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Despondency

Fr. John shares his homily from the Sunday of St. John Climacus.




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Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings

Fr. John shares his homily from Palm Sunday.




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Wondrous is God in His Saints

Fr. John concludes his series on Psalm 67.




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The Fifth Commandment: Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

Fr. John shares his homily from the Sunday of the Holy Fathers.




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If Any Man Thirst

Fr. John shares his homily from Pentecost.




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The Inconvenient Truth about Homosexual Marriage

Fr. John shares his homily from the Sunday of All Saints.




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Vessels of Mercy and Wrath

Fr. John shares his homily on Romans 9.




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The Baptism of Russia

Fr. John shares his homily on the 1,025th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia.




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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Fr. John shares his homily on the Seventh Commandment.




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Divorce

Fr. John presents part two of his discussion of the Seventh Commandment.




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Where are Thine Ancient Mercies?

Fr. John shares his homily on Psalm 88.




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Patience

Fr. John explains what it means to possess your soul in patience.




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Vanity of Vanities

Fr. John shares his homily on Ecclesiastes 1-2.




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

Fr. John shares his homily from the Sunday of Family, Love, and Fidelity, a new commemoration just established by the Russian Church.




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The Prophetess Hannah

Fr. John shares his homily on 1 Samuel 1-2.




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Worship at the Footstool of His Feet

Fr. John shares his homily on Psalm 98.




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Becoming a Disciple

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 5:1-11.




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Thou Shalt Not Steal

Fr. John shares his homily on the Eighth Commandment.




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The Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain

Bishop Peter (Loukianoff) of Cleveland is the guest homilist at St. Jonah Orthodox Church.




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The Parable of the Sower

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 8:5-15.




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Thoroughly Equipped

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 16:19-31 and 2 Timothy 3:14-17.




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St. Job of Pochaev

Fr. John discusses St. Job of Pochaev on his homily from November 10.




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Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness

Fr. John shares his homily on the Ninth Commandment.




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Skeptical Biblical Scholarship

Fr. John takes on the current television show "Bible Secrets Revealed."




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Skeptical Biblical Scholarship: Part 2

Fr. John continues his series on dubious biblical research.




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The Kingdom of God is Within You

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 17:20-21.




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The Prophet Habakkuk

Fr. John shares his homily on Habakkuk, Chapters 1-3.




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Take Heed Therefore How Ye Hear

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 8:18.




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The Prophet Haggai

Fr. John shares his homily on Haggai, chapters 1 and 2.




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Christ and History

Fr. John shares his homily on Matthew 1:1-17.




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The Lord Hath Sent Redemption unto His People

Fr. John shares his homily on Psalm 110.




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

Fr. John shares his homily on Theophany.




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Thou Shalt Not Covet

Fr. John shares his homily on the tenth commandment.




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Zacchaeus Sunday

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 19:1-10.




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The Hieromartyr Peter of Krutitsa

Fr. John shares his homily from the Sunday of the New Martyrs of Russia.




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The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Fr. John shares his homily on Luke 15:11-32.




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The Final Judgment

Fr. John shares his homily from the Sunday of the Last Judgment.




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By the Waters of Babylon

Fr. John shares his homily on Psalm 136.




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

Fr. John shares his homily on Matthew 18:15-20.




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“As it was in the Days of Noah”

Fr. John shares his homily on Genesis 6:5-8.




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The Blood of Abel

Fr. John shares from Genesis 4.




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Jacob's Ladder

Fr. John shares about Jacob's Ladder on the Sunday of St. John of the Ladder.




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Jacob Comes to Peniel

Fr. John talks about Jacob's encounter with God at Peniel (Genesis 32).




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The Barren Fig Tree

Fr. John preaches about the barren fig tree from Mark 11:12-14,20-21, and Luke 13:6-9.




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

Fr. John shares from Psalm 117:1-14. "When we depend on ourselves, we cannot succeed. When we put our hope in God, we cannot fail."




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

Fr. John continues his sermon from Psalm 117.




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

Fr. John concludes his homily on Psalm 117.




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Standing with Christ

Fr. John shares how, like the man born blind whom Jesus healed and his parents, we too have a choice whether or not we will stand with Christ. John 9 and Hebrews 13:11-13.




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True and False Unity

Fr. John addresses the differences between true and false unity as it relates to the Orthodox Church and Roman Catholicism.




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The Comforter

On the Feast of Pentecost, Fr. John teachers about the Holy Spirit as the Comforter.