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What is Eternal Life?

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.




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Indwelling: Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ.

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.




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The Gift Beyond All Gifts

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.




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Merciful Father

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.




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Deified

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.




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The Bread of Life

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.




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Therefore Be Merciful

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.




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Don't Bury Your Gift

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.




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Deified

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.




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A Crossed Life

Today Fr. Gregory combines his children's sermon and his adult sermon to illustrate the importance of the cross.




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Finders Lifters

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross.




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Life-Giving Water

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.




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Victory and New Life

Fr. Christopher delivers the Paschal homily.




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The Gift of Eternal Life

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.




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The Holy Trinity: A Life for Our Lives

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.




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Our Life In Christ

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.




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Being Glorified

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.




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Living the Angelic Life

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.




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If We Seek the Lord, He Will Find Us

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.




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Life in the Spirit

Fr. Gregory preaches on Pentecost Sunday 2017.




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Gifted and Talented

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.




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From Darkness to Life

Fr. Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Great and Holy Saturday.




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New Life Calling

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.




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Lift High the Cross

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.




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Through Death To Life

Christianity is really quite simple. There is a gift, Jesus Christ and we are called to receive Him.




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Settling Into Life With Christ

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn preaches on the Feast of Theophany.




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Servants of the Crucified

Fr. Emmanuel gives the sermon and asks, "What is the relationship between loving God, loving your neighbour and loving yourself"?




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A Life of Ages in Christ

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.”




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Lift Off!

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.




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Doing a Beautiful Thing for Christ

Fr. Gregory Hallam begins with the children and then Fr. Emmanuel Kahn speaks to the adults about Joseph of Arimathea.




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Glorified and Glorifying

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.




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Beholding Christ Glorified

Fr. Gregory Hallam preaches about the Transfiguration of our Lord.




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Justification

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on Sunday, 21 October 2018.




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New Life, New City

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.




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Waiting upon the Lord of Life

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.




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Trees of Death and Life




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Water of Life




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The New Life Revolution




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Crucified to be Glorified




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Power in Weakness and Death Destroying Life




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New Life in Christ




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Humbled, Purified and Raised to Serve

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn sermon delivered by Fr. Gregory Hallam.




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From Death to Life




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A Conversation Beyond Expectation – A Life Beyond Conceiving




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Glorified in Him




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Lift Up Your Eyes




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Life Dies




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Gives Life to the World




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The Wisdom To Know the Difference




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Wise Or Shrewd? What's the Difference?