Seventh story
Tourist: My dear friend, the professor, and I could not resist the desire to start our journey and pay you a short visit before that to bid you farewell and ask […]
5:7- Mistakes during “prayer” and confronting them
-You are asking too much. A person cannot become a scholar of “prayer” unless he personally strives and begins this mental work
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Chapter Nineteen - Repentance in our lives
Baptism introduces man into a spiritual arena, calling him to struggle against the forces of evil that attack him from without through his senses that generate passions. He must therefore cast aside everything that distances him from the love of God, and everything that leads him to selfish manifestations that distort the love of God and his brothers, in order to remain victorious in his battle against passions and selfish tendencies.
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02- 1 Corinthians 4:9-16 - Imitating the Apostles and adhering to the gospel
Text: 9 For I perceive that God has brought us apostles out last, as though we were condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
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How to save the soul
What do you say to the person who asks: “How can I save myself?” Thus: Repent, and be strengthened by the power of grace in the divine mysteries, walk in
About the sacrament of repentance
” التوبة الحقيقيّة تجلب التّقديس “ Å التّوبة الحقيقيّة تجلب التّقديس لا شيءَ أعظمُ سموّاً ممّا يسمّى “التّوبة والإعتراف”. هذا
The spiritual father of Saints John the Ladder and Simon the New Theologian
Saint Theodore of Studite (826-759) asks, “Can we long for more than a real father, a father in God?” This is a personal relationship
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Spirituality of the Orthodox Church
The East is famous for its spirituality and the West for its rationalism, and we know that man combines the body, mind, and spirit in his being. In our next conversation, no
Forgiveness of sins
If we return to the Holy Bible, we see that the believer’s confession of his sins took place in front of all the people. And the tax collector repented of his sins
Jehovah's Witnesses in Biblical Court
Introduction: It is a terrible distortion that we adopt in our discussions with Jehovah’s Witnesses the method of confronting one verse with another verse, as if the book was divided into two parts.
How do we call the priest our Father when the Bible says: “Call no one to have a father on earth...” (Matthew 23:9)?
Many Protestant commentators say that Christ forbade calling anyone on earth father, so they chose other titles such as: “Respected,”