Living the Ancient Faith in the Modern World Equipping Today's Christians with the Timeless Truth of Christ

Start date: September 2011 572 minutes, 5 seconds in 40 episodes

Fr. Stephen Rogers is the Senior Priest of St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church in Franklin, Tennessee, where he has served since 1987. We invite you to listen in as he shares these homilies with the St. Ignatius parish.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
Mar 26, 2013	The Day of Judgment Prepare yourself for God's love. Click to play	16:26
Feb 25, 2013	Jesus, Son of David, Have Mercy on Me! Gospel of the Blind Beggar. Click to play	13:25
Dec 23, 2012	Pitching a Fit Renouncing ourselves. Click to play	16:21
Dec 23, 2012	The Great Enemy Materialism and material itself. Click to play	12:10
Sep 23, 2012	Obedience and Repetition The Church and spiritual progress. Click to play	12:12
Sep 16, 2012	Look to His Cross; All Has Been Conquered Through the Cross, all hatred, hurt, and helplessness has been eliminated. Click to play	10:46
Sep 09, 2012	God Is Love Remember the true nature of God's love and love itself. Click to play	11:28
Sep 07, 2012	Just Give Me the Fruit In our fallen state, we want to partake of the fruit of the vineyard without any regard for the care of the vineyard or respect for its owner. Click to play	18:30
Aug 28, 2012	What Must I Do to Inherit Eternal Life? An inheritance cannot be earned through effort; rather, it is a gift bequeathed because of a relationship. Click to play	12:28
Aug 05, 2012	Where Christ Bids Us to Go We Need Not Fear It was in the midst of a storm that the disciples saw Christ in His power.	11:39
Jul 29, 2012	The Five Loaves We Bring Each Liturgy, five loaves are gathered. Christ says to us, "Bring it to Me,"and a miracle occurs.	10:49
Jul 22, 2012	Lord, Have Mercy The cry of the two blind men restored their sight; it is no different for us.	10:50
Jul 08, 2012	God Is with Us; God Is for Us; God Is in Us The reality of God's presence, power, and purpose is made tangible in the mystery of our liturgical life.	17:02
Jul 04, 2012	An Unmercenary Faith: The Feast of Sts. Cosmos and Damian Do we serve Christ and our fellow man unconditionally or with the expectation of something in return?	17:17
Jun 10, 2012	The Sunday of All Saints Dare we, like the saints, stand before the world and those who would seek to destroy the Faith, and cry out "I am a Christian!"	14:21
Jun 03, 2012	The Feast of Pentecost On the day the Jews offered the first fruits to God, the Church received the first fruit of the Spirit.	11:31
May 16, 2012	Drawing Poisoned Water From Tainted Wells—Sunday of the Samaritan Woman In this world we often seek life life from poisoned wells.	22:08
May 06, 2012	Defining Your Life—Sunday of the Paralytic The evil one wishes for us to define our life by its limitations; God desires for us to define our life by its possibilities.	12:07
Apr 29, 2012	Setting Out to Serve—Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women Setting out to annoint the body of Christ, the women experienced the power of the resurrection of Christ. Our service to his body has the same result for us.	13:09
Apr 12, 2012	Cleansing Fire, Consuming Fire Judgment or joy is a matter of the heart—whether it chooses to receive or reject.	16:58
Apr 08, 2012	Seeking a King When Christ entered the the holy city, many were seeking a king to bring them freedom and prosperity. What do we seek from our king?	12:22
Apr 01, 2012	Lowering Ourselves to Be Lifted Up Being lifted into God's glory begins with an honest descent into ourselves.	15:52
Feb 15, 2012	The Prodigal Son: One Word Says It All There is no word that better summarizes the purpose of Great Lent—or, indeed, our entire Christian journey—than "return."	15:24
Feb 05, 2012	The Publican and the Pharisee: It Depends on How You See It Great Lent can be a time of great spiritual growth or great spiritual loss. It depends on where you are looking.	16:00
Feb 02, 2012	Five Great Mysteries In the tiniest of fragments is the wholeness of truth: What a relic can teach us.	21:01
Jan 24, 2012	Steps of Transformation Zacchaeus shows us the path from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness.	13:53
Jan 11, 2012	In Thy Light Shall We See Light In the waters of baptism, Christ reveals our true selves.	10:30
Dec 19, 2011	Make Ready, O Bethlehem All of creation prepares for His coming, but do we?	09:36
Dec 12, 2011	Possessions, Pleasure, and People They can get in the way or be the way to dine with Christ.	12:21
Nov 29, 2011	What Must I Do to Inherit Eternal Life? The answers stand before us each time we enter the church.	15:53
Nov 22, 2011	The Asceticism of Charity Our possessions can lead us down one of two roads—the road of thankfulness or the road of fear.	11:41
Nov 07, 2011	Touching God, Receiving God’s Touch Like the woman with the issue of blood, we touch Christ's humanity; like Jairus's daughter, we are touched by His divinity.	10:47
Oct 31, 2011	The Dangers of Cultural Possession Though the demons may not possess us, our culture can.	18:56
Oct 24, 2011	Reaping What Is Sowed God has planted all that is necessary if we are willing to work the harvest.	20:38
Oct 17, 2011	Lord, Have Mercy For most of us, what we demand of others is exactly the opposite of what we ask for ourselves.	11:54
Oct 10, 2011	Into Deeper Waters Christ challenges us to "cast our nets" into deeper waters, but in so doing provides us with the means to meet that challenge.	17:21
Oct 03, 2011	The Paradox of the Cross Fr. Stephen explains that the Cross is both an ugly instrument of death and a holy instrument of life.	17:15
Sep 26, 2011	For God So Loved the World Fr. Stephen explains that at the heart of the Orthodox faith is the realization that God so loved the world that he desired for us that which He originally intended.	11:40
Sep 19, 2011	What Must I Do to Inherit Eternal Life? Fr. Stephen answers this question with three additional questions that all Christians must ask themselves.	13:40
Sep 12, 2011	A Debt Has to Be Paid Fr. Stephen opens his new podcast with this homily about our loving and merciful Master's forgiveness. Will we choose to live with gratitude or in servitude?	13:44