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What Do Your Priorities Say About You?

BlogOctober 1, 2020512Views 0Likes 0Comments

My mother had a famous saying to me and my brother when we were little. It usually came out when we didn't want to do something like clean our rooms or do other chores. Usually it was because I either wanted to keep playing or watch TV. But then, the depth charge comment would appear!…

Is Your Life Focused on Jesus Christ?

BlogSeptember 30, 2020401Views 0Likes 0Comments

It seems we’ve been focusing on being awake this week and today is no exception. In fact, I want to really dive deep today in the central wisdom of the Church that teaches you and me to “BE” awake to what is most important in life. And that’s because it seems in our modern world there…

Do You Know Who You Really Are?

BlogSeptember 29, 2020761Views 0Likes 0Comments

The great, ancient philosopher Lao Tzu said "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." And I would, arrogantly, add that the first step in mastering yourself is truly knowing yourself. And that, my angels, is much more profound than what any of us might imagine. Of…

Do You Know How To Stay Faithful?

BlogSeptember 28, 2020403Views 0Likes 0Comments

Our busy lives really do challenge us in keeping our priorities in the right order, don't they? We moderns are a complicated mishmash of schedules, opportunities, affluence, and "freedom." And that multiplication of events, desires, hopes, and advertisements don't seem to be slowing down. It seems that each new day brings a new barrage of…

Is Shallow Familiarity Holding You Back?

BlogSeptember 25, 2020443Views 0Likes 0Comments

"Hey, I know that boy. I've known him my whole life. Who does he think he is?" I confess, it hurt a bit. You see, I was preaching one of my first "sermons" and some "friend" of the family who had, actually, known me and my parents since I was a baby, was a bit…

Is Casual Christianity Getting You Down?

BlogSeptember 24, 2020471Views 0Likes 1Comment

In one of the retreats that I give around the country, I have a particular presentation about how to heal the weaknesses of our modern age. I use examples from sociology, psychology, science, and even religion. But then I get down to the timeless and purposeful answer from Orthodoxy: GO TO CHURCH! It usually gets at least…

Where Do You Feel Barren?

BlogSeptember 23, 2020516Views 0Likes 0Comments

The story goes like this: A young man sees a beautiful woman and he desires to make her his wife. All the while, his best friend from childhood, the little girl next door, secretly has grown to love her clueless neighbor. As she watches him not see her as a potential mate and waits for…

The Lord’s Family Tree

BlogSeptember 22, 2020486Views 0Likes 0Comments

"Oh NO! Not the family tree scriptures again!" I can almost hear the congregation thinking out loud when we come to portions of the scriptures that have "and so and so begat so and so, and he begat so and so, and ..." I've even been asked "why is that in the Bible?" I remember…

In Bodily Form

BlogSeptember 21, 2020479Views 0Likes 1Comment

In his "must read" book "On The Incarnation" St. Athanasius said "“Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.” Think of that, The Creator insisted in making visible the Invisible, and to make accessible The Uncreated. But that was God's intention…

Watch Your Stinkin’ Thinkin’

BlogSeptember 18, 2020450Views 0Likes 1Comment

“It is a great achievement not to be attracted by things. But it is a far greater achievement to remain dispassionate in the face both of things and of the conceptual images we derive from them.” St. Maximos the Confessor Isn’t that great? The ability to be free from a slavery to desires, but not just…

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What Do Your Priorities Say About You?

Is Your Life Focused on Jesus Christ?

Do You Know Who You Really Are?

Do You Know How To Stay Faithful?

Is Shallow Familiarity Holding You Back?

Is Casual Christianity Getting You Down?

Where Do You Feel Barren?

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