An Ignored Heart is a Lost Heart We must empower our children in the Orthodox faith. If we do not make God important, neither will our children. If we ignore the spiritual life, and make no effort to join our hearts to God, our hearts will be lost, and so
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Expect the disrespected.
Are Our Prayers a Form of Blackmail? The Lord knows our needs even before we ask. Given this fact we need to remember to approach God by making sure we are not approaching in a form of blackmail. It is our fallen nature that tends to approach God while trying
Becoming a Christian means joining the battle for good, so God grants you a guardian angel to help you win. Don’t give him the cold shoulder!
Without Suffering We Cannot Join Ourselves to the Cross Elder Ambrose of Optina Monastery said, “We should not forget that in our age of ‘sophistication’ even little children are spiritually harmed by what they see and hear. As a result, purification is required, and this is only accomplished through bodily
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If We Are To Win The Battle We Must Focus Only On Our Own Sins When we take our eyes off our own failings, shortcomings, and sins, we notice the failings of others. As the sins of others get our attention, our focus turns away from our own struggles with
The Lord has mercy. Do you?
Ethnic Purity in the Church Destroys Orthodoxy from Within We Orthodox Christians, as a whole, are guilty of abandoning our Christ directed mission of making disciples of every nation, by preserving the needs of ethnic groups (Russians, Greeks, Arabs, Serbs), often at the expense of welcoming our non-Orthodox neighbors. Although
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