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Askesis is defined as the practice of self-discipline, usually for spiritual or religious reasons. In Greek it just means self-discipline. So what does it have to do with our everyday life? St Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 9:26-27 that he hardens his body bringing it under control. As we find where askesis fits into […]

I was removing an old fence from around our home, when my youngest son asked if it was hard work. I told him it is always easier to tear down than to build up. The same is true with people. It is very easy to tear someone down because we don’t agree with him or […]

Welcome Back! It’s been a couple of weeks, but I wanted to do this podcast when the rewrite of the Didache in Modern English hits Amazon, which it has. So, if you don’t know what the Didache is or you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a little recap.   So what is the Didache?  The […]

This is the first chapter of the newly edited Didache in Modern English. You can pick up the book on Kindle and paperback from Amazon. (If Amazon has released the paperback when this goes live.) The Two Ways There are two ways you can live your life.  One of life and the other of death […]

I guess growing up in Central Arkansas and being surrounded by wheat and rice fields as a child; I am still attuned to the agrarian side of the gospel teachings. When Jesus talks about the sowing, the tending and the harvesting I understand that. In 1st Corinthians 3, Paul talks about how one person plants […]

Welcome back! This episode is a little different because I am sharing a little of my faith journey and tie it in with the story of St Moses the Black, whose name I took when I was Chrismated into the Orthodox church. I first shared this at St John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church in […]

God’s will doesn’t fit with our “Name it and claim it” society. Many people are of the mindset that an abundance mentality will give them anything from a great parking spot to a Lamborghini. I know, because I tried it from about 2012 until 2016 and what happened was I dug a big hole that […]

Welcome back, this week we’re going to look at one of the misunderstood miracles that Jesus performed and how the early church fathers saw this miracle, and what we can learn from it.  I originally talked about the miracle of the fig tree in April of 2019 at St John the Divine Greek Orthodox Church […]

Welcome back! This week we’re going to talk about letting God use us to make disciples. This episode was actually going to be a stand-alone episode on discipling others, but I realized that part of being a disciple, which is what the last two episodes were about, is letting God use us to make disciples. […]

Welcome back! Last week we talked about being a disciple and I tried to make the case for being a disciple. I went through some of the things the bible tells us it takes to be a disciple like time, commitment, and self-denial. We talked about it being hard and not being something every Christian […]