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Praise You in This Storm

Posted in Prayer on Thursday, 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Conquering Your Own Personal El Guapo

Posted in Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off on Thursday, 31 July 2008 | 3 Comments »

Words of wisdom:
Lucky Day: In a way, each of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as [...]

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On God’s Providence

Posted in Church Fathers, Prayer on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 | 1 Comment »

Question. My thought suggests to me that my material resources are tight and that i cannot feed myself or my household, and this causes me sorrow. What does this mean?
Response by Abba John
This sorrow is human; if we had hope in God, He would provide for us as he wants. “Therefore, cast your concern upon [...]

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Facing the Giants

Posted in Movies and Pop Culture on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 | 1 Comment »

I recently watched the film Facing the Giants, that little underdog of a movie put out by Sherwood Baptist Church down in Albany, Georgia. For a 100G outlay it made 10 mil. It’s got all the pluses and minuses of such films, but I enjoyed it. I will always love that straightforward, [...]

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On Thanksgiving

Posted in Church Fathers, Prayer on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Labor to acquire thanksgiving toward God for everything, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and then you will find peace.
–Answer 348 in Guidance Twoard Spiritual Life 2e, tr. by Father Seraphim Rose (St Herman of Alaska Brotherhood 2002)

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On Ataraxia

Posted in Prayer on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There were two brothers who shared a cell and their humility and patience was praised by many of the fathers. A certain holy man, hearing of this, wanted to test them and see if they possessed true and perfect humility. So he came to visit them. They received him with joy, and all together they [...]

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Dr David Bradshaw’s Home Page

Posted in Church Fathers, Classics, Ecclesiology, Orthodox Links, Orthodoxy, Patristics Sources, Philosophy, Prayer, Scriptures and Patristics, Theology, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Tuesday, 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Please visit Dr. David Bradshaw’s homepage which contain some extremely intelligent and useful essays (particular a couple of papers on the term energeia, or, in English, “energies”).
You will not be disappointed.

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Ostrov Again

Posted in Jesus Prayer, Orthodoxy, Prayer on Monday, 28 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Been doing some watching of Ostrov again. I got the Film Movement copy from Netflix which has much better English subtitles. I did some more ‘net searching and found this interesting tidbit at Ostrov (film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Pyotr Mamonov, who plays the lead character, formerly one of the few rock musicians [...]

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Dealing with Silence

Posted in Prayer on Sunday, 27 July 2008 | 2 Comments »

First Pithless Thoughts and then through PT, Veni Vidi Credidi, I was reminded of a reality with which I am dealing more of recent days: silence.
I’m not one who has much difficulty in the way of physical silence. I don’t keep a TV running–”just for noise”–except when I’m watching it. Now, I might [...]

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Inescapable Intuitions About God, Sin and Forgiveness

Posted in Theology on Sunday, 27 July 2008 | 2 Comments »

An interesting clip from the show ER. The scene is built on the extreme liberalism of the chaplain and the hard-wired intuitions we have regarding God, our sins and our need for forgiveness. The Niebuhrian (H. Richard not Reinhold) formula for the liberal version of Christ (a God without wrath brought men without [...]

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