if What is Eternal Life? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2022-11-15T18:00:00+00:00 When we discuss Eternal Life, do we think primarily of being a good enough person so that we can get to Heaven? When does Eternal Life begin? Listen as Fr. Tom calls us to focus on becoming like Christ here and now. Full Article
if Indwelling: Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ. By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-06T02:59:03+00:00 St Paul startles us by claiming that he has someone living inside him; moreover this person is Christ. But it doesn't stop there! Christ is able to live inside him because he has died, or rather he has been crucified with Christ. Full Article
if The Gift Beyond All Gifts By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-06T04:27:36+00:00 The greatest gift, the Gift beyond all gifts, is the Gift of God Himself in our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Divine Liturgy, that gift of Himself becomes something as basic as food and drink. Full Article
if Merciful Father By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-06T04:39:34+00:00 Although commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son this story in the gospel today is misnamed. It should rather be called: “the parable of the merciful Father” for the story concentrates all its attention on the compassion of the father. Full Article
if Deified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T02:22:08+00:00 The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven is not an isolated occurrence that befits only the Son of God. It is the promise to all those who are in Christ to ascend in and with Him to glory. Full Article
if The Bread of Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T04:37:53+00:00 Have no thought for tomorrow for day by day God will provide His bread and His wine and none shall hunger or thirst any more. Full Article
if Therefore Be Merciful By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T04:58:07+00:00 When we are commanded by our Lord to be merciful even as our Heavenly Father is merciful this means that we must try by an entire reliance on God and His grace to become in this world as God is in this world, merciful. Full Article
if Don't Bury Your Gift By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T02:53:06+00:00 Fr. Gregory suggests that perhaps it is time to take stock of our own service, to consider what talents God has given us, and to take care that we use them fully. Full Article
if Deified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T05:06:34+00:00 The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven is not an isolated occurrence that befits only the Son of God. It is the promise to all those who are in Christ to ascend in and with Him to glory. Full Article
if A Crossed Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:18:06+00:00 Today Fr. Gregory combines his children's sermon and his adult sermon to illustrate the importance of the cross. Full Article
if Finders Lifters By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T15:58:02+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross. Full Article
if Life-Giving Water By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:01:00+00:00 We should all take away from the Feast of Theophany a renewed commitment not only to our own personal renewal in the Spirit but also through our own service of God and a share in the blooming of creation and the healing of the nations. Full Article
if Victory and New Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T04:00:50+00:00 Fr. Christopher delivers the Paschal homily. Full Article
if The Gift of Eternal Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T04:15:15+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn teaches that the challenge which the Father gave to Christ and to his disciples and to us is to learn and to achieve the work on earth that the Father wishes each of us to accomplish. Full Article
if The Holy Trinity: A Life for Our Lives By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:11:39+00:00 Let us make the sign of the cross, and invite the Presence of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit into our lives—into our hopes and our fears. God already knows those hopes and fears, but sometimes He waits for us to share our lives with Him privately, to be honest with Him, so that He can then be honest with us, through revealing some of the fullness of Himself to each of us. Full Article
if Our Life In Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:13:53+00:00 This Sunday we remember the 630 Holy Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council held in Chalcedon, a suburb of Constantinople, in the middle of the fifth century in 451. The preacher today is Fr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn. Full Article
if Being Glorified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:14:01+00:00 We can each live in the present moment with Christ in the presence of God the Father; and to the extent that we are able to link our lives to the life of Christ, we too will be glorified by God the Father. Full Article
if Living the Angelic Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-16T04:56:16+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam reminds us that although angels are immaterial beings and have undoubted brilliance and glory, we humans are to be measured with no less dignity, particularly if we take up our own vocation to praise God, to be His obedient messengers and His valiant fighters. Full Article
if If We Seek the Lord, He Will Find Us By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-01-31T01:57:13+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon today and assures us that God has a purpose for each of us, that He will steadily guide us into those purposes, and that He will empower us to achieve those unique purposes for each of our lives. Full Article
if Life in the Spirit By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-07-07T04:06:58+00:00 Fr. Gregory preaches on Pentecost Sunday 2017. Full Article
if Gifted and Talented By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T19:56:37+00:00 Fr. Gregory says that each one of us has a gift and talent from God no matter how modest we might think it may be. Full Article
if From Darkness to Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:50:32+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday. Full Article
if New Life Calling By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:50:47+00:00 Fr. Gregory says we should take care every day to do a spiritual health check; to make sure that we are consciously living in the new life that Christ gives us out of his generosity and love. Full Article
if Lift High the Cross By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-22T18:05:21+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Full Article
if Through Death To Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-22T18:18:22+00:00 Christianity is really quite simple. There is a gift, Jesus Christ and we are called to receive Him. Full Article
if Settling Into Life With Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-24T05:22:22+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn preaches on the Feast of Theophany. Full Article
if Servants of the Crucified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-31T02:09:26+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel gives the sermon and asks, "What is the relationship between loving God, loving your neighbour and loving yourself"? Full Article
if A Life of Ages in Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-31T02:59:59+00:00 St Jerome, a fourth century monk who translated the entire Bible into Latin has written: “Those who love Christ follow Him. They are bonded with Him [that is, united with Him] in the ties of love.” Full Article
if Lift Off! By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-25T04:22:37+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn preaches on the life of St. Maximus the Confessor and concludes that once we have learned how to respect and love ourselves as we are, with our very own strengths and weaknesses, we are on the launching pad for a life with purpose. Full Article
if Doing a Beautiful Thing for Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-27T21:44:10+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam begins with the children and then Fr. Emmanuel Kahn speaks to the adults about Joseph of Arimathea. Full Article
if Glorified and Glorifying By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-27T23:25:34+00:00 After Fr. Gregory Hallam speaks to the children, Fr. Emmanuel Kahn preaches to the adults and says our faith in the Truth that is Jesus Christ makes us one with Him, completes our life on earth and brings us eternal life. Full Article
if Beholding Christ Glorified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-27T23:56:27+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam preaches about the Transfiguration of our Lord. Full Article
if Justification By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-28T04:06:03+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on Sunday, 21 October 2018. Full Article
if New Life, New City By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-28T04:35:39+00:00 We celebrate today the lives of two great fourth-century Church leaders, St Basil the Great and his close friend, St Gregory of Nazianzus. Let’s try to understand what they were teaching. Full Article
if Waiting upon the Lord of Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-28T17:15:14+00:00 The Gospel today from the 11th chapter of the Gospel of St John is about a close friend of Jesus Christ, Lazarus. Fr. Emmanuel Kahn is the preacher. Full Article
if Trees of Death and Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-28T20:22:28+00:00 Full Article
if The New Life Revolution By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-01-29T21:22:44+00:00 Full Article
if Crucified to be Glorified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-09-24T16:48:03+00:00 Full Article
if Power in Weakness and Death Destroying Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2020-10-27T21:39:37+00:00 Full Article
if Humbled, Purified and Raised to Serve By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2021-04-20T18:41:32+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn sermon delivered by Fr. Gregory Hallam. Full Article
if A Conversation Beyond Expectation – A Life Beyond Conceiving By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2021-06-18T01:29:47+00:00 Full Article
if Gives Life to the World By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-04-26T12:12:08+00:00 Full Article
if The Wisdom To Know the Difference By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-07-12T17:03:29+00:00 Full Article
if Wise Or Shrewd? What's the Difference? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-08-04T11:51:35+00:00 Full Article