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Asking for a King
Worship Service: Informal Family - 27 Oct, 2024
The story of the people of Israel asking for a king teaches us about how the Lord wants to lead us by His love for all people, but sometimes we aren’t happy with His love. | By Rev. John L. Odhner , Bryn Athyn Cathedral Undercroft
In the Lord’s Hands
Worship Service: Informal Family - 14 May, 2023
Jeremiah was invited by the Lord to go watch a potter at work. The vessel the potter was making got damaged so the potter started over again and made it into another vessel. Jeremiah’s experience ends with the Lord telling him, “Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand” (Jeremiah 18:6). We will be using this powerful visual image to explore what it means to be in the Lord’s hands. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Luck and Coincidence
Worship Service: Informal Family - 12 Mar, 2023
We know from our Teachings that these phenomena are tools of the Lord’s Providence. When we read the stories of the Word, we can see that the Lord is intricately leading all of the events forward, ultimately leading to his birth into this world. This Sunday, join us as we take a bird’s eye view of the Bible narrative from beginning to end to see how the Lord is delicately and intentionally working in our lives at this very moment. | By Rev. Jeffrey Smith , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Seeing Providence: Old Age
Worship Service: Informal Family - 20 Nov, 2022
On the cross, the Lord told one of the robbers, “Today, you will be with Me in paradise.” The story of Moses at the end of his life, on Mount Nebo, seeing the promised land is a reminder to us that heaven is “right there.” Do we see it? Getting to heaven is the culmination of all that the Lord’s providence does in our lives. Note: Background music is included by permission of the copyright owner John Odhner | By Rev. Kurt Hyland Asplundh , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Seeing Providence- Adulthood
Worship Service: Informal Family - 13 Nov, 2022
Seeing Providence: The Early Years
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 6 Nov, 2022
Seeing Providence: The Early Years
Worship Service: Sermon only - 6 Nov, 2022
Seeing Providence in Our Lives - Week 2. How does Divine Providence work in our lives when we are young? The story of the birth of Moses, in Exodus chapter two, illustrates how the Lord provides for us in our early years. | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Seeing Providence: The Early Years
Worship Service: Informal Family - 6 Nov, 2022
In week 2 of our Journey program, “Seeing Providence,” we will be focusing on the early years of our lives. We will reflect on the dangers and the blessings of the early years of Moses’ life and try to see some glimpses of the Lord’s providence in the dangers and blessings of the early years of our own lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Seeing Providence - Providence Throughout Our Lives
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 30 Oct, 2022
Week 1 in the “Seeing Providence” series. Seeing Providence- is it even possible? New Church teachings suggest we can only see it when we look back on our life, and that we don’t typically “see” or “feel” the Lord’s leading in the present moment. So how does Providence work? This introduction to our new Journey Program, sponsored by Bryn Athyn Church, will explore some of the remarkable, uplifting teachings on Providence, which paint a new and refreshing image of our infinite and loving God. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Seeing Providence: Providence Throughout Our Lives
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Oct, 2022
Week 1: “Seeing Providence” - is it even possible? New Church teachings suggest we can only see it when we look back on our life, and that we don’t typically “see” or “feel” the Lord’s leading in the present moment. So how does Providence work? This introduction to our new Journey Program, sponsored by Bryn Athyn Church, will explore some of the remarkable, uplifting teachings on Providence, which paint a new and refreshing image of our infinite and loving God. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Seeing Providence Throughout Our Lives
Worship Service: Informal Family - 30 Oct, 2022
We begin our four-week Journey series on “Seeing Providence” by looking at the stories leading up to the birth of Moses. Sometimes it is easy to see Providence working in our lives. Other times it can be very hard. What are some ways we can remember that the Lord is always working to bring goodness out of any situation in our lives? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Trusting in God
Worship Service: Informal Family - 10 Jul, 2022
David had been anointed as the next king, but Saul was trying to kill him, and so David had to leave his wife Michal, and his best friend Jonathan, to run away and hide (1 Samuel 20). During this time David wrote many psalms about trusting in God. How can this story about David help us to trust in God as well when things aren’t going the way we want them to? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Magic and Miracles
Worship Service: Informal Family - 16 Jan, 2022
How is “magic” different from “miracles” in the Word? What do “magic" and “miracles” symbolize in our lives today? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
What Helps Good Decision-Making
Worship Service: Informal Family - 17 Jan, 2021
No one hopes to make bad decisions. We all hope to accomplish good things which are our choices. King Jeroboam was promised that his descendants would continue to reign if he followed the Lord but then his fears led him to establish an idol for the people to worship. It was not a good decision. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Misconceptions of Providence - 3 - It's all God or it's all me
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 24 May, 2020
In this sermon series we’ve talked about how the Lord is working in every little detail of what happens in our lives. That can be a profoundly comforting thought but, in other moods, it can make us feel like it doesn’t matter what we do. If it’s all in God’s control, then our decisions mean nothing, really. In other moods, it can feel like God is just some distant force (if He’s there at all) and it’s entirely up to us to figure out what we need to do with our lives and what God is doing or not doing is largely irrelevant to our daily lives. The teachings of the New Church provide another option for how to understand this. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Misconceptions of Providence - 2 - Coincidence? I think not!
