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The Lies of the Serpent
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 27 Jul, 2025
The first liar in the Word is the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Ever since then, people have had trouble telling the truth. But in the book of Revelation, the serpent, also known as the dragon, is defeated. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Invention of Lying
Worship Service: Sermon only - 27 Jul, 2025
The Heavenly Doctrine tells us fascinating things about how deception and lies made their way into the world. We are also told about the meaning of the eighth commandment and how the Lord is leading us into an age when bearing false witness will be increasingly rare. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for Doris A. Halterman
Memorial Service - 21 Jun, 2025
Doris A. Halterman passed into the spiritual world on June 9, 2025. She was 89 years old. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Everyone Who Asks Receives
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 11 May, 2025
On Mother’s Day we consider the origin of the love that leads us to care for children, that makes the birds sing, and that causes flowers to bloom. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Mother’s Day
Worship Service: Sermon only - 11 May, 2025
"There is a divine field of heavenly love that constantly radiates from the Lord. From this field an earthly field arises. It is a field of love for babies and children. It is absolutely universal.” (True Christian Religion 308) As we honor this heavenly influx on Mother’s Day we also honor the ways that our church, our community, and our country are like a mother to us. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for F. Lee Moorhead
Memorial Service - 5 Apr, 2025
How Saul Lost his Donkeys and found a kingdom
Worship Service: Informal Family - 13 Oct, 2024
A Charter Day service about our goals. We don’t always find what we are looking for. Sometimes what we find is much better. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
The Narrow Way
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 29 Sep, 2024
“The Narrow Way” Does the Lord’s parable in Matthew 7:13 mean that only a few people go to heaven? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
A Blessing and a Curse
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 29 Sep, 2024
“A Blessing and a Curse” We look for unity, not polarization, from our leaders. Yet the Word is full of stories about division as well as unity, and both play an important role in our regeneration. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for Gayle Fors
Memorial Service - 14 Jul, 2024
The Cherubim around the Throne
Worship Service: Informal Family - 9 Jun, 2024
In Revelation 1 John sees the Lord with seven lampstands on the Isle of Patmos. In chapter 4 he enters heaven and sees Him on a throne surrounded by many more things, including four cherubim in the forms of a lion, a calf, a man and an eagle. The roles that these cherubim play in the ongoing story in Revelation are the same roles that they play in the lives of every one of us. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
Memorial Service for Lauretta Klein
Memorial Service - 4 May, 2024
Why Does the Lord Need Guards to Protect Him?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 28 Apr, 2024
In several stories in the Word the Lord is surrounded by guards. Why is this? What do they do? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Guardians of Holiness
Worship Service: Sermon only - 28 Apr, 2024
One of the most brilliant devices that the Lord has built into creation is His way of protecting us from His overwhelming power, leaving us in freedom to think and do what we want. The heavenly watchdogs that appear in both the Old and the New Testaments show how He does this. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for June Marie Smith
Memorial Service - 26 Apr, 2024
Memorial Service for Francis P. Cauthorn
Memorial Service - 4 Mar, 2024
A Chariot of Horses
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 7 Jan, 2024
Is the New Year pulled in by donkeys, camels or horses? Camels and donkeys are wonderful animals, but Isaiah tells us to look for the horses. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
"A Lion on a Watchtower"
Worship Service: Sermon only - 7 Jan, 2024
In each New Year we have a chance to look forward to what is coming up in our lives and in the world around us. The prophecy of Isaiah 21 gives us an idea of what to look for. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for Philip S.G. Smith
Memorial Service - 30 Sep, 2023
Jesus' Secret Visit to Jerusalem
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 10 Sep, 2023
Although the Lord preached and performed miracles openly in Jerusalem, on one occasion He went there secretly, and no one knew He was there. Why did He do this? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Lord's Secret Presence
Worship Service: Sermon only - 10 Sep, 2023
Divine Providence 211 makes the surprising statement that if we were to know what the Lord was doing in our lives, we would see Him as our enemy. How is this possible since He is continually protecting us and leading us towards eternal happiness? | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for Rachel Ebert
Memorial Service - 3 Sep, 2023
Memorial Service for Portia King O'Brien
Memorial Service - 1 Jul, 2023
Portia King O’Brien passed into the spiritual world on Saturday, May 30, 2020. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Angel with the Little Book
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 11 Jun, 2023
Revelation chapter 10 tells a story that is at the heart of what New Church day is all about. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Seven Thunders
Worship Service: Sermon only - 11 Jun, 2023
The seven thunders that are heard in Revelation chapter 10 are speaking a message that will literally change the world. But that message is sealed up and John is told not to write it down. The reason for this has to do with what is just about to happen in the book. | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral