Based on the progressive Christian theology of the New Church, these videos on relevant topics focus on looking to God for help in crafting a purposeful life of service. These can help you to focus on what is most important in life and take the Sunday worship into Monday.
Browse these to find one to use as a foundation for a worship service, or to find insights on various topics.
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How to disagree like an angel
Explore ways we can get better at having productive, civil conversations.
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Beauty in the storm
Each of us will have some hard times, some storms in our life. Can we find something during hard times to keep us going?
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Coming home
During life’s journey, "home" looks different as we seek to stay, find, or return home. At each stage, what is our willingness to change and…
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Between two worlds
Explore deeply spiritual experiences reported by people who had a close brush with death and then returned to tell about it. What can we learn…
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Daring to imagine
Explore how imagination, one of God's most beautiful gifts, helps us dream of the future right here in the present.
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What doesn't change?
God's work among us, his Divine Providence, carries with it one goal and one goal alone: a gentle movement of humanity toward heaven
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A greater hope
We don't get to choose the circumstances of our life. But we get to choose how we react. These choices give us freedom.
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Wake up in safety
Easter 2020.
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Moving forward
What do we do in the immediate aftermath of loss?
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Belonging
So many struggle with loneliness, and a desire to feel that they belong
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Vulnerable love
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Circle of gratitude
Who benefits from gratitude?
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Angels: loving and leading
Heaven is within us, and we are all wired to become angels. There is a part of us already there.
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First steps
In our spiritual lives, our first steps often are not steps we choose but steps that are instead forced upon us as we face the…
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Back to school blessing
Prayers for the new school year.
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Simplicity
What is grace?
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Better
How do we make our lives better? How do we live better lives?
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Service at work
What is it that makes work so hard for people?
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Kindness first
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Home
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Sacrifice: love's final gift
What is the sacrifice God asks of us?
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Grit
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Easter 2019
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Light in the darkness
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Speak
Have the courage to speak and understand instead of argue.
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Opening up
Should we eliminate or open up to the vulnerabilities of life?
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Brothers and sisters
Is life fair?
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Brothers and sisters
Is life fair?
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Hope rekindled – Christmas 2018
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Practicing heaven now
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Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.
Thoughts about the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. How can we get past hate?
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5 things God wants for your family
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Better together
Finding community
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Perfect
Life is imperfect. God loves us with all our imperfections.
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Thin places
Where is God in your life?
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Ephesians
Back to the beginnings of Christianity
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New…
A new command, a new covenant, a new relationship.
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Wait, listen, move
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Courage
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Mike Reichenbach on "life after football"
How do we find purpose? Hear Mike Reichenbach, retired linebacker of the Philadelphia Eagles, talk about that, in his life after a football career.
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Restored
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Easter 2018 – Walk with us
We all have hard times. Easter can remind us that there is a resurrection.
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Identity theft
Who are you? What are you doing here?
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Re-engage
Change in our lives can progress through several phases: Construct ... Deconstruct... Reconstruct
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One more place at the table
Who can we create space for? Relationships are primary.
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Made new
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Christmas 2017
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Change: choose love
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Practicing Forgiveness
Even though we have been wronged, we don’t have to spend our emotional energy trying to have that “debt” paid back to us.
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This is what we do
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The art of letting go
How can we deal with financial worries, work demands, anxiety, and despair?
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Finding your voice
What can we learn from David & Goliath?
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Working this thing called relationship
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Through the eyes of a lion
We are broken. Acknowledge it, but stop hiding, and find your gifts to offer to the world.
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Freedom
What exactly is freedom? What does freedom look like in your lives?
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Different
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The power of one
Looking for commonality brings people together.
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Family and addiction
Addiction affects everybody.
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Open when…
Motherhood is hard.
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Real rest
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Blessings of the earth
"The universe is a work connected as one thing." (Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christianity 13)
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Chasing light – Easter 2017
God is always very gently asking us to 'wake up.'
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What's your story?
Each of us is on a journey. With highs and lows. We are all connected.
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Steven Johnson of the Pittsburgh Steelers: Faith motivated
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Head bullies
Be careful how you are talking to yourself, because you are listening!
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Flipped
Becoming a better person means flipping some of our attitudes.
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Beloved Community
As we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., we look at what it is that we want to fight for.
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When…
Have you had times when waiting wasn't easy? Or when the pain was too much? What can you do?
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Unwrapped: Christmas 2016
How do we unwrap the gifts around us, the real gifts of the season?
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An angel's journey
What makes an angel?
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Thankful project
How do we practice the 'giving' part of 'thanks'?
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Reconnect: a mindful communication challenge
Improve how you connect with others. Explore how our words, tone, and actions affect others.
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Flourish
Life has its obstacles. Flourishing is about a new focal point that colors our ordinary lives with a hope-filled trust in God.
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I choose…
Every time we cut the string and feel distant from God, He will work to re-connect. It's all about healing.
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We are all on a search
What are you searching for? Will you know if you find it?
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Face to face with God
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Behind enemy lines
Feeling nervous about all the violence around the world?
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Servant leadership
What do we get from serving others?
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Coming home
What is "home?" What is a homecoming? How can you feel "at home?"
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Fail
Failure is part of the human existence. While you will fail at times in your life, that does not make you a failure.
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Families and addiction
The impact of addiction goes beyond the addict.
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Mark Herzlich: Resilience
Everybody comes across hard times in their life.
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Easter 2016
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Baptism
What is the purpose of baptism?
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Learning to forgive
Forgiveness can have many aspects, and it's easy to get stuck in trying to forgive.
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Learning to laugh again
Do you think that you laugh enough?
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iHope: What would it be like to live a life of hope in 2016?
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Christmas 2015 – finding the magic again
May God's magic in your life help you be a more spiritual and happier person.
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Thanksgiving: give well – give wisely
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This table – for the aftermath of terrorism in Paris
Terrorism, such as the events in Paris this week, contributes to a growing culture of fear. What does Christ offer in the face of uncertainty?
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Living gratefully
Where are you most prone to disappointment? What if you could let go of habitual disappointment?
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Bold as we can
What kind of world do you want? God's ultimate future is God's urgent present.
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Encouraged
Let's encourage one another. It's Biblical! What words of encouragement could you offer to someone else?
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Am I enough?
From time-to-time most everyone will have negative feelings about themselves. It's part of the human existence. So what do we do with these feelings?
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Book of James
What does the book of James have to tell us today? Are there times when you feel stuck? How do you get 'unstuck?
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Slowing down in a fast world
How do we learn to take less? In this era of technology, it's so hard to imagine actually slowing down, taking less. But maybe that…
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Let your life speak
Are you happy in your job? Is the life you are living the same as the life that wants to live in you? Join us…
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At peace with the puzzle
Life can be hard. We are often faced with a challenge of how to make the pieces of the puzzle in our life match up.…
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Family and addiction
Many struggle with addiction. It has an impact, not just on the addict, but on the families around them. How can we find hope and…
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Church of mercy
Moving to what unites.
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Easter 2015
What impact can Easter have on someone's life? What impact can Christianity have? Watch as we explore these thoughts as we get ready for Easter.
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My crazy family
Family relationships can be complex and sometimes challenging to deal with. What does Christianity tell us about working with our families?
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Frank Meeink on non-violence
Frank Meeink, a former neo-Nazi Skinhead, is now one of the leading spokesmen in the country on non-violence. Watch him on MLK Day weekend with…
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Starting point
We start at a certain place of faith. And often that shifts. The faith of our childhood often does not withstand the challenges of adulthood.…
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To something new
Do you feel lonely, even with people all around? How can you escape your loneliness? The opposite of church, or heaven, is loneliness. Make connections…
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Christmas 2014
Christmas is about God's kingdom coming to earth. This Advent season, prepare for Christmas with Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
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Life in color
It is said, 'It is better to give than receive.' Yes, but receiving can actually be a gift back to the giver! Can we receive…
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What would love do?
Jesus teaches us in the Matthew 25 parable ("I was hungry and you gave me food," etc.) what it means to love the Lord.
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Honoring caregivers
See some touching stories about care-giving. Let's celebrate all the care-givers around us, who make such a difference in the world! Have you thanked the…
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One big party
Can you remember what it feels like to feel included? To feel welcome? How do we work towards unity?
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Finding your creativity
"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For…
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11 years later – a journey through the loss of a child
Kim and Jon Smith share their journey through the loss of their beloved daughter Tyler to cancer 11 years ago.
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Finding our humanity
We all have two parts ... a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a part that is loving, kind, considerate and another part of our personality…
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James - A Brother's Story
What is the Bible book of James all about? What can we learn from it? What is the directive or message for our lives?
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Purpose
How do you make sense of your life? What's it all about? Does the universe have a purpose? How do science and religion fit together?
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Failure
You get your hopes up, and find them dashed. You fail and your goals, hopes, beliefs, loves, decisions, desires, dreams can't happen. Then what?
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Learning to see
What about all the stories in the Bible concerning Christ's healing the blind? What does it mean 'to see'? What really matters?
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5th anniversary
5 Years! Hard to imagine it has been 5 years. Listen to the voices of the congregation tell NewChurch LIVE's story.
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HEADstrong
See the touching story of how one family supports others with cancer, and how a cancer victim cared about serving others.
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Going up the mountain
Idols are those things we have in our lives that we regard with extreme adulation. So God was clear ... be careful what you idolize!…
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Mothers Day 2014
What is the purpose of a mother? Life, love, and joy. How are we mothered by Jesus and the church?
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Rediscovering Heaven
Heaven is for real. Lets start there. It is not a place that we journey to. It is a place we open to.
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Easter: the spirit of hope
Jesus knew His life on this earth was rapidly drawing to a close. He faced that future, saddened but unflinching. There's a lesson for us…
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Getting through what you are going through
Everyone faces hard times in their life. Finding ways to get through what we are going through is incredibly hard.
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Multiply
What does it look like to be a "multiplier?" Here we talk about God's economics, economics that are bit different from ours.
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Are you a watcher or a doer?
How can we 'change the world?' Watch the story of 19 year old Denzel Thompson, co-founder of Life Do Grow Farm, which is making a…
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Joyous Displacement
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Plan B
Have you ever had a plan, a plan that didn't work? We all have. What can we do about it?
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Fear not
"Hope is love stretching out into the future." How do we find hope this Christmas season?
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Help, thanks, wow
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Seven practices of peace
"Step by step we advance from being nonhuman to being somewhat human... [to becoming] God's image."
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People are not interruptions
Do you have trouble "fitting in?" Many people present a front to those around them. How does God see you? (Hint: He loves you completely!)
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Comfortably numb
We often feel comfortably numb. What that means is that we gradually become increasingly unaware of the suffering of others. And we can find the…
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A day trip to the Afterlife
What happens when we die? It's a question that people have pondered for ages. Join us to look at an eyewitness account.
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Resiliency
Resiliency is often about a choice to keep moving forward in our lives. At times, that movement can be painful. And in the end, we…
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Heaven Can't Wait
On being asked when they could expect to see heaven, Christ's answer was beautiful. That answer was that heaven was "within." If we allow that…
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Generations
Where are you on the Journey of Life?
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What is worth fighting for?
What is worth fighting for? It's an important question. We are all too aware of what we fight about. Let's look at a bigger picture!
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Bridge builders
Churches need to be about supporting bridge builders ... those who build bridges going out and in. Listen to voices from the congregation ... Tamar,…
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The comparison trap
We know the comparison trap has sprung if we are comparing more than enjoying. How do we get out of that dilemma?
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A re-imagined world
As we look to Easter, maybe we can see it as a call to re-imagine the world in which we live and love. That re-imagining…
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Getting past your past
We all carry ghosts around. Ghosts of mistakes in the past, ghosts of wrongs that we were on the receiving end of, as well as…
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Dickie Noles
Former Philadelphia Philly and World Series Winner Dickie Noles speaks about his journey through a troubled childhood, the Major Leagues, and his battle with addiction.
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Frank Meeink – leaving hatred behind
Frank Meeink became a SkinHead at 13. He was finally arrested and convicted of kidnapping and assault. While in prison he befriended men he used…
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Connect
We are looking at how much people want to connect with each other and God. Churches are called to be 'life-saving stations', not a club.…
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What's next? let the scales fall off
At the beginning of every year, we start thinking about what can be different in the coming year. For most Americans that comes down to…
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Christmas Eve 2012
How do we allow love to shape our lives?
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Thanksgiving 2012
We look at the story of Jesus and the 10 lepers. Have you ever been healed? What does gratitude mean to you? See how Hurricane…
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Can we make a difference?
It is hard to believe, to really believe we can make a difference in this world. Stepping into those places is tough. How is it…
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Create
How do we find creativity in our lives? How do we allow the love that God has gifted us to come alive? To be of…
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Bullying
We need to listen. We need to hear the impact Bullying has on others. We are all God's children and there are answers.
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Movement: what the church was meant to be
What do most people think of when they hear the word "church"? We probably think of a building, right? And inside that building is where…
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Being community
In the New Church, we are called to work at creating communities that embody diversity. God's call is not homogeneous sameness but to a variety…
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A day in Heaven
What if heaven could be experienced now? Right here, in our lives today. Is that possible?
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What happens when I die?
Have you ever wondered what it is like to die? What happens after you die?
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I am Christian unless…
It is easy to profess to be a Christian. But what does that actually mean? For many, we act "Christian" unless someone is .... (fill…
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How do I tolerate the intolerable?
Is there a time in your life which was simply intolerable? It couldn't get any worse? Does God have something to say about how to…
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What's 'new' about the New Church?
What is "New Church" Theology About?
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Temptation
Temptation is not a test. It is an opportunity for emptying out, for the purpose of partnership and connection with God.
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Mother's day 2012
A mother's love - it's transformational, both for the mother and her child.
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Prophetic imagination
It's all to easy to become numb. Numb to others, to what is important. Technology allows us to 'communicate', and yet be disconnected from others.…
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Crucify this: God's relentless 'if'
A story of 3 days. Friday: tragedy. Saturday: fear, anxiety, waiting. Sunday: victory. It's the spiritual journey of each of us. A transformation.
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Prodigal God: the story of a banquet
The Bible story of The Prodigal Son is really a story about our lives, and our relationship with God. So what is the real punishment…
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Single, married, divorced
Is happiness dependent on our marital state? Join us as we explore being single, married, and divorced.
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