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On Orthodox Faith & the Law of Attraction
Introduction On Faith Faith is central to our modern world. We put faith in our governments, and our institutions to do what they say they will do. We put faith in our cars, buses, and bicycles to get us where we need to go. We have faith that everyday gravity will continue to work as Read more
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Summoned From Nothingness
I was speaking with a friend recently about the strange times our generation has grown up in. He recollected that once an acquaintance asked him a question he’d never heard nor thought about before. He asked my friend if he ever wondered what it would be like to simply disappear – not die and go Read more
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The Prophet Elisha & the Widow’s Oil
There’s a certain miracle that the Prophet Elisha performed for a widow in 2 Kings 4:1-7 (4 Kingdoms 4:1-7 LXX) that gives us an example of God’s providential care, and how to act in faith. The widow’s husband, who was a son of the prophets, had died. The creditors were going to take her sons Read more
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Memento Mori (IX): Summer Has Passed
The leaves are faded and falling as the summer has passed again. The sun’s light still shines in the sky, but it brings little warmth as the days grow shorter. The gradually sinking temperatures hint at the long winter ahead. Soon the ice, and snow, and the wind that chills to the bone, and the Read more
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Love At First Sight
I’ve admired many women at first sight, but never have I loved them in that moment. I believed that love at first sight was something that only happened in the movies and romance novels. That is, until a Friday in May. Every Friday I would meet up with friends who worked in the surrounding office Read more
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Against Open Communion
The conversation around open Communion is a complicated and somewhat controversial one. By open Communion, I mean allowing all people, no matter church membership, affiliation, or faith, or religion, to partake of the Eucharist during Sunday services. The Orthodox Church, following the traditional teaching of the Apostles, the ancient Church, the Fathers, and the Scriptures, Read more
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Heterodox & Heretical Branches
Picture, if you will, a fruit tree. Now picture that a branch is broken off from the tree and has fallen to the ground beside it. The broken branch professes faith in the same basic ideas as the still-attached branches. It uses mostly the same books and has a lot of the same forms in Read more
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Orthodox Faith
As Christians, our job is not to innovate the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, nor reform it. It’s not to modernize the creed, dogmas, and Traditions as not to offend modern man. No, we Christians, as St. Paul said, are to stand firm and hold fast to the Traditions taught to us by word Read more
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Repent O My Soul
O man, will you not cry out in your despair? Will you continue in darkness, stacking sin upon sin, covering them up in your heart thinking the Master of all does not see? Do you even recognize the heights from which you fell? There is no time to waste! Cry out to God for mercy Read more
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An Orthodox Prayer to Find a Spouse
All-Good and Merciful Lord, I know that any enduring happiness in my life dependeth upon my wholehearted love for Thee and upon mine actions according to Thy Holy will in all things; wherefore, direct, my soul, O God, and fill my heart. I seek to please Thee alone, for Thou art my Creator and my Read more
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Solemn Online Assemblies
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, Read more
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The Master of Time
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 Read more
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Commentary on Blessed Augustine’s Quote: Love & Do What You Will
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 Read more