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Hill Country Homilies — 306 episodes

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From Dust to Glory - St. Basil's Map of Our Salvation

2

The Shape of Your Salvation

3

Beyond Books: Encountering the Living God

4

No Parable: Works that Judge Us

5

While You Were Yet Far Off: The Prodigal's Journey Home

6

Humility Over Pride: The Foundation of Orthodox Life

7

Trading Eternity for a Moment

8

The Persistence of the Faithful

9

St. Stephen the New

10

Spiritual Blindness and Idoldatry - The Legacy of the Rich Fool

11

The Gadarene Demoniac: Christ's Power and Our Weakness

12

The Sower and Our Cross

13

The Art of the Deal

14

The Weapon of Peace

15

What Is Our Hedge?

16

At the Appointed Time

17

It's Not About the Numbers

18

We Are Saved Like the Blind Man

19

Can Sin Make Us Sick?

20

Finding Your Spiritual Desert

21

Climbing the Ladder Together

22

Faith, Deeds, and Judgment: From the Mouth of Christ

23

Starting the Journey of Repentance

24

Saving Humility - Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

25

What Kind of God Permits This?

26

Talent on Loan from God

27

The Law as Schoolmaster

28

Rich Toward God

29

Weep Not!

30

Invited but Not Ready

31

El Inicio de Nuestra Salvacion

32

Homily for the Indiction

33

The Unpayable Debt

34

The Sea and the Wind

35

About that Tower

36

That They May Be One

37

The Completion of our Faith

38

From Sight to Blindness

39

Can You Drink of the Cup

40

Leaving the Garden - Entering Great Lent

41

Division and the Last Judgment

42

Through the Eyes of God

43

You Must Plan to Go to Church Every Week - A Homily for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers

44

Harsh Words to a Fool

45

Who Is Your Lazarus?

46

It's Not the Location - It's the Preparation

47

A Gift from the King

48

Are We Bad Husbandmen?

49

Sacrificing to Idols - St. Catherine of Tyre

50

Contend Earnestly for the Faith . . . Or Else

51

Being Fair About Thomas

52

Help My Unbelief!

53

Take Up Your Cross. But How?

54

Faith and Revelation - The Visible Confirms the Invisible

55

Against Our Nature - The Call to Forgiveness

56

A Little Fear is OK

57

He Came to Himself

58

Why Do We Prepare?

59

Light to the World

60

What Are You Baptizing Yourself With?

61

A New and Wondrous Mystery!

62

Enter Into the Supper!

63

Have No Fellowship with Darkness; Redeem the Time

64

Paul Is Not Against Works

65

We Don't Know How to Be Persecuted

66

Love Yourself Above All Else - The Soul Killing Mantra of Modernism

67

Our Own Special Sin

68

Forgiven Debt - The Spiritual and the Secular

69

Building Up the Body - How Focusing on Christ Preserves the Faith

70

Let Your Spirit Ascend to the Heavens!

71

Christ Revealed: When Doubt is Transformed

72

The Palms of Victory

73

Forgiveness, Community and Repentance

74

The Victory of the Cross

75

The Sunday of the Last Judgment is Meant to Scare You

76

Righteousness and Sin: The Prodigal Brothers

77

The Slaughter of the Innocents

78

A Nativity Epistle

79

The Ascetic Struggle

80

What's Impossible for Man

81

Just a Vessel?

82

The Unlearned Lawyer

83

The Rich Man Has No Name

84

Paul's Defense is Our Promise!

85

Raising Us All From the Dead

86

I Need Your Boat!

87

Idle Hands are the Devil's Workshop

88

If Thine Eye Be Single

89

We Eat Ourselves

90

We've Had it Easy

91

I Will Number Them

92

The Spirit of Unity

93

Prepared to Evangelize

94

More than Water

95

How Condescending!

96

Not the King They Wanted

97

Weeping for Us

98

Pure Confession and True Repentance

99

Will You Carry the Cross or Will It Carry You?

100

Completing Our Faith

101

Be Still and Pray

102

Homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy

103

The Necessity of Forgiveness

104

Standing before the Judge

105

Boundless Forgiveness

106

Intentional Humility

107

Seeing Christ

108

It's Not About the Dogs

109

You Are Altogether as Satan

110

Those Who Sit in Darkness

111

Turn Back O Jordan!

112

Carrying On for the Seventy

113

Faith and Patience - The Sunday before Nativity

114

What's Your Excuse?

115

Hypocrisy,Self-Dealing and the Temptation of Legalism

116

Facing Reality

117

Who Is My Neighbor?

