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2025-07-20T02:05:04-05:00

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Engaging God’s Boundless Mercy

Last updated on: July 20, 2025 at 2:05 am By Henry Karlson

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We should never try to impose limits upon God, especially to God’s goodness and love. God is offering mercy and grace to everyone. There is no one who God does not love; there is no one God does not wish to save. There is no one who cannot be saved. This is one of the many reasons why we should not make hasty judgments, especially the kind which suggests someone is unequivocally and necessarily bound for perdition. Just as it... Read more

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2025-07-18T02:07:23-05:00

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Resisting Demons: Accepting Personal Responsibility

Last updated on: July 18, 2025 at 2:07 am By Henry Karlson

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When many Christians talk about demons, it often seems as if they believe demons are all powerful, that when a demon can and sometimes will take absolute control over the lives of those they prey upon. This has often led many Christians to suggest that when someone does evil, if is often not their fault, that a demon made them act as they did. This is a sentiment which the desert fathers and mothers not only rejected, but believed their religious... Read more

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2025-07-16T02:39:51-05:00

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God Gives A Warning As An Invitation To Repent

Last updated on: July 16, 2025 at 2:39 am By Henry Karlson

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God is full of love and mercy. Why, then, do we read about various threats which appear as if they come from God, such as those given to the people of Israel by the prophets, threats which seem to suggest God wants to punish people instead of showing them mercy? How can this be if God a God of love? It is all due to how we understand those threats; instead of seeing them as an indication that God is... Read more

General Christian

2025-07-14T04:58:38-05:00

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Building Up Society: The Christian Duty For Peacemaking

Last updated on: July 14, 2025 at 4:58 am By Henry Karlson

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In a world filled with violence and hate, division and injustices consistently dominate society. The more such hate is solidified, the more humanity ends up fighting against itself, hindering its full potential. What is good and true must be promoted, hatred must be resisted, and injustices must be rectified, if there is to be any future for humanity. While this is not exclusive to Christianity, Christianity certainly finds these concerns to be central to the way Christians are to engage... Read more

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2025-07-13T02:01:57-05:00

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Remembering The Fathers And Mothers Of The Councils

Last updated on: July 13, 2025 at 2:01 am By Henry Karlson

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When we commemorate the first six ecumenical councils, councils which were focused especially on the doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation, we often do so by talking about the “Fathers” of the six ecumenical Councils. This is how the day, as it is celebrated in the Byzantine tradition, is listed on the Byzantine calendar: “Fifth Sunday after Pentecost; Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils.” But we must not forget that along with the fathers, the clergy at the... Read more

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2025-07-10T04:27:36-05:00

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Accepting Change: The Journey Of A Faithful Christian

Last updated on: July 10, 2025 at 4:27 am By Henry Karlson

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I believe that those who take their Christian faith seriously, those who try to live it out, will let their faith change them; they will learn from what Christ teaches, and engage those teachings, trying to become better, wiser persons over time. There are many different way this will happen, depending upon the person, their abilities and interests, and the situations they find themselves living in. Those who have the time, ability, and resources to study and learn Christian doctrine... Read more

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2025-07-09T02:03:10-05:00

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Living Faithfully: Dealing With Suffering And Injustice

Last updated on: July 9, 2025 at 2:03 am By Henry Karlson

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In a way, we can say life is suffering. This is not because life should be so filled with suffering that all we think about when we think about life is such suffering; rather, it is because suffering is all around us, and is something we will experience throughout our lives. Evil, both that which we do, and the evil which others do, creates the conditions for such suffering. “Evil is a world-wide fact; all natural life begins in violence... Read more

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2025-07-07T03:45:39-05:00

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Ignoring The Environment Promotes Monstrous Nihilism

Last updated on: July 7, 2025 at 3:45 am By Henry Karlson

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I have never understood those who object to environmental concerns by suggesting that those who are concerned about protecting the environment, those who want to be good stewards of the world we live in, are engaging some sort of idolatrous worship of the earth and so must be denounced by Christians. It is like claiming those who clean their homes, patch their roof when it gets hail damage, or paint the walls, are worshiping their homes. No one would claim... Read more

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2025-07-06T02:02:27-05:00

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Lessons on Humility From Abba Sisoes

Last updated on: July 6, 2025 at 2:02 am By Henry Karlson

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We are called to pray without ceasing, and in this way, we can and should have God and God’s presence with us in all that we do. If and when we find ourselves able to do this, and to be sure, it is something which most will not likely be able to do outside of the eschaton, we should not become prideful, thinking it makes us better than those who have not. We should be humble, not proud. Our pride... Read more

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2025-07-03T05:08:12-05:00

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Christian Nationalism, A Demonic Imitation Seeking Division

Last updated on: July 3, 2025 at 5:08 am By Henry Karlson

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Sin creates confusion as it corrupts and divides up humanity, seeking to destroy (or deconstructing) it from within. Humanity was meant to act together and work as one interdependent whole, but the embrace of sin has brought about the embrace of the ego over and above humanity, so now humanity has been cut up, as it were, into are many “parts,” parts which fight against each other instead of seeing how everyone is best off if they seek after the... Read more

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