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 17 May, 2020
This week we continue our series on misconceptions about Divine Providence. There are moments when something so unlikely and unexpected, and yet so wonderful, occurs, that we cannot help but see it as the hand of God at work in the world. But if God intervenes so forcefully in the world sometimes, it serves to highlight the many times when He does not (apparently) intervene. Why is one person miraculously spared from cancer, while thousands of others are condemned to die? The truth is that God’s Providence is not just at work in the unlikely and the obvious ways we see. His Providence extends to each and every moment of our lives, even down to the most mundane. He is never absent. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
Worship Service: Sermon only - 17 May, 2020
Audio only from a YouTube broadcast made by Pastor Glenn Mac Frazier from The Washington New Church, Mitchellville on Sunday May 17, 2020. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier , Mitchellville, MD
Misconceptions of Providence - If it happened, it was meant to be
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 10 May, 2020
We’re starting a sermon series on misconceptions about Divine Providence. Often when something difficult happens we want to know why—why did this happen? Sometimes the answer that people come to is that “it was meant to be”. But is that true? What does that even mean? How should we think about all the different things that happen in our lives? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Peace Like a River - Trying to Rest in the Lord's Providence: Message of the Day
Talk - 31 Mar, 2020
Message of the Day. Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ariHA2WGHqk | By Rev. Alan M. Cowley , Boynton Beach, FL
Peace Like a River
Worship Service: Sermon only - 1 Dec, 2019
Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. (Isaiah 66:12) | By Rev. Jeremy F. Simons , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Seedtime & Harvest
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 1 Sep, 2019
"Whie the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease." (Genesis 8:22) | By Rev. Brian D. Smith , Mitchellville, MD
Palm Sunday
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 14 Apr, 2019
The significance and spiritual meaning of the Lord's almost last entry into Jerusalem before His Crucifixion. As the Lord entered the final week of His life on earth the tension in the atmosphere, especially in Jerusalem, was reaching a critical point. More than once already some had taken up stones to kill Him for blasphemy, while others could not have been more thrilled at His wonderful words and healing miracles. And even though He continued to reassure His disciples, by this time He had already predicted His crucifixion on at least three occasions. In short some loved Him and some absolutely hated Him, and the clash between these two forces was mounting by the hour. - MDG | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish , Mitchellville, MD
Where are you coming from and where are you going?
Worship Service: Informal Family - 17 Mar, 2019
Here we look at the story of Hagar in the wilderness (Genesis 16). We all get lost at times, sometimes painfully so. How does the Lord help us find our way? How does He help us find ourselves again? His way of leading us back to hope and purpose can be different from what we expect. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Justice - or Judgement
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 10 Mar, 2019
When we cry out for justice, what do we mean? Isn't it often really that we want someone to face the consequences for some wrongdoing and be punished? This sermon explores the delicate balance between these two things in our spiritual lives. - MDG | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish , Mitchellville, MD
"Mercy"
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 4 Mar, 2019
MERCY: What is it, and How do we Practice it? People have all sorts of ideas about this, some of which are actually cruelty or foolishness in disguise. Listen what the Lord says about this, i.e., how beautiful and how challenging true mercy can be, both to give and to receive. ~ MDG | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish , Mitchellville, MD