118

Carrying Christ to the Dead

119

Homily on the Feast of the Holy Archangels

120

Life Lessons from the Rich Man

121

Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 5)

122

The Cares of the World and Patient Endurance: The Parable of the Sower and Salvation

123

Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 4)

124

Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 3)

125

The Matter of the Wood

126

Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Pt. 2)

127

Living a Christian Life in the Age of Internet, Isolation, and Elections (Part 1)

128

Sell All You Have! A Modern Dilemma

129

Remembering Fr. Symeon

130

Pride and Offense: It's Not Them, It's Us!

131

Jesus Never Said There Wouldn't Be Storms

132

No Prophet is Accepted in His Own Country

133

We That Are Strong

134

Leaders and Sinners: the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul

135

The Faith of the Gentiles Outshines the Chosen

136

A Calling of Obedience and Belief

137

In Unity with the Saints

138

An Offense to Christ

139

Truth Revealed to Us - What the New Testament Says

140

Bearing Your Afflictions

141

Worshipping What You Don't Know

142

Raised from Despair

143

Be Bold for Christ

144

The Cycle of Sadness and Joy

145

Keep Your Eyes on the Heavenly Things

146

Lazarus: Resurrected for Us

147

It's a Tragedy. Don't Pretend Otherwise

148

The Worthless Servants and the Ladder

149

The Healing Wood of the Cross

150

A Faith So Strong It Saves Others

151

Forgiveness and Repentance - A Vital Link

152

Judged By Love

153

No Man Too Lost

154

When Pride Separates Us from God

155

Rising Above the Crowd

156

On Mission - Sunday after Theophany

157

Carrying the Light

158

The Nativity as the Key to Our Salvation

159

The Holy Forefathers and the Preparation

160

Idle Time Is Time with God Lost

161

One Thing Lacking

162

Preparing a Vessel

163

Encountering God

164

Bearing Fruits to Salvation

165

Compassionate and Powerful - A Look at Christ's Raising of the Dead

166

The Transformative Witness of Loving Your Enemies

167

Fishing From the Banks

168

The Law of Love

169

The Law is Bound in Time

170

God's Love and the Wicked Vinedressers

171

By the Grace of God

172

The Debt You Can't Pay

173

Homily on the Dormition of the Theotokos

174

The Paradox of Orthodoxy

175

St. Gregory Palamas on the Transfiguration

176

The Waves and the Wind

177

Be of One Mind, Even the Hard Stuff

178

The Bum on the Corner - 400 AD Edition

179

About those Swine!

180

Freely Give: The Example of the Holy Unmercenaries

181

A Shaky Foundation

182

Prepare the Way of the Lord: A Radical Calling for a Radical Man

183

Not Hearers but Doers: The Saints of North America

184

Called To Be Saints

185

Those Who Rule Over Us

186

Raising Man Up to God

187

Before We Get to the Story . . .

188

Lessons from the Well

189

Paralyzed at the Water's Edge

190

In Defense of Thomas

191

Palm Sunday: The Oddest of Triumphs

192

Shepherd and Master: Christ and Lazarus

193

A Lenten Recipe: Equal Parts Repentance and Humility

194

An Obedient Woman Saves the World

195

Will You Die for Christ? Not a Rhetorical Question

196

Fighting the Soulless Scholasticism of the West

197

Sunday of Orthodoxy - Anathemas and Brief Homily

198

Fasting Advice from the Fathers

199

The Books Shall Be Opened: Faith, Works and the Last Judgment

200

Repentance, Envy and Anger - Understanding the Parable of the Prodigal

201

The Camel without a Hump - Zacchaeus Sunday 2019

202

St. Maximos the Confessor - Beacon of Orthodoxy

203

Ingratitude, Complete Healing and False Teaching

204

Preparation, Sufficiency and Fullness: God's Grace in the Mysteries of the Church

205

A Gospel Not of Man

206

A Star for All Nations - Homily on the Nativity of Christ

207

A Genealogy of Man

208

Living Out Your Baptism

209

Envy - When We Condemn Ourselves

210

St. Nicholas - Charity, Zeal and Love

211

Seeing the Light

212

Parable of the Rich Young Ruler

213

Show Forth a Useful Fast

214

A Great Gulf Fixed

215

The Fear of the Gadarenes

216

Clearing the Thorns: Ascetic Practice in the World

217

Icons, Idols, Images and the 2nd Commandment

218

How Do We Carry Our Cross?

