THE KING COMES TO RULE AND REIGN OVER OUR HEARTS “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.” (Zech 9:9) This is how the Lord invites [...]
December 8 Lesson: Forming Christian Culture - Culture and the fullness of the Trinity Part 5: Receiving or Rejecting the Holy Spirit “And anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but to him who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven. Now when they bring [...]
JESUS HEALING THE GERESENE DEMONIAC By His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon Of Antinoes As our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ visited the villages of Judaea, he met a man from the village of Gergeseen. Now, this particularly man few years ago became possessed by many demons, who made him suffer in many ways. The possessed man [...]
In orthodox (and needless to say, Orthodox) Christianity, Christ comes not simply to save something called the "soul," but that rather much more mysterious reality called the person. We need to step back for a moment and reflect on our experience, personal and shared, to see why it is that we are right in saying [...]
