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Hill Country Homilies — 309 episodes
Bearing One Another’s Burdens: The Christian Duty of Love
The Faith of Demons? Zeal, Confession, and the Danger of False Religion
The Faith That Made Christ Marvel
From Dust to Glory - St. Basil's Map of Our Salvation
The Shape of Your Salvation
Beyond Books: Encountering the Living God
No Parable: Works that Judge Us
While You Were Yet Far Off: The Prodigal's Journey Home
Humility Over Pride: The Foundation of Orthodox Life
Trading Eternity for a Moment
The Persistence of the Faithful
St. Stephen the New
Spiritual Blindness and Idoldatry - The Legacy of the Rich Fool
The Gadarene Demoniac: Christ's Power and Our Weakness
The Sower and Our Cross
The Art of the Deal
The Weapon of Peace
What Is Our Hedge?
At the Appointed Time
It's Not About the Numbers
We Are Saved Like the Blind Man
Can Sin Make Us Sick?
Finding Your Spiritual Desert
Climbing the Ladder Together
Faith, Deeds, and Judgment: From the Mouth of Christ
Starting the Journey of Repentance
Saving Humility - Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
What Kind of God Permits This?
Talent on Loan from God
The Law as Schoolmaster
Rich Toward God
Weep Not!
Invited but Not Ready
El Inicio de Nuestra Salvacion
Homily for the Indiction
The Unpayable Debt
The Sea and the Wind
About that Tower
That They May Be One
The Completion of our Faith
From Sight to Blindness
Can You Drink of the Cup
Leaving the Garden - Entering Great Lent
Division and the Last Judgment
Through the Eyes of God
You Must Plan to Go to Church Every Week - A Homily for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers
Harsh Words to a Fool
Who Is Your Lazarus?
It's Not the Location - It's the Preparation
A Gift from the King
Are We Bad Husbandmen?
Sacrificing to Idols - St. Catherine of Tyre
Contend Earnestly for the Faith . . . Or Else
Being Fair About Thomas
Help My Unbelief!
Take Up Your Cross. But How?
Faith and Revelation - The Visible Confirms the Invisible
Against Our Nature - The Call to Forgiveness
A Little Fear is OK
He Came to Himself
Why Do We Prepare?
Light to the World
What Are You Baptizing Yourself With?
A New and Wondrous Mystery!
Enter Into the Supper!
Have No Fellowship with Darkness; Redeem the Time
Paul Is Not Against Works
We Don't Know How to Be Persecuted
Love Yourself Above All Else - The Soul Killing Mantra of Modernism
Our Own Special Sin
Forgiven Debt - The Spiritual and the Secular
Building Up the Body - How Focusing on Christ Preserves the Faith
Let Your Spirit Ascend to the Heavens!
Christ Revealed: When Doubt is Transformed
The Palms of Victory
Forgiveness, Community and Repentance
The Victory of the Cross
The Sunday of the Last Judgment is Meant to Scare You
Righteousness and Sin: The Prodigal Brothers
The Slaughter of the Innocents
A Nativity Epistle
The Ascetic Struggle
What's Impossible for Man
Just a Vessel?
The Unlearned Lawyer
The Rich Man Has No Name
Paul's Defense is Our Promise!
Raising Us All From the Dead
I Need Your Boat!
Idle Hands are the Devil's Workshop
If Thine Eye Be Single
We Eat Ourselves
We've Had it Easy
I Will Number Them
The Spirit of Unity
Prepared to Evangelize
More than Water
How Condescending!
Not the King They Wanted
Weeping for Us
Pure Confession and True Repentance
Will You Carry the Cross or Will It Carry You?
Completing Our Faith
Be Still and Pray
Homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy
The Necessity of Forgiveness
Standing before the Judge
Boundless Forgiveness
Intentional Humility
Seeing Christ
It's Not About the Dogs
You Are Altogether as Satan
Those Who Sit in Darkness
Turn Back O Jordan!
Carrying On for the Seventy
Faith and Patience - The Sunday before Nativity
What's Your Excuse?
