“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – Matthew 26:41 The spirit is willing to fight temptations, but the flesh is weak to withstand them. Archbishop Averky (Taushev) wrote the following on this verse: “This means that although their souls are inclined […]
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The writings of our Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose are popular amongst those in and out of the United States of America As noted on the front cover of The Soul After Death which states: “The American book that has become Russia’s most popular book on the afterlife, awakening countless souls with its sobering truth.” Although
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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
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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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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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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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Apatheia is a Greek term used by the ancient Stoics to describe a state of mind where one is not disturbed by the passions. It is translated as dispassion from a – “without,” and pathos – “suffering” or “passion.” In Philosophy, the passions are the instinctive, emotional, base drives of a human being. The Stoics
