Numerous places in the New Testament speak of the Lord Jesus shedding His blood for the forgiveness of sins ( Read more... )

  I know you've heard this term used before. Its usually used by people that are sick of the "Holier than thou" Christians that, to your face are all "you should come to church" or "I'm praying for you", but when your back is turned, they're stabbing it or talking smack about you. Its what gives Christians a bad name. Leaves a bad taste in peoples ( Read more... )

Don't say, "He hurt me, so I will do the same to him. I will punish him for the things he did to me." Proverbs 24:26-29 (ERV ( Read more... )

Hi, all. I have a serious problem, and I was hoping I could get some advice ( Read more... )

One of the things I love about acting is that the quest to enter deeply into the psyche and mind of a given character ultimately becomes a journey into the depths of myself. I have to identify something within myself to which I can relate and use to make this character truly my own. In my preparations for my role of Matt Poncelet in Dead Man ( Read more... )

This is going to be a difficult post to make, because as personal as I've gotten in many posts, this will be the most personal of them all. It's mostly in response to the recent post on homosexuality, which for whatever reason seems to bring out the worst in us. We are a gay-obsessed society, and the truth is that isn't just limited to Christians ( Read more... )

Sorry for the flurry of post activity from me today, but I was doing my spiritual reading tonight, and I was reading one of St. Augustine's sermons, Sermon 114 (which can be found in this collection, edited by my own theology professor, Fr. Daniel Doyle, OSA). Anyway, this specific sermon is about the Christian duty to forgive. I know in the past ( Read more... )

Suppose for a moment a family member of yours would be murdered ( Read more... )

In six days, the Orthodox Church will observe the Sunday of Forgiveness, which is the eve of Lent. At Vespers on Sunday evening, everyone present will ask forgiveness of everyone else present ( Read more... )

Today's readings are from Dan 9:4b-10, Ps 78:8-9,11,13, Luke 6:36-38One of the important things to remember about the Psalms is that they are God's way of teaching us how to pray. The Psalms are how God wants us to worship Him, wants us to pray to Him. And so when we read the Psalm for today, we see that it is God Who wants us to as for ( Read more... )