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The Visible God
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 7 Dec, 2025
“The Lord’s Birth: His Introduction to Us, Allowing Us to Get to Know the God of the Universe” The Lord’s birth on earth allows us to see things we could never see or understand on our own. Unless He lived on Earth, we could not know how He loves us. Without the stories of the New Testament, we would not know how to serve Him and prepare for heavenly life. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Visible God
Worship Service: Sermon only - 7 Dec, 2025
“The Critical Importance of Seeing and Worshipping a Visible God” The New Church is called “the Crown of all the Churches” because it worships the visible God in whom is the invisible (TCR 787). The Lord’s birth and life on earth allow us to see Him and understand how He invites us into a relationship with Him, while on earth and to eternity in heaven. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Word on Fire
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 9 Mar, 2025
Moses sees a bush that is burning and discovers the Lord - who has big plans for him. When you learn to see the Lord in the Word, you can see He has wonderful plans for you too! | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Word on Fire
Worship Service: Sermon only - 9 Mar, 2025
John names the Word with a fascinating Greek term “Logos.” That word, according to the ancient Greek, means the underlying force that orders and organizes all things. John also calls the “Logos” God. We can take that literally and come to know the force the Lord offers us through His Word that orders us and prepares us for heavenly life. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Prince of Peace
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 25 Dec, 2024
How do we turn to the Lord as the “Prince of Peace?” What kind of peace does He offer? How does the Lord ‘make’ or create peace in our lives? His peace is only produced by Him and it is only available to us today because of His birth subsequent Glorification! Christmas, therefore, is an opportunity to take steps to enjoy this special gift from heaven. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Lord’s Power to Create
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 11 Aug, 2024
The beginning of the Gospel of John (1:3) describes the Lord creating everything. Not only did He create everything, but He is constantly creating everything – every moment of every day, to eternity. We are invited to use that power of His creation to guide our lives. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Power of the Lord’s Providence Drawing Us to Heaven
Worship Service: Sermon only - 11 Aug, 2024
Ezekiel describes a great and mighty river with a strong current representing the Lord drawing us toward the healing of Heaven (Ezekiel 47). Where will it take us? How do we wade in? | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Bishops' Q&A: GC Assembly 2024
Panel Discussion - 6 Aug, 2024
Resurrection Service for Robert Hunsaker
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 21 Dec, 2023
The Amazing and Wonderful Human Heart and What It Can Teach Us About Love and Wisdom
Worship Service: Informal Family - 8 Oct, 2023
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel 36:26). This is one of hundreds of uplifting references the Word makes of the human heart. Please join us as we explore this incredible (and vital) organ and its powerful implications teaching us how to live a full and loving heavenly life. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
The Greatest Gift
Worship Service: Sermon only - 25 Dec, 2022
Wrestling with Faith
Worship Service: Informal Family - 24 Apr, 2022
The name Israel means “wrestling with God.” That name says something about the quality of faith. With faith there are forms of wrestling that are healthy that contribute to growth in wisdom and love, and there are forms of wrestling that are unhealthy that can tear one another apart. We will focus on the healthy wrestling that leads to finding spiritual solutions to life’s toughest problems. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
The Lord's Word Becoming Alive with Us
Worship Service: Sermon only - 12 Dec, 2021
Creating True Spiritual Impact in a Troubled World
Charter Day Service - 8 Oct, 2021
Defense in the Spiritual World
Worship Service: Informal Family - 21 Mar, 2021
Evil defends itself differently from good. Learning to recognize those differences can help us when we are dealing with conflict in our lives. Choosing heavenly defense mechanisms will always promote health and life in us and in others. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
Conjugial Love, a Most Precious Gem of the New Church
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 14 Mar, 2021
The Lord is constantly working in the most specific ways with each of us from the beginning of life to lead us to be happily married to eternity. While we are unaware of this, the Lord teaches us things we can also do to help prepare for marriage. This is why our religion, with its teachings, is so inseparably tied in with conjugial love and its promise for happiness. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Conjugial Love, a Most Precious Gem of the New Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - 14 Mar, 2021
The New Church offers a unique view of marriage that is inseparably tied in with the life of the church and its teachings . By definition, because of its origin, and from the nature of its love, the New Church vision of marriage is different from the way marriage and its love is defined in our culture today. That unique view invites a different approach to attaining that love. It also promises a love that is eternal in nature and is in its essence heavenly. It is truly a most precious gift from the Lord alone. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Memorial Service for John T. Acton
Memorial Service - 10 Jan, 2021
Memorial Service for Rev. Frank S. Rose
Memorial Service - 26 Oct, 2020
From YouTube livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVZKpkXofk8. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Tucson, AZ
The Faith that Brings Life
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 30 Aug, 2020
The Lord offers happiness when our good actions match loves and thoughts that He alone gives through His Word. If we do things just so people will think we are good, then we will feel empty inside. The Lord has good advice for how to avoid that emptiness. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
The Essentials of the New Church
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Aug, 2020
In the book "Apocalypse Revealed" the Lord boils the New Church down to two fundamental concepts referred to as 'the Two Witnesses.' When we start thinking about faith based on these two simple concepts, it brings a wholeness, life and compassionate understanding to our entire faith structure. If we ignore one or the other, our faith becomes harsh, judgmental and shortsighted. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Palm Sunday sermon and Holy Supper
Worship Service: Sermon only - 5 Apr, 2020
Palm Sunday service and Holy Supper for West Coast of United States | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
Creator and Redeemer
Doctrinal Class - 4 Mar, 2020
Why the first two chapters of True Christianity are titled: "God the Creator" and "The Lord the Redeemer". A Two class series recorded 2-26-2020 and 3-4-2020. | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral Social Hall
Bread Made From Ashes
Worship Service: Family (may include music) - 8 Sep, 2019
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7) | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
You Can't Do It Alone
Worship Service: Sermon only - 8 Sep, 2019
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it." And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!" (Genesis 28:16-17) | By Rt. Rev. David H. Lindrooth , Bryn Athyn Cathedral
