• Basic Concepts.
  • 1. The World.
  • 2. About God.
  • 3. The Attributes of God
  • 4. Prayer.
  • 5. Sin.
  • 6. The Sign of the Cross.
  • 7. Standing and Bows During Prayer.
  • 8. Different Types of Prayer.
  • 9. When God Hears Our Prayer.
  • 10. Where and How We Can Pray to God.
  • 11. The Church Building.
  • 12. The Priest’s Blessing.
  • 13. Icons.
  • 14. Why we call ourselves Orthodox Christians.
• Prayers.
  • 1. Short Prayers.
• The Sacred History of the Old Testament.
  • Introduction to the Sacred History of the Old and New Testaments.
  • 1. Creation of Heaven, the Invisible World.
  • 2. Creation of the Earth, the Visible World.
  • 3. How God Created the First People.
  • 4. The Life of the First People in Paradise.
  • 5. The Fall into Sin.
  • 6. The Results of the Fall into Sin and the Promise of a Saviour.
  • 7. Discussion of the Fall into Sin.
  • 8. Cain and Abel.
  • 9. The Flood.
  • 10. The Life of Noah and His Children After the Flood.
  • 11. The Building of the Tower of Babel and the Scattering of Peoples.
  • 12. The Appearance of Idolatry.
  • 13. Abraham.
  • 14. The Appearance of God to Abraham in the Form of Three Strangers.
  • 15. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • 16. The Offering of Isaac as a Sacrifice.
  • 17. The Marriage of Isaac.
  • 18. Esau and Jacob.
  • 19. Jacob’s Vision of the Mystical Ladder.
  • 20. Joseph.
  • 21. Joseph in Egypt.
  • 22. Joseph’s Meeting with His Brothers and the Moving of Jacob into Egypt.
  • 23. The Story of Job the Long-suffering.
  • 24. Moses.
  • 25. Pascha (Passover) and the Exodus from Egypt.
  • 26. The Hebrews Pass Through the Red Sea.
  • 27. God Gives the Law on Mt. Sinai.
  • 28. The Tabernacle.
  • 29. The Forty-year Wandering of the Hebrew People, the Bronze Serpent.
  • 30. The Entry of the Israelites into the Promised Land.
  • 31. Judges.
  • 32. The Story of Ruth.
  • 33. Saul, First King of the Israelites.
  • 34. King David.
  • 35. King Solomon.
  • 36. The Division of the Kingdom into Two: Judah and Israel.
  • 37. The Prophets.
  • 38. The Downfall of the Israelite Kingdom.
  • 39. The Fall of the Babylonian Kingdom.
  • 40. The Median-Persian Empire. Prophet Daniel in the Lion’s Den.
  • 41. The Return of the Jews from Captivity in Babylon and the Construction of the Second Temple.
  • 42. The Greek Empire.
  • The Translation of the Books of the Old Testament into the Greek Language
  • 43. The Roman Empire. The Universal Expectation of the Messiah.

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