Chrysalis Retreat Center & Swedenborg Sanctuary

07/26/2024

VIDEO from Off the Left Eye (OTLE)
The Heaven Project - Swedenborg and Life
There is shared, ever-expanding and evolving joy in Heaven. How can we harness these qualities of heaven in our human experience? The power of one individual to affect others and make a difference. Sharing our prayerful, positive protective loving spiritual aura with those around us... "As it is in Heaven, So upon the earth."

This is a REALLY GOOD ONE! You're going to love it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX4zanR4OgA

07/26/2024

07/07/2024

Thought for the day, from Swedenborg’s “Secrets of Heaven” section 3858:11.

05/28/2024

05/22/2024

Noticing the Holy amid the (not so) mundane moments. Making a heaven of earth.

05/14/2024

Thought for the day, from Swedenborg’s “Secrets of Heaven” section 4776.

04/29/2024

This is probably the most important thing I have read ....❤

04/22/2024

Today’s Scripture reading is Joshua 7:1-9. Today’s reading from the Heavenly Doctrine is Arcana Coelestia n. 2327.Selections taken from Volume 4 of All the Year Round: Daily Readings for the New Church, published in 1936. (This podcast uses t...

04/16/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZxxQKvuHU

Emanuel Swedenborg witnessed a beautiful and healing family reunion in the afterlife. This story is taken from his journal of spiritual experiences.In the fu...

04/11/2024

https://www.instagram.com/swedenborgfoundation

03/13/2022

Will We See Our Loved Ones in the Afterlife? As to the spirit..

“After the death of the body, all revive as to their spirit usually about three days after the heart has stopped beating.”

- Emanuel Swedenborg, True Christian Religion 281

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9gdngWOvKas
Will We See Our Loved Ones in the Afterlife? -- Swedenborg and Life

02/04/2022

This Week Chrysalis Retreat Center and Swedenborg Sanctuary friends are invited to "The New Church" to hear a guest preacher named Hyun-Jin Yang from the General Church theological school in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Candidate Yang will be leading the doctrinal class on chapter 37 of Ezekiel and preaching on the story about Hagar and Ishmael in chapter 21 of Genesis.
On Sunday (Feb. 6) Chrysalis and all are welmomed to the gathering at "The New Church" (145 N. Euclid Ave., Lake Helen, FL 32744) beginning at 10 AM followed by fellowship and pot-luck lunch. Come and enjoy!

Pastor Terry

01/28/2022

Chrysalis Retreat Center and Swedenborg Sanctuary
( A Christian Church)
Sunday Service..Jan 30, 2022

There is only one way to love the Lord. We have to live by the ten commendments.
Some will say that it is impossible. Some will say we will always be forgiven. Both are wrong!!!
We CAN live by the 10 commandments. We will only be forgiven when we stop breaking them.
The Lord says:"If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." (John 14:15) Following the Ten Commandments is not an option! To be in a personal, loving, relationship with God we must obey them.
God promises to reveal Himself to us when we love Him by doing His commendments, saying "he who has My commendments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him." (John 14:21)
This beautiful marriage relationship with God is available today to people who will do what He commands. .
On Sunday (Jan.30th) Chrysalis is temporarily gathering at "The New Church" (145 N. Euclid Ave., Lake Helen, FL 32744) beginning at 10 AM followed by fellowship and light refreshments. Come and see!
Pastor Terry.

01/21/2022

Friends and neighbors are busy restoring the Deland new church (Independent) called Swedenborg Sanctuary and Chrysalis Retreat Center. The beautiful grounds will be full of butterfly friendly plants (Pentas and more) along with existing fruit (orange, loquat, banana) and flowering trees (camilla, azaleas) are becoming more beautiful each day with the help of volunteers. Thank you Cookie Smith for your incredible hard work which brought back the beauty and luster of an old place. We worship each Sunday off site for now and have a well versed new church minister serving us. In the off season, other ordained ministers will preach and teach the new church message. We envision ourselves as a church and retreat center with an outreach to children (learning about nature, botany, and space.) Deland has a large population of homeschooled children and an arts college, so the church garden grounds can easily serve in the near-future as a nature sanctuary for entomology, botany and herbal wisdom as well as creating artisan crafts. In season, the center will have a "Loquat Festival" for collecting and instructing how to make jellies, etc. It is also near NASA/ Cape Kennedy so Space is of interest in the area with plenty of resources to teach and instruct. Come join us in this new adventure.

01/14/2022

The cloudy Book of Revelation has been unveiled by God!

Only the Lord Jesus can explain the symbolsm in the book of Revelation. He tells us it is all about the heaven within us and how to deal with the challenges we face when bringing the New Jerusalem into our lives.

The Book of Revelation is not about nations, political systems, or leaders in the natual world. Everything in the Bible is symbolic and is concerned with the Lord's life in the world as a divinely human being. In so far as we follow the Lord's commandmaents the Bible is also symbolic of our own transfomation and rebirth.

This week we will consider what the Lord reveals in His Second Coming about the meaning of the "woman clothed with the sun" in chapter 12. What does her labor and pain to give birth to a male child tell us about our life following the Lord?

What is symbolised by the "fiery red dragon", "Michael and his angels", and the war they fought on "the earth"? In His Second Coming the Lord explains these are symbols for parts of our personalities within us, where they come from, and what we can do with them.

In this and following weeks, after over fifty years of study, Pastor Terry will be sharing his understanding of what the Lord has revealed in His Second Coming about the Book of Revelation.

We can all participate in the coming of the New Jeruslam out of heaven from God today! Come and learn how you can help the Lord build the New Jerusalem on earth.

On Sunday (Jan.16h) Chrysalis is temporarily gathering at "The New Church" (145 N. Euclid Ave., Lake Helen, FL 32744) beginning at 10 AM followed by fellowship and light refreshments.

Peac be to you,

01/07/2022

Happy New Year Once Again!

"The New Church" is inviting Chrysalis friends to hear Rev. Fred Chapin who is a hospice chaplain from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area.

Hosted by "The New Church", a congregation of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, Rev. Chapin will lead a discussion class this Sunday and provide a sermon on a Swedenborgian perspective of a Biblical story.

Come and enjoy some of the variety of perspectives of the Lord's Second Coming offered by different trained ministers of the New Jerusalem.

All are invited to participate beginning at 10 am followed by a pot luck lunch. "The New Church" (145 N. Euclid Ave., Lake Helen, FL 32744) is graciously providing a temporary gathering place to Chrysalis for a weekly class and church for a nominal donation.

All are welcome.

Pastor Terry

PS. Remember to join us at the Garden Party this coming Saturday even if only for a short time.

01/05/2022

Happy New Year Everyone!

To start off the new year we are planning to have a Gardens Clean Up Day.
This coming Saturday (January 8) from 9 to 4 gathering at the Chrysalis Retreat Center (825 Mercer's Fernery Road, Deland 32744)

As you know our building is temporarily closed for renovations. However, we can start fulfilling our strategic plan by making use of our outdoor facilities.

We are inviting volunteers to help prepare the grounds and asking you to bring gardening tools for people to use this day as we have none. Plants and flowers are welcome too!

We want to start preparing the gardens for:
Loquat Picking Day (we have 5 varieties) to be followed by a Loquat Feast Day
Outdoor events like Garden Club plant sales, Homeschool Children's Gardening day, Neighborhood Block Party Bar-B-Q, Outdoor Weddings, Planting a Butterfly Garden, parking area for other festivals and gatherings, etc.

Please join us and share your ideas.

Blessings and Peace to you!