Lawrence Farley Books

Item No. 9781955890571 by Lawrence R. Farley Much has been written about the similarities and differences between the Orthodox and Evangelical faiths. In this book, Fr. Lawrence Farley provides a concise and non-confrontational summary of the major...

Item No. 9781944967413 by Fr. Lawrence R. Farley Popular biblical commentator and church historian Fr. Lawrence Farley turns his hand to hagiography in this collection of lives of saints, one or more for each day of the calendar year. His accessible...

Item No. 009987 Includes all three akathists by Fr. Lawrence R. Farley SAVE $2.85!   Akathist to Jesus, Light to Those in Darkness Eventually, everyone comes to dwell in darkness for a time. That is when we need to turn to Jesus, the only Light...

Item No. 9781944967338 by Fr. Lawrence Farley Eventually, everyone comes to dwell in darkness for a time. That is when we need to turn to Jesus, the only Light of the world and the only rescue for those in pain and despair. We break through the...

Item No. 9781944967345 by Fr. Lawrence Farley Zion in the Old Testament is a type of the Holy Mother of God. As God chose to dwell in Zion and thus blessed and glorified her, so God also chose to dwell in Mary and to bless and glorify her. In the New...

Item No. 9781944967383 by Archpriest Lawrence R. Farley Matushka Olga was the wife of a Yupik priest in an Alaskan village. She was not only mother to her own eight surviving children, but also spiritual mother to those in her parish. Olga served...

Item No. 009985 by Lawrence R. Farley Fr Lawrence Farley brings his exegetical skills to bear on the Song of Songs, one of the shortest but richest—and most difficult—books of the Bible. This balanced, verse-by-verse commentary examines the...

Item No. 9781944967314 by Lawrence R. Farley The Book of Daniel should be read with the eyes of a child. It’s a book of wonders and extremes—mad kings, baffling dreams with gifted interpreters, breathtaking deliverances, astounding...

Item No. 9781944967185 by Fr. Lawrence Farley The doctrine of hell as a place of eternal punishment has never been easy for Christians to accept. The temptation to retreat from and reject the Church’s traditional teaching about hell is...

The entire set of 13 books! About the Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series: This commentary series was written for the average layperson. Working from a literal translation of the original Greek, the commentary examines the text section by section,...

Item No. 9781936270613 by Fr. Lawrence R. Farley In contemporary North America, the bishop’s throne in the local parish stands empty for most of the year. The bishop is an honored occasional guest rather than a true pastor of the local flock...

Item No. 9781936270217 by Fr. Lawrence R. Farley In the fourth century, a nun named Egeria traveled through the Holy Land and wrote an account of her experiences. In the twenty-first century, Fr. Lawrence Farley followed partially in her footsteps and...

Item No. 9781936270743 by Lawrence Farley The Hebrew Christians of apostolic-era Palestine were tempted to fall back into Jewish ways because of persecution and a lack of understanding of the true uniqueness and significance of Christ. The writer of...

Item No. 9781936270668 by Lawrence R. Farley Is the Church too negative about sex? Beginning with this provocative question, Fr. Lawrence Farley explores the history of the Church’s attitude toward sex and marriage, from the Old Testament through...

Item No. 9781936270620 by Lawrence Farley Fr. Lawrence Farley explores the Acts of the Apostles as St. Luke's sequel to his Gospel—an apology for the Christian Faith as the fulfillment of Judaism, a gospel for all peoples, and a faith that poses...

Item No. 9781936270538 by Lawrence R. Farley  Many Christians see the Old Testament as “the other Testament”: a source of exciting stories to tell the kids, but not very relevant to the Christian life. The Christian Old Testament...

Item No. 9781936270408 by Fr Lawrence Farley The Book of Revelation has inspired controversy ever since it was written in the first century. It was the last book to be accepted into the New Testament canon, and today a myriad of mutually contradictory...

Item No. 9780982277072 by Lawrence R. Farley The New Testament is a Jewish book, and no part of it is more Jewish than the Gospel of Matthew. It tells the story of how God fulfilled His word to Israel and sent them His Messiah, who in turn carried out...

Item No. 9781888212518 by Fr. Lawrence Farley The apostle Paul lived within a swirl of controversy.  False Christians – Judaizers – dogged his every step, slandering his motives, denying his apostolic authority, and seeking to overthrow...

Item No. 9781888212525 by Fr. Lawrence Farley From the depths of a Roman prison, words of encouragement and instruction from the great Apostle Paul were sent in a series of letters to communities throughout the Roman Empire. St. Paul may have been...

Item No. 9781888212532 by Fr. Lawrence Farley The community Paul founded in Corinth gave him both joy and grief, for he was to encounter problems there of disunity, sin, and arrogance including the rejection of his own apostolic authority by some of his...

Item No. 9781888212549 by Fr. Lawrence Farley Israel expected the Messiah to be a conquering hero who would liberate the Jews from their Roman servitude. But instead, Christ came as a suffering servant to liberate all mankind from slavery to sin. The...

Item No. 9781888212556 by Fr. Lawrence Farley The Gospel of John vigorously witnesses to Jesus, striving to persuade the hearts and minds of the undecided that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and the only source of eternal life. St. John, as one of...

Item No. 9781888212563 by Fr. Lawrence Farley St. Paul's epistles to Timothy and Titus contain the apostle's instructions to the pastors under his care about how they, in turn, should care for their flocks in wisdom and love. As the last epistles St...

Item No. 9781888212600 by Fr. Lawrence Farley A volume in the Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series. The catholic, or general, epistles of the "other apostles"--James, Peter, Jude, and John--are sometimes overshadowed by the stirring theology of the...

Item No. 9781888212877 by Fr. Lawrence Farley A guide to understanding the Divine Liturgy, and a vibrant reminder of the centrality of the Eucharist in living the Christian life. Every Sunday morning we are literally taken on a journey into the Kingdom...

Item No. 9781936270026 by Fr. Lawrence Farley The early epistles of St. Paul come down to us from antiquity like a flame kindled from within his great apostolic heart a flame of indignation that the people he loved were being led astray from the path of...

Item No. 9781936270125 by Fr. Lawrence Farley The Gospel of St. Luke has been described as "the loveliest book in the world." It was written by a Gentile for Gentiles, with the purpose of touching their hearts with the Good News of Christ. Luke speaks...