September 23, 2020 Is There Such Thing in the Church as the Eighth Ecumenical Council Has the Eighth Ecumenical Council already taken place? If you ask virtually any Orthodox Christian how many Ecumenical Councils there were in the church,…
September 20, 2020 One Reason Why God Allows Evil Spirits to Rage in Human Bodies The miracle of St. Simeon and the presbyter It is known that evil spirits try to destroy human souls not only by arousing, promoting…
September 19, 2020 Not Yours, But You: Almsgiving in the Modern Age In the Gospels there are many “hard sayings” of our Savior. Of these hard sayings, there are also many which have been all but…
September 18, 2020 Why Is Fear an Enemy of Faith? To have faith means to trust the Lord and to sense His living presence in one’s life. Faith brings us our inner peace, tranquillity…
September 14, 2020 Main Reason of Retreating from God Backslide from God does not happen overnight. It happens when a person stops too early on the way of getting to know God. This…
September 13, 2020 On the Julian Calendar, Church Tradition, and Standing for the Faith Christmas and New Year is a time when many Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian (old) calendar wonder why they do so; or rather,…
September 12, 2020 Alleluia before the Gospel Reading and the Alleluia Verses Before the Holy Gospel is read at the liturgy, we hear a lingering solemn chant. Alleluia is performed on different melodies (tones) and interspersed…
September 9, 2020 Importance of Repetition A Protestant friend asked me: How can you pray the same prayers all the time? Isn’t it limiting and monotonous? We’re certainly not expected…
September 5, 2020 The Struggle Against The Normal Life Within the Christianity of our time, the great spiritual conflict, unknown to almost all, is between a naturalistic/secular world of modernity and the sacramental…
September 3, 2020 Personalism, Small Churches, and Building Community When was the last time you heard a sermon or read an article or blog post on Romans chapter 16? Apart from Rom. 16:1,…
