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A Life of Responding to God

Communion with God is the very heartbeat of our creation and, thus, is the very core of our salvation.  In this communion, God faithfully and lovingly reveals Himself and His ways to us.  Mankind responds to what has been shared.  In this series, Fr. James uses the writings of Fr. Zacharias, a monastic at St. John the Baptist Monastery in the United Kingdom, to help us delve more deeply into how our hearts may be opened to this precious communion and how our lives may most appropriately respond to the God Who has shared Himself with us.

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Giving Answers to Our Faith

Orthodox Christians are asked many questions by those outside of the Orthodox Faith.  It is important for us to be able to know how to answers grounded in truth and humility to the questions they ask us.  This series has two purposes.  One is to equip the faithful in the Orthodox Church to be able to express truth in answering these questions.  But this series also is designed to help us take on the mind of Christ regarding our Faith so that we grow deeper with the most clear sight of our Lord and all that He has given us to encounter Him for our salvation.

From the Harrowing of Hades to the Ascension

In this series, we will look at Christ's ministry from the moment He gave up His spirit and descended into Hades to His glorious Ascension.  We will begin with and in-depth look at His profound work of salvation known as the "Harrowing of Hades" and then make our way through Christ's post-Resurrection ministry.  We will find along the way that what Christ accomplished in Hades, He continues to do in and for each and every beloved soul He has brought into Himself.

The Undoing of the Deceiver in Our Lives

St. Paul has described Christian discipleship as being akin to the rigors of military life, athletic discipline, and compulsory servanthood. He has also made it clear to us that our contention in the Christian life, that for which we prepare and train ourselves, is against what the Church calls  “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” According to Tradition, the real contention is against the temptations of the devil, who uses the world and the flesh to bait us to abandon our Christian discipleship.

An aspect of our “training” in the Christian life is discerning the devil’s machinations and learning how to respond to them. The Roman Catholic theologian and professor, Peter Kreeft, has written an excellent book, The Snakebite Letters, as a means to reveal how the devil conspires to tempt us, how we are apt to succumb to such temptations, and, by implication, how we should respond.

Using The Snakebite Letters as a sort of guide through these muddy waters of the spiritual life, we will look at what Kreeft (and the demonic) describes as the peculiar temptations of American Christians, how the devil tempts Christians in general, and what we are to do about it.

Why Satan Wants to Keep Us from the Sacrament of Confession