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Title
1

Image of God

2

Rend Your Hearts

3

The Two Meetings of the Lord

4

St. Maria of Gatchina

5

Preparing to Meet Christ (Mark 1:1-8)

6

The Importance of Studying the Bible (Matthew 1:1-17)

7

For Many are Called, but Few are Chosen

8

The Ten Lepers 2025 (Luke 17:12-19)

9

Walking Circumspectly (Ephesians 5:15)

10

O Lord, Thou Shalt Open My Lips, and My Mouth Shall Declare Thy Praise

11

Create in Me a Clean Heart

12

Thou Shalt Sprinkle Me With Hyssop

13

The Key to Mercy

14

Thou Art the Man

15

King David and Bathsheba

16

The Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain 2025

17

Sowing in the Right Field

18

The Easy Way or the Hard Way

19

Return on Investment

20

The Magnificat

21

Building a Home

22

Strong and Forbearing

23

In Thee Have I Put My Hope

24

The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

25

Be Vigilant

26

The Prophet Ezekiel

27

Guide Me in the Way Everlasting

28

Thy Right Hand Shall Hold Me

29

Demons and Free Will

30

I Am Not Worthy That Thou Shouldest Come Under My Roof

31

Blessed Olga of Alaska

32

Blessed Are All That Have Put Their Trust in Him

33

Getting Up Off the Couch

34

The First Ecumenical Council

35

Persecutions in Moldova

36

Think on These Things

37

St. Tikhon of Moscow

38

The Fire Shall Ever Be Burning

39

Virtue Signaling and Actual Virtue

40

Investing in Things That Last

41

Free Cheese

42

Prodigal Son 2025

43

Be Thou an Example

44

Theophany 2025

45

The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ

46

Roots

47

Our Need for Gratitude

48

The Just Shall Live By Faith

49

Hieromartyr Clement of Rome

50

The Expectation of the Nations

51

Behold Now Bless Ye the Lord

52

For Me

53

The Repose of Archbishop Peter (Loukianoff)

54

Reaping What You Sow

55

Both Good and Pleasant

56

The Place Where Thy Feet Have Stood

57

Standing Fast in the Faith

58

The Importance of Christian Marriage

59

Stewardship

60

The Way of Humility

61

Working on Ourselves

62

Out of the Depths

63

St. Mary Magdalene

64

Things That Can't Go On Forever...Won't

65

From My Youth

66

He Must Increase, But I Must Decrease

67

Blessed Are All They That Fear the Lord

68

Walking According to the Spirit

69

Renewing the Mind

70

Arise, O God, Judge the Earth

71

The Extra Mile

72

What do we do with Guilt?

73

Annunciation 2024

74

Inside Out

75

Becoming a Guardian of Piety

76

Forgiveness Sunday 2024

77

Avoiding Surprises on the Day of Judgment

78

Prodigal Son 2024

79

Pride and Humility

80

Zacchaeus Sunday 2024

81

Except the Lord Build the House

82

St. Nectarius of Optina

83

Garbage In/Garbage Out

84

Sowing With Tears

85

The Name of Jesus

86

Holy Forefathers 2023

87

They That Trust In The Lord Shall Be As Mount Zion

88

Had It Not Been That the Lord Was With Us

89

God's Providence

90

Unto Thee have I Lifted Up Mine Eyes

91

St. James the Brother of the Lord

92

The Church and Israel

93

Let Us Go into the House of the Lord

94

Love Your Enemies

95

God Will Have the Last Word

96

The Strait and Narrow Way

97

From Whence Cometh My Help

98

St. Moses the Ethiopian

99

Songs of Ascent: Leaving the World, and Beginning the Journey

100

Things People Don't Want To Hear

101

The Unmerciful Servant

102

Working With God

103

Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

104

St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves

105

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

106

The Fretting of the Wicked

107

Fret Not

108

How the Saints Help Us

109

Power from on High

110

St. Paisius Velichkovsky

111

The Love of the Truth

112

Modern Paganism

113

The Theotokos as an Ideal of Motherhood

114

Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women 2023

115

The Costliness of Worship

116

Obedience (Step Four of the Ladder)

117

This Alone Will Make You Stop Being a Protestant

118

Forgive as Christ Has Forgiven Us

119

Scoffers of the Last Days

120

The Three Great Hierarchs and the Families that Produced Them

121

The Holy New Martyr Hilarion (Troitsky)

122

Zacchaeus Sunday 2023

123

We Must Through Much Tribulation Enter into the Kingdom of God

124

Selling Our Birthright

125

St. Herman of Alaska

126

Abiding in Love

127

Discerning God's Will

128

The Heavenly Tabernacle

129

Today If You Will Hear His Voice

130

The Woman with an Issue of Blood

131

Testing the Spirits

132

You Can't Take It With You

133

Return, O Israel

134

Winning the Spiritual War

135

St. Paul on Mars Hill

136

Love in Deed and Truth

137

The Parable of the Talents

138

No Beggars

139

Beheading of St. John the Baptist

140

Dormition 2022

141

Take Heed

142

The End of the Wicked

143

Royal Martyrs

144

No Pain, No Gain

145

St. Luke of Crimea

146

Who Shall Ascend into the Mountain of the Lord?

147

Pentecost 2022

148

What We Must Answer For

149

One Nation Under Judgment

150

The True Worshippers God Seeks

151

Wilt Thou Be Healed?

152

A Mad Mad World

153

Choose Life

154

Palm Sunday

155

The Thief Who Stole Paradise

156

Bitter Waters Made Sweet

157

On Exile or Pilgrimage

158

What is Truth?

159

God is on the Throne

160

The War in Ukraine

161

The Fatted Calf is Slain

162

Reading Scripture with Faith and Humility

163

Hieromartyr Joachim of Nizhny-Novgorod

164

I Am that I Am

165

The Birth of Moses

166

Walking Circumspectly and Redeeming the Time

167

The Right Place (Luke 13:10-17)

168

Entertaining Angels Unawares

169

Faith Works

170

The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

171

The Law of Moses and the Law of Grace

172

Go to the Ant Thou Sluggard

173

On the Road to Emmaus

174

How Do We Know the Iconoclasts Were Wrong?

175

The Chosen People

176

The Tests of Faith

177

The Martyrs Michael and Theodore of Chernigov

178

The Lord is My Light and My Savior, Whom Then Shall I Fear?

179

The Arena of the Family

180

What Can the Righteous Do?

181

Walking on Water

182

The Feeding of the Five Thousand in the Four Gospels

183

Ask, Seek, Knock

184

St. Seraphim of Sarov

185

Out of the Pit

186

The New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth

187

Let God Arise and Let His Enemies Be Scattered

188

Butter Mountain?

189

Prayer with Suction

190

St. Matrona of Moscow

191

Sennacherib and Hezekiah

192

Willful Blindness

193

This Promise is to You

194

Come and Hear

195

Through Fire and Water

196

A Psalm of Resurrection

197

The Day of our Visitation

198

Great Mercy

199

Detachment from the World

200

Christ the Passover Lamb

201

Can We Really Know God?

202

Haram!

203

Back to the Garden

204

Meatfare Sunday

205

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

206

Where There is No Wood, the Fire Goeth Out

207

Sunday of Zacchaeus

208

The Living Church and New Martyrs of Russia

209

Athanasius against the World

210

The Epiphany of Grace

211

What Ails You?

212

God's Covenant With Abraham

213

Put Off the Old Man

214

Praising That Which is Eternal

215

Praise Ye the Name of the Lord

216

Walking Worthy of Our Vocation

217

Resisting the Devil

218

The Great Earthquake

219

Put Not Your Trust In Princes

220

Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain

221

St. Philaret of Moscow

222

Dwelling in Hope

223

Compromising with the Spirit of the Age

224

No One Can Hurt You But Yourself

225

What Should We Fear?

