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And They Remembered His Words
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 17, 2022
Easter Festival Service | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick | Bryn Athyn CathedralFinding the Risen Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 17, 2022
Easter is of course about the Lord’s Resurrection after His Crucifixion. But just because the Lord rose and lived again does not mean that we ourselves feel His living presence within ourselves. There is a process of being led to Him; it is a process that involves both the head and the heart, a process that involves grief and joy, faith and doubt. This Easter Sunday we will explore what the Gospel of John has to tell us about finding the Risen Lord in our own lives. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSARisen
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 17, 2022
On Easter morning the angel said: “He is risen! He is not here.” (Mark 16:6) What does it mean for the Lord to be “risen” in our lives? Where do we sometimes look for the Lord, and where should we be looking instead? | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallPalm Sunday: A Happy or Sad Event?
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 10, 2022
As Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday many people rejoiced and Jesus wept. Why on this day of apparent triumph was Jesus sad? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralPalm Sunday: Jesus Wept for the People of Jerusalem
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 10, 2022
Jesus' responses to events on Palm Sunday are reflections of His perfect love for all people and also His efforts to stop harmful events. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralConfess the Lord
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 10, 2022
In the Gospel of John, Palm Sunday is described in the context of the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead. There were those who knew of this miracle and hated the Lord for it; there were those who knew of it but kept quiet from fear; and there were those who knew of it and so joyfully confessed the Lord as their king. It was this last group that welcomed Jesus with palm branches. This Sunday we will explore how we too can bear witness to the Lord and rejoice in His coming. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSARiding on a Donkey
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 10, 2022
The Lord triumphantly entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey. What does this represent about the way the Lord enters our lives? | By Rev. John L. Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallThe Presence of the Lord
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 04, 2021
After the Lord rose from the tomb, He was present with His disciples -- and with all of us -- in a new and different way. Was He more present, or less present? Because of this pandemic, we’ve often been unable to be physically present with our loved ones. But, what can the Easter story teach us about the power of spiritual presence? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallSeeing the Risen Lord
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 04, 2021
Easter Sunday | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Bryn Athyn CathedralFrom Disbelief to Joy
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 04, 2021
Easter is an opportunity to reflect on the Lord’s life, death, and resurrection. But what if you’re not sure what you believe about all of that? Or what if you believe that it happened but it doesn’t feel particularly relevant to your life? In either case, you’re in good company. On Easter morning the disciples did not immediately believe that the Lord had risen from the dead. It took them a while and a number of experiences to get to the point where they believed that it was true. On Sunday we’ll look at some of the stories after the Lord’s resurrection from the Gospel of Luke and what we can learn from them about the process of growing in our belief in the Lord. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAThe Lord is Risen Again
Easter song with piano accompaniment | By Multiple Artists | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallClothes on the Road
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 28, 2021
Why did people put their clothes on the donkey and on the road to prepare for the Lord’s triumphal entry? In what way can we also put our “clothes on the road” to make way for the Lord in our life? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallPalm Sunday: The Lord Coming to Help
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - March 28, 2021
The people of Jerusalem rejoiced as Jesus rode into the city on Palm Sunday. But they didn't know what kind of a leader He intended to be. Can we accept the Lord as a God who comes to help us? | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralThe Coming Kingdom
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 28, 2021
When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey the onlookers took it to be an ancient symbol of kingship. And indeed, it was. Yet their expectations of that coming kingdom were far removed from the kingdom that Jesus sought to establish. Jesus knew that the people expected an immediate overthrow of oppression and the onset of an earthly kingdom with Jesus as their benevolent ruler. The kingdom Jesus actually established was one of hard work and repentance, in other words, a spiritual kingdom. This Sunday we will look at how our own expectations are contrary to what the Lord actually intends for us. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAPreparing for Easter - the Road to Jerusalem
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 14, 2021
Easter is still pretty far away (7 weeks, more or less). But the time from Ash Wednesday (17 February this year) until Easter Sunday is generally seen as a time of preparation for the holiday. You may remember that last year we suggested giving up a bad habit or picking up a new spiritual practice in this time period. This year we'll suggest similar ways to prepare. Specifically, this Sunday we'll look at how Jesus' steady ascent from the backwater of Galilee along the road up to the metropolis of Jerusalem and His own death can help us prepare for our own celebration of His resurrection at Easter. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAUplifting - The Ascension
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 26, 2020
The last part of the Easter story is “The Ascension;” the time when the Lord was lifted up into heaven. What does this story symbolize in our own lives? And how can we be “lifted up” into states of heaven as well? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallThe Lord Rising on Easter
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - April 12, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralSeeing the Lord: The Veil Was Torn in Two
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 12, 2020
| By Rev. Eric H. Carswell | Bryn Athyn CathedralRising from the Tomb
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 12, 2020
For the disciples, the Easter story took place during a time of fear and sadness. Many of them had lost hope. But Easter morning represents renewed hope, and the truth that the Lord doesn’t let anything happen that He can’t bring goodness out of. | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman HallWhy the Lord Appeared First to Mary Magdalene
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 12, 2020
This Easter Sunday we are going to be focussing on the women at the tomb. Mary Magdalene, Mary (who had given birth to Jesus), and some other women were the first people at the tomb on Easter morning. And Mary Magdalene was the first person to see the Lord in His resurrection. Why was this and what can we learn from this about what in us will be most able to see and believe in the risen Lord? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSAMary, Peter and John
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 12, 2020
Easter Sunday. | By Rev. Michael K. Cowley | Toronto, ONEaster 2020
Worship Service: Sermon only - April 12, 2020
Audio only of a YouTube broadcast made from The Washington New Church, .Mitchellville, Maryland on Easter Sunday 2020. | By Rev. Glenn (Mac) Frazier | Mitchellville, MDRejoicing in Hope
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 05, 2020
When Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the crowds greeted Him with joy. Yet at that point, nothing had changed: after merely looking around, Jesus left the city again to spend the night on the Mount of Olives. The joy and hope of the crowds was only realized after the events of Jesus' capture, trial, torture, death, and resurrection. Even so, the joy of Palm Sunday is an important part of the Easter Story. Many of us, I am sure, are feeling that we have little to rejoice in at the moment: we have a long struggle ahead of us. But even if we cannot rejoice in the conclusion of this process yet, perhaps we can rejoice in the hope that the Lord will lead us to victory. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn | Westville, RSAThe Lord as Our King
Worship Service: Informal Family - April 05, 2020
On Palm Sunday we celebrate the Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem as a King. In times of crisis it’s comforting to know that Someone is in charge. But how exactly is the Lord a King in times like this? And how do we turn to Him as our King? | By Rev. Solomon J. Keal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall