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Back to Basics: How Does God Work
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 27 Jul, 2025
Back in February I gave a sermon called Back to Basics: Who is God? In that sermon we covered why beliefs about God matter so much, and how God is simultaneously infinite and omnipotent and loving and personal. We only briefly touched on the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. How can God be all three of these and still be one? We will explore how these aspects of God all work together in the one person, the Lord Jesus Christ. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Warriors for the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 1 Jun, 2025
What does it mean to engage in spiritual warfare? What does it take to become like one of the angels of Michael and fight for our Lord? These questions are important for us to explore because spiritual life is not always easy or peaceful. There are times when we struggle to follow the Lord and when it takes real effort to treat people the way He commands us to treat them. If we want the New Church to descend into the world then we must prepare the way by engaging in this conflict: before the Holy City can descend, the dragon must be confronted and defeated, and we must each do that as individuals if we want that Holy City to be present in our lives. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Back to Basics: Part 2, What is Salvation?
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 9 Feb, 2025
Salvation is at the heart and soul of Christ’s message. But what actually is it? Salvation is meaningless if we do not understand what we are being saved from and how we can achieve that salvation. The New Church teaches that all of us have an inclination towards evil that would destroy us if we weren’t protected by the Lord; and that to be truly and fully saved, we need to look to the Lord, reject evil, and live a good life, based on His teachings. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Back to Basics Part 1 Who is God
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 2 Feb, 2025
The most important question that almost any religion tries to answer is, “Who is God?” In our day to day lives we may find other questions more pressing, such as “how do I keep my temper when my three-year-old scrawled crayon all over the wall AGAIN?” But how we see God actually filters into how we see all those basic day-to-day questions of life. So who is God, and how can we come to know Him better? That’s what we’ll explore this Sunday. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
The Last Judgement Out With the Old
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 9 Jun, 2024
One of the most astonishing teaching of the New Church is that the Last Judgment and the Second Coming of the Lord have already taken place... and hardly anyone noticed! This is because they are spiritual events rather than physical ones. This Sunday we'll talk about how a Last Judgment, which took place in the spiritual world hundreds of years ago, paved the way for a new spiritual era and impacts all of us even today. Then the following Sunday we'll explore how the Lord can come again into our lives, as His Second Coming continues with every individual. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
The Worldwide Church, Giving Freely
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 3 Mar, 2024
The New Church has many amazing truths, truths that we can be grateful to have found. They give us insight into life and inspire us to grow spiritually. But sometimes we get so caught up in having the truth that we lose sight of the purpose. But there is no point in having the truth if we don’t live it; and one of the ways we live it is by sharing it with others. The truth of the New Church is a gift that has been freely given from the Lord; and it is incumbent on us to freely share it with others. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
The Worldwide Church
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 25 Feb, 2024
The New Church teaches that all people of all faiths can be part of the Lord’s kingdom if they look to the Divine and live a charitable life. The Lord does not limit Himself to one group or another. What then is the point of the New Church? Although the church extends to every corner of the globe, it is still worth striving to embody the Lord’s New Church as a crucial part of that wider, universal church. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
The Second Coming of the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 11 Feb, 2024
What is the most unique thing about the New Church? Maybe our teachings on marriage? Maybe our view of the afterlife? These are certainly distinct teachings, but other religions believe in an afterlife, even if the details are different. Other religions have wisdom to share about marriage, even if the specifics are diverse. No, the most distinct difference in the New Church is that we teach that the Second Coming not only will happen, but has already happened. | By Rev. Calvin Heinrichs , Westville, RSA
New Church Essentials - Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 11 Jun, 2023
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 book of Revelation we see images of what it means to truly live what we believe and fight mightily to put it into practice. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
New Church Essentials - The Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 4 Jun, 2023
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 Jesus Christ, we're seeing the fullness of God. We're seeing the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, all of it together in this one person who we can go to, relate to, have a relationship with, learn from, and worship. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
The New Church - A Stronghold of Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 19 Jun, 2022
Every 19th of June we celebrate the birthday of the New Church. If you were to ask any individual member of the church what the New Church means to them, you would get a great variety of answers; and this variety reflects the beautiful scope and breadth of what the Lord offers through His Church. One common theme however might be gratitude for how much the Teachings of the New Church simply make sense; gratitude that we can enter with understanding into what otherwise would remain mysteries of faith. Our focus this Sunday will be on the strength of the New Church in revealing truth clearly to the understanding. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
The New Church: A Bride and a City
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 5 Jun, 2022