226

The Martyr Theodosia and the Coronavirus

227

An Orthodox Mind in a Hostile World

228

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

229

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

230

Our Father, Who Art in the Heavens

231

Forgive Us Our Debts

232

The Pursuit of Happiness

233

And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

234

Tearing Up the Handwriting of Our Sins

235

Redeemed from the Curse of the Law

236

Procession of the Cross

237

Salvation is of the Lord

238

A Thorn in the Flesh

239

A Spiritual Famine

240

Christian Is As Christian Does

241

Building a House to Withstand the Storm

242

St. Nicholas of Japan

243

The Substance of Things Hoped For

244

Apodosis of Pascha 2020

245

Praising God in a Philippian Jail

246

That the Nations May Know Thy Salvation

247

St. Monica

248

St. Joseph of Arimathea

249

Agony in the Garden

250

Saint Innocent of Alaska

251

Nothing Strikes Fear

252

Losing Your Life to Save It

253

The Two Wings of Prayer

254

Is God Just?

255

The Prodigal Son

256

St. Cyril of Kazan

257

Signs of Life

258

Crossing Jordan

259

What Christ's Baptism Accomplished for Us

260

Being Born Again

261

Bags With Holes

262

All My Ways Are Ever Before Thee

263

Copping a Plea

264

Take Heed How you Build

265

O LORD, Our Lord

266

The Lord Setteth Aright the Fallen

267

What Am I Gonna Do?

268

Literal or Allegorical Interpretation?

269

Christian Is As Christian Does

270

By Many Or By Few

271

If They Hear Not Moses and the Prophets

272

St. Jonah of Manchuria

273

Love and Holiness

274

The Great Commission

275

The Greatmartyr Euphemia

276

A Home Where Love Is

277

Liars and Antichrists

278

Imitating God

279

The Longing of the Heart

280

The Wise and Foolish Builders

281

Be the Maccabee

282

Sins Carry with Them Their Own Punishments

283

The Council of Jerusalem

284

Blessed are They that Hear the Word of God and Keep It

285

Charity

286

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

287

Renewing a Right Spirit in Ourselves

288

Our Fathers Have Told Us

289

It Ain't Bragging If You Can Back It Up

290

The Woman Caught in Adultery

291

A House of Mercy

292

Wives and Husbands

293

Rejoice, O Daughter of Zion

294

The Cure of the Cross

295

We Should Never Despair of Our Salvation

296

Anthropological Iconoclasm

297

You Get What You Give

298

To Judge Both the Living and the Dead

299

Holier Than Thou

300

The New Martyrs of 1919

301

Infanticide and Abortion

302

The Friend of the Bridegroom

303

What Child is This?

304

Daniel and the Lions' Den

305

Wonderful are Thy Testimonies

306

Our Advocate

307

If We Confess Our Sins (1 John 1:5-10)

308

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

309

Cultural Marxism

310

It is Good to Give Thanks unto the Lord

311

The Kazan Icon

312

The Eye of the Soul

313

Believing to Understand

314

Fellowship in the Gospel (Philippians 1:1-11)

315

If Any Provide Not For His Own

316

Me, Jesus, and Everybody Else

317

Hitherto Hath the Lord Helped Us

318

Appropriate Fasting

319

Purge out the Old Leaven

320

Fools for Christ

321

Temple of God

322

Don't be a Big Baby

323

The Mind of Christ

324

A Light Unto My Paths

325

The Chinese Martyrs and the Choices We Face Today

326

You Get What You Pay For (Father's Day)

327

St. Raphael of Brooklyn

328

Pentecost

329

Spiritual Strength

330

The Prayer of a Sinner

331

Blessed are They that put their Trust in Him

332

Why Have You Persecuted Me?

333

The Myrrhbearing Women

334

Doors of the Kingdom

335

Obedience

336

The Cost of Discipleship

337

Spiritual Wisdom

338

Modernism

339

Where Art Thou?

340

Firm in the Faith

341

Righteousness and Repentance

342

True Satisfaction lies in Christ

343

St. Basil the Great

344

Name of Jesus

345

If You Can Catch Him

346

Kursk Root Icon

347

Receiving the Spiritual Bread

348

Golden Mouth

349

Clean Heart

350

By Faith, but not Faith Alone

351

God's Timing

352

The Four Soils

353

Forever, O Lord, Thy Word Abideth in Heaven

354

Scripture Alone

355

Reap with Rejoicing

356

Partaking in the Inheritance of the Saints

357

Not I, But Christ

358

By God's Mercy Are We Saved

359

The Strength of a Threefold Cord

360

Bad Company corrupts Good Morals

361

Unless Ye Repent Ye Shall All Likewise Perish

362

The Prophetess Deborah and the Battle of Mount Tabor

363

On Thy Words Have I Set My Hope

364

True Wisdom and Real Folly

365

Being of the Same Mind and Judgment

366

St. John the Theologian

367

Blessed is the Man

368

A 14-Year-Old Boy

369

Be Ye Holy

370

You're Gonna Have to Serve Somebody

371

The Epistle of St. Jude

372

The Law of Faith

373

That's Not Very Texan

374

All Saints Sunday

375

The Promise of Pentecost

376

Christ, David, and the Psalms

377

The Samaritan Woman

378

Our Works Matter

379

Annulling the Curse

380

The Cleansing of the Temple

381

Observing Boundaries

382

Come Boldly Before the Throne of Grace

383

The Second Triumph of Orthodoxy: St. Gregory Palamas

384

Contend Earnestly for the Faith Once Delivered unto the Saints

385

Be Imitators of God

386

The First Rung in the Ladder: Renunciation of the World

387

The Final Judgment

388

Being a Temple of the Holy Spirit

389

Behold I Stand at the Door and Knock

390

Be Thou an Example

391

The Healing of Naaman the Syrian

392

St. Juliana of Lazarevo

393

Christ our Champion

394

The Stone Cut Out Without Hands

395

Proper Worship

396

Woman, Thou Art Loosed

397

The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple

398

Prayer: the Mirror of the Soul

399

To the Church of Philadelphia: The Name of Christian

400

St. John Kochurov

401

Breaking up the Fallow Ground

402

In Everlasting Remembrance Shall the Righteous Be

403

The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price

404

A Tale of Two Kinds of Christians

405

Your Money or Your Life

406

Does God Care?

407

One Flesh

408

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist and 9/11

409

A Royal Psalm

410

Loving the Feasts of the Church

411

It Is Finished!

412

Believe Ye that I am Able to Do This?

413

To the Church in Sardis: Be Watchful

414

God's Work to Guide Us on the Path of Salvation

415

The Soul of America

416

What Advantage Hath the Russian?

417

Being Perfect

418

The Holy Spirit: Wind, Fire, and Water

419

The Logos

420

Prelest

421

Singing in Scripture

422

Three Lessons from the Healing of the Paralytic

423

Going the Extra Mile

424

To What Purpose Was This Waste?

425

All Things Are Possible to Him that Believes

426

Reconciliation with God

427

Being a Cross-Bearer

428

Our Four Friends

429

Running the Race of the Fast

430

How to Approach the Fast

431

War, Capital Punishment, and the Sixth Commandment

432

Thou Shalt Not Kill

433

When the Books are Opened

434

The Prodigal Slave

435

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

436

Hieromartyr Vladimir of Kiev

437

The Undying Worm and the Unquenchable Fire

438

Overcoming Sin

439

Preach the Word

440

Rahab, and the Scarlet Cord

441

Making Excuses

442

The Bond of Perfection

443

St. Andrew the First Called

444

The Easy Yoke of Christ

445

Awake, Thou That Sleepest

446

Fear Not, Believe Only

447

Are We There Yet?

448

Reality as God Sees It

449

Saint John of Kronstadt

450

I Believe

451

Salt and Light

452

Remember Thy Words to Thy Servant

453

A Woman with Great Faith

454

The Disciplines of Discipleship

455

Opening our Spiritual Ears

456

What Did Jesus Say?

457

The Parable of the Seed that Grows Secretly

458

A House Divided

459

The Day Christ's Ministry Began in Galilee

460

Soldier, Athlete, Farmer

461

The Prophet Elijah and the Prophets of Baal

462

What's Your Excuse?

