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Make Jesus KNOWN in 2020!

BlogJanuary 3, 2020360Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! There was a day when I actually worked as a "promotions director" for a leading media ministry. My job was to make sure the religious media consumers knew about our radio, TV, and print materials available and to get folks to watch, listen, and read our stuff. I was even a member…

Are you “Born Again?” You Should Be!

BlogJanuary 2, 2020525Views 0Likes 0Comments

"You must be born again." Hey, where I'm from, that scripture is as well worn as John 3:16. In the '70's fad of the "Jesus Movement" (anybody who was paying attention at all to the culture of the early '70's knows this) being "born again" was all the rage. Billy Graham wrote a book about…

The Whole Fullness of Deity Dwells

BlogJanuary 1, 2020615Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! And Happy New Year! There's no getting around this. The identity of Jesus Christ is the crux on which human history rests. He's either merely an itinerant Jewish rabbi that fell afoul of the Roman occupiers; a gifted religious teacher and philosopher and "ascended master"; a figment of the imagination of gullible people;…

Another New Year! Thank God

BlogDecember 31, 2019458Views 0Likes 0Comments

Help Us Jump into 2020 strong! Most of us will never travel the world to share the message of Jesus Christ to others in foreign lands. In fact, statistics tell us that most Americans will only travel to 8 states in their lifetime, and some Americans will live and die in the state where they were…

Endings And Beginnings

BlogDecember 31, 2019406Views 0Likes 2Comments

Christ is born! No matter how long any of us live, there's something about the changing of the calendar that invites us to look at ourselves. Benjamin Franklin once said "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." Great quote. And here we are…

Give to God What Belongs to God!

BlogDecember 30, 2019425Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! NASA released the largest picture ever taken. It's made up of 411 snapshots from the Hubble telescope of our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The picture is 1.5 billion pixels and takes 4.3 gigs of disk space to load. It's big. But as large as the picture is, the scene it shows is…

St. Stephen and Stiff Necks

BlogDecember 27, 2019433Views 0Likes 1Comment

Christ is Born! "That boy is so hard headed he wouldn't even notice a rock hitting him between the eyes." My grandmother had a way with words, but I've known people like this; so set in their ways that not even plain evidence would move them to change their ways. They were frozen in their…

A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas

BlogDecember 27, 2019574Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is Born! I'm sitting in my home office on an early morning thinking about the new year right around the corner, and what God has in store for us for this precious gift of time. And my heart can't escape the one example I see in Christ and all the saints - serve others! But how?…

He Shall Be Called A Nazarene

BlogDecember 26, 2019402Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! What a busy time of year! As I was preparing for liturgy this morning, I was contemplating my schedule and caught myself becoming distracted from the time of prayer that the liturgy calls me to embrace. I had to exercise my will to banish this distraction so that I could singularly focus on…

Christ Is Born!

BlogDecember 25, 2019484Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is Born! Glorify Him. With this traditional greeting we Orthodox Christians mark the beginning of the Feast of the Nativity of the Theanthropos (The God-Man) Jesus Christ. God takes His flesh from one of us in the person of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, and comes among us as the One promised by the Prophets…

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Make Jesus KNOWN in 2020!

Are you “Born Again?” You Should Be!

The Whole Fullness of Deity Dwells

Another New Year! Thank God

Endings And Beginnings

Give to God What Belongs to God!

St. Stephen and Stiff Necks

A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas

He Shall Be Called A Nazarene

Christ Is Born!

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