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Printed Sermons, Articles & Papers represents various printed sermons, research papers, tools for life, and other materials prepared by our pastor, the Reverend Ken Alden as well as other pastors around the New Church. The materials presented here have been specifically selected related to interests, issues and ongoing activities within The New Church at Boynton Beach.

Many of the sermon titles below may be found as audio files at the sermons tab, or by going to New Church Audio and looking them up by title or author.  Additional printed sermons may be found at the Sermon Archive tab.

Audio Sermons can be found on the Sermons and Media tab.

Recent Sermons

  • Serving For Rachel - Focusing Spiritual Goals (As Jacob’s focus shifted to marrying Rachel, so our heavenly goals come to focus on loving and applying specific truths of the Word to life.)
  • Surely The Lord Is In This Place (even though we do not know it. Chiefly He is present in our freedom, in His Word, and especially when we are receptive to Him.)
  • Getting Our Priorities Straight by the Rev. Kurt Horigan Asplundh (Which is first in the church, love and charity or truth and faith? Doctrine teaches that love is first in end but truth is first in time.)
  • Your Heavenly Treasure by the Rt. Rev. Alfred Acton (A sermon on elevating the treasures of our cognitive life, and make them a part of our spirit, so that, in heaven, we will continue to enjoy them in accordance with the uses we seek to perform.)
  • The Valley of Dry Bones by the Rt. Rev. Thomas L. Kline (Seven steps of individual regeneration and a church’s being made living, seen in Ezekiel’s vision of the bones being made into an army for the Lord.)
  • Jonah In The Fish’s Belly (Family address on turning to the Lord in trying times, as only the Lord in His Divine Human can save us, even though it has been fleeing from Him that may have put us where we are.)
  • Fleeing From The Presence Of The Lord (Sermon on coming into the Lord’s presence by reading His Word, thinking of Him in His Divine Humanity, and especially by shunning those evils which hold us back from true charity, thus by throwing attitudes of self-serving into “the sea.”)
  • How Do Angels View the Generation of Jesus Christ? (Christmas Day sermon on the birth of Jesus Christ as the angels might view it in the spiritual sense of the genealogy which introduces that birth, in Matthew’s gospel.)
  • (For these and earlier sermons, arranged under headings, follow this link to the Sermon Archives)

Sermons Series

Resurrection Addresses

Bylaws

Journey Program Sermons and Papers

Shift: Small Changes. Big Difference. (A New Church Journey Program)
  Orientation to the spiritual meaning
  Week 1 - Shift of Awareness: notice the conflicts
  Week 2 - Shift of Perspective: Remember the Lord is here, now
  Week 3 - Shift of Focus: keep in mind who you want to be

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