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God’s Love Overcoming Self-deception – First Sunday after Trinity – 2026 June 7 Sermon

St. John’s Lutheran Church, LCMS: Russellville, AR
Sermon: God’s Love Overcoming Self-deception
Date: 2026 June 7 – First Sunday after Holy Trinity
Rev. Joshua Schooping

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God’s Love Overcoming Self-deception – First Sunday after Trinity – 2026 June 7 Sermon

St. John’s Lutheran Church, LCMS: Russellville, AR Sermon: God’s Love …

Aerial Toll Houses and Eastern Orthodox Soteriology

This talk discusses the traditional Eastern Orthodox doctrine of …

This talk discusses the traditional Eastern Orthodox doctrine of Aerial Toll Houses

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– Bakogiannis, Vasilios. After Death, 2nd edition. tr. W.J. Lillie. Katerini, Hellas: Tertios Publications, 2001.
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– The Departure of the Soul: According to the Teaching of the Orthodox Church, Second Edition, Florence, AZ: St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery, 2020.
– Larchet, Jean-Claude. Life After Death According to the Orthodox Tradition. 2nd Edition. tr. G. John Champoux, John. Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Publications, 2021.
– Panteleimon, Archimandrite. Eternal Mysteries Beyond the Grave: Orthodox Teachings on the Existence of God, the Immortality of the Soul, and Life Beyond the Grave. Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1996.
– Puhalo, Lazar. The Soul, the Body and Death. Dewdney, B.C.: The Canadian Orthodox Publishing House: Synaxis Press, 2015.
– Rose, Seraphim. The Soul After Death. Second Edition. Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2009.
– Vlachos, Hierotheos. Life After Death. tr. Williams, Esther. Greece: Birth of the Theotokos Monastery, 1996.

– Stephen Shoemaker, “Aerial Toll Houses, Provisional Judgment, and the Orthodox Faith,” https://publicorthodoxy.org/2017/10/17/toll-houses-review/, 2026 May 29.

– Hierotheos Vlachos, “The Taxing of Soul, or On the Toll-Houses,” https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2013/10/the-taxing-of-souls-or-on-toll-houses.html, 2026 June 4. This passage quotes from book, “Life After Death,” 62-80.

– Tim Barnes, “Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History” (Tübingen, 2010), pp. 160-170. See also Jan N. Bremmer, “Richard Reitzenstein, Pythagoras and the Life of Antony,” in Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: Askesis, Religion, Science, ed. Almut-Barbara Renger and Alessandro Stavru, (Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2016), pp. 227-245, esp. p. 228.

– Emmanouela Grypeou, “Demonic ‘Tollhouses’ and Visions of the Afterlife in Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria’s Homily: De exitu animi,” in Demons in Early Judaism and Christianity, (Brill, 2022), pp. 196-213. Snippet: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004518148/BP000018.xml, 2026 May 29.

Regarding the Homily on Toll Houses by Pseudo-Cyril, the earliest manuscript is said to be from around the 11th Century. Curiously enough, there are two who went by the name Patriarch Cyril II of Alexandria, one who lived in both the Eleventh Century (Coptic) and one in the Twelfth (Greek, Kyrillos II).Show More