Join me Sunday night at 8 PM Eastern/ 7 PM Central for Faith Encouraged LIVE. My special guests will be Fr. James Kordaris, director of the Stewardship, Outreach, and Evangelism department of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and Thomaida Hudanish, assistant director of the Outreach office of the Metropolis of...
It's hard to admit, but there are times when I really struggle with laziness. I know, I know, how can I say that with all that's going on in the ministry. But laziness isn't merely inactivity. It can also be the wrong allocation of strengths and gifts that waste...
It's amazing how quick folks get upset if they feel like they are being bossed around. I had a couple come to see me once about how to raise their child and they informed me they had decided to not say anything about God to the child so that...
Let's see; thinking of things that go great together - ham and eggs, peanut butter and jelly, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Tom and Jerry, a crisps, cool morning and a warm cup of coffee, bacon and, well more bacon! OK, so that's a bit silly, but there are some...
I've always struggled with my weight! It's been a struggle since I was a kid, and I specifically remember when it started: It all began when I had my tonsils removed! You see, I was a skinny kid because I was always getting an infection and the doctors advised...
Friedrich Nietzsche declared "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." And Fr. Seraphim Rose responds: “Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling...
Isaac Newton once said "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." How I resonate with that. Simplicity is the enemy of confusion and chaos. I'll never forget the story of a Third world visitor to the US being overwhelmed...
It's one of (if not the) fastest growing forms of Christianity in the world, and it's the movement I came from when I converted to Orthodoxy so many years ago. I'm talking about the Pentecostal movement. And one of the most distinctive aspects of Pentecostalism is something called "speaking...
"Oh, come on. You know good and well I didn't mean that the way you are taking it!" Frankly, I couldn't get over that this person so misunderstood me. It almost felt like it was on purpose to discredit what I was saying. After a few deep breaths, and...
Why do people stop practicing the faith? Why are we seeing so many young people abandon the faith of their youth? Countless studies have been done trying to answer this question. Every time I travel to speak around the country in parishes big and small, I get asked this...
