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Children's Sermon-August 7th

The Pernicious Lie of Sexual Self-Actualization

August 7th, 2022

Crushed Grapes

Transfiguration 2022

What is Necessary to be a Christian?

August 4th, 2022

The Deceit of Self-Justification

July 31st, 2022

Why Stand? Why Bow?

Children's Sermon-July 31st, 2022

Don't Get Comfortable

July 30th, 2022

Where Sin Begins

July 28th, 2022

What Story Are We Telling?

July 24th, 2022

How We're Supposed to Be

Children's Sermon-July 24th, 2022

What is Authoritative?

July 17th, 2022

A Special Way to Show God You Love Him

Children's Sermon- July 17th, 2022

Worry is Greed

Fr. Dn. David Galloway- July 3rd, 2022

Should We Fill Our Eyes With It?

Children's Sermon- July 3rd, 2022

Lives of Transformation

Ss. Peter and Paul 2022

You Don't Get a Pass for What You Believe

June 26th, 2022

Be Fearful for Nothing

June 23rd, 2022

Called to be Holy as God is Holy

Dn. David Galloway

June 19th, 2022

Receiving Grace is Not Enough

June 16th, 2022

Living Temples

Pentecost 2022

What is Peace?

June 9th, 2022

The Pillar and Foundation of the Truth

Fr. Theophan Warren

June 5th, 2022

Blinded by Excuses

Fr. Oleg Kostenko

May 29th, 2022

In Spirit and In Truth

May 22nd, 2022

What Judgment is, What Judgment is Not

May 19th, 2022

Do Something With It

May 15th, 2022

A Break From School, but not a Break from God

May 15th, 2022- Children's Sermon

Crossing Your Path

May 12th, 2022

Your Chapter

May 8th, 2022

What is Your Job?

Children's Sermon- May 8th, 2022

Defeating Our Will

May 5th, 2022

The Open Side of Christ

Thomas Sunday 2022

The Company You Keep

Children's Sermon

Thomas Sunday 2022

The Way of the Disciples

Sermon by His Grace Bishop Gerasim

Bright Monday 2022

God is Not an Idea

April 23rd, 2022

A Divorce and a Marriage

April 22nd, 2022

Which One?

April 19th, 2022

Receiving Grace is Not Enough

April 19th, 2022

Your Vocation

April 18th, 2022

Repentance

April 17th, 2022

The Crucial Week

Palm Sunday 2022

Right to the Event

Children's Sermon

Palm Sunday 2022

The Problem of Evil

April 13th, 2022

The Chief of Sinners?

April 10th, 2022

Sitting Close to Jesus

Children's Sermon

April 10th, 2022

You are the Lineage of Abraham

April 8th, 2022

It is War

April 7th, 2022

God's Promises

April 6th, 2022

Not Trusting Ourselves

Fr. Joseph Chaffee

April 3rd, 2022

The Beginning of the Work of Salvation

April 1st, 2022

Overcoming the Curse of Babel

March 31st, 2022

God Loves You

March 30th, 2022

Insist on God's Will

Veneration of the Cross 2022

What is a Priest Exactly?

Children's Sermon- March 27th, 2022

Reversal of the Curse

Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos 2022

Belief is Not Enough

March 23rd, 2022

Hesychasm

March 20th, 2022

Healing Sickness

Children's Sermon- March 20th, 2022

Blessed by Mortality

March 18th, 2022

Our True Face

Triumph of Orthodoxy- March 13th, 2022

Living Images of Him

Children's Sermon- March 13th, 2022

The Opportunity of a Lifetime

March 6th, 2022

Banish Anger and Judgment

February 27th, 2022

Opportunities to Help

Children's Sermon- February 27th, 2022

Maintain the Watch

February 17th, 2022

Understand the Bad News

February 15th, 2022

Forgiven and Comforted

Children's Sermon- February 13th, 2022

Christian Courage

February 10th, 2022

Be a New Zacchaeus

February 6th, 2022

The Prayer

Children's Sermon- February 6th, 2022

The Consolation of Israel

February 2nd, 2022- Meeting of the Lord in the Temple

Who Do You Image?

January 30th, 2022

Stillness and the Jesus Prayer

Children's Sermon- January 30th, 2022

The Character of God

January 27th, 2022

Will You Stand Fast in the Faith?

New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia- January 23rd, 2022

Be Still.

Children's Sermon- January 23rd, 2022

The Path of Repentance

January 20th, 2022

Leave No Room for Another Agenda

Patronal Feast- January 16th, 2022

What's So Special About Holy Water?

Children's Sermon- January 16th, 2022

What's Warranted at the End of the Age?

January 13th, 2022

Change One Thing

January 9th, 2022

First Day of the Campaign

January 6th, 2022

2022- The Year on Your Tombstone

January 2nd, 2022

Only a Woman Can Make a Man Like That

December 26th, 2021

A New Thing

December 24th, 2021

Faithfulness

December 19th, 2021

Am I Repenting?

December 16th, 2021

Not a Calendar Event

December 12th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Incense

December 12th, 2021

Your Life is Not About You

December 6th, 2021- St. Nicholas Day

The Still, Small Voice

December 5th, 2021

The Faithful Husbandmen

December 2nd, 2021

Defining Characteristics

November 28th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Confession

November 28th, 2021

The Value of Suffering

November 25th, 2021

Human Temples

Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

November 21st, 2021

Children's Sermon

Being Helpful to God

November 21st, 2021

Tending to Our Own Cure

November 14th, 2021

Children's Sermon

One Purpose

November 14th, 2021

Who Have You Cultivated Yourself to Be?

November 11th, 2021

Use Your Authority

November 7th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Gifts

November 7th, 2021

The Tiniest Part

November 4th, 2021

The Realm of the Spiritual

October 31st, 2021

Sow Bountifully

October 24th, 2021

Children's Sermon

The Lord's Prayer

October 24th, 2021

Smoldering Flax

October 21st, 2021

Correct Belief Will Not Save Your Soul

October 17th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Good and Happy

October 17th, 2021

Whose Body Shall We Be?

October 14th, 2021

Restoring His Image

October 10th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Liturgy of the Faithful

October 10th, 2021

Because He is Good

October 3rd, 2021

“This is Just the Way that I am. God Understands.”

September 30th, 2021

Get to Know Him

September 26th, 2021

Children's Sermon

The Golden Book

September 26th, 2021

Check Yourself In

September 23rd, 2021

Will You Be Broken or Will You Be Destroyed?

September 19th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Let Us Attend!

September 19th, 2021

Christ's Family

September 16th, 2021

This is the Only Way

Exaltation of the Precious Cross 2021

Rich People

September 12th, 2021

Children's Sermon

The World with Jesus Christ

September 12th, 2021

Don't Settle

Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

September 8th, 2021

No Limits

September 5th, 2021

Children's Sermon

For the Life of the World and Its Salvation

September 5th, 2021

How Not to Be Deceived

September 2nd, 2021

Prepare For Your Beginning

The Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John

August 29th, 2021

Children's Sermon

The Major Difference- August 29th, 2021

A Child in the Ancient World

August 28th, 2021

Membership Isn't Enough

August 26th, 2021

We're Not Called to Be Nice

August 22nd, 2021

Children's Sermon

Focus on Jesus- August 22nd, 2021

Get Out of the Way

August 19th, 2021

Arise, O Lord, into Thy Rest,

Thou and the ark of Thy Strength

~Ps. 132:8

Dormition 2021

Children's Sermon

God Provides- August 15th, 2021

“I Want to Enjoy Life, Be Happy, Be Fulfilled!”

August 12th, 2021

Why Would You Not Say Yes?

August 8th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Coming Back to the Garden- August 8th, 2021

Being Nice vs. Being Loving

Transfiguration- August 6th, 2021

What Salvation Is and What Salvation Is Not

August 1st, 2001

Children's Sermon

Fasting- August 1st, 2021

The World is Ending

July 29th, 2021

Dominated and Dehumanized

July 25th, 2021

Children's Sermon

Rollercoasters & Vegetables

July 25th, 2021

Recognizable Disciples

July 22nd, 2021

Slave to Righteousness or Slave to Sin?- Fr. Nicholas Park

July 18th, 2021

Children's Sermon- Fr. Nicholas Park

Obedience

July 18th, 2021

Three Questions

July 11, 2021

Children's Sermon

What Scares You?

July 11th, 2021

Celebrating Independence

All Saints of America-July 4th, 2021

Children's Sermon

The Lord's Prayer

July 4th, 2021

Mirrors of God

All Saints (June 27th, 2021)

Children's Sermon

All Saints

June 27th, 2021

His Dwelling Place

Pentecost- June 20th, 2021

Sin Cannot Be Blessed by the Church

Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council (June 13th, 2021)

Are You Sick of Being in a Rut?

Forgiveness Sunday

What Will You Be When the Lord Raises You Up?

Sunday of the Final Judgment

Be the Older Brother as He was Meant to Be

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Are You What is Wrong with the World Today?

Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

Meeting of Our Lord in the Temple

Salvation is About Transformation

Are you Devoted to Christ or Anti- Christ?

Do You Want to Grow?

Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

How Will You Be Completed?

Christ is Born! Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

War Has Begun!

We are Called Inside

What are You Yearning For?

Live a Life of Thanksgiving

Become a Spiritual Giant by Becoming Small- Feast of St. Nicholas

Don't Make Peace with Your Sin

Don’t Get Trampled!- Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday

Do You Suffer Greatly? Thank God for It.

The Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple

"What Does the Gospel Say About Living the American Dream?"

"Final Judgment: Beliefs or Works?"

"Faith in Formulas or Faith in Christ Jesus?"

"Evil Empire"

"The Embrace of God is Heaven. The Embrace of God is Hell."

"Tend to Your Garden"

"The End of the Age- We Must Make Time!"

"Will We Hate or Will We be Real Christians?"

"82%"

"How are We to Be Declared Triumphant with Christ?"

(2 part recording)

"Our Great High Calling"

Exaltation of the Precious and Life Giving Cross

"Do You Know Everyone’s Name at Your Church?"

Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos

"Who Do You Want to Become?"

"Increasing Our Faith"

"Take Care of How You Build"

"Do You Want to be Better Than You Are?"

"How Do We Sanctify the World?"- Transfiguration of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ

"Abiding in Your Gifts"- Fr. Nicholas Park

"The Demoniac and the Covetous Man"

"Is He Lord of All or Lord of Nothing?"- Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils

"Torn in Two"

"What Kind of Person Lives in the Kingdom of Heaven?" - All Saints of North America

"What is Apostolic Tradition? How do we Respond to It?" - Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul

"Would You Give Your Life for Christ?"- Synaxis of All Saints

"Entering into the Saving Work of Christ"- Pentecost

"Hatred of Christ"- Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

"Christ is Ascended in Glory!"- Ascension

"What Must I Do to be Saved?"- Sunday of the Blind Man

"What is Worship?"- Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

"Small Steps Towards Perfection"- Sunday of the Paralytic

"What are You Afraid Of?"- Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women 2019

"Who is This God?"- St. Thomas Sunday 2019

"The Re-Creation of the Universe"- Palm Sunday 2019

"It is Not Too Late"- St. Mary of Egypt- Fr. Michael Oleksa

"What is Your Religion?"

"What Makes You a Christian?" - Veneration of the Cross- March 31st, 2019

Feast of the Annunciation

"The Kingdom of Heaven Suffers Violence and the Violent Take It by Force"- St. Gregory Palamas Sunday

"What do we mean by Son of God? What do we mean by Christian?"- Sunday of Orthodoxy

"What is Needed to Return to Paradise?"

"Sunday of the Last Judgment"

"A Beautiful Story with a Dark Ending" -Sunday of the Prodigal Son

"At least I never..."- Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

"The Enemy of the People"

"Persistence"

"What Makes us Saints?" - Sermon by Fr. Richard Flom

"Cry Out to the Lord!"

"Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand!"

"Theophany of Christ"

"The Dividing Line Between Good and Evil"

"Nativity in the Flesh of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ"

"Consider Your Ways"

"Who is Israel?"

"The Real Test of Living the Beatitudes"

"What is Goodness?"

"Let the Sacred Permeate the Mundane"

"The Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple"

"Why Does God Allow Some to Prosper?"

"Compassion without Fail" (The Good Samaritan)

"To What End Are We Saved?"

"War on the Image of God"

"The Faith of Christ"

"The Garden of Your Heart"

"God Has Visited His People"

"Do Not Be Afraid"

"If Only..."

Exaltation of the Precious Cross

How Do I Love My Neighbor? (Fr. Kyrill Williams' sermon)

Nativity of The Most Holy Theotokos-"The One Thing Needful"

Do We Seek to Enter the Kingdom of Heaven on Our Own Terms?

8/26/18

What is Wrong with Having Riches? - 8/19/18

The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary - 8/15/18

Will We Have Mercy or Will We Not? - 8/12/18

Transfiguration of Our Lord - 8/6/18

United in Christ - 7/22/18

Great Prince Vladimir and Fathers of the 1st six Ecumenical Councils - 7/15/18

Appearance of the “Sitka” icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1579) - 7/8/18

Whose Plan will be Realized in Your Life? - 7/1/18

Holy Apostles Peter and Paul- 6/29/18

Nativity of Saint John the Forerunner- 6/24/18

To be full of Light and Not Darkness (All Saints of Britain & Ireland)- 6/18/18

All Saints of America- 6/10/18

All Saints - 6/3/18

Pentecost - 5/27/18

Sunday of The Blind Man – 5/13/18

Sunday of The Samaritan Woman – 5/6/18

4th Sunday of Pascha – 4/29/18

Holy Myrrhbearing Women – 4/22/18

Thomas Sunday – 4/15/18

Palm Sunday – 4/1/18

St. John Climacus – 3/18/18

Exaltation of the Holy Cross – 3/11/18

St. Gregory Palamas - 3/4/18

Triumph of Orthodoxy - 2/25/18

Forgiveness Sunday - 2/18/18

Sunday of Last Judgment - 2/11/18

January 28th, 2018 (14:14)

January 21st, 2018 (12:12)

October 15th, 2017 (15:09)

September 17th, 2017 (14:50)

September 10th, 2017 (15:02)

September 3rd, 2017 (12:44)

August 20th, 2017 (13:18)

August 13th, 2017 (10:58)

August 6th, 2017 (10:39)

July 30th, 2017 (13:10)

July 9th, 2017 (13:42)

July 2nd, 2017 (16:34)

October 23rd, 2016 (14:40)

October 23rd, 2016 (14:40)

September 16th, 2016 (11:08)

September 9th, 2016 (15:23)

August 7th, 2016 (11:41)

July 31st, 2016 (14:11)

July 10th, 2016 (15:58)

February 28th, 2016 (14:46)

February 21st, 2016 (13:14)

January 10th, 2016 (15:52)

October 18th, 2015 (16:07)

October 11th, 2015 (11:56)

August 2nd, 2015 (13:55)

April 19th, 2015 (14:10)

April 5th, 2015 (20:44)

March 29th, 2015 (18:52)

March 22nd, 2014 (16:59)

March 15th, 2015 (16:01)

February 22nd, 2015 (12:59)

February 15th, 2015 (15:06)

January 25th, 2015 (14:39)

Increasing Our Faith