Monthly Archives: April 2010

See: God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:13-16 (c)

see:  God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:13-16 (b) Genesis 7:13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and … Continue reading

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God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:13-16 (b)

See:  God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:13-16 (a)  Genesis 7:13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and … Continue reading

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Midfeast of Pentecost (2010)

The Feast of Mid-Pentecost which ties together the Feasts of Pascha and Pentecost is perhaps not significant in the life of many Orthodox in America, just a minor afterthought in the Post-Paschal season.   I found its Old Testament readings to … Continue reading

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God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:13-16 (a)

See:  God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:11-12 (b) Genesis 7:13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and … Continue reading

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God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:11-12 (b)

See:  God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:11-12 (a) Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, … Continue reading

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Sunday of the Paralytic (2010) Sermon Notes

GOSPEL:   John 5:1-15         After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethzatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay … Continue reading

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Go and Sin No More

Sunday of the Paralytic  2010       Gospel:   John 5:1-15 “After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethzatha, which has … Continue reading

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The Bethzatha Invalids, Blind, Lame and Paralyzed

Sunday of the Paralytic 2010           Gospel: John 5:1-15 “After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Bethzatha, which has … Continue reading

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God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:11-12 (a)

See:  God Questions His Creation: Genesis 7:5-10 (b) Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, … Continue reading

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Church Members: You are the Holy Ones of God

In Acts 9:32-42, Peter visits the Christians at Lydda – in Acts the Christians are called “saints.”   “Saints” is another way of saying “holy ones.”  Unfortunately in the English language we have separated the idea of the saint from one who … Continue reading

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