus is God, and help them to understand what that means in their own lives. Go to www.PittsburghNewChurch.org for audio and video of this message. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PA
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New Church Life - November 2007
"New Church Life" read aloud - November 01, 2007
CD Tracks: 1-Contents & Notes 3:38 2-You Can Heal Spiritual Suffering, a Sermon by Glenn M. Frazier 17:56 3-Two Gates: Baptism and the Holy Supper by Eric H. Carswell 20:25 4-Editorial: O Give Thanks Unto the Lord 3:36 5-Editorial: The Lord and Judgment Day 20:12 6-Editorial: History of the Word on Earth 7:32 7-Church News: Caryndale School Dedication by Thomas L. Kline 2:20 8-Report of the Secretary of the General Church, General Church Schools Directory, Announcements 1:36 | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell; Edward Cranch; New Church Life; Multiple Speakers; Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Bryn Athyn, PA
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Part 3-Be the Church: Serve Humanity
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 29, 2007
This is part three of our summer series, "Be the Church"Âť. In part one ("Connect with the Lord") we reviewed the seven basic components of a life in the church. Then last week, in part two ("Love One Another"), we discussed what it meant to be the church to one another as part of the communion of saints. This week, in part three, "Serve Humanity"Âť, are are going to talk about doing good deeds as a church. Good works are not optional. Which good works we do, and how and when we do them, are left to us to decide. But the Lord does not want people in this world to suffer and it is our obligation as his church to do something to make the world better. We start by shunning evils and performing our daily occupations, and also by being good citizens and good spouses and parents. But the Lord asks more of us. The world is full of natural as well as spiritual suffering, and we are not meant to ignore either. When doing good works, it is important that we do them justly and from good judgment. Indiscriminately giving money to anyone who asks for it, for instance, may do as much harm as good. At the same time it is a mistake to let our fears of doing the "wrong" good deed stop us from ever attempting good works at all. So long as we try to use our best judgement, and try to do it out of the kindness of our hearts and not merely with the hope of some reward, the Lord will bless us and lead us to become ever better at it. Now, natural charity is meant to be a foundation for spiritual charity, so in two weeks we will have part four, "Proclaim the Good News"Âť. To see the truth of this message and to learn how to apply it to your life, read Matthew 25:34-40 and True Christian Religion 459:13-17, then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here, and then try out what you learn in your life. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (www.PittsburghNewChurch), where it was preached, TheoBlog.com, the New Church (www.NewChurch.org), and for free at the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PA
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Part 2-Be the Church: Love One Another
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 22, 2007
In part one of our series, we reviewed our individual responsibilities to the Lord as citizens of his kingdom on earth, the Church. They are to live a life of piety (praying, reading the Word, and worshiping the Lord) and a life of charity (repenting, shunning evils, and serving other people) so that we may be born again. In Part 2, we are talking about how we can be the church to one another. In The Gospel of John, the Lord tells us, "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."Âť A very powerful and important way we can keep this commandment is by supporting each other in one another's personal spiritual journeys. True Christian Religion teaches that the Church as a person's neighbor provides true teachings and good deeds by which that person enters the Lord's kingdom. If each of us is to be the church, then each of us is responsible for supporting our spiritual brothers and sisters as they try to understand truths and to do good deeds. It is because the church - which is made up of each one of us - helps us in this way that we are to love and honor our spiritual mother the church as one of the highest forms of neighbor. And when we are the church to one another and are loving the church in one another, we form a spiritual community of individuals striving to help one another to become better people. This community the Writings for the New Church call the "communion of saints". But the communion of saints also includes people you have never met. In Part 3, we will look at ways we as a church can be a good neighbor to the rest of the world in "Be the Church, Part 3: Serve Humanity"Âť. To see the truth of this message and to learn how to apply it to your life, read John 13:31-24 and True Christian Religion 145-146, and then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (www.PittsburghNewChurch.org) where it was preached, TheoBlog.com, NewChurch.org, and for free at the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PA
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Part 1-Be the Church: Connect with the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 15, 2007
Welcome to our series, "Don't Just Go to Church, Be the Church!"Âť The church is not the priesthood, nor is it some abstract thing apart from you. The church is simply the group of people who follow the Lord, and you are called to be one of them. For the next several Sundays we will be talking about what it means to be citizens of the Lords' kingdom on earth. In our first part, "Connect with the Lord"Âť, we begin by reviewing what our personal, individual responsibilities to the Lord are. Put briefly, there are seven things the Lord wants us to do: (1) Pray, (2) Read the Word, (3) Worship, (4) Repent, (5) Shun evils, (6) Serve other people, and (7) Regenerate, or be born again. The first three are what are sometimes called the "life of piety", and the next three are called the "life of charity"Âť; the last one is not something we do ourselves, but instead is something the Lord does for us as a result of the other six. To see the truth of this and learn how to apply it to your life, read Luke 17:20-21 and The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 124, 241-245 (included below), and then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (where it was preached), TheoBlog, the New Church, and the Apple iTunes Store. Next week we will begin to talk about our responsibilities to the church in "Be the Church, Part 2: Support One Another". | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PA
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Make Spiritual Victory a Habit
Worship Service: Sermon only - July 08, 2007
Today's message: Leading a good life sometimes seems hard, but if we just make a habit of repenting then the Lord will do all the heavy lifting. To understand and apply this, first read Matthew 11:30, Heaven and Hell 528, Psalm 51, and Heaven and Hell 533, and then listen to the audio of this sermon. It is important to realize, though, that the difficulty of thinking like this and also of resisting evils increases to the extent that we deliberately do evil things - €”in fact, to the extent we become used to doing them until ultimately we no longer see them. Then we come to love them and to excuse them to gratify our love and to rationalize them with all kinds of self-deceptions and call them permissible and good. This happens, though, to people who in early adulthood plunge into all kinds of evil without restraint and at the same time at heart reject everything divine. This sermon was preached at Pittsburgh New Church, and is available at TheoBlog.com, PittsburghNewChurch.org, NewChurch.org, and the Apple iTunes Store. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Pittsburgh, PA
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