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We have daily readings from the Epistles and the Gospels, is there a list of Orthodox or 'approved' daily readings for the Old Testament? We have OT readings at ...
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I attend a non-denominational church that considers itself “Bible believing.” Recently, I was told that Orthodox Christianity places little emphasis…

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When I first began to investigate Orthodoxy, my main stumbling block to conversion was prayer to Mary and the saints. My Protestant formation had trained me (well, brainwashed me actually, for it was long on insistence and short on argument) that it was WRONG to pray to Mary and the saints. Doing so constituted Idolatry (with a capital “I”), which got God very upset. And by the way, the prohibition applied to prayer to angels as well. I remember this last insistence striking me as a bit odd. My guardian angel was, I was taught, right there next to me, so why couldn’t I ask him to pray for me? He obviously could hear me, so what was the problem? I got around the prohibition one night when I was alone and frightened and wanted my guardian angel to pray for me by praying to God and asking Him to tell my angel to pray for me. Even then it seemed to me a very round about way of doing things. When I seriously began to investigate the legitimacy of prayer to Mary and the saints, I naturally spoke to both my Protestant and Orthodox friends about it. Was it okay, I inquired, to ask Mary and the saints to pray for me? “Obviously it is not okay. What’s wrong with you?”, answered my…

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Tending The Garden of The Heart-How to apply The Holy Tradition To Your Life The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treas…

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Hebrews 6:4-6, warns against falling away from the faith and those who do, cannot not be brought back to repentance because they are “crucifying the…

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Like many Orthodox clergy, I have lost track of the number of times my Protestant brethren have objected to the priestly title (in my case, “Father Lawrence”), citing the Bible which commands that they “call no man ‘Father’”. They are, of course, thinking of our Lord’s words in Matthew 23:9. If I am feeling puckish and mischievous, I sometimes respond with a simple denial, insisting, “No, the Bible doesn’t say that” just to wind them up and make the final riposte more satisfying. It is not particularly sanctified, but it is fun. Admittedly the Good News Bible renders the verse “you must not call anyone here on earth ‘Father’”, as does The Living Bible and the New International Version. More accurate versions such as the King James, the RSV, and the New American Standard do not render it this way, since the Greek reads, πατέρα μὴ καλέσητε ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς/ patera me kalesete umon epi tes ges. Note the boldface ὑμῶν, so that the verse is rendered more accurately as “call no man your father on the earth” (thus e.g. King James). What is the difference between “call no man ‘father’” and “call no man your…

Mar 23, 2020 · A dear friend of mine suggested that I might be interested in the Biblical exegesis of Mike Heiser (of whom I had never heard), so I looked ...
A dear friend of mine suggested that I might be interested in the Biblical exegesis of Mike Heiser (of whom I had never heard), so I looked up some of his works available on Amazon. Amazon allows one to peruse the initial chapters of the books they offer for sale, so I was able to look at the first chapters of Heiser’s The Unseen Realm. There I learned that “a watershed moment” in his life came when a friend challenged him to read Psalm 82. He did and it sent his mind “reeling”, with the eventual result that he wrote The Unseen Realm as part of his entirely new understanding of the over-arching Scriptural narrative. This naturally sent me back to read Psalm 82 for myself to see what all the fuss was about. It was, naturally, a wonderful psalm, and is chanted in our Holy Saturday Liturgy. But I had no watershed moment as did Mr. Heiser. I suppose my mind does not reel all that easily. The psalm does, admittedly, provoke some mild exegetical controversy. For those unfamiliar with it, the psalm reads as follows. God [Hebrew Elohim] takes His stand in the assembly of God [Hebrew El]; He judges in the midst of the gods [Hebrew elohim]: “How long will you judge unjustly and show…

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