2025 Lecture Themes
Daily Schedule
8:30 Sing Along
8:45 Morning Chapel
9:00 1st Lecture
10:00 2nd Lecture
11:00 Adult Discussion Group and
Flames and Sparks classes
Lectures are held Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday each week. All lectures are live streamed on the FNCA Facebook page. There is no morning program on Wednesdays, which is Outing Day. Sunday mornings we join the congregation of the Fryeburg New Church in town for morning services instead of the usual program.
Due to the Rev. Dr. George F. Dole Celebration 3-Mile Road Race on the final Saturday, the schedule will be different that day. TBA
A full listing of each week's lectures is found on the Lecture Schedule page.
1st Week
Biblical Theme:
"God's Promises in the Bible"
© Anna Rich 2009God made seven important promises in the Bible called covenants. The first is made to Abram and Sarai and the seventh is found in the Book of Revelation. The promises provide a structure for the whole biblical narrative, and they suggest what can be in store for us within our own spiritual journeys. This week our presenters will note where each promise occurs in the narrative, observe the received literal meaning, and will note its internal sense. Please join us for a Swedenborgian telling of the greatest story ever told!
The Seven Promises:
1. The Call of Abram (Genesis 12:1-3)
“… I will make you a great nation …'
2. Moses as Law Giver (Exodus 3:1-12)
“… I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians …”
3. Joshua as Judge (Joshua 1:1-9)
“… the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
4. David as King (2 Samuel 7:12-14)
"I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”
5. Jeremiah as Prophet (Jeremiah 31:31:34)
“I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel …”
6. Jesus as the New Covenant (Matthew 26:26-29)
“… this is my blood of the covenant …"
and (John 13:31-35) “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.”
7. Descent of the Holy City (Revelation 21: 1-4)
“I saw a new heaven and a new earth …”
2nd Week
"Practicing Heaven"
© FNCA 2011How we can live in heaven now!
One of Swedenborg’s big ideas is that heaven is in the form of a human being which he calls the Universal Human. This week our presenters will inquire into the quality of life that angels enjoy in heaven to see what our lives could be like if we lived like that in the here and now. Please join us as we seek to embody qualities of heaven within the Fryeburg New Church Assembly, the Swedenborgian Church, and our everyday lives.