Today, you only lack one thing that is hindering your life from fully knowing God's peace and joy.
The temptation is to confuse the shallow symptoms of our sins as that one thing lacking. This is the error of the rich young man in our Gospel Lesson today. If we make the same mistake, we too…
I knew a man once who loved to hear sermons about fire and brimstone. He was, himself, an indulgent man who wasted his life on behaviors that we should not talk about in polite company. And yet, every year he went to the annual “revival meetings” at a church he had gone to in his…
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Perspective changes everything. Just take for example the modern tendency to hold up the anti-hero as someone to be admired or at least respected, and sometimes, even cared for.
This is especially true in several contemporary television series. From Tony Soprano to Walter White, it seems our modern media is desperate for us to see…
Paul Laurence Dunbar, an American poet of the early 20th century, wrote a wonderful poem called “Sympathy” and the third stanza is powerful in it’s pathos and beauty and heart-breaking truth:
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, When he beats his bars and…
I came to the conclusion a long time ago that I loved public speaking. I loved it because it allowed me to flesh out my ideas and communication tools with real people and get real time feedback about the effectiveness of those tools. Plus, it drove down deep the very truths I was attempting to…
There are two things that get more difficult as you age; the first is the ability to remember things, and the second is …. well, I forgot. I know, a corny joke, but there is a kernel of truth. This was driven home to me the other day when, for the umpteenth time, I forgot…
Today we hear the story of two debtors. One debtor owes a huge debt to his king, and when the king decides to collect what is rightfully his, this debtor falls to his knees and begs the king to have patience with him and he will repay the debt.
The king knows the servant will never…
A letter from His Grace Bishop Gregory of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese, liaison from the Assembly of Bishops of the U.S.A. to the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF), concerning the Church’s joint ministry to our Orthodox college students: Dear Reverend Fathers:
As many of you know, the loss of our Christian youth is a…
Trust is a foundational building block of any relationship. Without it there simply is no way to have anything more than some superficial connection. But trust requires risk. And we humans avoid risk most of the time. Jesus challenges us to risk trusting Him.
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