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Tag: spiritualty

  • Wrath or Comfort

    Wrath or Comfort

    Reflections on Luke 4:25-29 Jesus Christ’s proclamation of His mission to bring deliverance and healing is met with astonishment and rejection in His hometown. This tension highlights humanity’s struggle to accept divine truth, a struggle that persists today. The God-man informs the people of the synagogue, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears”…

  • Living Stones

    Living Stones

    Reflections on Luke 3:7-8 St. John the Forerunner’s call to produce fruits worthy of repentance invites us to examine what this means in practice. To produce fruits worthy of repentance means to align our lives with God’s will, bearing witness to our faith through love and good works.   St. Paisios of Mount Athos offers…

  • Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. v

    Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. v

    Concerning Tolle, TAG, and true transformation “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Where is the…

  • Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. iv

    Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. iv

    Concerning esoteric epistemology and historiography “Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by…

  • Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. iii

    Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. iii

    Concerning presentism and Theosophy “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your…

  • Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. ii

    Messiah or Mouthpiece? pt. ii

    Concerning presentism and biblical criticism “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power” (Col. 2:8-10). Germany was…

  • Messiah or Mouthpiece?

    Messiah or Mouthpiece?

    Concerning theological and historical presentism And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, ‘Who do the crowds say that I am?’ So they answered and said, ‘John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say…

  • Name Day

    Name Day

    “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done,     on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,     as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,     but deliver us from evil. “For if you…

  • Householders

    Householders

    The Mystery of being in the world “A householder is one who practices his or her religion, not apart like a monk in a cloister, but in the real world. Raising a family. Practicing a profession. Engaged actively in community” (Pressfield, The Artist’s Journey 173) “‘For this cause a man will leave his father and…