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For A Little While

BlogNovember 8, 2022407Views0Likes0Comments
Orthodox Christianity is an eschatological religion! O, Mr. Fancypants with your big words! :-) Ok, Orthodoxy is the Faith that keeps eternity in mind and the ultimate victory of Christ over all darkness. Is that better? In fact, the reality that eternity is more real than these temporary events is seen in how we worship, how we…

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Pride Precedes a Fall

BlogNovember 7, 2022905Views0Likes0Comments
There is a powerful word in the wisdom of the Orthodox Faith that acts as a real warning to you and me. It is the word “prelest.” It literally means “the state of spiritual delusion or deception.” This is a great spiritual illness in the teaching of the Church and is to be recognized and…

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Beware Hypocrisy!

BlogNovember 3, 2022357Views0Likes0Comments
One of the greatest attractions to me towards the Orthodox Church was the continuity of practice and, more importantly, a real connection to the People of God. There’s an old story about a British journalist visiting the library of one of the ancient monasteries on Mt. Athos in Greece. He was walking among the stacks with the…

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Why Orthodoxy

BlogNovember 2, 2022435Views0Likes1Comment
The playground bully was speechless. He was bigger than me. He was stronger than me. And he was better at fighting than me in every way except one. I was faster on my feet with a verbal response. He had just taunted me about being a "weak, mama's boy" and I responded, "I know you…

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To Be Truly Free

BlogOctober 31, 2022560Views0Likes0Comments
"Well, you should have known better!" Oh, how I hated hearing that from my mom. It was the tone in her voice as well as the words. You know the one. The tone communicated disappointment, disapproval, AND frustration all at the same time! Oh, I HATED it! But what made things worse was she was…

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