Second Sunday of Great Lent: St. Gregory Palamas Epistle Reading: St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews 1:10-14; 2:1-3 [To the Son, God says;] “IN THE BEGINNING, Thou, Lord, didst found the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of thy hands; they will perish, but thou remainest; they will all grow old […]
Home Bible Study: Forgiveness Sunday
February 23, 2017 By
Home Bible Study Forgiveness Sunday (and the Expulsion of Humankind from Paradise) Romans 13:11-14:4 (NKJV) Theme: Put on Christ 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the […]
OT Bible Study #14 – Jethro (and the Bible) on Leadership
February 22, 2017 By
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OT Bible Study #11: The Plagues as a Cosmic Warfare
January 26, 2017 By
Bible Study #11 The Plagues as Cosmic Warfare 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 […]
OT Bible Study # 10: The Plagues Against Egypt
December 22, 2016 By
Old Testament Bible Study The Plagues against Egypt Prayer. O Lord enlighten the eyes of our minds… Context. Moses is living in Midean; the Israelites are captive in Egypt. The Lord has heard their crying. He has revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush and commanded him to go and liberate His people. Chapter […]
