Sermons by Fr. John Whiteford

Topical Sermons

Title

Date

God's Providence

 

11/19/2023

St. James the Brother of the Lord

 

11/5/2023

God will have the Last Word

 

10/8/2023

St. Moses the Ethiopian

 

9/10/2023

St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves

 

7/23/2023

St. Paisius Velichkovsky

 

6/18/2023

How the Saints Help Us

 

6/11/2023

Power from on High

 

6/4/2023

The Theotokos as an Ideal of Motherhood

 

5/14/2023

Palm Sunday 2023

4/9/2023

 

Singing "Christ is Risen!" During Lent

 

4/2/2023

Obedience (Step Four of the Ladder)

 

3/26/2023

The Persecution of the Kiev Caves Lavra

 

3/12/2023

This Alone Will Make You Stop Being a Protestant

 

3/5/2023

The Holy New Martyr Hilarion (Troitsky)

 

2/5/2023

St. Herman of Alaska

 

12/25/2022

Discerning God's Will

 

12/11/2022

Why There Are No Beggars in Moldova

 

9/18/2022

Dormition 2022

 

8/28/2022

The Meaning of the Martyrdom of the Royal Family

 

7/17/2022

St. Luke the Surgeon of Crimea

 

6/26/2022

Pentecost 2022

 

6/12/2022

One Nation Under Judgment

 

5/29/2022

Choose Life

 

5/8/2022

Palm Sunday 2022

 

4/17/2022

On Exile or Pilgrimage

 

4/3/2022

The War in Ukraine

 

2/27/2022

Reading Scripture with Faith and Humility

 

2/13/2022

Hieromartyr Joachim of Nizhny-Novgorod

 

2/6/2022

A Mad Mad World

 

1/30/2022

How Do We Know the Iconoclasts Were Wrong?

 

10/24/2021

The Martyrs Michael and Theodore of Chernigov

 

10/3/2021

The Arena of the Family

 

9/19/2021

St. Seraphim of Sarov

 

8/1/2021

The New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth

 

7/18/2021

St. Matrona of Moscow

 

7/4/2021

Detachment from the Word

 

4/11/2021

Can We Really Know God?

 

3/28/2021

Haram!

 

3/21/2021

Meatfare 2021

 

3/7/2021

The Living Church and the New Martyrs of Russia

 

2/7/2021

Athanasius Against the World

 

1/31/2021

Resisting the Devil

 

11/15/2020

The Great Earthquake

 

11/8/2020

St. Philaret of Moscow

 

10/18/2020

The Pursuit of Happiness

 

9/13/2020

Procession of the Cross / Maccabean Martyrs 2020

 

8/14/2020

The Feast of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco 2020

 

7/4/2020

St. Nicholas of Japan

 

6/21/2020

Burning Down the House

 

6/7/2020

St. Monica

 

5/17/2020

No One Can Harm You But Yourself

 

5/2/2020

Nothing Strikes Fear in the Person Whose Hope is in God

 

3/29/2020

The Martyr Theodosia and the Coronavirus

 

3/8/2020

Is God Just?

 

2/23/2020

St. Cyril of Kazan

 

2/9/2020

Transgenderism

 

10/27/2019

St. Jonah of Manchuria

 

10/20/2019

St. Innocent of Alaska

 

6/30/2019

Papism and Neo-Papism

 

3/24/2019

Anthropological Iconoclasm

 

3/17/2019

You Get What You Give

 

3/10/2019

To Judge both the Living and the Dead

 

3/3/2019

The New Martyrs of 1919

 

2/10/2019

St. Maximus the Confessor and the Schism in Ukraine

 

2/3/2019

Abortion and Infanticide in New York

 

1/27/2019

Cultural Marxism

 

11/25/2018

The Kazan Icon

 

11/4/2018

The Schism over Ukraine

 

10/21/2018

The New Martyrs of China, and the Choices We Face Today

 

6/24/2018

You Get What You Pay For

(Father’s Day, 2018)

 

6/17/2018

St. Raphael (Hawaweeny)

 

6/10/2018

The Sunday of Myrrhbearers, 2018

 

4/22/2018

Opening the Doors or the Kingdom of Heaven

 

3/25/2018

Obedience

 

3/18/2018

Modernism

 

2/25/2018

Copping a Plea

 

2/11/2018

The Nature of Communism

 

2/4/2018

St. Basil the Great

 

1/14/2018

The Name of Jesus

 

12/31/2017

The Holy Forefathers

 

12/24/2017

The Kursk Icon

 

12/10/2017

St. John Chrysostom

 

11/26/2017

Scripture Alone

 

11/5/2017

A 14 Year Old Boy (St. Hyacinth)

 

7/16/2017

Fr. Theoclitos (Triantafilides)

 

6/18/2017

The Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

 

5/21/2017

What our Mothers Mean to Us

 

5/14/2017

Observing Boundaries

 

4/2/2017

The Second Triumph of Orthodoxy

 

3/12/2017

St. Juliana of Lazarevo

 

1/15/2017

Prayer: The Mirror of the Soul

 

11/27/2016

St. John Kochurov

 

11/13/2016

Loving the Feasts of the Church

(Feast of the Dormition)

 

8/28/2016

The Holy Spirit: Wind, Fire, and Water

(Sunday of Pentecost)

 

6/19/2016

Reconciliation with God

(St. Mary of Egypt Sunday)

 

4/17/2016

Confessing Your Sins

 

2/21/2016

The Hieromartyr Vladimir of Kiev

 

2/7/2016

St. Andrew the First-Called

 

12/13/2015

St. John of Kronstadt

 

11/1/2015

I Believe (The Creed, Part 1)

 

10/25/2015

The Disciplines of Discipleship

 

9/27/2015

What’s Your Excuse for not Reading the Bible?

