C.S. Lewis said it best: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” So true! You see, the Christian Faith isn’t merely a set of moral teachings. All religious systems have that, and most of them are fairly similar. The Christian…
Thank You! Our #GivingTuesday Goal was to raise $1000 for our support for 2021 and we beat that goal yesterday by almost $500! Now on to our End of Year Goal of $5000! We have till midnight on December 31st to reach this goal for support in 2021!
So, you still have time to participate! Just…
Recently a famous Evangelical pastor came out and stated that he is discovering that the history of the Church was plain that the Eucharist was the center of the Church's life and not merely a sermon. I remember when I learned that the sermon wasn't the normal center of Christian worship, it opened the floodgates…
"I can pray out in the woods so much better than in a church!" But do you do that? Seriously, I hear so many excuses as a priest from folks who can't seem to make regular church attendance a priority in their lives. And most of those lives are marked by a consistent inattentiveness to…
Every Year at this time we reach out to you to help us have a strong foundation for the new year's ministry work of Encouraging us all to be Orthodox on Purpose!
And this year is no different, except it really IS a different year! We have faced, and continue to face, a profound challenge in…
I've been saying "Orthodox on Purpose" for so long that sometimes I wonder if I've grown deaf to the wisdom behind the words. After all, the danger for any minister is to keep all the words of his purpose and forgetting the meaning behind them. Terrifying!
But I've discovered that most of us struggle to…
The day after Thanksgiving in the US is often called "Black Friday." It use to be the day that merchants were "in the black" for the year and they saw the rest of the year up to Christmas as their time to make a profit for the year. But marketers learned many years ago that…
It's Thanksgiving Day in The US. The tradition of Thanksgiving started early in our nation's history as a way for us to set aside one day to be grateful to God for the blessings we receive through the year. Of course, this is a common theme throughout human history when a society wakes up from…
The notice I received had this heading: Attention as a Cultural Problem and the Possibilities of Education. It was a notice of a lecture being held at a major university and it certainly caught my attention.
One of the most consisted messages in all the writings of the Fathers is the absolute need for attentiveness to…
