Fire
Brothers and sisters, walk as children of light – for the fruit of light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth – discerning what is pleasing to the Lord […]
Posts & Updates
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What He has done for you
Storms are a fact of life. Real physical storms, or spiritual storms. When Jesus crossed over to the land of the Gerasenes, he calmed a powerful storm in the Sea […]
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God restores His image and likeness
The only way for God to do this is to overturn what man has done to the image and likeness, how we treat each other. That is why Jesus says […]
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Rooted
“Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men,” we hear in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 5. In Matthew’s version, Jesus says: Follow me, and I will make […]
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Against the Machine
Our only purpose as a church is to be a community of faith. And faith is growing, make no mistake about it. By fits and starts, to be sure, but […]
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Christ the Logos at the Beginning and End
Anyone who reads even a page of the Gospels will know that Jesus often confronted popular Jewish beliefs – especially among the Pharisees and other religious figures. After centuries of […]
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The words you don’t hear
In almost every relationship someone will inevitably complain about the words they don’t hear from the other member of the relationship, whether it’s the spouse or a parent or a […]
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Vision of Being
At the core of Orthodox theology is the idea of Vision – Vision of God, specifically. That is why we have icons. That is why we honor saints. We believe […]
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Three Bishops, One Christ
Every January 30th the Holy Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs: Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. They all lived in that golden […]
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Sing with a Saint
The soul that is counted worthy to participate in the light of the Holy Spirit by becoming his throne and habitation, and is covered with the ineffable glory of the […]