As you probably know, people in the Deep South are unaccustomed to snow. After we emigrated to the United States, I grew up in the North, so I learned how to drive in snow, dress for snow, make snowmen, wax sled runners, etc. But, I was not aware of just how unaccustomed to snow the […]
Memories and children
All children grow up. But, we who are parents spend so many years raising them that sometimes we forget that there was a time before we had children and that there will be a time after our children are grown. We may be parents until the day we die, but we only raise our children […]
Sorcerers, adulterers, and bad employer
Yesterday we looked at a “devotional” e-mail that was full of bad Scriptural interpretations and junk science, but in the process I quoted from the Book of the Prophet Malachi. However, I did not quote the next verse that followed the verses I quoted earlier. Yesterday I quoted these verses: “I will send my messenger, […]
Refiner’s fire and us
Watch this video to the 2:40 (two minutes forty seconds) mark. You need not watch the rest of it, but you may if you wish. Have you ever received the e-mail below? Malachi 3:3 says: ‘He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.’ This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and […]
A problem as old as Saint Paul and the Corinthians
In 1 Corinthians, Saint Paul has to deal with an out of control church situation, in which almost anything goes, and in which almost any attempt to set limits is seen as limiting freedom from the law. In that epistle, Saint Paul begins to talk about the limits, what must be received, and what must […]
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Acts of kindness
Every so often one reads a story that perfectly exemplifies the care and concern that one should have for their fellow human being. I do not know whether the person in the story is a Christan or not, but he has certainly kept the second part of the royal law, to love your neighbor as […]
Take up your cross and follow me
One of the strongest sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ is, “Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake […]
Obama’s speech on the Tucson murders
Yesterday, President Obama faced the difficult task of trying to speak to a nation that had been battered by the pundits and talking heads since the murders in Tucson. I call them murders because they appear to be premeditated. I do not believe that the accused will be able to use the insanity defense. I […]
Some Orthodox sayings for January 2011
Your enemies have not fallen asleep, and night and day they do not forget to set traps for you. Do not seek after honors, then, so you will not be humiliated to the great joy of your enemies. Seek rather humility. — St. Pachomius the Great (5th C) Do not accept any thoughts of pride suggested […]
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