Hypocrisy,Self-Dealing and the Temptation of Legalism
Facing Reality
Who Is My Neighbor?
Carrying Christ to the Dead
Homily on the Feast of the Holy Archangels
Life Lessons from the Rich Man
Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 5)
The Cares of the World and Patient Endurance: The Parable of the Sower and Salvation
Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 4)
Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 3)
The Matter of the Wood
Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Pt. 2)
Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 1)
Sell All You Have! A Modern Dilemma
Remembering Fr. Symeon
Pride and Offense: It's Not Them, It's Us!
Jesus Never Said There Wouldn't Be Storms
No Prophet is Accepted in His Own Country
We That Are Strong
Leaders and Sinners: the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul
The Faith of the Gentiles Outshines the Chosen
A Calling of Obedience and Belief
In Unity with the Saints
An Offense to Christ
Truth Revealed to Us - What the New Testament Says
Bearing Your Afflictions
Worshipping What You Don't Know
Raised from Despair
Be Bold for Christ
The Cycle of Sadness and Joy
Keep Your Eyes on the Heavenly Things
Lazarus: Resurrected for Us
It's a Tragedy. Don't Pretend Otherwise
The Worthless Servants and the Ladder
The Healing Wood of the Cross
A Faith So Strong It Saves Others
Forgiveness and Repentance - A Vital Link
Judged By Love
No Man Too Lost
When Pride Separates Us from God
Rising Above the Crowd
On Mission - Sunday after Theophany
Carrying the Light
The Nativity as the Key to Our Salvation
The Holy Forefathers and the Preparation
Idle Time Is Time with God Lost
One Thing Lacking
Preparing a Vessel
Encountering God
Bearing Fruits to Salvation
Compassionate and Powerful - A Look at Christ's Raising of the Dead
The Transformative Witness of Loving Your Enemies
Fishing From the Banks
The Law of Love
The Law is Bound in Time
God's Love and the Wicked Vinedressers
By the Grace of God
The Debt You Can't Pay
Homily on the Dormition of the Theotokos
The Paradox of Orthodoxy
St. Gregory Palamas on the Transfiguration
The Waves and the Wind
Be of One Mind, Even the Hard Stuff
The Bum on the Corner - 400 AD Edition
About those Swine!
Freely Give: The Example of the Holy Unmercenaries
A Shaky Foundation
Prepare the Way of the Lord: A Radical Calling for a Radical Man
Not Hearers but Doers: The Saints of North America
Called To Be Saints
Those Who Rule Over Us
Raising Man Up to God
Before We Get to the Story . . .
Lessons from the Well
Paralyzed at the Water's Edge
In Defense of Thomas
Palm Sunday: The Oddest of Triumphs
Shepherd and Master: Christ and Lazarus
A Lenten Recipe: Equal Parts Repentance and Humility
An Obedient Woman Saves the World
Will You Die for Christ? Not a Rhetorical Question
Fighting the Soulless Scholasticism of the West
Sunday of Orthodoxy - Anathemas and Brief Homily
Fasting Advice from the Fathers
The Books Shall Be Opened: Faith, Works and the Last Judgment
Repentance, Envy and Anger - Understanding the Parable of the Prodigal
The Camel without a Hump - Zacchaeus Sunday 2019
St. Maximos the Confessor - Beacon of Orthodoxy
Ingratitude, Complete Healing and False Teaching
Preparation, Sufficiency and Fullness: God's Grace in the Mysteries of the Church
A Gospel Not of Man
A Star for All Nations - Homily on the Nativity of Christ
A Genealogy of Man
Living Out Your Baptism
Envy - When We Condemn Ourselves
St. Nicholas - Charity, Zeal and Love
Seeing the Light
Parable of the Rich Young Ruler
Show Forth a Useful Fast
A Great Gulf Fixed
The Fear of the Gadarenes
Clearing the Thorns: Ascetic Practice in the World
Icons, Idols, Images and the 2nd Commandment
How Do We Carry Our Cross?