463

Our Anchor of Hope

464

St. Peter the Apostle

465

Hate and Racism

466

God's Plumbline

467

Circumcision of the Heart

468

Conscience

469

To the Jew first, and also to the Gentile

470

The Meaning of our Baptism

471

Ss. Methodius and Cyril

472

The Way of God's Statutes

473

The Blind Leading the Blind

474

The Pool of Bethesda

475

Search the Scriptures

476

The Healing of the Beggar at the Gate of the Temple

477

The Raising of Lazarus

478

The Sinful Woman and the Pharisee

479

The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

480

The Suffering Servant

481

Isaiah's Woes

482

Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together

483

Forgiving Those Who Have Hurt Us

484

Churching and the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord

485

What is the Significance of the Feast of the New Martyrs of Russia?

486

Humble Thyself in the Sight of the Lord

487

The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness

488

Fruits Meet for Repentance

489

Ruth

490

The Doors of Repentance

491

The Ten Lepers

492

The Prophecy of Nahum

493

The Holy Greatmartyr Catherine

494

God's Sovereignty and Human Freedom

495

Christ, the Good Samaritan

496

Redeeming the Time

497

Let All Things be Done Decently and in Order

498

Work Out Your Own Salvation

499

Living the Life of the Gospel, Archbishop Gabriel (Chemodakov) of Montreal

500

Unveil Mine Eyes (Psalm 118:17-24)

501

Walk Not as the Gentiles (Ephesians 4:17-24)

502

Denying Self (Mark 8:34)

503

The Nativity of the Theotokos

504

Christian Leadership in the Home

505

Blessed art Thou, O Lord, Teach Me Thy Statutes (Psalm 118:9-16)

506

To the Church of Pergamos

507

Passing on the Faith

508

Blessed are the Blameless (Psalm 118:1-8)

509

The Ever-Virgin Mary

510

Ezekiel

511

Putting Our Gifts to Work for the Church

512

The Role of the Law

513

Servants of Righteousness

514

Mammon

515

Christ Comes to Galilee

516

The Comforter

517

True and False Unity

518

Standing with Christ

519

Blessed is He that Comes in the Name of the Lord - Psalm 117 (part 3)

520

The Stone Which the Builders Rejected - Psalm 117 (part 2)

521

The Lord is our Strength - Psalm 117 (part 1)

522

The Barren Fig Tree

523

Jacob Comes to Peniel

524

Jacob's Ladder

525

The Blood of Abel

526

“As it was in the Days of Noah”

527

“If He Neglect to Hear the Church . . .”

528

By the Waters of Babylon

529

The Final Judgment

530

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

531

The Hieromartyr Peter of Krutitsa

532

Zacchaeus Sunday

533

Thou Shalt Not Covet

534

“As Many as Have Been Baptized into Christ Have Put on Christ”

535

The Lord Hath Sent Redemption unto His People

536

Christ and History

537

The Prophet Haggai

538

Take Heed Therefore How Ye Hear

539

The Prophet Habakkuk

540

The Kingdom of God is Within You

541

Skeptical Biblical Scholarship: Part 2

542

Skeptical Biblical Scholarship

543

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness

544

St. Job of Pochaev

545

Thoroughly Equipped

546

The Parable of the Sower

547

The Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain

548

Thou Shalt Not Steal

549

Becoming a Disciple

550

Worship at the Footstool of His Feet

551

The Prophetess Hannah

552

Saints Peter and Febronia of Murom, and the Day of Family, Love, and Fidelity

553

Vanity of Vanities

554

Patience

555

Where are Thine Ancient Mercies?

556

Divorce

557

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

558

The Baptism of Russia

559

Vessels of Mercy and Wrath

560

The Inconvenient Truth about Homosexual Marriage

561

If Any Man Thirst

562

The Fifth Commandment: Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

563

Wondrous is God in His Saints

564

Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings

565

Despondency

566

The Protoevangelion and the Annunciation

567

Does Doctrine Matter?