Overcoming Challenges in Marriage
Most marriages encounter difficulties. New Church teachings offer practical suggestions for overcoming challenges and building stronger marriage relationships.
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Mutual and Conjugial Love
New Church teachings use the term "mutual love" to describe the love between friends of the same or the opposite sex, and the term "conjugial love" to describe the love between married partners of the opposite sex.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- GCED staff
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Sex and Marriage
New Church teachings give spiritual reasons for why sex belongs to marriage.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- GCED staff
- © General Church
Separation and Divorce
Marriage is a civil and spiritual covenant. Spiritual laws about divorce and remarriage are not always in agreement with what civil law permits.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- Matthew 5, Deuteronomy 24
- GCED staff
- © General Church
The Sense of Touch
Touch is an important aspect of relationships with others. When we touch another person we should keep in mind what's best for others as well as what's best for ourselves.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- Matthew 19, Matthew 8, Matthew 20
- GCED staff
- © General Church
Walk to Emmaus
Two disciples talked to Jesus while walking to Emmaus, but did not recognize Him. The Lord talks with us in His Word but like the disciples, we do not always recognize Him.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- Luke 24, Matthew 12
- GCED staff
- © General Church
True Freedom
Nothing is more important to the Lord than human freedom. Freedom to choose good or evil is one kind of freedom, but true freedom is experienced once a person chooses to be led by the Lord.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- GCED staff
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Tolerance and Judgment
Loving the neighbor is intending and doing good to all, but wisely loving others takes a variety of forms depending on others' actions.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- John 8, John 7, Matthew 7
- GCED staff
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Three Hells
The New Church teaches there are three levels of hell which are perversions of the God-given levels of the mind and stand in opposition to the three levels of heaven.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- GCED staff
- © General Church
Three Heavens
The New Church teaches there are three heavens in which angels receive the Lord in three fundamentally different ways.
- Sunday School Lesson
- Ages 11-17
- FaithBuilder Year 4
- GCED staff
- © General Church