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Building on a Sound Foundation
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 2 Nov, 2025
How we develop our minds on a firm foundation of knowledge and truth is a subject that has been of keen interest to those interested in New Church education over the years. Two stories that deal with this are building our house upon a rock and the children of Israel leaving Egypt and taking their gold, silver, and garments with them. Come and see if it is really safe to borrow from the Egyptians and what it means to build your house on the rock! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Building on a Sound Foundation
Worship Service: Sermon only - 2 Nov, 2025
How we develop our minds on a firm foundation of knowledge and truth is a subject that has been of keen interest to those interested in New Church education over the years. Two stories that deal with this are building our house upon a rock and the children of Israel leaving Egypt and taking their gold, silver, and garments with them. Come and see if it is really safe to borrow from the Egyptians and what it means to build your house on the rock! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Holy Fear
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 2 Nov, 2025
Fear is really not our favourite thing to feel. We would usually ask the Lord to remove our fears, and He tells us not to be afraid. And yet there are other parts of the Word that talk about "the fear of the Lord" as a good thing! It turns out that there is something like fear, that even feels like fear, and yet that is also a good thing that comes from love. Even as the Lord removes our fears, He inspires us with holy fear, a fear that relates not to danger but to love. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Memorial Service for Kirsten “Kit” R. Rogers
Memorial Service - 27 Oct, 2025
Kirsten “Kit” (Rydstrom) Rogers passed into the spiritual world on October 23, 2025. She was 80 years old. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Gratitiude and Responsibility
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 26 Oct, 2025
These two concepts aren't often paired, but they are actually intrinsically linked. Everything good that we have is a free gift from the Lord, regardless of how much we have worked for it. When we realize just how much we have been blessed we are filled with a feeling of gratitude. But it also brings a sense responsibility: if we have been so freely blessed, then there is an obligation to freely bless others. As the Lord says, "Freely you have received, freely give." | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Getting Our Hearts in the Right Place
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 26 Oct, 2025
It can be hard to figure out how the Lord would like us to be in different situations. Does He want us to be more gentle or more firm? Persistent or adaptable? Should we speak up when something upsets us, or quietly let it go? This Sunday, at our Community Worship Service, we’ll explore questions like these through what the Word teaches about the “heart”—how it can be hardened or strengthened, how the Lord can replace a heart of stone with a heart of flesh, how the heart can be proud or humble, fearful or forgiving. Let’s gather as a community this Sunday to worship the Lord and to reflect on how we can get our hearts in the right place—with Him and with each other. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for Marilyn P. Asplundh
Memorial Service - 20 Oct, 2025
Marilyn Parker Asplundh passed into the spiritual world on Monday, October 13, 2025. She was 94 years old. | By Rev. Eric H. Carswell , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
In Search of Sacred Ground
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 19 Oct, 2025
For all the technological, material advances we’ve made as a society in the last 20 years or so, people report feeling lonelier and unhappier than ever before. The ground has shifted so much, people don’t know what’s real (sacred) anymore. The two great liberators of Israel, Moses and Joshua, couldn’t hear (or understand) the Lord’s message to them until it was pointed out that they were standing on sacred ground and that they needed to first remove their shoes. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
In Search of Sacred Ground
Worship Service: Sermon only - 19 Oct, 2025
For all the technological, material advances we’ve made as a society in the last 20 years or so, people report feeling lonelier and unhappier than ever before. The ground has shifted so much, people don’t know what’s real (sacred) anymore. The two great liberators of Israel, Moses and Joshua, couldn’t hear (or understand) the Lord’s message to them until it was pointed out that they were standing on sacred ground and that they needed to first remove their shoes. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Heavenly Marriage
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 19 Oct, 2025
Everything in creation relates back to a kind of marriage: that between love and wisdom, or between goodness and truth. This spiritual union also defines our relationship with the Lord. When we accept truths into our mind and allow the Lord to fill them with goodness, we are conjoined with the Lord. This is why the Word over and over again uses the image of a marriage to describe the relationship between the Lord and the Church. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Who is My Neighbour?
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 12 Oct, 2025
Loving your neighbour is easy if it means loving the people you like. But if the neighbour includes people we aren't so fond of it becomes much harder. One of the ways we can get better at it is by remembering that we can love the Lord in other people, even if we don't like other parts of the person. There is always something worth loving in everyone you ever meet. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
“Speak, For Your Servant Hears”
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 12 Oct, 2025
(1 Samuel 3:10) Samuel’s words remind us that the Lord wishes us to hear many things from Him about how to live our lives. One place He speaks to us is in His Word, for we learn that “the Word's Divine truth is the voice of Jehovah” (Apocalypse Revealed 218). How else does the Lord call to us, and how can we get better at paying attention? | By Rt. Rev. Peter Martin Buss, Jr. , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
“Your Servant Hears”
Worship Service: Sermon only - 12 Oct, 2025
(1 Samuel 3:10) How are you listening for the Lord’s voice in your life? We learn that the Lord constantly calls out to all of us, summoning us to “conjunction with Himself, thus to eternal life” (Apocalypse Revealed 831). There are, however, many things vying for our attention. In what ways can we actively come into the presence of the Lord to hear what He is asking us to do? | By Rt. Rev. Peter Martin Buss, Jr. , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
“Become Something!”
