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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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Psalm 100 - He Who Made Us
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 07, 2018
We praise the Lord because He made us, cares for us, and for who He is. Our response is to come to Him with love by means of what He teaches. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Yoked Together, Part 4 - Strengthening Bonds
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 23, 2018
The Lord created marriages and He created them to grow stronger forever. We can strengthen our marriage by choosing to use means of strengthening relationships that He created. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Yoked Together, Part 3 - Men and Women
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 16, 2018
The Lord created men and women with the design that they be able to be joined together body, mind, and soul. The origin of all bodily differences has its origin in the soul. Knowing and understanding these differences allows for us to respect and love the differences and their ability to join us together. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Yoked Together, Part 2 - Origin and Correspondence of Marriage
Worship Service: Children & Adult - September 09, 2018
The origin of marriage is from the marriage of goodness and truth or love and wisdom. And marriage corresponds to the marriage of the Lord and the church. Marriage when seen from this source gives us a profound view of marriage. Especially, when we see that the Lord Jesus Christ brings these to us from Himself. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Yoked Together, Part 1 - A High View of Marriage
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 02, 2018
Marriage is the experience of being yoked together with someone of the opposite sex. Into this Divine institution, all the spiritual and heavenly delights possible have been gathered. To experience these delights and joys we must go to the source of them, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our ability to receive and experience marriage, depends on our relationship with Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Noah, The Remnant
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 26, 2018
The story of Noah teaches us about the state of humanity and how the Lord protects humanity. Humanity as a species has desires passed down that lead away from the Lord and Love; these are called hereditary evil. But the provides that there are people who will follow him, and in particular he provides times and experiences of goodness and truth that sustain us through our own floods. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News, Part 3 - The Second Coming
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 19, 2018
The Good News of the New Church is that Lord Jesus Christ is coming again. He came again in time through a new revelation. He comes again to us personally when we meet Him in His revelation. The Church is the mechanism of His Coming for each of us and for the world. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News, Part 2 - The Author
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 12, 2018
The Good News of the New Church is that the Lord has come, that he has saved all humanity, and that He can save us as individuals. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News, Part 1 - Repentance
Worship Service: Informal Family - August 05, 2018
The good news of the New Church is that we can be different. The Lord offers us the ability to repent and to change if we are willing to let go of who we were to become who we can be. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Kingdoms, Part 2 - Kingdom of Others or Kingdom of the World
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 29, 2018
Love to the neighbor and love of world are opposed to each other. What love rules in us, love of others or the world. These opposing loves will make us rich in heaven or on earth, we can choose which we want to rule in our hearts. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Kingdoms, Part 1 - Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Self
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 22, 2018
Love to the Lord and love of self are opposed to each other. If we enter the kingdom of God, love to the Lord rules. If we do not enter the kingdom of God, it is probable that love of self will rule. If we wish to enter the kingdom of God, by ordering our outward activities to act in conjunction with the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Praise the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - July 15, 2018
The Lord invites our praise not because he needs or wants it, but because it opens us up to receive what he wants to give us. We can praise the Lord for all the good He does and all He is with everything in us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Last Judgment, Part 3 - Personal Last Judgment
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 24, 2018
The Bible uses the image of standing before the Judge to help us understand the process of evaluating our lives to determine our place in the next world. The devil prosecuse use. The Lord acts as our counsellor and our judge. Our end state is determined most ultimately by our character more than the a moment of truth. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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New Church Day - Pray for the Coming of the Kingdom
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 17, 2018
At the Book of Revelation ends with a promise, a warning, an invitation, and an assurance. All of these make up the blessings of entering the Lord's kingdom, and we are instructed to pray for the coming of His Kingdom. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Last Judgment, Part 2 - Consequences of the Last Judgment
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 10, 2018
The Last Judgment took place in the year 1757. Because the Lord has completed the Last Judgment, we are in a new era with new inner freedom to understand the Lord and live His teachings. We can, from a new inner freedom, work for heaven on earth from the inside out. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Last Judgment, Part 1 - What about the Last Judgment
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - June 03, 2018
The Last Judgment took place in the year 1757 and Swedenborg was called to witness and testify of that occurance. Without that witness we would not know that the Last Judgment took place. How we face the problems of the world will depend on what the future holds in store. Knowing that we are not waiting for the Last Judgment puts us in the position of needing to clean up our act and take seriously that the Kingdom of the Lord comes only from within. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Remembering Dale Shultz - Loss and Meaning
Worship Service: Informal Family - May 27, 2018
Dale Shultz died in Vietnam from wounds received from a booby-trap. The meaning of his sacrifice was not in his death, but in his character and his intentions. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Joseph and Protecting
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 20, 2018
The Lord Jesus Christ needed an natural father and Joseph accepted that role. Joseph both adopted, provided, protected, and sacrificed for Jesus. The story of our Lord Jesus Christ does not spend much time on Joseph as natural father, but more on Jesus as Son of God. Jest like Joseph our fatherhood depends on our heavenly father. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Motherhood and Nurturing
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 13, 2018
Mary was the mother of Jesus, the man who became God. The relationship between Many and Jesus can teach us about motherhood. The role is to feed with goodness and the goal is to launch a successful human being. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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From Heaven? Or from man?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 22, 2018
The question we must answer is Scripture from heaven or from man. If Scripture is from heaven we have a different obligation to believe it. The academic evidence can sometimes be used to indicate a belief in Scripture from man, but the evidence affirms our belief in Scripture and our Lord Jesus Christ. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Affirmative Attitude
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 15, 2018
When we approach the Word we can come with an affirmative or negative attitude. The negative attitude withholds belief in the Word of God until it can be proved by facts and rational arguments. The affirmative attitude approaches the Word of God as true because it is the Word of God. The question to ask to pursue a rational faith is not: is it true? The question to ask is: how is it true? | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Easter - The Lord Rises Again
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 01, 2018
The Lord rises again for each of us when we accept His good and truth into our lives. And the New Church is a movement for the Lord to resurrect Christianity and bring our world new life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Palm Sunday - If You Had Known . . .
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 25, 2018
The Lord teaches us that if we don't know what makes for peace we will not be able to have it. To have people we have to seek it a pursue it. The pursuit of peace is a pursuit of trust in and following the Lord. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Will of God, Part 4 - Covenant
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 11, 2018
The Lord invites to enter into a covenant or agreement with Him. Our part is to do what He says and His part is blessing and happiness. Taking the Holy Supper is like a signature on our part of the covenant. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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