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Χριστῷ συνεσταύρωμαι ζῶ δὲ οὐκέτι ἐγώ ζῇ δὲ ἐν ἐμοὶ “‘Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you and will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you, and you…

All who exalt themselves will be humbled… “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62). I’ve been messed up for the past couple of months, drinking coffee, kava, and seltzer like I’m a week out from my last drink, unable to get out…

In conclusion… “No one can drink, at the same time, of the cup of the Lord and of the cup of the demons. Nor can you, at the same time, be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of the demons. Or would we set ourselves against the selfhood power given by…

Theology of the Cross St. Paul’s gospel message was meant to combat the inclinations of mere humans by giving his spiritual children milk and honey, slowly weaning them off the things of this world bringing them closer to Christ. The meat of the gospel preached by Paul is the cross, his own theology of the…

Eye of the Beholder God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change;courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference.Living one day at a time;Enjoying one moment at a time;Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;Taking, as He did, this sinful worldas it is, not as I would have…

Christian Hekhalot “Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart. We have renounced the shameful things that one hides; we refuse to practise cunning or to falsify God’s word; but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of…

Schematics, Schismatics, and a most Glorious Revolution “The Patriarchs not only did not question the impossibility of the creation of an Independent Anglican Church, but, on the contrary, supported this idea. They agreed that the Anglicans should retain their own customs, and declared themselves ready to approve of the Anglican Liturgy, provided it was Orthodox.…

Marcion of Sinope “‘No servant can serve two masters simultaneously; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be attached to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and the powers of all merely earthly existence at the same time.’ “The Pharisees, who were greedy for…

Egalitarianism, revelation, and in-fighting “You worship a Being who eludes your consciousness. Our divine service is at one with our conscious awareness. That is why salvation for mankind had to be prepared among the Jews. The hour will come, and it has come, when the true worshippers of God will worship the Father with the…