Sword in the Fire

It's been a while since I posted, and I promise the updates the Sunday School notes are coming soon. In the meantime here's something everyone needs to check out. If you have not visited Ancient Faith Radio , you need to. Ancient Faith plays continuous Orthodox liturgical music as well as various sermons and talks by Orthodox priests, laymen, and professors across the world. Ancient Faith Radio has recently developed multiple podcasts from various authors across the country. These are excellent and extremely professional. And like most podcasts they are short but full of a lot of wonderful content. I want to point out one particular podcast from Clark Carlton. Clark is a friend of mine who was instrumental in helping me come to Orthodoxy. We have similar backgrounds and his journey and experience was invaluable to me. Clark is a former Baptist seminarian who found Orthodoxy and has since gotten degrees in Early Christian Studies. He is currently an assistant professor o...

It's been a little while since my last blog. In class, we just started the book of Ephesians. So this week, I will post our Introductory lesson as well as the lesson on Chapter 1. In the meantime I wanted to share a link to some excellent Orthodox sermons. The sermons are given by Fr. Jon Braun at St. Anthony's Orthodox Church in San Diego. Fr. Jon was part of the Campus Crusade group that came into the Orthodox church in the late eighties. He is a great communicator and excellent teacher. The link will give you several of his current sermons as well as an eight week series he did on the book of Leviticus. His series on Leviticus is particularly good. He goes through the various sacrifices and rituals of OT worship and shows how they are fulfilled in the person of Christ. He also calls it a Eucharistic primer, and shows how our the Divine Liturgy is a fulfillment of those sacrifices. Here's the link: Orthodox Sermons