Do you ever get excited about accomplishing your goals and then boast about it? Do you ever pride yourself on earning your right to be close with God through prayer, believing the right thing, or just being a good person?
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Being Ashamed Before God
The Triumph of Orthodoxy: Squashed?
In one month’s time, we’ll celebrate the “Sunday of Orthodoxy.” Triumphantly we’ll read the Synodikon that proclaims the Orthodox Christian faith to be the faith of the Apostles, the faith of the Fathers, in short, “…the faith on which the
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What sort of Christian is preferred? One of quantity or one of quality?
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One question I get often is: How do Orthodox Christians start Lent? Do they have an Ash Wednesday like Catholics and Protestants? The answer is: nope, no Ash Wednesday. Instead, we follow an ancient Eastern practice that guides us into
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