Category: The Morning Offering

Anything That Is Quickly Obtained Is Also Easily Lost Americans are not a particularly patient people, as demonstrated by the fact that the fast food industry began with us. We don’t tolerate slow service, thus much of the food we consume is prepared before we order it. We drive our

When You Fall, Get Up Again It is often the case that we fail to keep God’s commandments and find ourselves despondent, unable, as it seems, to make progress in the battle over our sins. When the same sins constantly plague us, despondency is our enemy. Despondency is the tool

We Must Drive Out All Negative Thoughts Our thoughts really do have an impact on our world. Negative thoughts about family members or fellow employees change our relationships. If we dislike someone at work and allow ourselves to think poorly of them, they are likely to fulfill our low expectations.

When Charity Becomes an Occasion for Self-Worship Food is a common problem for many people, for food so often fills a void, and becomes a way of comforting oneself when faced with the stresses that are a part of our modern age. Yet food is not the only addiction that

Christ Put Himself at the Bottom of the Inverted Pyramid The recently glorified Saint Sophrony of Essex, England, himself the spiritual son and biographer of Saint Silouan of the Holy Mountain, wrote that the empirical cosmic being is like a pyramid: at the top sit the powerful of the earth,

“For it is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men (1 Peter 2:15).” Bishop Nikolai Velimirovic tells us in The Prologue from Ochrid that we are better off if we do not engage others in lengthy debates and fruitless discussions,

Are These the End Times? The cultural and spiritual warfare that is taking place between the “Christian” West, and China, together with the threat of World War III, have become a source of concern for many. Coupled with the polarization of the populace within the United States, and the mass