June is the month in which we celebrate the New Church. If we look to the Lord’s Word there are two particular images of what the New Church is, or is supposed to be, like: one image is a woman, clothed with the sun, the other, a holy city shining with gold. Each image speaks to the characteristics that make the New Church what it is. This Sunday we will look deeper to understand how these two pictures help us better understand both the Love and the Wisdom that should be present in everything that the Church is and does. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Collecting Vessels: New Church Education
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 21 Nov, 2021
Periodically, it is useful to reflect on the importance of New Church education and ask why we put so much time and energy into New Church schools. They generally aren’t money makers for the Church. Teaching and upholding new Church values is difficult. So why do we bother? Because of VESSELS! New Church education is all about providing appropriate vessels for our children so that they can learn most effectively. Also, children themselves are vessels and designed to receive input. Their minds are like dry sponges waiting to soak up anything that they hear. And that is why New Church education becomes so vitally important. | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs , Westville, RSA
Strands Through Scipture -2- Precipitation
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 12 Sep, 2021
This Sunday we are going to look at another strand that runs through scripture from beginning to end: the imagery of precipitation. We might think of weather in the Bible as something going on in the background while the real story plays out between the human beings in the story but we can learn a lot about what’s going on in different stories by paying attention to the atmospheric conditions. We’ll look at the symbolism of the whole water cycle and also touch on things like dew, snow, and hail. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
The Essentials of the New Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Aug, 2020
In the book "Apocalypse Revealed" the Lord boils the New Church down to two fundamental concepts referred to as 'the Two Witnesses.' When we start thinking about faith based on these two simple concepts, it brings a wholeness, life and compassionate understanding to our entire faith structure. If we ignore one or the other, our faith becomes harsh, judgmental and shortsighted. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Sent Out and Sent Out Again
Worship Service: Sermon only - 21 Jun, 2020
The Child born to the woman clothed with the sun, described in Revelation 12, represents "the doctrine of the New Church" (see Apocalypse Revealed 543). Our opportunity is to focus on the revelation of the Heavenly Doctrines as the fulfillment of that prophecy. Beyond appreciation is the act of being sent out. The real impact of that revelation is people like us choosing to live an authentic New Church life as described in its pages. | By Rt. Rev. Peter Martin Buss, Jr. , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
New Church Day, 2020
Worship Service: Sermon only - 21 Jun, 2020
This message looks at the birth 250 years ago of the era of the New Church. It considers the role of the New Church, not only on ending slavery, but on every aspect of human life. The end effect is a heaven from the human race in the Lord's heavenly kingdom, His Holy City New Jerusalem. | By Rev. Garry B Walsh , Sarver, PA
Living in a Post-Apocalyptic World, Part 3: The Future of the New Church
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 21 Jun, 2020
What's going to happen in the future of the New Church? What are things going to look like in the next 50 years or the next 1000 years? Will there be a need for another new church? This Sunday, as we celebrate the founding of the New Church 250 years ago, we will try to get a picture of the future of the New Church and an understand of what our role is right now. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Living in a Post-Apocalyptic World - Part 2 - New Foundations
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 14 Jun, 2020
The New Church teaches that the Apocalypse has already taken place: in fact, it took place over 250 years ago, as the New Church was being born into the world. Understanding the spiritual events from that time period can help us better understand the world we live in today. Last week, Malcolm talked about how the mere existence of the New Church did not automatically make people better: even New Church people have, and still can, support abhorrent practices. This week we will talk about the difference the New Church does make, and why it matters that a New Church was established and continues to exist. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Healing Christianity I - Christianity is Damaged
Worship Service: Sermon only - 14 Jun, 2020
The first sermon in a series by Rev. Glenn Mac Frazier entitled "Healing Christianity" originally broadcast from You Tube on Sunday June 14th, 2020. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier , Mitchellville, MD
Our Challenge-2: Meaning vs Confusion
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 15 Sep, 2019
How to Read the Word
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 21 Jul, 2019
“Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.” – Psalm 119:34-35 | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish , Mitchellville, MD
The Spiritual History of the Human Race, Part 3: Christianity and a New Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Jun, 2019
This Sunday we will finish our series on the spiritual history of the human race by talking about the beginning of Christianity all the way until today. What happened that made it necessary for there to be a new church after the church started by Jesus Christ? And where do we go from here—what do we believe will happen in the next 500 years of the spiritual history of the human race. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
The Slow Growth of the New Church
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 23 Jun, 2019
The slow growth of the New Church and what, if anything, can be done about it. | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish , Mitchellville, MD
The Last Judgment
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 9 Jun, 2019
The Last Judgment in the spiritual world and the revalation of the spiritual sense of the Word. Which came first, how and why, and what this has to do with us some 200 years later. - MDG | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish , Mitchellville, MD