Soak Up the Son - Week One: Angels
Center for Family Care
June 15, 2020
It's time to Soak Up the Son! Welcome to the first week of our summer series. This week we talk about God's first created beings...angels! Read More
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Should Iron Age Texts Be still Read in a Digital Age: The Hebrew Bible and the Force of Metaphor
Old Testament
December 11, 2019
Please allow me to bring forth a few examples of what I call 'the power of metaphor of the Hebrew Bible'. And I will do this with deep respect to this literary-religious corpus that has never lost its 'best-seller' status, while looking at these ever ancient, ever new biblical texts with the eye of a student of Bible and Semitic philology. Read More
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Introducing Our Children to the Bible
Center for Family Care
November 2, 2018
A webinar about how to introduce your children to the Bible. Read More
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Reflections on John 20:21
Orthodox Observer
September 1, 2016
Are you a good and faithful servant? As Orthodox Christians, we have been given a sacred trust. We have received the treasure of the Gospel – the Good News of Jesus Christ. With this sacred trust comes the great responsibility to share it. Read More
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Family Gospel Lessons
Center for Family Care
February 1, 2016
Family Gospel lessons from the Center for Family Care. Read More
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Holy Week Meditation and Study Guide
Biblical Studies
August 17, 2015
The services of Holy Week transform us into eyewitnesses and direct participants in the awesome events of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. In readings taken from both Old and New Testaments, in hymns, processions, and liturgical commemoration, we see the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies, and the mighty acts by which God Himself, in the person of Jesus Christ, grants us forgiveness for our sins, and rescues us from the pain of eternal death. Read More
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Greek New Testament
Scripture
November 24, 2014
This Greek New Testament is the authorized 1904 text of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Read More
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Three Things You Need to Know About the Bible
Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM)
August 28, 2014
How do Christ and the Church teach us to read the Bible? Here are three things you need to know! Read More
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The Power of the Good Example
Audio
July 22, 2014
When I think of my father, I am reminded of the saying, “he didn’t tell me how to live, but rather showed me how to live.” Although I was only 16-years-old when he passed away suddenly, it was only in later years that i came to appreciate how profound an influence he had upon me. Read More
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The Beauty of the Cross
Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries (Y2AM)
April 10, 2014
The Cross was an instrument of death. How did it become an instrument of life? And what can that teach us about being the bee? Read More
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Bible Study: Interpretation of the 1st Epistle of St. John
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about the first epistle of St. John in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
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Bible Study: Interpretation of Romans 8:31-39
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about Romans 8:31-39 in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
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Bible Study: Interpretation of Luke 19:1-10
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about Luke 19:1-10 in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
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Bible Study: Interpretation of Psalm 8
Archbishop Demetrios
November 24, 2013
Learn about Psalm 8 in this bible study. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
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The Bible in the Orthodox Church: The Old Testament
GOTelecom
November 23, 2013
Learn about Orthodox teachings on the Old Testament. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
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The Bible in the Orthodox Church - The New Testament
GOTelecom
November 23, 2013
Learn about Orthodox teachings on the New Testament. Discovering Orthodox Christianity is a series of talks, shows, and presentations designed to introduce and explain the basic teaching of Orthodox Christianity. Read More
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A Reflection on Ephesians 3:14-19
Archbishop Demetrios
September 25, 2013
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios' keynote address from the GOA Center for Family Care's 2013 Family Ministry Conference, "A Reflection on Ephesians 3:14-19". Read More
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The Living Breath of God and the Three Steps in Fashioning Humanity
Theology
August 17, 2013
The first two chapters of the Book of Genesis present the making of humanity as an act in three steps or phases. The text is silent with respect to the time elapsed between these steps or if there was such a time between them. With any fragment or link of creation there was only one act or word of God. For instance, the Creator says in the first day, "Let it be light. And there was light" (Gen 1:3). Or in the second day, the same Creator utters the powerful word, "Let be a vault. And God made the vault" (Gen 1:6-7). Just one word or one-step act for each link of creation. Contrary to this pattern, in the case of humanity, God uses a different way, a creative act in three phases or steps. Read More
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Made for One Another
Theology
August 16, 2013
Any time I read Genesis (the Beginning's narrative), I am carried away to a place and time long lost, to a piece of land watered by four rivers, beyond millennia of intricate and not rarely bloody history, at the misty dawn of adam, the yet-to-be 'humanity'; to a place sheltered by cherubs with fiery ever-turning swords and jealously watched by a head talking serpent eager to turn his crafty monologue into a death-bringing dialogue. Read More
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The Word ‘almah in Isaiah 7:14: A New Etymology
Biblical Studies
August 12, 2013
Fr. Pentiuc, scholar of the Old Testament and Semitic languages, looks at how the world "almah" is used in Isaiah. Read More
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