August 23, 2019 The First Sermon of Christ Any classical public speaking training would tell the aspirant lecturer to always start with a little warm up for the audience‚ in order to get…
August 22, 2019 Practical Tips: the Most Powerful Prayer and Fast for Travelers Our body lives by eating food. Similarly, our souls consume information coming from the senses. There can be not only physical but also informational…
August 21, 2019 What Do We Expect Heaven to Be Like? What an exciting Question! I was once with a 15- year-old boy who was dying in the middle of the night after a long…
August 17, 2019 Elder Joseph the Hesychast: Spiritual Journey Our natural state is darkness in comparison to divine grace. How much more so when the gloomy demons approach us, which are dark by…
August 16, 2019 The Way of Love is the Way of Co-suffering Nicholas Kotar in his book, The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son Book 1), has one of his characters ask a thought provoking question –…
August 15, 2019 Why Mary Is the Most Important Human Figure in Christianity Transitioning from Protestantism to the Orthodox Church a bit over a decade ago was for me a fairly seamless one. I was already well…
August 14, 2019 About the Most Serious Damage of a Person Why do believers have different levels of trust in God? The reasons lie in our thoughts. There are good and damaged thoughts. They are…
August 14, 2019 Spending Buried Treasure The Christian walk can be tough. You try to do the right thing, live the right way, follow the fasts, say your prayers, but then…
August 13, 2019 Gender Confusion and the Extinction of True Manhood Just as it is difficult to gain a true perspective of the size of a mountain when one is actually on the mountain, so…
August 10, 2019 Why Do Children Suffer? This is a “damned” question that quite a few people keep asking. From one generation to another, they are pestered by this horrendous thought…
August 10, 2019 Demons and How They Attack Humans We may have heard the opinion that the dark powers influence people only in relation to the evil eye or maleficium. Hardly anyone pays…
August 9, 2019 Several Provisions on Toll Houses There is a contested concept of toll houses in the Orthodox Church. Perhaps, every Orthodox Christian has had to consider how he or she…
