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My new Bible study on the Holy Gospel according to St. John the Theologian has launched at www.orthodoxyouth.org/john. The study contains full-color study guides, quizzes, and the homilies by St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel.

There is currently only a study guide for the first chapter - I'll add more study guides through the first few months of 2009 as the youth in Teen SOYO go through the

Click here to listen to this week's episode of Jason's Get Wisdom podcast, and http://www.orthodoxyouth.org/romans/pdf/chapter12.pdf to download a free study guide for this episode.

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Our love for other people should be not only for those with whom we have good relations, but also those who hate us. Our Lord states:

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your

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There are few areas of life that are more problematic for the spiritual life than those that involve money. St. Paul teaches that the love of money is the root of all evil, “for which some have strayed from the faith

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Romans chapter nine deals with the issue of God’s fairness: is it fair for God to extend His mercy to some people, but refuse to extend it to others?

It may be easy for you to read St. Paul’s explanation that God is free to bring anyone

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Imagine that your world is falling apart around you: you are receiving failing grades at school; you are about to lose your after-school job; you learn that someone you do not like has been spreading lies about you. As you look at

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Overcoming the passions is one of the central foci of the Orthodox life. St. Maximos the Confessor defines passion as “an impulse of the soul contrary to nature, as in the case of mindless love or mindless hatred for someone or for

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 In Romans chapter six, St. Paul presents the issue of being either dead to sin or alive in Christ. He is very clear that Christians should no longer be slaves to sin (Romans 6:6). At the same time, however, he tells us to “reckon

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In Romans 5:13, the Holy Apostle Paul abruptly stops discussing the entrance of sin and death into the world; in fact, he stops in the middle of a sentence and leaves the thought uncompleted. He then discusses how sin was

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Have you ever become impatient waiting on God to act to help you in a situation? Perhaps you have struggled in school, and prayed that God would help you with your studies. Perhaps a friend or a family member has been sick, and

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Have you ever said something that deeply hurt another person? Have you ever told a story about someone, and learned later that the story had spread around the school? Have you ever been caught lying, or had someone

Click here to listen to this week's episode of Jason's GET WISDOM! podcast on Romans chapter two, and click here to download the free study guide for this episode.

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Have you ever expressed disagreement with a person’s position, or disapproval of a particular type of behavior, and one of your friends responded, “How can you be so judgmental? Didn’t Jesus say you

Click here to listen to this week's episode of Jason's GET WISDOM! podcast on Romans chapter one, and click here to download the free study guide for this episode.

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Orthodox Christian worship involves praying to God; in fact, as Vasili Rozanov writes, “The soul of Orthodoxy consists in the gift of prayer.”

According to St Luke, the point of the Parable of the

Edison Media Research has released several studies over the last two months that demonstrate the growing use – and therefore the potential for widespread outreach – of Internet radio and podcasts.

According to Edison's 2008 edition of the annual Infinite Dial: Radio's Digital Platforms, 33 million people aged 12 and above listen to Internet radio each week. This means that

The work I do requires a fair amount of organization - I have numerous different projects on which I'm working at any given time for different organizations, departments and/or ministries. I've therefore developed reasonable (for me) systems of organizing my time, my different projects, the

eMarketer published an interesting article on Monday noting that the current active podcast audience (meaning people who download one or more podcasts per week) is 6.5 million, while the total audience is 18

As I continue this miniseries on equipment choices I've made in creating GET WISDOM (I previously covered - starting with the first article - choosing a

A few days ago, my Orthodox Christian Bible Studies Blog reached its first anniversary (the OCBS Blog discusses - in addition to other things - developments in my free online multimedia Bible studies for

In my previous articles in this series on creating GET WISDOM I've discussed selecting a microphone ,

In the first two articles in this miniseries, I've written about the criteria and processes I used in selecting a microphone and an

My new interactive multimedia Bible study, Life Together: An Interactive Bible study of 1 Corinthians , is now available on the Orthodox Christian Bible Studies website. The study currently goes through

I will be unable to write a normal blog post this week because I am frantically working to complete my new - and completely free - Orthodox multimedia Bible study, Life Together: An Interactive Study of 1 Corinthians. This study launches on Thursday, November 1st.

 I encourage

In the first post in this series on creating GET WISDOM: The Orthodox Bible Study Program for Teens , I wrote about the criteria I used in selecting

I've decided to write a short series of articles describing how I create GET WISDOM! The Orthodox Bible Study Program for Teens . There are a tremendous number of priests laypersons working in Orthodox ministries who could provide superb content

The Dallas Morning News linked to an article about a University of Oregon study in the new field of neureconomics

A blog about classical music recently looked at the long-standing claim that classical music is dying (i.e., that its listenership is disappearing, and thus the music is becoming an unsustainable artform). The writer makes

A survey released several weeks ago by the Associate Press and MTV claims that religion tends to make teens happier