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SHIFT - Week 2 - Shift of Perspective, Noticing the Presence of the Lord
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 2 Oct, 2011
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SHIFT - Week 1 - Shift of Awareness, Noticing Conflicts
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 25 Sep, 2011
Quotes, Divine Providence #284, Secrets of Heaven #3332 | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA
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Hope Restored
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 18 Sep, 2011
No matter what you have said, thought or done, God never gives up on you. (Jeremiah 46-52; AE 518.38; Prophets & Psalms 112-118) Towards the north, by the bank of the river Euphrates, have they stumbled and fallen. Who is this that cometh up like a stream, whose waters are tossed like the streams? Egypt cometh up like a stream, and his waters are tossed like streams; for he saith, I will come up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and those that dwell in it (Jer. 46:6-8). This signifies the destruction of the church and of its truths by false reasonings from confirming knowledges [scientifica]; the "north" signifies those in whom and from whom there is falsity, the "river Euphrates" false reasonings, "Egypt" confirming knowledges, the "waters that are tossed" falsities themselves, and "to come up, to cover the earth, to destroy the city and those that dwell in it," signifies the destruction of the church and of its doctrine, the "earth" meaning the church, the "city" doctrine of truth, and "those that dwell in it" its goods. Like things are signified by the Nile, "the river of Egypt," and by the Euphrates, "the river of Assyria," elsewhere in the Word (as in Isa. 7:18, 19; 11:15, 16; Ezek. 29:3-5, 10; 31:15; 32:2; Ps. 74:14, 15; 78:44; Exod. (Ps. 1377:17-21); also by "the rivers of Babylon":1). As all spiritual temptations come through falsities that break into the thoughts and infest the interior mind, thus through reasonings from falsities, so temptations are signified by the inundations of waters and by the erruptions of rivers and torrents. (AE 518.38) | By Todd Beiswenger, Ivyland New Church, PA
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I Was Blind, But Now I See
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 6 Feb, 2011
How the Lord opens our intellectual, rational and spiritual eyes. | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA
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I Have Many Things To Say To You...
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 30 Jan, 2011
The Lord communicates with us on all levels. | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA
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What's the Matter?
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 23 Jan, 2011
The Lord's question to us, and how He can reach us in times of need. Genesis 21: 8-21; Arcana Coelestia 2689 It is known that all anxiety and grief arise from being deprived of the things with which we are affected, or which we love. They who are affected only with corporeal and worldly things, or who love such things only, grieve when they are deprived of them; but they who are affected with spiritual goods and truths and love them, grieve when they are deprived of them. Everyone's life is nothing but affection or love. Hence it is evident what is the state of those who are desolated as to the goods and truths with which they are affected, or which they love, namely, that their state of grief is more severe, because more internal; and in the deprivation of good and truth they do not regard the death of the body, for which they do not care, but eternal death. Arcana Coelestia 2689[2] | By Ryan Sandstrom -- None --, Ivyland New Church, PA
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Zaccheaus climbs a tree to see the Lord
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 16 Jan, 2011
The Lord sees us long before we see Him Habbakuk 2:1; Luke 19:1-10; AC 3863, 9405 | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA
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Fortune
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 9 Jan, 2011
[T]he Lord governs all things, even the most specific, through the truth that goes forth from Himself, not in the way a king governs in the world, but in the way God does so in heaven and over all creation. A king in the world takes only overall care of a country, while his chief ministers and officials take care of matters in particular. It is otherwise with God. God sees all things, knows all things from eternity, provides all things into eternity, and from Himself maintains all things in their order; from which it is clear that the Lord takes not only overall care but also particular and individual care of all things, unlike a king in the world. His regulation of things is achieved directly by means of God's truth that is going forth from Himself and also indirectly by means of heaven. Yet the indirect regulation by means of heaven is also tantamount to direct regulation by Him; for what comes from heaven comes by way of heaven from Him. This the angels in heaven not merely know to be so; they also perceive it within themselves. Arcana Coelestia 8717:2 | By Andrew M.T. Dibb, Ivyland New Church, PA
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Let me not be ashamed of my hope
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 2 Jan, 2011
Hearing the voice of the Lord over the taunting threats of hell. Psalm119:107-119; John 6:59-68; AE 817 Love such as the Lord has transcends all human understanding and is in the highest degree incredible... Arcana Coelestia #2077 | By George McCurdy, Ivyland New Church, PA
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The Gifts of the Magi
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 26 Dec, 2010
Christmas is all about presents Matt 2: 1-12; Is 60: 2-6; Married Love 335 The knowledge of correspondences remained with many of the people of the East even till the advent of the Lord. This can be seen in the coming of wise men of the East to the Lord when he was born. Therefore a star went before them, and they brought with them gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Matt 2:1,2, 9-11 "The start" that went before signified knowledge from heaven; "gold" signified celestial good; "frankincense" spiritual good; and "myrrh" natural good; from which three all worship proceeds. True Christian Religion 205 | By Pearse Frazier, Ivyland New Church, PA