219

Touching Salvation - Elevation of the Cross

220

Seeing Shadows: The Cross and the Caananite Woman

221

The Greatest Commandment

222

Invited then Cast Out - The Parable of the Wedding Feast

223

Thoughts on the Salvation of the Heterodox

224

Homily for the Procession of the Cross

225

Forgiveness of Every Sin - The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

226

Doctrine Matters: Why We Don't Just Talk About Ourselves

227

Focusing on the Wrong Things

228

Unity and Salvation - Lessons from Paul

229

Saved by Faith - A Survival Story

230

Great and Imperfect - Ss. Peter and Paul

231

Do Our Sins Make Us Sick?

232

Paul's Prayer for Israel, Our Prayer for the World

233

The Provision of Our Father - A Homily for Father's Day

234

The Suicide Epidemic - Idolization of Death

235

Through the Prayers of the Theotokos - Our New Name

236

Called to Unity - The Sending of the Spirit

237

Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

238

The Way The Truth and the Life - Christ's Reassurance to His Disciples

239

Preparation and Provision - The Feast of the Ascension

240

Offering the Living Water and Opening the Church

241

The Patience of the Paralytic

242

Does Thomas Get a Bad Rap?

243

Lay Aside All Earthly Cares

244

Homily for Lazarus Saturday

245

What Hope Do We Have? Climbing the Ladder in the World

246

The Cross - Our Guidepost and Reminder

247

Experiencing God - The Importance of St. Gregory Palamas

248

We're Not Confused - Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy

249

Finding Ourselves - Coming to Radical Repentance

250

Pride and Humility - Entering the Triodion

251

Making a Good Confession

252

God and Water - More than a Symbol

253

Remembering the Humanity of Christ

254

The Incarnation in Our Liturgical Prayer

255

By Faith Comes Action - Homily for the Sunday before Nativity

256

Are You Coming? Preparing for the Birth of the Lord

257

Jesus Hated Religion? Not Really.

258

When Death Meets Preparation

259

Interview with Abp. Gavrilo of Moravia

260

Too Little, Too Late

261

Various and Strange Doctrines

262

Let Me Glory in My Infirmities

263

Let Down Your Net!

264

The Money Grab - Understanding Christian Stewardship

265

The Gate Between Heaven and Earth

266

It's Simple, But Never Easy

267

Why a Wedding Garment?

268

Rendering Fruits: What and To Whom?

269

Knowing Mary is Knowing Christ

270

Of Proofs and Promises - Homily on the Transfiguration of our Lord

271

Prayer and Fasting - A Preparation

272

Questioning Saints and Angels

273

Fish and Loaves - The Mind of the Church and the Gospel

274

The Dog, the Fish and the Monkey

275

Paul's Guide to Christian Living

276

Are the Demons Saved? Believing is Never Enough!

277

Hey Jude! Don't Make Me Sad

278

Slave or Master? Serving God not Mammon

279

Chosen, Glorified and Crowned - A Homily for All Saints of North America Sunday

280

Everyday Saints - Homily for the Sunday of All Saints

281

The Light and the Spirit - Homily for Pentecost 2017

282

Guardians of the Faith - Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council

283

Actualizing Grace - Lessons from the Sunday of the Blind Man

284

Understanding John - Lessons from the Samaritan Woman at the Well

285

Working with God - Faith and Cooperation - Sunday of the Paralytic

286

Deacons and Women - Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers

287

Blessed by Unbelief - Homily for Thomas Sunday

288

The Humble King Enters - Homily for Palm Sunday

289

Homily on Lazarus Saturday

290

True Repentance - Homily on the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

291

Bearing Your Cross IS Lent - Homily 3rd Sunday of Lent

292

Faith on a Rooftop - Homily - 2nd Sunday of Lent

293

Matter Matters - Homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy

294

What is Lent? - Homily on Forgiveness Sunday

295

May We Be Counted Among the Sheep - Homily for the Sunday of the Last Judgment

296

Homily - Prodigal Son

297

You're So Vain: Homily for the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee

298

Modeling Humility and Repentance: Homily for Zacchaeus Sunday

299

Smashing Modern Idols - Homily for the 31st Sunday after Pentecost

300

Why Water? Homily for the Feast of the Theophany

301

"Christ the Refugee" - Homily for the Sunday after Nativity

302

Homily - Nativity of our Lord in the Flesh

303

Homily - 27th Sunday after Pentecost

304

Homily - 26th Sun after Pentecost

305

Homily - 25th Sunday after Pentecost

306

Homily on the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple