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One Sinner That Repents
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 24 May, 2015
The topic for this Sunday is the Lord's mercy. Is the Lord always merciful? Does that mean that it doesn't matter how we live our lives? | By Rt. Rev. Peter Martin Buss, Sr. , Westville, RSA
Life After Death
Worship Service: Sermon only - 17 May, 2015
On Sunday we conclude our two-part series on dying, death, and grief. This Sunday we will focus on life after death. What happens to a person's spirit when their body has died? Are they in some sense still with us? And how do those of us who are left behind continue to live with hope and joy after the death of a loved one? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn , Westville, RSA
Be the Church 3 - Repenting of Evil and Serving Others
Worship Service: Sermon only - 3 May, 2015
We’ve been talking for the past two weeks about different essential aspects of being part of a church. This Sunday we’re talking about how those different aspects all come together and what the ultimate factor is that determines whether you’re part of the spiritual community that’s following the Lord or not. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Be the Church Part 1: "Worshipping the Lord & Caring in Community"
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 19 Apr, 2015
What is the purpose of church? What does it mean to be part of a church? Are churches still relevant in the 21st century? These are some of the questions that we're going to be digging into this Sunday and in the two weeks that follow. The church can be so much more than just a building you walk into; it can be something that changes your life. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Understanding John 3:16
Worship Service: Sermon only - 14 Dec, 2014
John 3:16 is a key text for a lot of Christians in understanding why Jesus was born in the world. It says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only-begotten Son, that everyone who believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” But how do we understand what is meant by this? Who is God? Who is His Only-begotten Son? What does it mean to believe in Him? Why will people who don’t believe in Him perish and not have eternal life? If we can find good answers to these questions we will have a much better understanding of the significance of Christmas. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Do Not Resist Evil 1– Dealing With Doubt
Worship Service: Sermon only - 9 Nov, 2014
When we are attacked by feelings of doubt, shame, fear, or worthlessness, we often try to simply push those feelings away. It usually doesn’t work. But there is another way: instead of resisting these things, we can let ourselves experience them. We can even see what is valuable in them, and let the rest pass on by. This week, the first in a four-part series, we will focus specifically on how to do this with doubt. From our mundane doubts about that day's decisions, to the big doubts about God and the purpose of life - how do we honestly face our doubts without being overwhelmed by them? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn , Westville, RSA
What's New about the New Church? Part 6 - God Made Visible
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 2 Nov, 2014
How we see God is fundamental to how we see the world, ourselves, and other people. The Lord Jesus Christ who is Jehovah came to save us, and He comes again to give us a deeper understanding of who He is. When we understand Him better, we better understand the world, ourselves, and others. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Sarver, PA
What's New about the New Church? Part 5 - Marriage Can Last Forever
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 26 Oct, 2014
In the New Christian perspective, marriage has a spiritual origin. Because marriage is spiritual and from the Lord, the most effective way to work on marriage in any state, is to work on the spiritual development. This means to take on the Lord's purposes, His processes, and His boundaries and make them our own. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Sarver, PA
What's New about the New Church? Part 4 - We Are not Waiting for the End Times
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 19 Oct, 2014
The Second Coming of Jesus is not a future event we are waiting for, but a continuing event we can participate in. The Lord is coming in His Word to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. We have the opportunity to open people to that possibility. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Sarver, PA
What's New about the New Church? Part 3 - What Makes the Bible Holy
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 12 Oct, 2014
The Word is holy in every detail because there is a deeper meaning that has to do with what is happening in our own minds and hearts and a deeper meaning that has to do with what the Lord Jesus Christ and what he went through on earth. When we read the Bible, even if we do not know what that meaning is, we are conjoined with the Lord and connected with the Angels of heaven. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Sarver, PA
Amos- The Word of a Prophet 3 - A Thirst For the Word of the Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - 12 Oct, 2014
In the New Church we tend to focus on the deeper, spiritual meaning of the Bible. But does that mean we can ignore the commandments in the literal sense to care for the poor and feed the hungry? How do we experience the connection between those external things and the deeper meaning within them? We’re continuing our series on the book of Amos and continuing to grapple with the question of how we can hear the Lord speaking to us today through the ancient, sometimes obscure prophecies recorded in the Bible. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn , Westville, RSA
Amos - The Word of a Prophet Part 2: Is It Actually Hard To Understand
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 5 Oct, 2014
Cows of Bashan, sacrifices, worms devouring olive trees, death, opulence, corruption, rivers, exile, oppression, darkness—this is the content of the text that we’re going to be digging into this Sunday. We’re continuing our series on the book of Amos and continuing to grapple with the question of how we can hear the Lord speaking to us today through the ancient, sometimes obscure prophecies recorded in the Bible. This week we’re going to be particularly looking for how we can find a relevant message for our lives in these challenging texts. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
What's New about the New Church? Part 1 - Swedenborg and the Unseen World
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 28 Sep, 2014
This sermon presents a logical case for believing in Swedenborg as a revelator. It also offers a couple examples about how learning about his experiences with the Spiritual World helps us have a better life. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Sarver, PA
Remembering the Sabbath Day
Worship Service: Sermon only - 24 Aug, 2014
What is the weekend for? We take weekends and holidays as a chance to relax and unwind, to rest from our daily work. But we also know that Sunday is also supposed to be a day for worshipping the Lord. Is there a connection between these two things – resting from our work, and worshipping the Lord? How do we find deep and abiding rest and recreation in remembering the Sabbath day? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn , Westville, RSA
Embraced By His Love: a New Church Day message
Worship Service: Sermon only - 22 Jun, 2014
| By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Phoenix, AZ
Heaven on Limited Offer
Worship Service: Sermon only - 15 Jun, 2014
When are you going to choose heaven? If you keep putting it off, when are you going to get there? | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Come Quickly
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 15 Jun, 2014
2 lessons, Family Address | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden , Boynton Beach, FL
Idolatory 4: Other People's Idolatory
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 8 Jun, 2014
For the past few weeks we’ve been looking at idolatry in ourselves—how we can be tempted to worship idols of various kinds instead of Jesus Christ. This Sunday we’re going to dig into the difficult question of how to respond to other people’s idolatry. How should we treat people who worship other gods than us? And the even more challenging question, how should we treat people in our own church or family or community that have different beliefs and priorities than we do? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
The Most Important Things The Lord Said
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 8 Jun, 2014
The New Church is based on a few basic ideas from which everything else comes. The General Church of the New Jerusalem holds a copyright on one hymn. Used by permission. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Jerusalem Shall Be Called The City of Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 8 Jun, 2014
3 lessons, reflections , & sermon | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden , Boynton Beach, FL
The Two Witnesses
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 8 Jun, 2014
What is the New Church? According to Apocalypse Revealed 490, there are two essentials of the New Church, represented by the two witnesses of Revelation 11: "That the Lord is the God of heaven and earth and that His Human is Divine" and "conjunction with the Lord by means of a life in accordance with the precepts of the Ten Commandments." | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn , Dawson Creek
The Book of Life and Last Judgment
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 1 Jun, 2014
3 lessons, Family Address | By Rev. Kenneth J. Alden , Boynton Beach, FL
Idolatory, Part 1 - Making our Own Idols
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 18 May, 2014
Most of us are not in danger of making a physical statue to worship, but that doesn't mean there aren't other kinds of idols we can be tempted to make. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
7 Practices of Peace - Cultivating
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 23 Feb, 2014
Once we've acknowledged God's presence in our lives, and begun to see that there is a higher way, we are ready to take action (cultivating). These practices lead us toward creating a life that continues to be a blessing to others. The small seeds within these actions will go on to bear more fruit, more seeds, positively affecting people we may never meet. Gen 1:9-13, AC 9, TCR 529, TCR 528, AC 29 | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
7 Practices of Peace - Awakening
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 9 Feb, 2014
In this first stage, before the light hits, we grope in darkness. Since we are asleep to the real, spiritual world within everything, our life is "empty, dark and void." The change begins when we start to acknowledge some higher power, something more than the shallow life we've been living. This is like a light dawning, bringing a first feeling of peace. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA