Those Pesky Pharisees
Read John 9:1-38 A long time ago, in a writing class I was in, the teacher said that every good story has a hero and an antagonist. In the Gospel story ...
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Be One of God’s Miracles
These last few weeks the news has been filled with tragic circumstances. Not that the news is not always, or perhaps it just seems that way, filled with bad ne...
Chosen to Serve
Since Easter, each day, we have been reading from the book of Acts. I have said before that it is called the book of Acts, or Actions, not the book of sitting ...
Christ is Risen! Now What?
For me, the day after Easter is a lot like the day after Christmas, lots to clean up. Our modern culture tends to treat these big holidays as one-day events an...
The Sacrifice of Abraham
In previous essays, I asked you, dear readers, to meditate on the cost of the cross. The cross of Jesus had a cost, and each of us must think about what that c...
Christ IS Risen!
For most of you reading this, okay probably all of you reading this, this Sunday will be Easter. On this, we celebrate the reality that the grave could not hol...
O Faithless Generation
We have now passed the halfway point of Great Lent and our focus is turned toward faith, or should I say the lack of faith. The middle of anything can be a ver...
The Promise of Christmas
In order to truly understand the message and promise of Christmas we have to return briefly to the visit of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, cue dream sequence mus...
Sermon ~ He is not Here
Last Sunday we came face to face with the person of St. Thomas and an act of faith that changed him from one filled with uncertainty to one of great faith. Tod...
Hades was Angered
One of the more well-known sermons of St. John Chrysostom is the Paschal sermon that is read in Orthodox Churches during the Paschal Matins service. The sermon...