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Pushing Over the Pillars of Self-Love
Worship Service: Sermon only - 9 Jul, 2017
This message shows that the two pillars of the temple of the Philistines that Samson pushed over at the end of his life, represent problematic things that a person's life might be based on that cannot stand up to the Lord and His teachings. Our life, instead, should be supported by the pillars of His message, which teaches us that we need faith and charity together in our hearts, minds and actions. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Symbolism of Samson - or: The Lord has all the answers
Worship Service: Sermon only - 2 Jul, 2017
The biblical story of Samson is a metaphor describing the Lord's incredible strength. That strength can give us the answer to any question in life, so long as we are actively looking for those answers in the stories of His Word. The answer might not be obvious in the literal text, but it can flow from the Lord Himself, through that text. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Safe Within the Walls of the Holy City
Worship Service: Sermon only - 18 Jun, 2017
The walls of the Holy City New Jerusalem are a picture of the Lord's love and protection. Once a person is within those walls, they are safe from every attack of the hells. The people who are there, are those who have allowed the Lord to transform them. Their inner and outer lives have come to shine with the spirit and activity of true charity. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Innocence of a Lamb
Worship Service: Sermon only - 4 Jun, 2017
In the Book of Revelation, the Lord presents Himself as a Lamb that has been led to the slaughter. This was a picture of how He is innocence itself. It also shows us how people throughout the years have tried to destroy innocence. But, like the Lord Himself, innocence with any person is never dead. Instead, it can be brought back to life by the Lord and become a true willingness to be led by Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
What Does God Look Like?
Worship Service: Sermon only - 28 May, 2017
This week we ponder the question: What does God look like? The Scriptures make it clear that people have been unable to see God at anytime. Yet, John on the Isle of Patmos (Revelation 1) did appear to see Him. This, though, was not God Himself in His essence, but an important manifestation suited to our finite comprehension, and therefore is a very useful image to help us in developing our relationship with Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Standing Up for Her Children: A Mother's Day message
Worship Service: Sermon only - 14 May, 2017
The mother of the disciples James and John approached the Lord and asked if it were possible for them to sit at His right hand and His left in His kingdom. Her understanding of the nature of the Lord's kingdom might have been faulty at the time, but, that doesn't mean that she wasn't being led by two powerful united forces from the Lord, the love of marriage, or conjugial love, and the love of children, or storge. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Behold, the Days Have Come
Worship Service: Sermon only - 7 May, 2017
This message reflects on the risen Lord and the secrets He revealed to His disciples on His final walk with them from Jerusalem to Bethany before He rose to heaven before their eyes. The primary secret was that His love for each of us is contained within every minute detail of His Word. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Peace Be With You
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Apr, 2017
When the Lord suddenly appeared in the room with His disciples on the evening of Easter Sunday, His first words to them were, "Peace be with you." New Church teachings help us to understand that the risen Lord was Peace itself. Therefore, He was saying to, not only His disciples, but all people, "I am Peace, and I am with you!" | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Understanding Easter and the Lord's Glorification
Worship Service: Sermon only - 16 Apr, 2017
When the time was right, the Lord intervened in the most perfect way to ensure that humanity's pathway to Him would forever remain open. He took on a mortal body, allowed it to be crucified, and rose again on the third day. He glorified His body, meaning that the natural was transformed and became Divine. In doing this, the Lord ensured that He had the last tool that He needed to ensure that all people could be saved. Humanity continues to exist, and the way to heaven remains open, because the Lord came into the world. We can say that these things exist because of Easter. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Qualities of a King: A Palm Sunday message
Worship Service: Sermon only - 9 Apr, 2017
The Lord as He rode triumphantly into Jerusalem, was appearing as the type of earthly leader that the people thought they wanted. His true intension, was to present Himself as the heavenly and eternal leader He knew that they needed. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
A High Quality Life leads to a High Quality Faith
Worship Service: Sermon only - 2 Apr, 2017
In the New Church we are given the vital teaching, that it is the quality of the charity in our life that most defines us. As the charity in our life grows, so the faith we have in the Lord will also grow. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Becoming Whole and Clean
Worship Service: Sermon only - 19 Mar, 2017
