GOD-GIVEN SEXUALITY
“Flee fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. Or do you not...
SPIRITUAL FAMINE
“…But when (the prodigal son) had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and...
ECCLESIAL CONSUMERISM
“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not...
RE-GENERATIVE DARKNESS
“Now it was about the sixth hour (noon), and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour (ca. three o’clock PM). Then the...
LOVE OF POWER
“Again, the devil (ὁ διάβολος) took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he...
IDLENESS & DESPONDENCY
“O Lord and Master of my life, a spirit of idleness, despondency, love of power, and idle talking give me not.” (Lenten Prayer of St....
LETTING IN THE NEW
“He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. They were watching him to see if he would heal him on...
BUILDING ON ROCK
“I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug...
THE DOORS OF REPENTANCE
“Open to me the doors of repentance, O Giver of Life…” (Lenten Prayer, sung at Byzantine Sunday matins) “Repentance” (i.e. “metanoia,” a...
ARROGANCE BLINDS MINISTRY
“He also told them a parable: ‘Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher,...