Charter Day Service - 10 Oct, 2025
The Second Commandment
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 5 Oct, 2025
What does it really mean to “take the Lord’s name in vain?” For many of us, this commandment may feel like an easy check mark, but if we look below the surface, we will find that there is much more than meets the eye. In one interaction in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that not everyone who says to Him “Lord, Lord” shall enter the kingdom of heaven. What do His words teach us about the power of His name and how we should hold it? | By Steven Gunther , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Second Commandment
Worship Service: Sermon only - 5 Oct, 2025
What does it really mean to “take the Lord’s name in vain?” For many of us, this commandment may feel like an easy check mark, but if we look below the surface, we will find that there is much more than meets the eye. In one interaction in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that not everyone who says to Him “Lord, Lord” shall enter the kingdom of heaven. What do His words teach us about the power of His name and how we should hold it? | By Steven Gunther , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Snakes in the Desert
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 5 Oct, 2025
Our topic will be a somewhat obscure story from the time the Children of Israel wandered in the desert. They grew tired of the food the Lord provided and complained. This brought a plague of venomous snakes. When the begged the Lord for help, He had Moses set up a bronze statue of a snake, and everyone who looked at it was healed. What can this story teach us about the times we crave pleasure and are desperate for things that pull us away from the Lord? | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
“The Very Hairs of Your Head Are Numbered...”
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 28 Sep, 2025
The Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. As He sat at the table with the twelve disciples at the Last Supper, we can picture the Lord looking each disciple in the eye, one by one, helping them see things they couldn’t have seen on their own. What did He see? How does it help us knowing that the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
“The Very Hairs of Your Head Are Numbered...”
Worship Service: Sermon only - 28 Sep, 2025
The Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. As He sat at the table with the twelve disciples at the Last Supper, we can picture the Lord looking each disciple in the eye, one by one, helping them see things they couldn’t have seen on their own. What did He see? How does it help us knowing that the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves? | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Facing the Floods of Life
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 28 Sep, 2025
There are big, life-altering, spiritual challenges that we all face from time to time. Most of us would rather not have that be the case. But they are inevitable, and the truth is they are also necessary. We need to have opportunities to face our flaws, take on our selfishness, and allow the Lord to build us back up into better people. This Sunday we will look at how we can become more accepting of the fact that spiritual life requires times of turmoil as well as times of peace and contentment. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Choosing Your Heritage
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 21 Sep, 2025
You can’t pick your ancestors. The ones you’ve got are the ones your stuck with. The same is true of your heritage in general. For good or ill, your heredity is set. This is also true spiritually: you have inherited from birth an inclination towards certain evils. But that does not mean that we are stuck with them: we can, and indeed must, be truly born again from the Lord. While that will not change where we have come from, it will change our future. | By Rev. Joel C Glenn , Westville, RSA
Don’t Tell Anyone
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 21 Sep, 2025
In the Gospels, sometimes the Lord heals someone in an amazing way but then tells them not to tell anyone. Other times, He specifically instructs them to go and tell others what has happened. This Sunday, we will explore why the Lord might have done this, and what it means for us—when we should keep quiet and when we should spread the good news. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Don’t Tell Anyone
Worship Service: Sermon only - 21 Sep, 2025
In the Gospels, sometimes the Lord heals someone in an amazing way but then tells them not to tell anyone. Other times, He specifically instructs them to go and tell others what has happened. This Sunday, we will explore why the Lord might have done this, and what it means for us—when we should keep quiet and when we should spread the good news. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Getting into Heaven is Easy
Worship Service: Sermon only - 14 Sep, 2025
Jesus said: “Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). This teaching has led many to believe that it is difficult to get to heaven, but others wonder why God would make it difficult to get there. So, ask yourself this question: “Is it easy or difficult to get to heaven?” This is the question we will attempt to answer on Sunday! | By Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs , Westville, RSA
Covenant Renewal
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 14 Sep, 2025
The purpose of this service will be to explore ways in which we can re-dedicate ourselves as individuals and as a congregation to the covenantal relationships we’ve formed with each other and with the Lord. We’re taught that “covenants are made for the sake of love, friendship, and companionship, and therefore for the sake of union” (Life 60), but they can’t work unless we give our consent (AC 8778). The need for periodic covenant renewals is a strong and consistent theme in the Scriptures, and so we will be considering Joshua’s farewell speech (Joshua 24) as a template for how we can strengthen our loyalty and commitment to the Lord and each other. | By Rev. Derek P. Elphick , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
