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Rev. Thomas H. Rose

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• Rise, Take Up Your Bed and Walk

  Worship Service: Children & Adult - 21 Feb, 2010

  Faith that is separate from charity can be likened to the paralysis of one side of the body, or hemiplegia. (TRC 367) In John: Jesus said to the sick man at pool of Bethsaida, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And straightaway, the man was made whole, took up his bed and walked. Afterward, Jesus found him, and said to him, “Behold you are made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you.” (John 5:8-14) And, in Mark: They uncovered the roof where Jesus was, and they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. Jesus said, “Which is it easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise, and take up your bed and walk?’” Then, He said, “Rise, take up your bed and walk and go to your house.” And immediately he rose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all. (Mark 2:4-12) The Lord saying to these sick, “Rise, take up your bed and walk” signifies doctrine, and a life according to doctrine; “bed” signifies doctrine, and “to walk” signifies life. “The sick man” signifies those who have transgressed and sinned; consequently the Lord said to the sick man at the pool of Bethsaida, “Behold you are made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing befall you;” and to the paralytic let down on a bed through the roof, “Which is it easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise, and take up your bed and walk?’” Those who know nothing of the internal sense of the Word may believe that the words that the Lord spoke involve nothing more than what is obvious in the sense of the letter, when yet every particular of what the Lord spoke has a spiritual meaning, for He spoke from the Divine and thus in the presence both of heaven and of the world. (AE 163) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• A New Commandment

  Worship Service: Children & Adult - 14 Feb, 2010

  Today’s Quote: Have you not read that He who made them from the beginning . . . male and female . . . , said, "For this reason a man shall leave father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? Therefore they are no longer two, but one flesh. (Matthew 19:4-6) Married love is from the Lord, and it corresponds to the marriage of the Lord and the church. It descends from the marriage of between good and truth. It is the fundamental love and the head of all celestial and spiritual loves. (Conjugial Love #143) True married love is a chaste love, and has nothing in common with unchaste love. It is with one and only one of the opposite sex, with all others set aside, for it is a love of the spirit and consequently of the body, and not a love of the body and consequently of the spirit, that is, it is not a love that infests the spirit. (Conjugial Love #44:5) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• Calming the Sea

  Worship Service: Children & Adult - 7 Feb, 2010

  Spiritually, in a raging storm, the Lord is able to bring a state of calm (AC #842) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• Miracles

  Worship Service: Children & Adult - 31 Jan, 2010

  The Lord's power to heal us and our freedom to believe that He can (Mark 1, 2; Inv. 46; SE 2434; DP 133) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• The Child of Peace

  Worship Service: Talk only - 27 Jan, 2010

  When we, like Simeon, sense the peace of the Lord's Advent (Luke 2:25-32; AC 1361) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• All That Heard Him Were Astonished

  Worship Service: Children & Adult - 17 Jan, 2010

  We, like the boy Jesus, “grow and wax strong in spirit.” (Luke 2:46, 47; TCR 89) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• Temptations in the Wilderness

  Worship Service: Children & Adult - 17 Jan, 2010

  A look at our spiritual battles (Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-14; AC 1573) | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• Making All Things New

  Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 3 Jan, 2010

  Newness and renewal in our spiritual lives Rev. 21:5; AR 876; TCR 3, 194 | By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• Christmas Eve Candelight Service

  Christmas Season Sermon - 24 Dec, 2009

  By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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• Thanksgiving

  Worship Service: Family (includes music) - 26 Nov, 2009

  By Thomas Rose, Ivyland New Church, PA

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