Sermon of the Week

Description:  It is easy to feel hurt when someone turns away from something we offer. This Sunday we are talking about reframing rejection so that we don't carry the burden and hurt of another person's choices. References: Luke 6, Luke 10, John 14, Zechariah 8 (NKJV), TCR 652

Bryn Athyn Cathedral   Description:  The New Church offers a unique view of marriage that is inseparably tied in with the life of the church and its teachings . By definition, because of its origin, and from the nature of its love, the New Church vision of marriage is different from the way marriage and its love is defined in our culture today. That unique view invites a different approach to atta...

Description:  "Music" Music has been with us probably from the beginning of the human race, and in each of our lives from our mothers cooing or singing to us. It has the power to affect us, like when David played for Saul. It can take us out of ourselves and connect us with the angels. And as we sing to the Lord, He can bring us closer together in charity and mutual love. References: Lessons: 1 Sa...

Description: Many of us have questions about prayer: how should we pray? Who do I pray to? And does my prayer actually make a difference? The Lord's disciples had similar questions, and this Sunday we'll be talking about the Lord's response when they said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray."

Pittsburgh, PA  Lessons: Numbers 20:14-21, 21:4-9, John 3:1-15, AC 8624:4 Text: Numbers 21:8  

Luke 15:17-24 AC 4235

Bryn Athyn Cathedral  Lessons: Exodus 30:11-15, Matthew 5:13-16, AC 10227 Text: Exodus 30:15

Description: 1st Lesson: Jonah 3:11-4:11 2nd Lesson: Revelation 7:14-17 3rd Lesson: Apocalypse Explained 401:36-37 Sermon: "The Lord Gives us Shade from the Sun" (Text: Jonah 4:4)  

"Wash yourselves, make yourself clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good." (Isaiah 1:16-17) Closing prayer by Rev JF Simons.   References:  Lessons: Isaiah 1:16-19; Matthew 3:1-13; True Christian Religion (TCR) 331, 571 Text: Isaiah 1:16-17

Description:  ACTION acronym for how to pray: A - ask the Lord to be present, to lead your thoughts. C - Contrition. Realize we need to work on ourselves. T - Thanks for blessings....     Boulder, Colorado

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Description:  What the Lord called Joshua and the Israelites to focus on as they prepared to go to war might have surprised them. What can we learn about how to face challenges in our lives? References:  Lessons: Joshua 1:1-9; Arcana Coelestia 901; John 16:31-33 Text: Joshua 1:7

Description: What is the Lord asking us to do when He invites us to "count our blessings?"   References:  Genesis 15:1-6 Psalm 139 Arcana Coelestia 8939

References: Lessons: Exodus 4:1-5, John 15:1-5, AC 6954   Sarver, PA

1st Lesson: Genesis 3:1-5 2nd Lesson: Revelation 12:3-9, 13-17; 20:1-3 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6952.4 Sermon: "The Serpent of Old"

One of the central teachings of the New Church is that the Word has a deeper, spiritual meaning. This meaning runs through every story, every phrase, and even every word. This Sunday we'll talk about this deeper spiritual sense, and why it was revealed only hundreds of years after the Word was written, and the role it plays in the establishment of the New Church.  

This week we continue with the them of the essentials of the New Church, in other words, the core ideas that define what the New Church actually is. Last week we looked at a unique view of God. This week our focus is on life. In the New Church one of the central teachings is that we must follow the Lord's teachings, and it is only through this that we can receive salvation and eternal life. In the...

Our sermon series for New Church Day is going to be three parts. What's new about the New Church? We're going to look at what's new about an idea of the Lord, what's new about how you live your life, what's new about an understanding of the Lord's Word. The first one about the Lord, which we're going to do this Sunday, is going to be all about the oneness of God. How, when we look at the Lord Jesu...

The relevant lessons were Matthew 13:24-30 on the parable of the wheat and tares, and AC #3993:8-9 on "mediate goods."

When are you going to choose heaven? If you keep putting it off, when are you going to get there?

"Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land." (Exodus 23:30) References: Lessons: John 1:parts; Exodus 23:20-30; Revelation 21 & 22 parts

Sermon of the Week - New Church Audio We are living in an unsettling time. Emotions are high, opinions stronger than ever, and charity wanes. We can think we are right and others are blind. But all of us are blind to some degree, from ignorance and from evil. But the key to seeing is the same - to allow the Lord to heal us with His strong truth and call to repentance, to open our eyes, even to the...

Bryn Athyn Cathedral Luke 24:10-35, AE 617:21, AC 3863:14 Text: Luke 14:25,26

References: Lessons: Isaiah 49:26, Luke 24:13-35, Arcana Coelestia (AC) 3863

Bryn Athyn Cathedral Description:  When the Lord's disciples argued over who might sit on the Lord's right hand and left hand in heaven, the Lord called them to think differently about greatness: they should seek to be least, rather than greatest, and to serve, rather than being served (Mark 10). How do we live by those teachings? References: Lessons: Isaiah 53:1-12, Mark 10:32-45, Arcana Coelesti...