 

7/26/2015

The Apostle Peter

(feast of Ss. Peter and Paul)

 

7/12/2015

Hate and Racism

 

7/5/2015

The Meaning of Our Baptism

 

5/31/2015

Ss. Methodius and Cyril

 

5/24/2015

The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

 

3/22/2015

What is the Significance of

the New Martyrs of Russia

 

2/8/2015

The Holy Greatmartyr Catherine

12/7/2014

 

God’s Sovereignty and Human Freedom

 

11/30/2014

Let All Things be Done Decently and in Order

11/2/2014

 

The Nativity of the Theotokos

 

9/21/2014

The Ever-Virgin Mary

8/10/2014

 

The Role of the Law in the New Testament

 

7/13/2014

The Comforter

(Sermon on the Sunday of Pentecost)

 

6/8/2014

True and False Unity

(Sermon on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council)

 

6/1/2014

The Final Judgment

(Sermon on the Sunday of the Last Judgment)

 

2/23/2014

The Hieromartyr Peter of Krutitsa

(Sermon on the Sunday of the New Martyrs of Russia)

 

2/9/2014

"As Many as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ" Sermon on Theophany

 

1/19/2014

Skeptical Biblical Scholarship, Part 2

 

12/1/2013

Skeptical Biblical Scholarship

 

11/24/2013

St. Job of Pochaev

 

11/10/2013

Ss. Peter and Febronia of Murom and the Day of Family, Love, and Fidelity

 

9/15/2013

Patience

 

9/01/2013

The 1025th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’

7/28/2013

 

Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings

(Homily on Palm Sunday)

 

4/28/2013

We should never despair of our salvation

(Homily on the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt)

 

4/21/2013

Despondency

(Homily on the Sunday of St. John Climacus)

 

4/14/2013

 

The Protoevangelion and the Annunciation

(Homily on the Annunciation and the Sunday of the Cross)

 

4/7/2013

One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

(Homily on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas)

 

3/31/2013

Does Doctrine Matter

(Homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy)

 

3/24/2013

The Two Wings of Prayer

(Homily on Cheesefare Sunday)

3/17/2013

 

Knowing God

(homily on the Sunday of the Last Judgment)

 

3/10/2013

St. Nina, Enlightener of Georgia

 

1/27/2013

To Judge or Not to Judge

 

11/18/2012

The Mystery Hidden from Before the Ages

 

9/30/2012

Spiritual Wisdom from St. Poemen the Great

 

9/9/2012

The Feast of the Transfiguration

 

8/19/2012

What Remains of a Person’s Life

 

8/5/2012

Resisting Cultural Decay

(a sermon in response to the Aurora, CO shootings)

 

7/22/2012

The Showbread in the Old and New Testaments

 

7/15/2012

Speaking the Whole Truth

 

7/8/2012

The Doctrine of the Trinity

 

6/3/2012

The Deity of Christ

 

5/13/2012

Iconoclasm: Idols and Icons

 

3/4/2012

When the books are opened

 

2/19/2012

The New Martyr Lydia

 

2/5/2012

St. Juliana of Lazarevo

 

1/15/2012

The Meaning of Thanksgiving

 

11/27/2011

The Meaning of Communion

 

11/20/2011

What’s Important?

 

11/13/2011

The Optina Elders and the Shamardino Nuns

 

10/23/2011

What is the Moral Law of God

 

10/2/2011

What is the basis of Morality?

 

9/25/2011

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist & 9/11

 

9/11/2011

Procession of the Cross & the Maccabean Martyrs

 

8/14/2011

St. Olga

 

7/24/2011

The Role of the Father

 

6/19/2011

End Times Predictions

 

5/22/2011

The Apostle Mark and his Mother

 

5/8/2011

Woe unto them that call evil “Good”

 

4/10/2011

Vigil and Vigilance

 

4/3/2011

“Why should I let you into heaven?”

 

2/27/2011

Homily on the Publican and the Pharisee

 

2/13/2011

St. Xenia of St. Petersburg

2/6/2011

 

St. Anthony the Great

 

1/30/2011

On the Services and Feasts of the Church

 

2010

The Golden Rule

 

10/17/2010

Holiness Becometh Thy House: Having Proper Reverence for the Things of God.

 

9/26/2010

Orthodox Womanhood: The New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth

 

7/18/2010

 

The Eucharist

 

4/25/2010

Homily on the 4th Sunday of Lent: Prayer

 

3/14/2010

The Golden Rule

 

10/18/2009

On the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

9/27/2009

 

What it means to love

 

8/30/2009

God knows us better than we know ourselves

 

8/23/2009

Spiritual Warfare

 

2009

On the Reconciliation of the Russian Church and the repose of Metropolitan Laurus (a homily on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, given at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, Houston, TX)

 

3/16/2008


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