The Lord washed His disciples' feet as a symbolic way of showing us that we need to focus on avoiding any areas of filth in the way we live our conscious lives. In other words, we need to work on being an outwardly cleaner person so that the Lord can subsequently cleanse us on the level of our spirit. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Becoming More Christ-Like
Worship Service: Sermon only - 12 Mar, 2017
Christianity, at the organizational or individual level, suffers when there is no genuine charity. Therefore, to be more Christian, or to be more Christ-like, requires a transformation that sees a growing focus on loving the Lord and loving others. When true charity is combined with a true understanding of the Lord's message, the church and the individual, rather than facing destruction, grows into what the Lord and other people need the church and the individual to be. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Hoping in the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - 5 Mar, 2017
This message reflects on how we might, at times, feel trapped by life. To offset this we need to hold onto hope in the Lord that He has a wonderful future instore for us. We should never lose faith in Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Created in the Image and Likeness of God
Worship Service: Sermon only - 26 Feb, 2017
The Creation story in Genesis speaks about how human beings have been created in the Lord's image and likeness. This message explores what this means for each of us. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Giving the Dove a Place to Rest Her Foot
Worship Service: Sermon only - 19 Feb, 2017
In the story of Noah and the Flood, Noah send out a dove that is said at first to have found no place to rest her foot. In a spiritual sense this means that there was too much falsity in someone's mind at that time to let the Lord's truth find a home. This message reflects on the need to disperse those floodwaters of falsity. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Do Good, and Lend, Hoping for Nothing in Return
Worship Service: Sermon only - 12 Feb, 2017
This worship message is in honoring of everyone who is a caregiver. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Absolutely Everything is the Lord's
Worship Service: Sermon only - 29 Jan, 2017
'Secrets of Heaven' 123 states that "Absolutely everything is the Lord's." This message explores the life-changing reality of truly believing this. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Inviting Peace and Order into Our Lives
Worship Service: Sermon only - 22 Jan, 2017
This message reflects on how the Lord is life itself and therefore order itself. We are in peace when our lives are aligned with His order. We feel anxiety and similar challenges when we are not aligned with Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Becoming a Child of Light
Worship Service: Sermon only - 15 Jan, 2017
The basis of this message is the parable of the Unjust Steward. The Lord explains how humanity often lives in self-imposed darkness because of a preference for false thinking over what is true. And so the Lord encourages us to open our eyes to the light so that as we live useful lives based on earthly knowledge, we can do so from a higher light and higher motivations. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Baby Blessed by Simeon
Worship Service: Sermon only - 1 Jan, 2017
This message examines the story of Simeon taking up and blessing the infant Lord. Simeon represents a state of life when we have begun to accept the Lord's message, not just intellectually but with our heart as well. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Visitors to the Baby Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - 25 Dec, 2016
This Christmas message looks at the spiritual significance of the two difference types of people who are described as have come and visited the baby Lord. Those two types of people were the shepherds and the wise men, or magi. Each, we are taught, represent the types of spiritual qualities that lead a person to come closer to the Lord and be redeemed by Him. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
John the Baptist - A Gift to the World
Worship Service: Sermon only - 18 Dec, 2016
Christmas is a good time to reflect on the gifts that the Lord has given, not only throughout the year but throughout our lives. In the Christmas story, Zacharias and Elizabeth were given the gift of a child in their old age. It turns out that their baby, John the Baptist, was the Lord's gift to all humanity. He needed to be the "prophet of the Highest" so that the Lord Himself could come with His gift of redemption and eternal heavenly joy. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
The Babe Leapt For Joy
Worship Service: Sermon only - 11 Dec, 2016
This message considers how the Lord came into the world to re-open the opportunity for all people to experience heaven's joy. This was a joy that is pictured in the babe leaping in the womb of Elizabeth at the sound of Mary's voice. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
God Misunderstood
Worship Service: Sermon only - 4 Dec, 2016
Humanity has long misunderstood the essential nature of the Lord God our Creator. As we picture the tiny infant Lord in the Christmas story, it is so important to understand that the Holy Child was the Son of God, and indeed was God from God. Our understanding of all that follows in the New Testament hinges on this, as does our understanding of our own salvation. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