God's Love
“In shame, the only thing we accept is our failure and the idea that we deserve perpetual punishment….The shame we are speaking of is a...
Logic
“We often attempt to manage God, defining Him by our own logic, creating Him to suit ourselves. In response to such attempts, God...
Goals (of the Life in Christ)
“…the goal of the Christian life is the acquisition of love for God and others. The Lord Himself speaks of only two commandments, upon...
Life (Worthy Life)
“A story is told of the final temptation of Christ. Satan had been trying to tempt Jesus to sin, to compromise, to abandon His divine...
Rest/Renewal/Restoration
“What is spiritual renewal? It is when you are no longer weighed down by the burden of past traumas and mistakes, your present is filled...
Cross
“To be made in the image of God is a sign of highest dignity; so high, in fact, that outside of Christ no human being can even be said to...
Blood of Christ
“… it also deserves to be pointed out that the first words of Jesus to have been written down anywhere (as far as we know) were not the...
Weakness
“The second active character in this event [Matthew 26:6-16] is the sinful woman, whom the Church’s tradition and hymns tell us had...
Holiness
“One of the most encouraging lines of the Divine Liturgy comes shortly before Holy Communion, when the priest says “The Holy Gifts for...
Awareness
“There is an experience of shame that surrounds the self (everybody’s self) that is simply unavoidable. Shame is associated with the...