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This is the Day that the Lord has Made
Worship Service: Sermon only - 27 Sep, 2015
This message relates to Week 1 of "Living Gratefully." We examine the Lord's desire for us to see His Divine love and wisdom in all things of creation, and how we are to come to better appreciate how we too are the creations of an All-Loving God who is constantly seeking to have us come closer to Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Joy of Making Others Happy
Worship Service: Sermon only - 20 Sep, 2015
This message considers the words that Jacob spoke regarding his son Issachar (Gen. 49:14, 15). They are words that, when understood spiritually, show how we all have a hereditary tendency toward allowing external or worldly rewards to be the motivation for our hard work The Lord is trying to turn our hearts so that we are motivated to work hard and help others, not for reward, but because we have come to find joy in simply being of service to others and making others happy. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Reassured and Comforted by Love
Worship Service: Sermon only - 13 Sep, 2015
This message looks at how angels might see the Lord's face. We reflect on how this is really an experience of His love embracing and comforting, something that all of need to feel from time to time. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
When Will the Lord's Joy Come to Me?
Worship Service: Sermon only - 6 Sep, 2015
Many people are waiting for some future time when they will finally start to feel the Lord's joy, when, in reality, His joy is already all around us, there for us to experience. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Demons We Face Along the Way
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Aug, 2015
This message reflects on how we all have demons that we need to fight, and how the Lord with His love and power is always there to fight those demons and take them away from us. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Don't Beat Yourself Up
Worship Service: Sermon only - 23 Aug, 2015
Sometimes we judge ourselves more harshly than the Lord does. Remember He says, "My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Lord in the Midst of our Stormy Seas
Worship Service: Sermon only - 16 Aug, 2015
There can be times when we find the equivalent of a storm at sea blowing through our life. In those difficult times it is good to remember that the Lord is All-Loving, All-Wise, All-Powerful, and always there for us. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Lord's Gift of the Sabbath
Worship Service: Sermon only - 7 Aug, 2015
The Lord knows that we need to consciously take breaks from the everyday activities of life, this is why He has given us the gift of the Sabbath each week. We need a regular opportunity to step into a space where we can feel His presence, and where we can practice the love that He wants us to share with others. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Finding a New Innocence
Worship Service: Sermon only - 2 Aug, 2015
This message is for those who feel like their innocence has been lost. The Lord offers His reassurance that He is gently leading you into a new type of innocence, which is angelic innocence. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Being Healed of Our Spiritual Blindness
Worship Service: Sermon only - 26 Jul, 2015
The story behind the song Amazing Grace is used as an illustration of the way in which the Lord gradually changes us. If we allow Him to, He takes out of a condition of spiritual blindness and brings us into spiritual sight. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Longing for Peace and Finding Faith
Worship Service: Sermon only - 19 Jul, 2015
Almost every person would like to find peace. This message ties together an increase of peace with an increase in faith. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Kingdom of our God, and the Power of His Christ Have Come
Worship Service: Sermon only - 5 Jul, 2015
This message considers how the birth of the New Church and the birth of the United States of America overlap. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
You Are the Salt of the Earth
Worship Service: Sermon only - 31 May, 2015
This message considers what it will take for each of us to be able to be called, "Salt of the Earth." What are the qualities that we need to possess and how do we acquire these qualities? | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Blessed are the Meek
Worship Service: Sermon only - 17 May, 2015
This message takes a look at the third of the "blessings" spoken about by the Lord at the beginning of His Sermon on the Mount. What does it mean to be a "meek" person? And, what does it mean to "inherit the earth?" | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
One Mother's Love - A Mother's Day Message
Worship Service: Sermon only - 10 May, 2015
We think about Mary, the mother of the Lord, as an illustration of the gift of motherhood. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Lord's Baptism - A Powerful Sign
Worship Service: Sermon only - 3 May, 2015
This message looks at baptism as a powerful sign that every person needs the Lord's help to be cleansed of the negative tendencies that exist in all of our lives. The Lord's own baptism was an important expression of this. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
A Healthy Branch Growing from the Vine
Worship Service: Sermon only - 26 Apr, 2015
This message contrasts the destruction found in the story of the plague of locusts that came upon the Egyptians, with the Lord's message describing Himself as the vine and us as the branches. We die spiritually if we don't have Him in our lives. We thrive if we start living from Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Pentecost Miracle
Worship Service: Sermon only - 12 Apr, 2015
This message consider the events of the Day of Pentecost, about seven weeks after the Lord was crucified and rose again. What, until that time, did the apostles still lack? Understanding this might give us insight into what each of us might still lack as well. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
He Came and Brought Joy: An Easter Message
Worship Service: Sermon only - 5 Apr, 2015
We think about the Lord's communication with the women who came early to the tomb on Easter morning. Their hearts will filled with difficult and negative emotions. The Lord replaced those emotions with joy. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
A Time to Celebrate
Worship Service: Informal Family - 29 Mar, 2015
This Palm Sunday message focuses on the joy that must have experienced that day both in heaven and on the earth. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Where Two or Three Are Gathered
Worship Service: Sermon only - 22 Mar, 2015
We consider what it means to "gather together in the Lord's name." It is not so much His name here that is important, but what we understand to captured in His name. In the name 'the Lord' is an appreciation of the wholeness of His love and wisdom. We are "in His name" when our lives are dedicated to honoring and worshiping everything that His name entails. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Rethinking the Idea of One Bad Apple
Worship Service: Sermon only - 15 Mar, 2015
This message considers Judas Iscariot, not so much as an evil person in his betrayal of the Lord, but as an example of how we are all vulnerable to the negative effects of attacks from the hells. It is important to know that the Lord is far more powerful than the forces of evil ever will be. Judas might appear at first to be a bad apple. But, upon reflection, he might not have been. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Willing to Take a Second Look
Worship Service: Sermon only - 8 Mar, 2015
We are all encouraged to give the Lord's message a second look. Taking a new look might bring to light ideas that weren't seen earlier, ideas that we perhaps weren't ready for before. The same goes for the way we view other people. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Barrier Was Torn in Two
Worship Service: Sermon only - 1 Mar, 2015
We focus on how, when the Lord's earthly body died upon the cross, that the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. This represented how, through the Lord's victories, there would never again be external barriers preventing any person from developing the depth of relationship with the Lord that they want. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
After the Night Comes the Morning
Worship Service: Sermon only - 22 Feb, 2015
This message examines Peter's denial of the Lord and the crowing of the rooster. This is a metaphor for how the Lord leads us through a dark time in life to one that is brighter, from an imperfect stage into one that is relatively more perfect. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