Today, the bonded leather editon of the Orthodox Study Bible came. At first glance, I’m fairly pleased with it. I’ve a couple of quibbles (stemming from my Protestant upbringing): no center column reference and margins too small for penciled notations. I would also add that the “You” instead of “Thou” when addressed to God just [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Initial Superficial Impression of the Orthodox Study Bible
Posted in Scripture on Friday, 29 February 2008 | 7 Comments »
Fear and Assurance
Posted in Prayer on Friday, 22 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. . . . And without faith [...]
Faith and Providence
Posted in Prayer, Saints and Martyrs, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Thursday, 21 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the distinctions between those the Church recognizes for their holy life (which recognition is manifested in canonization as Saint So-and-so) and those of us who struggle in the life of faith now is that the Saints exercised an expectant faith which sought for and often saw the workings of God in their daily [...]
Prayer and Flesh
Posted in Prayer on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
As near as I can tell, and if I read the Fathers rightly, the requisites for prayer are humility and trust. If pride, arrogance, self-vaunting, or manipulation enter into prayer, then our prayers are empty, though God may still condescend, loving Father as he is, to respond to the better of our prayers, even when [...]
As Long as I Have Legs, I Will Run with the Squirrels
Posted in Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m Livin’ a Dream
Posted in Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 | 4 Comments »
Struggling in Prayer
Posted in Prayer on Monday, 18 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
God visits each of us in unique ways, and in his mercy, God gave me some timely and wonderful gifts yesterday, including the following verses: Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he [...]
Prayer and Confidence
Posted in Prayer on Sunday, 17 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those souls given to a belief in God and to the practice of praying to him, a difficult struggle inevitably undergone is that between faith and doubt. Even events that could be labeled unmistakably miraculous are subject to reinterpretation, and more so those events that on the surface seem to be answers to prayer [...]
Petitionary Prayer, Faith, Providence and Mystery
Posted in Prayer on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
When it comes to prayer, the faithful man or woman of God is confronted by a host of seeming contradictions. On the one hand, God respects human free will so much that he will allow a man or woman to freely reject him forever. And yet, so much of the way God provides for his [...]
Kansas Rain
Posted in Kansas on Monday, 11 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The darkening Kansas skies of spring are not always a welcome sight, for they can bring chaos and destruction in the blink of an eye. But when the grey clouds begin to gather, and the dusty wet smell fills the nostrils, a man can welcome the coming rain. The drama of a Kansas thunderstorm, with [...]
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