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Hopko on Life and Death
Read more: Hopko on Life and DeathThe Bible teaches a kind of package plan: You have God, truth, life and glory, or you have demons, darkness, death, satan, sin, corruption, ugliness and rot. This is the basic reality, and there is no middle path. Fr. Thomas Hopko, spoken in Brisbane, Australia, October 1999
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Prayers By the Lake XXII – Shatter the Narrowness of My Soul
Read more: Prayers By the Lake XXII – Shatter the Narrowness of My SoulO Only Son of God, receive me into Your wisdom. You are the head of all the sons of men. You are their heavenly comprehension, illumination and jubilation. You are the One who thinks the same goodness in all men: the same thought and the same light. A man recognizes another man through You. A man […]
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Civilizations and the Kingdom – A Call for Prayer
Read more: Civilizations and the Kingdom – A Call for PrayerThis reprint (with changes) seems fitting for America’s Independence Day celebrations this weekend. I give thanks to God that priests are forbidden (by canon law) to hold political office – not that I would ever be elected – but that I would never want to stand in the place where my Christian faith was so […]
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Rightly Reading
Read more: Rightly ReadingThis is a reprint from last October. The course of your reading should be parallel to the aim of your way of life…. Most books that contain instructions in doctrine are not useful for purification. The reading of many diverse books brings distraction of mind down on you. Know, then, that not every book that […]
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You Are Not A Bible Character
Read more: You Are Not A Bible CharacterEvents which receive more than their share of news coverage are not my favorite topics for blog posts. However, this past week’s revelations of yet another politician’s infidelity offered one aspect worthy of comment (or so it seems to me). That is the use of the Bible as a means for reflecting on one’s personal […]
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Belief and Practice
Read more: Belief and PracticeA friend sent me a review of the book The Byzantine Lists: Errors of the Latins by Tia M. Kolbaba (University of Illinois Press). The review is by Elesha Coffman, associate editor of Christian History. An excerpt from the review offers an interesting insight: According to Kolbaba, historians have never really studied the lists because […]
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St. Paul's Salvation
Read more: St. Paul's SalvationWhat things were of gain to me – these I have counted as loss for Christ. Indeed, I count all things as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and […]
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Are You Saved?
Read more: Are You Saved?[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2805686&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Are You Saved?“, posted with vodpod
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Calvinism As Heresy
Read more: Calvinism As HeresyMet. Jonah of the OCA today addressed a group of conservative Anglicans. In the course of outlining what would be necessary for true ecumenical dialog and union, he stated, “the renunciation of Calvinism as a heresy.” This probably came as a surprise to many of the evangelical Anglicans in the audience. Appended here is the […]
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Not in Vain and Not by Chance
Read more: Not in Vain and Not by ChanceNot in vain and not by chance Was life granted me by God And not without God’s hidden will Has it been condemned to death. I myself through willful power Summoned evil from the dark abyss And my soul I filled with passion, Stirring up my mind with doubts. Remember Him whom I’d forgotten Pierce […]
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