Booklets

Item No. 007947 To order a 25-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007948. A low-resolution PDF version of this booklet is also available for free download, for personal use only. The text of this booklet was prepared by the Department of Marriage...

Item No. 000171 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008006. A respected monk and spiritual father from Mount Athos describes the basics of Orthodox spirituality for the beginner or seeker. Written by a monastic for lay people, this...

Item No. 005217 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008012. Rarely has the contemporary Orthodox Church spoken with greater unanimity then in the eloquent Amicus Curiae brief presented to the Supreme Court in 1989. With authority and...

Item No. 008352 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008351. Is yoga a system of physical exercise and relaxation, or the deceptive doorway into a religion antithetical to Christianity? The answer is yes. Christine Mangala Frost, who...

Item No. 009051 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item 009052.  Who is worthy of the love of God? On our own, none of us is worthy. Yet Scripture and Tradition make it clear that God accepts into His Kingdom everyone who truly repents...

Item No. 000164 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007999. More than just a prayer book, this booklet contains practical guidelines for the lay person on how to develop a workable "Rule of Prayer." Learn how to build the habit of...

Item No. 007883 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008026. Is it possible to raise a Christian family in an increasingly post-Christian age? As a mother of six, author and editor Ginny Nieuwsma speaks from heartfelt experience as...

Item No. 000162 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007997. Jesus said, "Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven." Why, then, do millions of Christians refer to their earthly priests as...

Item No. 004705 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008011. "Why can't I receive communion in the Orthodox Church?" This much-needed booklet is written to help explore this sensitive issue from the perspective of the historic...

Item No. 005708 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008016. Explores the reality of sin and discusses our need to accept its devastating results in our lives. Rather than trying to explain sin away or ignore it, we must confront it...

Item No. 002358 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008010. From her very beginning, the Church has struggled to defend the truth taught by Jesus Christ to His disciples against false teachings. Two of the major challenges to...

Item No. 000176 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008009. Warm pastoral advice on how to deal with grief, based on the author's personal experiences. Discusses the natural outworkings of the grief process for Christians and offers...

Item No. 008640 by Fr. A. James Bernstein To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008641. The centerpiece of all biblical prophecy is that which concerns the coming of the Messiah. Learn about the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah...

Item No. 000159 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007994. A clear and concise guide explaining the "how-tos" of becoming a Christian and the necessary steps involved in moving from commitment to new birth in Christ...

Item No. 000170 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008005. Why is it important to honor Mary and call her "blessed"? This booklet will lay to rest much of the contemporary confusion concerning Mary, and will provide help for those...

Item No. 000168 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008003. Traces the continuing history of the Church from New Testament times until today. Explains the underlying causes for the major divisions within Christianity, especially...

Item No. 007115 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008024. What does it mean to truly forgive? Why is it so hard to forgive those closest to you? How do you forgive other people when they've hurt you, and how do you seek forgiveness...

Item No. 006601 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008020. A call for young adults to make a lifetime commitment to Jesus Christ and His Church. Reveals three lies Satan uses to keep us away from church, and three reasons to make...

Item No. 007882 by Fr. A. James Bernstein To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008025. Few subjects are so misunderstood in the twenty-first century as those relating to the afterlife and the nature of heaven and hell. In this...

Item No. 000163 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007998. How is it possible to experience ultimate fulfillment in life? "Through true worship of the Holy Trinity," states the author. Discover how to worship God "in the Holy of...

Item No. 000172 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008007. Have you been longing for a better working knowledge of the Scriptures and a more intimate familiarity with their Divine Author? Sets forth the basics of personal Bible...

Item No. 006881 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008022. Many Christians are surprised to learn that by the second century A.D. the practice of infant baptism was commonplace in the Church. Early Christians accepted it as having...

Item No. 002026 Membership package includes: A solid-oak and acrylic literature rack (25" x 25") 50 each of our 3 best-selling brochures (value $20 per pack) Timeline of Church History What on Earth is the Orthodox Church? Welcome! 5...

Item No. 006882 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008023. Every sincere Christian acknowledges that Christ was born of a Virgin. But from earliest times, the Church has also held that Mary remained a virgin even after giving birth...

Item No. 000161 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007996. An apologetic for icons and their proper use, written with a sympathetic eye towards those whose misunderstandings grow from a lack of information or unfamiliarity with...

Item No. 009053 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item 009054.  This booklet presents a brief introduction to Orthodoxy, including its history, tradition, spirituality, worship, icons, and approach to evangelism and charitable works...

Item No. 000160 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007995. From the son of a Jewish rabbi living in Jerusalem to "Jews for Jesus" evangelical Christian to Orthodox priest. Meet Father James Bernstein and follow his search for the...

Item No. 000165 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008000. Discusses many aspects of prayer: personal and corporate, liturgical and spontaneous; and the practice of the Jesus Prayer. Very warm and personal, from an interview with...

Item No. 000157 By Dr. David C. Ford To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007993. What happens to the soul after death? Are the departed still aware of us on earth? What justification is there for praying for someone who has already...

Item No. 008746 Our preview pack now includes 1 each of 41 titles. Note: The cover designs of our topical series booklets are being changed. Watch for more redesigned covers in the months ahead. During the transition period, preview packs will...

Item No. 000169 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008004. With over 22,000 different Christian denominations and sects in existence today, how can we know whose interpretation of the Bible is correct? Find out how Holy Tradition...

Item No. 009013 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 009014. In our society, even Christians often do not understand the importance of maintaining sexual purity within or outside of marriage. Fr. Lawrence Farley offers a compelling...

Item No. 006600 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008019. Why was it necessary for Christ to suffer and die on the Cross? Starting with the Middle Ages, many western theologians began to teach that Christ suffered to propitiate...

Item No. 000174 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008008. This powerful message calls for a "new form of monasticism without celibacy and without the desert." Provides a vision for the future of Orthodoxy in North America, and a...

Item No. 006187 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008018. Why do many evangelicals embrace today's Israel as having a "manifest destiny" to the land of Palestine? Popular author, speaker, and evangelist Fr. Peter Gillquist explains...

Item No. 008103 by Fr. A. James Bernstein Now with a new full-color cover design. To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008108. The original Christian Gospel of the infinite, saving love of God has been twisted over the centuries in...

Item No. 006880 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008021. The Apostle Peter once reminded readers that through Christ, they were "partakers of the divine nature." What is the meaning of this profound statement? How is it possible...

Item No. 000166 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008001. Beginning with the Old Testament history and origins of tithing, this booklet traces New Testament and early Church thought on the subject and offers an apologetic for the...

Item No. 005218 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008014. Without apology, Orthodoxy proclaims itself to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ on the day of Pentecost. So how do Orthodox Christians...

Item No. 000167 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008002. What do Orthodox Christians believe about the Second Coming of Christ? About divorce? About abortion? About spiritual gifts? Compiled as a practical A to Z handbook of basic...

Item No. 005707 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008015. What is the true nature of fasting? What is the proper balance between the outward aspects of fasting and its inner unseen purpose? What is the relationship between prayer,...

Item No. 000156 To order a discountable 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 007992. Did the New Testament produce the Church, or was it a product of the Holy Spirit working through the Church? Who compiled the list of New Testament books now...

Item No. 008507 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008508. What does it really mean to worship God? Why do we need to worship? Why can’t we worship alone in the woods as well as we can in church with our parish community? Fr...

Item No. 006186 To order a 5-pack of this booklet, please use Item No. 008017. Why do groups such as the Seventh Day Adventists worship on Saturday? Join popular author of Thirsting for God, Matthew Gallatin, on a journey through the New Testament and...