The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
If any man be devout and loveth God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast! If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of ...
Tag: Sunday Sermon Ideas
Sermon ~ Are You Ready for the Persecution
Today we begin the season known as the Triodion. The Triodion are the books that we will use now until after Pascha, and they contain all of the services for t...
What Blinds You?
Sermon ~ Sunday of the Man Born Blind John 9:1-38 The story we hear from today’s Gospel of St. John, the story of the man born blind, is a story of ...
Sunday Sermon ~ It’s Not Complicated
I am not sure how many of you believe in the power of dreams. Interpretation of dreams is as old as the world itself. We read in the Hebrew Scriptur...
What paralyzes you?
The Sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up…” Today we are faced with a story that seems to be out of pl...
Who Will Roll the Stone Away?
Sermon ~ Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women “And when he learned from the centurion that He was dead, he granted the body to Jospeh. And he bought a linen sh...
The Doubt of Thomas
The Second Sunday after Pascha in the Orthodox Church is dedicated to the Doubt of St. Thomas. I find it interesting that we would set aside a Sunday, after we ...
The Annunciation
Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation. It is always weird when a major feast falls during Great Lent as I feel it does not get the attention i...
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent ~ Your Faith Has Made You Well
All of us at one time or another in our life, we have been sick and have gone to the doctor. For some of us we needed the lifesaving skill of the doctor of the ...
Sunday of Orthodoxy Sermon
To the glory of God Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever! Today we commemorate the restoration of the Icons that ...