Touching Salvation - Elevation of the Cross
Seeing Shadows: The Cross and the Caananite Woman
The Greatest Commandment
Invited then Cast Out - The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Thoughts on the Salvation of the Heterodox
Homily for the Procession of the Cross
Forgiveness of Every Sin - The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
Doctrine Matters: Why We Don't Just Talk About Ourselves
Focusing on the Wrong Things
Unity and Salvation - Lessons from Paul
Saved by Faith - A Survival Story
Great and Imperfect - Ss. Peter and Paul
Do Our Sins Make Us Sick?
Paul's Prayer for Israel, Our Prayer for the World
The Provision of Our Father - A Homily for Father's Day
The Suicide Epidemic - Idolization of Death
Through the Prayers of the Theotokos - Our New Name
Called to Unity - The Sending of the Spirit
Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
The Way The Truth and the Life - Christ's Reassurance to His Disciples
Preparation and Provision - The Feast of the Ascension
Offering the Living Water and Opening the Church
The Patience of the Paralytic
Does Thomas Get a Bad Rap?
Lay Aside All Earthly Cares
Homily for Lazarus Saturday
What Hope Do We Have? Climbing the Ladder in the World
The Cross - Our Guidepost and Reminder
Experiencing God - The Importance of St. Gregory Palamas
We're Not Confused - Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
Finding Ourselves - Coming to Radical Repentance
Pride and Humility - Entering the Triodion
Making a Good Confession
God and Water - More than a Symbol
Remembering the Humanity of Christ
The Incarnation in Our Liturgical Prayer
By Faith Comes Action - Homily for the Sunday before Nativity
Are You Coming? Preparing for the Birth of the Lord
Jesus Hated Religion? Not Really.
When Death Meets Preparation
Interview with Abp. Gavrilo of Moravia
Too Little, Too Late
Various and Strange Doctrines
Let Me Glory in My Infirmities
Let Down Your Net!
The Money Grab - Understanding Christian Stewardship
The Gate Between Heaven and Earth
It's Simple, But Never Easy
Why a Wedding Garment?
Rendering Fruits: What and To Whom?
Knowing Mary is Knowing Christ
Of Proofs and Promises - Homily on the Transfiguration of our Lord
Prayer and Fasting - A Preparation
Questioning Saints and Angels
Fish and Loaves - The Mind of the Church and the Gospel
The Dog, the Fish and the Monkey
Paul's Guide to Christian Living
Are the Demons Saved? Believing is Never Enough!
Hey Jude! Don't Make Me Sad
Slave or Master? Serving God not Mammon
Chosen, Glorified and Crowned - A Homily for All Saints of North America Sunday
Everyday Saints - Homily for the Sunday of All Saints
The Light and the Spirit - Homily for Pentecost 2017
Guardians of the Faith - Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council
Actualizing Grace - Lessons from the Sunday of the Blind Man
Understanding John - Lessons from the Samaritan Woman at the Well
Working with God - Faith and Cooperation - Sunday of the Paralytic
Deacons and Women - Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers
Blessed by Unbelief - Homily for Thomas Sunday
The Humble King Enters - Homily for Palm Sunday
Homily on Lazarus Saturday
True Repentance - Homily on the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
Bearing Your Cross IS Lent - Homily 3rd Sunday of Lent
Faith on a Rooftop - Homily - 2nd Sunday of Lent
Matter Matters - Homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy
What is Lent? - Homily on Forgiveness Sunday
May We Be Counted Among the Sheep - Homily for the Sunday of the Last Judgment
Homily - Prodigal Son
You're So Vain: Homily for the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
Modeling Humility and Repentance: Homily for Zacchaeus Sunday
Smashing Modern Idols - Homily for the 31st Sunday after Pentecost
Why Water? Homily for the Feast of the Theophany
"Christ the Refugee" - Homily for the Sunday after Nativity
Homily - Nativity of our Lord in the Flesh
Homily - 27th Sunday after Pentecost
Homily - 26th Sun after Pentecost
Homily - 25th Sunday after Pentecost
Homily on the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple