Disclaimer: I wrote this about two months into the quarantine last year. At the time, I was an Evangelical heavily inquiring into Orthodoxy, but hadn’t yet converted, let alone attended a Divine Liturgy. Now that I’ve been brought into the Orthodox Church my views on this topic are more expanded, and even more staunch. However, […]
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While reading through a writing prompt journal I barely used years ago, I found a short paragraph I wrote on August 20, 2016 that I’d like to share. The prompt said, “Look around you and choose an object in the room. Now write something from the point of view of that object.” I chose the
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Love, and do what you will (Dilige et quod vis fac). This phrase of Blessed Augustine has been perverted by many. Aleister Crowley, not only being Godless, but an active enemy of Christ, added “Love is the law under will” to fix the antinomian feel of his perverted phrase “Do as thou wilt shall be
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A little over a year ago, I was in a hospital in Florida, where my dad was admitted due to a heart-attack. I was standing with my mom and brother in the waiting room of the ICU when I had an interesting experience while wearing a shirt with an image of the Mother of God
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Once when I was a young kid, my dad and I went to a major league soccer game. At one point in the game, we bought two large fresh-squeezed lemonades. I quickly drank to the bottom of the cup, and with my last sip, I swallowed a seed. Shortly after doing so, I began to
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Scripture reveals to us that all humans are made in the image of God. As shown in 1 Corinthians 11:7, we are also made to be the glory of God. Genesis 1:27 makes it very clear that both male and female are created in His image. Genesis 9:6 states whoever sheds men’s blood will have
God created and used Prophets, Priests, and Kings in distinct ways throughout the Old Testament of Scripture. It is important to have an understanding of these offices to understand what’s going on in the Bible, and to see how their types and shadows are fulfilled in the New Testament Church. Many descriptions of these offices
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The Dutch government released an advisory to its citizens about getting a “sex buddy” during the Covid-19 lockdown. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has since revised their advice, but they still have a page titled ‘Coronavirus and Sexuality‘ on their website. Under the first advice point about the 1.5 meter
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Many of us in the Western Church are willing to believe in the Lord, but not suffer for the Lord just as the Israelites when Moses was sent to free them from their bondage at the command of God. This applies to us in two ways. One, we cannot face the secular world due to
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Jesus taught us that where two or more are gathered in His name, He is there with them (Matt.18:20). Now that we cannot gather in groups of ten or more, we feel how much we’ve taken that promise for granted. God is with us in our private worship, but may we never again take for
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