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Swedenborg Made Simple - Swedenborg
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 10, 2016
Swedenborg claims to have published revelations that are to correct and heal the church. The evidence available prompts us to believe that Swedenborg did have connection with the spiritual world. But it is the works themselves that are his greatest witness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Four Reasons New Year's Resolutions Fail
Worship Service: Childrens Talk only - January 03, 2016
Four Reasons we fail to live out our New Year's Resolutions and other life changes are: making resolutions we don't want to keep, not being willing to suffer self compulsion, not bringing the Lord into the process, failing to fail successfully. If we want to stick to a life change we have to work through these challenges: know that part of us doesn't want to change and that we are going to have to do it anyway, ask the Lord for help, and don't let failure discourage us. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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That Good Part
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 27, 2015
Christmas and the new year are opportunities to reevaluate our life and refocus on our priorities. It is easy for us to get distracted and for the most important things in life to get crowded out. To have peace in our life the most important thing we can do is sit at His feet. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Christmas - Hope in the Christmas Story
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 20, 2015
Hope comes when fear is taken away. The angels of the Christmas story come with a message of hope to take away fear. A message of hope in the Lord that He can help us and save us. And the hope of every new beginning in that direction. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Christmas - The Messier Side of Christmas
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 06, 2015
The Lord came to fight for us, to free us from bad ways of thinking and feeling. To accept His freedom, we have to stand against those thoughts and feelings that feel like part of and pierce our own soul. When we fight and die to our old self, the Lord can bring us into peace and good will. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Thanksgiving - Bless the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - November 26, 2015
Thanksgiving is a wonderful that sets us up to remember what the Lord does for us. As we bless the Lord with song, by sharing His teachings, and confessing Him from heart, He blesses us with all manner of happiness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Gratitude - Gracious Receiving
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 22, 2015
The Lord gives to us abundantly and graciously. We can graciously receive His loving gifts through gratitude. When we receive His love with gratitude it opens our hearts to a deep and lasting happiness. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven on Earth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 15, 2015
It is possible for heaven, the Lord's Kingdom, to come to this world. It would come if we loved the Lord and loved our neighbor as our selves. It would come if we accepted His kingdom in our lives and shared the potential of His kingdom with others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven - Essence of Heaven
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 08, 2015
The Lord Jesus Christ teaches us that heaven is hidden, that heaven is something to wait and be prepared for, and that heaven is within. The New Church teachings add that heaven and hell are known by their delights. Delights are hidden and we have to choose which delights to enjoy so that we can be in heaven and be prepared for eternal life in heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Heaven: Day in the Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 01, 2015
Heaven is a real place with a daily routine that we can relate to. Heaven is not something drastically different from our daily lives. In fact, we can bring a heavenly attitude to our daily life and it can become heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Healing Hurting Relationships - Reconcilation
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 25, 2015
Reconciliation is the final step in the process of healing hurting relationships; the burden of reconciliation rests on those who have wronged another. To step into this phase productively, we have to be able to own our faults and express regret. The ability to own our faults grows most productively out of our own reconciled relationship with the Lord and our sense of His love and forgiveness in our lives. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Healing Hurting Relationships - Forgiving Others
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 18, 2015
Forgiveness is a process that grows out of our relationship with the Lord and spiritual maturity. However, the work we have to do to forgive grows us. Forgiving actions or words calls on the best of us and helps us to begin real forgiveness. Especially if we do it prayerfully following the instructions of Scripture. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Healing Hurting Relationships - The Lord's Forgiveness
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 11, 2015
Healing a hurting relationship is a journey through forgiveness to reconciliation. That journey is a spiritual process that demands a reliance on the Lord God Jesus Christ and brings toward spiritual maturity. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Spiritual Seasons
Worship Service: Informal Family - October 04, 2015
Just like there are seasons in this world, there are seasons to our spiritual life. We can know that hard times will come and that in hard times, better times are coming back. But most important, the Lord Jesus Christ leads us through them to a happier state. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Experience and Spiritual Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 27, 2015
Experience is an important part of spiritual life. We need to hold in tension our own experiences and the experience of Divinely Guided experiences called revelation. Learning from our own experience and the experience of others is an essential part of building faith. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - He Is Risen
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 20, 2015
The Lord God Jesus Christ who is Jehovah can help you. He is able to lead you through a process to a new life, a new resurrection of life which can heal your very character. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - Sacrifice
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 13, 2015
The Lord sacrificed His life to bring us closer to the Divine. The details of His death demonstrates the ways people can separate truth from love, humanity from divinity. To follow the Lord and not deny, we have to take an affirmative attitude toward Scripture and ask “How is it true?” rather than “Is it true?” | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - Paradox
Worship Service: Informal Family - September 06, 2015
Spiritual life challenges us to face the opposition of higher and lower realities – our natural desires and our spiritual desires. We have a divided mind because we are a spirit in a body. Because of this division, there is also the truth of paradox – the reality of truths that seem contradictory but are both true. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - Watch and Pray
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 30, 2015
The Lord Jesus Christ teaches us that there will be a loss of spiritual direction at the end of the Christian era. As culture loses its spiritual center, the Lord challenges us to stay awake spiritually—to hold fast to His teachings—and to pray. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - In Enemy Territory
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 23, 2015
The Lord loves even those people who are against Him. We can see the loving and wise ways that the Lord interacts with those who oppose Him. If we are to follow Him, we can learn from His example. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - A New Heart
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 16, 2015
The nature of heaven and hell are tied up together in three areas of life: marriage, possessions, positions of power. To allow heaven to enter into these areas we need to beg the Lord to open our eyes to the spiritual reality that underlies His teachings in these areas. We can then follow Him more joyfully. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - Seeing Clearly
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 09, 2015
The nature of spiritual sight is that we have a tendency to see what we want. The Lord teaches us many things that contradict our biased sight. If we desire to see reality, we have to keep coming back to the Lord. Following the Lord is a self correcting system that corrects in stages. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Good News - Be Opened
Worship Service: Informal Family - August 02, 2015
There are challenges and problems with being a part of a religious community. We can nullify the Word of the Lord by our tradition. We can make religion an external thing. We can be rude and arrogant to those not of our faith. We can be deaf to the Lord. But if we truly turn to the Lord, He can heal us of these faults. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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2015 Jacob's Creek 8 Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion of Camp's Topic "Freedom and Rationality" - Revs. Matthew Genzlinger, Bradley Heinrichs, Peter Buss Jr., Brett Buick, Derrick Lumsden | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Jr.; Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs; Rev. Matthew L. Genzlinger; Rev. Derrick Lumsden; Rev. Brett D. Buick | Jacob's Creek
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