Bible Study #14 Jethro on Leadership Make the pure light of Your divine knowledge shine in our hearts, Loving Master, and open the eyes of our minds that we may understand the message of Your Gospel. Instill also in us reverence for Your blessed commandments, so that overcoming all worldly desires, we may pursue a […]
ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of the Great Fast our Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the victory of true Christian teaching over all perversions and distortions thereof—heresies and false teachings. On the second Sunday of the Great Fast it is as though this triumph of Orthodoxy is repeated and deepened in connection with the celebration of the memory of one of the greatest pillars of Orthodoxy, the hierarch Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, who by his grace-bearing eloquence and the example of his highly ascetic private life put to shame the teachers of falsehood who dared reject the very essence of.Orthodoxy, the podvig of prayer and fasting, which enlightens the human mind with the light of grace and makes it a communicant of the divine glory.
Homily Notes: Sunday of Judgment… Is Worship Useful?
February 19, 2017 By
Sunday of the Last Judgment (Matthew 25:31-46) Connecting the dots between the call to do good … and Sunday worship. Introduction: we are supposed to make the connection The judgment takes place IN THE THRONE ROOM OF GOD More a place of worship and awe than courtroom His audience would have intuited that and filled […]
OT Bible Study #13 – Miracles in the Desert
February 15, 2017 By
Bible Study #14 Miracles in the Desert Make the pure light of Your divine knowledge shine in our hearts, Loving Master, and open the eyes of our minds that we may understand the message of Your Gospel. Instill also in us reverence for Your blessed commandments, so that overcoming all worldly desires, we may pursue […]
Home Bible Study – The Sunday of the Last Judgement
February 15, 2017 By
Home Bible Study The Sunday of the Last Judgement 1 Corinthians 8:8-9:2 8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse. 9 But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those […]
Homily Notes on the Prodigal: Let’s Break Something!
February 12, 2017 By
[Warm up on metaphors: Learning the right lesson… not the wrong one.] Luke 15:11-32 Today’s message; “Let’s get out there and break something!” The lesson of the Prodigal is that when we mess up our lives we need to wake up and come to our senses. God is our understanding Father; not our judgmental and […]
Homily Notes: A Pregnant Moment with the Publican and Pharisee
February 5, 2017 By
Publican and the Pharisee The concept of the seed (example of Ukrainian and American householders). A small thing that can grow into something wonderful. Examples of seeds as metaphors: Luke 13:18-19. Then Jesus said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed, which […]
Talk: Church as Hospital and Great Lent as Good Medicine
February 5, 2017 By
Spiritually Speaking (2/5/2017) Church as Hospital and Great Lent as Good Medicine Today we begin the Triodion season. As a hospital led by the Great Physician, the Orthodox Church is very intentional about the way it guides us from our life of delusion and sickness towards a healthy and joyful one lived in the fullness […]
Home Bible Study – The Publican and the Pharisee
February 2, 2017 By
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy 3:10-15 TIMOTHY, my son, you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at lconion, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet […]
OT Bible Study #12 – The Last Plague and the Passover
February 1, 2017 By
Bible Study #12 The Final Plague and the Passover Make the pure light of Your divine knowledge shine in our hearts, Loving Master, and open the eyes of our minds that we may understand the message of Your Gospel. Instill also in us reverence for Your blessed commandments, so that overcoming all worldly desires, we […]
Homily Notes on Zacchaeus Sunday: What makes a home?
January 29, 2017 By
What is it that makes a home a home? Luke 19:1-10 Walk in – can you tell (that a place is a home)? The feeling? Feelings and intuitionare unreliable; generally, they are the way the subconscious mind puts together other indicators But to the sense our feelings are reliable, some places are haunted by memories […]
