March 3, 2019 Was the Canaanite Woman Really Called a Dog? In the Gospel for the Sunday of the Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:21-28) we find a phrase that some have found troubling. The troubling nature…
February 24, 2019 The Ruby Ring Once there was a King whose most prized possession was a ruby ring that had been in the royal family since before anyone could…
February 12, 2019 A Short Note about Why Salvation Is Only in Christ “He shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I…
February 3, 2019 Question on Scripture: What Giants Were Mentioned in the Bible? Question: I wonder, how are we to think of the Giants from the Old Testament? Can it be that there was another race of beings…
October 30, 2018 Parable of the Day: What Can We Learn from a Mountain Stream? There was a young boy who was walking with his parents in the woods one day. He saw a clean brook. He drank some fresh…
October 26, 2018 Parable of the Day: We Can Only Give What We’ve Got There was a man who bought a wonderful and big new house with a fruit garden. There was an old ramshackle hut nearby where…
October 25, 2018 Parable of the Day: “Why Not a Cross?”, God Asked There was a lonely and unhappy man. He prayed to God saying: “O Lord, please send me a pretty woman: I’m very lonely,…
October 24, 2018 Parable of the Day: What Can We Buy in God’s Store? There was a woman who saw God behind the counter in a store. “Is it You, O Lord?” she exclaimed happily. “Yes,…
October 22, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Fed Up Sparrow A thunderstorm was over. There was a rainbow over the fields. A sparrow said: “I’m fed up with being colorless and…
October 19, 2018 Three Personal Stories about God’s Providence in Our Lives Life-Saving Splinter When Archimandrite Pavel Gruzdev was in a prison camp, he made it his duty to get up an hour before the…
