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The Good Shepherd Orthodox Church: Sermons

The Good Shepherd Orthodox Church: Sermons

The Good Shepherd Orthodox Church 319 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

Sermons from The Good Shepherd Orthodox Church, a parish community sharing its Sunday and feast day homilies. Each episode offers spiritual teaching and reflection rooted in the Orthodox Christian tradition. The podcast aims to make these sermons available to a wider audience beyond the congregation.

Episodes

Truth That Bears Fruit: The Icons and the Incarnation
Truth That Bears Fruit: The Icons and the Incarnation Oct 13, 2026 12:09 11th October 2026: On the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, Fr. Nicholas Frazer explains why the Church fought for the holy icons: because the Son of God truly became man. Drawing on St. Paul's warning against empty quarrels and Christ's prayer that His disciples may be one, he asks whether our Orthodoxy bears fruit — in humility, communion, repentance and love. Chapte
Sow Bountifully, Love Freely: The Abundant Life in Christ
Sow Bountifully, Love Freely: The Abundant Life in Christ Oct 6, 2026 11:39 4th October 2026: Drawing on C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, Sub Dn. Timothy Grace explores the abundant life God offers us through the day's two readings. From St. Paul he draws the law of sowing and reaping: God loves a cheerful giver, and what we give freely bears fruit for eternity. From the Gospel comes the harder, supernatural call to love our enemies without discrimination — not a loss, he
Put Out Into the Deep: Christ Steps Into Our Boat
Put Out Into the Deep: Christ Steps Into Our Boat Sep 29, 2026 19:34 27th September 2026: On the Sunday of the miraculous catch of fish, Fr. Geoff Harvey asks what a fishing boat, a temple and a human being have in common. Christ does not wait for our nets to be clean or our lives to be tidy — he climbs into the ordinary boat of our weary hearts, our homes and our work, and asks us to put out into the deep. Fr. Geoff draws out three things the Christian life asks o
Take Up Your Cross: Giving Without Calculation
Take Up Your Cross: Giving Without Calculation Sep 22, 2026 11:27 20th September 2026: On the Sunday after the Elevation of the Cross, Daniel McInnes asks what it actually means to take up your cross and follow Christ. Our whole life — not just the Sunday part of it — is the cross we are given to bear, and bearing it well means giving to the people around us without calculating the cost or the return. Drawing on his work as a mathematician and on his days at the
The Tree of Life: Why We Glory in the Cross
The Tree of Life: Why We Glory in the Cross Sep 17, 2026 20:20 13th September 2026: Ahead of the feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross, Fr. Nicholas Frazer preaches on why the cross stands at the very centre of the Orthodox faith. Drawing on Christ's words to Nicodemus and on Ss. John Chrysostom, Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, he traces the pattern of salvation history: death came through a tree in paradise, and life comes through
The Wedding Garment: Making the Most of What Christ Offers
The Wedding Garment: Making the Most of What Christ Offers Sep 9, 2026 13:35 6th September 2026: Preaching on Father's Day, Sub Dn. Timothy Grace takes up the parable of the wedding feast and the guest without a garment. In the ancient world the host supplied the garments, so to arrive without one was not poverty but insult — and Christ, the great host, has supplied us with everything we need. Drawing on St. Symeon the New Theologian's call to run to the light while it sti
Tenants in the Vineyard: Saved by Grace, Made to Love
Tenants in the Vineyard: Saved by Grace, Made to Love Sep 9, 2026 15:14 30th August 2026: Preaching on the parable of the wicked tenants, Fr. Geoff Harvey holds together two truths that can seem to pull against each other: we are saved by grace and not by works, yet a faith that bears no love has no life in it. The tenants' great failure did not begin with murder but with forgetting whose vineyard it was. Fr. Geoff offers three simple charges — stand firm in the faith
The Rich Young Ruler: What Has a Hold on Your Heart?
The Rich Young Ruler: What Has a Hold on Your Heart? Sep 9, 2026 10:01 23rd August 2026: In this sermon on the rich young ruler, Daniel McInnes asks what it really means when Christ tells the young man to sell all he has. The problem, he explains, was never wealth itself, but the hold that wealth had over the young man's heart. Whatever sits on the throne of our hearts in Christ's place becomes a weight around our necks, and the godly sorrow of seeing it clearly is t
The Two Kinds of Suffering: Voluntary and Involuntary
The Two Kinds of Suffering: Voluntary and Involuntary Aug 11, 2026 15:21 9th August 2026: In this sermon, Sub Dn. Timothy Grace explores the Orthodox understanding of suffering, distinguishing between the voluntary hardships we take on through the ascetic disciplines of the Church and the involuntary trials that come to us against our will. Drawing on the day's epistle and gospel readings, he shows how both kinds of suffering, when met with patience and the right attit
What Will You Do? The Feeding of the Five Thousand
What Will You Do? The Feeding of the Five Thousand Jul 28, 2026 8:36 26th July 2026: In this sermon on the feeding of the five thousand, Daniel McInnes reads St Matthew's account alongside the fuller detail of St John's Gospel, where Christ tests the disciples with the question, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" Daniel draws out how God chooses to work through people who bring the little they have, how the miracle foreshadows the Eucharist, and ho
You Are the Light of the World: Holiness and the Faith of Chalcedon
You Are the Light of the World: Holiness and the Faith of Chalcedon Jul 20, 2026 8:06 19th July 2026: Preached by Fr. Nicholas on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, this sermon joins two themes: Christ's call in the Sermon on the Mount, "You are the light of the world," and the faith defined at Chalcedon in 451. Fr. Nicholas shows how holiness and true doctrine belong together — the light of Christ shines through both holy living and the confession of
Discovering Our Gifts and the Virtue of Filotimo
Discovering Our Gifts and the Virtue of Filotimo Jul 20, 2026 16:39 12th July 2026: Preached by Sub Dn. Timothy Grace on the Sunday commemorating St. Paisios of Mount Athos, this sermon draws on St. Paul's letter to the Romans to explore both the unique gifts God gives each of us and the calling shared by all Christians. Through the lives of the saints, the Greek virtue of filotimo — a loving eagerness to do good — and the words of C.S. Lewis, Timothy shows how we

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