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"Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar...(Joel 2:17a)." I must admit that I would much prefer reading what someone else has to say about this particular time in history as opposed to writing about it myself. Yet I am compelled to write, due in part to my fr... Read More

Yes it is intolerant. In fact, it is very intolerant to say that Jesus is the way the truth and the life and that no one can get to God except through Him as Jesus Himself said in John 14:6. It is also intolerant to state that there is no other name under heaven other than Jesus by which a person ca... Read More

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. — Ye are the salt of the earth, ... the light of ... Read More

Where is the way that light dwelleth? God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we ha... Read More

As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Ye know how we exhorted ... and charged every one of you, that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. — Ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness ... Read More

They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. — In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separ... Read More

Adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. — Abstain from all appearance of evil. — If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a bu... Read More

Perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. — Teaching us that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts, we should ... Read More

Ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son. He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. — Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called t... Read More

St Theodoros the Great Ascetic (? 9"' century) (J'olume 2, pp. 13-47) Introductory Note The two works that follow, A Century of Spiritual Texts and Theoretikon,^ are ascribed in the Greek Philokalia to St Theodoros the Great Ascetic, a monk of the monastery of St Sabas near Jerusalem, who subsequent... Read More