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Trusting in God
Worship Service: Informal Family - July 10, 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
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Magic and Miracles
Worship Service: Informal Family - January 16, 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
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What Helps Good Decision-Making
Worship Service: Informal Family - January 17, 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
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Misconceptions of Providence - 3 - It's all God or it's all me
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 24, 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
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Misconceptions of Providence - 2 - Coincidence? I think not!
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 17, 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
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Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 17, 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
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Misconceptions of Providence - If it happened, it was meant to be
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 10, 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
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Peace Like a River - Trying to Rest in the Lord's Providence: Message of the Day
Message of the Day. Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ariHA2WGHqk | By Rev. Alan M. Cowley | Boynton Beach, FL
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Peace Like a River
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 01, 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
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Seedtime & Harvest
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 01, 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
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Palm Sunday
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 14, 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
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Where are you coming from and where are you going?
Worship Service: Informal Family - March 17, 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
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Justice - or Judgement
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 10, 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
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"Mercy"
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 04, 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
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Being The Church In Challenging Times
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 03, 2019
Sunday School Service - Children's Talk Title - We Can Be Like The Centurion - 1st Lesson: Matthew 8: 5-13 2nd Lesson: Genesis 9: 18-27 3rd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 788: 1-2, 1032: 2-3 | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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Magical Life
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 24, 2019
How do we think about the workings of Providence in the world and in our lives? Is life full of patterns and underlying "magic?" We compare our modern world views with what we're told about the ancient church and how they understood the world around them. - BDS | By Rev. Brian D. Smith | Mitchellville, MD
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Close Enough to Catch
Worship Service: Sermon only - February 10, 2019
It is often said that the Lord will never give us more than we can handle. And yet, sometimes we still feel totally overwhelmed, just like Peter, who tried to walk on water, but found himself sinking. - JB | By Rev. Jared J. Buss | Mitchellville, MD
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Charity in War
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 11, 2018
Judges 4 Psalm 23 Charity 166 Divine Providence 251 | By Rev. Pearse M. Frazier | Atlanta-Morningstar Chapel (Alpharetta GA)
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The LORD'S Protection
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - October 14, 2018
Family Service - Talk Title - The LORD'S Protection 1st Lesson: I Samuel 19: 8-24 2nd Lesson: Arcana Coelestia 6574: 2-3 | By Rev. Lawson M. Smith | Kempton, PA
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A Matter of Life and Death
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - October 07, 2018
Following a series of doctrinal sermons, this Sunday we get down to the basics of what really matters – and it’s not just family! ~ MDG | By Rev. Michael D. Gladish | Mitchellville, MD
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - September 16, 2018
We are described as “wonderfully made” in Psalm 139 but then again, in Isaiah we are called a ‘wicked nation,’ ‘laden with iniquity,’ in which we find nothing sound from head to foot. (Isa. 1). How do we reconcile these descriptions? How do we hold the necessity of repentance in our own daily living? | By Rev. Brian D. Smith | Mitchellville, MD
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Noah, The Remnant
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - August 26, 2018
The story of Noah teaches us about the state of humanity and how the Lord protects humanity. Humanity as a species has desires passed down that lead away from the Lord and Love; these are called hereditary evil. But the provides that there are people who will follow him, and in particular he provides times and experiences of goodness and truth that sustain us through our own floods. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden | Sarver, PA
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Evils Must Appear In Order to Be Removed
Worship Service: Sermon only - August 12, 2018
Sermon for a summer Divine Providence Reading Program | By Rev. Michael K. Cowley | Toronto, ON
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