If you're wondering what New Church Live is or what they're doing these days, there are a couple of new ways to get information.
They have a Facebook profile. You can access that here if you don't have a Facebook account. There are 3 videos there—a welcome video from the new pastor, Rev. Chuck Blair and 2 promos/advertisements. There are also details about an upcoming event on May 31st and you can ask any questions you have by posting them on the Wall.
You can also follow New Church Live on Twitter.
Monday, May 11, 2009
New Web Site for the Swedenborg Foundation
The Swedenborg Foundation (swedenborg.com) has a new web site. I'm not sure when it launched but the new site is much lighter, better looking, and easier to navigate than the old one.
On their site you can, of course, find their bookstore; but you can also find their mission statement, annual report (PDF), and an archive of their newsletter, Logos, back to 2001. They also have a news page which currently includes a short piece about the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature winner voicing his admiration for Swedenborg.
On their site you can, of course, find their bookstore; but you can also find their mission statement, annual report (PDF), and an archive of their newsletter, Logos, back to 2001. They also have a news page which currently includes a short piece about the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature winner voicing his admiration for Swedenborg.
New Web Site for the Sunday Night Thing
The Sunday Night Thing now has a web site, sundaynightthing.org. What is the Sunday Night Thing? Ah, well you can now read about it on the About page. The most exciting thing, though, is that you can also listen to some past services now on the Audio page.
Just this morning I put up recordings of Rev. Eric Carswell's talk about different responses we can have to evil and Rev. Lou Synnestvedt's talk about worry. Eric talked about trying to integrate statements like "I will fear no evil; for You are with me...." (Psalm 23), on the one hand, and teachings like "Everyone is regenerated by abstaining from sinful evils, and shunning them as anyone would on seeing the hordes of hell seeking with torches in their hands to attack him and to throw him upon a pyre" (True Christian Religion 510), on the other. And Lou talked about understanding feelings of worry as the influence of the spirits that are with us and dealing with worry by working on believing in the visible God (see True Christian Religion 339:3). Good stuff.
Just this morning I put up recordings of Rev. Eric Carswell's talk about different responses we can have to evil and Rev. Lou Synnestvedt's talk about worry. Eric talked about trying to integrate statements like "I will fear no evil; for You are with me...." (Psalm 23), on the one hand, and teachings like "Everyone is regenerated by abstaining from sinful evils, and shunning them as anyone would on seeing the hordes of hell seeking with torches in their hands to attack him and to throw him upon a pyre" (True Christian Religion 510), on the other. And Lou talked about understanding feelings of worry as the influence of the spirits that are with us and dealing with worry by working on believing in the visible God (see True Christian Religion 339:3). Good stuff.
A Great Mother's Day Sermon
Rev. John Odhner gave a really interesting and useful sermon yesterday on "The Wisdom of Woman". He talked about Jehovah's words to Abraham, "Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice..." (Genesis 21:12) and about the teachings from Conjugial Love about how the wisdom of women exceeds that of men (e.g. Conjugial Love 208), and about how contempt destroys relationships.
It was "choir Sunday" so there's lots of singing in the recording of the service. If you want to just listen to the lessons and sermon, jump to 24:48 for the lessons and 40:31 for the sermon.
It was "choir Sunday" so there's lots of singing in the recording of the service. If you want to just listen to the lessons and sermon, jump to 24:48 for the lessons and 40:31 for the sermon.
Friday, May 8, 2009
New Web Site for the New Church in Canada
The General Church of the New Jerusalem in Canada has a new, pretty fancy looking web site, www.newchurch.ca.
I haven't done much poking around their site but the FAQ page looks interesting and they have a bunch of pages under beliefs.
I haven't done much poking around their site but the FAQ page looks interesting and they have a bunch of pages under beliefs.
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