In this lecture on 2 Corinthians 5:11-15, Fr. Gabriel opens with the judgment seat of Christ and a question any Christian can ask each day: what would the Lord say about my life so far? He shows how Paul turns "the terror of the Lord" on himself instead of on the Corinthians, and why the Church is an outpost of the kingdom of heaven. Drawing on the vision of Ezekiel and the iconography of our own church, he explains what it means that "one died for all," why Orthodox Christians speak of the Cross as Christ destroying death rather than as a legal punishment, and why verse 15 is the heart of this Bible study: those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
23 Sept 2026
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
In this first Bible study of the new year, Fr. Gabriel sets the stage for 2 Corinthians: a cosmopolitan, divided church in Corinth, and a Paul who opens his heart about his own struggles and the comfort of God's presence. He returns to a favorite verse, "we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead," and then reads 2 Corinthians 5:1-10. He explores Paul's image of our earthly life as a tent, the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of the life to come, why feeling too much at home in this world can mean we are absent from the Lord, what Paul means by a spiritual body, and why we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
23 Sept 2026
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
In this lecture on 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Fr. Gabriel reflects on Great Lent as the "Lenten spring": we prepare the soil of our hearts through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, but new life comes in God's time, not ours. He walks through Paul's words "we do not lose heart" and the outward man perishing while the inward man is renewed day by day. The class talks about why true Christians are the ones who struggle, why God so often works in the part of us we cannot see, and what it means that our light affliction is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. He closes on the difference between the things which are seen and temporary and the things which are not seen and eternal.
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