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“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html The Church invites us to the joyful Communion with the words: "approach with the fear of God and by faith," that is, with reverence and faith that the true Body and true Blood of Christ are hidden in the sacred vessel. /// Calling to the chalice of peace, love and salvation, the Church inspires us with the prayer: “I believe, O Lord, and I confess that Thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God”, to confess living faith I n the Son of God, who came into the world to save sinners, to confess that in our eyes the most pure His Body and His most honest Blood; with humility to admit our unworthiness and hope in the mercy of God, to confess that we are approaching not with the hypocrisy of Judas, who was at the Last Supper with the Lord's disciples, but our hearts belonged to His enemies; I kissed my Teacher and Benefactor, but with this sign of peace, friendship and love I betrayed Him to my enemies, and we approach with the sincerity of a repentant robber, so that Communion might serve us not in judgment or condemnation, but in the healing of soul and body, and in eternal life.
The Church invites us to the joyful Communion with the words: "approach with the fear of God and by faith," that is, with reverence and faith that the true Body and true Blood of Christ are hidden in the sacred vessel. /// Calling to the chalice of peace, love and salvation, the Church inspires us with the prayer: "I believe, O Lord, and I confess that Thou art truly the Christ, the Son of the Living God", to confess living faith I n the Son of God, who came into the world to save sinners, to confess that in our eyes the most pure His Body and His most honest Blood; with humility to admit our unworthiness and hope in the mercy of God, to confess that we are approaching not with the hypocrisy of Judas, who was at the Last Supper with the Lord's disciples, but our hearts belonged to His enemies; I kissed my Teacher and Benefactor, but with this sign of peace, friendship and love I betrayed Him to my enemies, and we approach with the sincerity of a repentant robber, so that Communion might serve us not in judgment or condemnation, but in the healing of soul and body, and in eternal life. ///Ap. Paul teaches: glorify God in your bodies and in your souls, even the essence of God (1 Cor. 6:20): and everything, even what you do in word or deed, is all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (Col. 3:17). And so, following the example of the Saints, who witnessed the faith of Christ in their lives, we must sincerely and fearlessly confess it by word and behavior, not being embarrassed by obstacles. Neither fear, nor worldly gains, nor false shame in the face of the spirit of the times and passions can excuse us for deviating from the confession of the truths of faith and salvation. Any deviation from the truth is a sign of either frivolity or weakness or ignorance, offending God and seducing others. /// For our life to be an everlasting confession of the law of God, we need to plant the seed of the Word of God in the depths of our hearts, and not on earth, as the Gospel says, stony or thorny; in our temporary stay to see not the last goal of our being, but preparation for another eternal life: then love for this true life will be reflected in our course of earthly life; finally, remember that a firm confession of faith is a high sign of moral strength and dignity.
A practical, down-to-earth guide on the Rule of St. Benedict and its use in daily life. In the sixth century when the Roman Empire was breaking apart and politics, cultural life and even the Church were in disarray―tumultuous times not unlike our own―Benedict of Nursia designed what he termed “a little rule” that showed his monks the way to peace as they learned to prefer Christ above all things. Jane Tomaine translates St. Benedict’s ancient rule for a modern audience and offers readers a primer on how to use these tools in their own tumultuous lives. Each chapter examines one aspect of the Rule, from ways of praying to ways of being in relationships and community, and offers tools for reflection, prayer, journaling, and action. This updated edition includes historical background to the Rule, a new chapter on relationships and community, and a guide for group use. “[A] wonderful book, one of the best introductions we have in print today to the spirit of St. Benedict. It speaks clearly to Episcopalians of our day about the great spiritual treasure of the Benedictine tradition.”―The Rt. Rev. R. William Franklin, Assisting Bishop of Long Island.
By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's plan, What's Best Next gives you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do. There are a lot of myths about productivity--what it means to get things done and how to accomplish work that really matters. In our current era of innovation and information overload, it may feel harder than ever to understand the meaning of work or to have a sense of vocation or calling. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity? Matt Perman has spent his career helping people learn how to do work in a gospel-centered and effective way. What's Best Next explains his approach to unlocking productivity and fulfillment in work by showing how faith relates to work, even in our everyday grind. What's Best Next is packed with biblical and theological insight and practical counsel that you can put into practice today, such as: How to create a mission statement for your life that's actually practicable. How to delegate to people in a way that really empowers them. How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you. How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day. How to have peace of mind without needing to have everything under control. How generosity is actually the key to unlocking productivity. This expanded edition includes: a new chapter on productivity in a fallen world a new appendix on being more productive with work that requires creative thinking. Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done--the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. You can learn how to do work that matters and how to do it well.
Christ commanded the church to make disciples, to produce people who love and obey God, bear fruit, and live with joy. The crisis at the heart of the church is that we often pay lip service to making disciples, but we seldom put much effort behind doing it. For the pastor who is ready to put words into action, The Disciple-Making Pastor offers the inspiration and practical know-how to do so. Bill Hull shows pastors the obstacles they will face, what disciples really look like, the pastor's role in producing them, and the practices that lead to positive change. He also offers a six-step coaching process to help new disciples grow in commitment and obedience and practical ideas to integrate disciple making into the fabric of the church.
An Ordinary Marriage is the story of the Chikhachevs, middling-income gentry landowners in nineteenth-century provincial Russia. In a seemingly strange contradiction, the mother of this family, Natalia, oversaw serf labor and managed finances while the father, Andrei, raised the children, at a time when domestic ideology advocating a woman's place in the home was at its height in European advice manuals. But Andrei Chikhachev defined masculinity as a realm of intellectualism; the father could be in charge of moral education, defined as an intellectual task. Managing estates that often barely yielded a livable income was a practical task and therefore considered less elevated, though still vitally important to the family's interests. Thus estate management was available to gentry women like Natalia Chikhacheva, and the fact that it inevitably expanded their realm of influence and opportunity (within the limits of their estates), and that it increased their centrality to the family's material security relative to their social counterparts to the west, was accidental. An Ordinary Marriage examines the daily activities and ideas of the family based on multiple overlapping diaries and informal correspondence by the husband, wife, and son of the family, as well as the wife's brother. No such cache of intimate Russian family documents has ever previously been studied in such depth. The family's relative obscurity (with no pretensions to fame, wealth, or influence) and the presence of a woman's private documents are especially unusual in any context. The book considers the Chikhachevs' social life, reading habits, attitudes toward illness and death, as well as their marital roles and their reception of major ideas of their time, such as domesticity, Enlightenment, sentimentalism, and Romanticism.
The Orthodox Christian tradition is filled with wisdom and guidance about the biblical path of salvation. Yet this guidance remains largely inaccessible to parents and often disconnected from the parenting challenges we face in our homes. Parenting Toward the Kingdom will help you make the connections between the spiritual life as we understand it in the Orthodox Church and the ongoing challenges of raising children. It takes the best child development research and connects it with the timeless truths of our Christian faith to offer you real strategies for navigating the challenges of daily life.
Was Jesus Christ a fallen human being, like us? Was His human nature corrupt and sinful, inherently and necessarily subject to suffering and death? Did He inherit a fallen humanity? If His humanity was fallen how was He sinless? Did He have human ignorance? In what way was His human will involved in the plan of salvation? What effect did the hypostatic union have on His humanity? In Jesus: Fallen?, Emmanuel Hatzidakis, a Greek Orthodox priest, addresses these and other controversial questions pertaining to the human nature of Christ, which are debated in many Christian denominations, and in his own Church. The theology advanced in the book is the traditional theology of the historic Church. In all the modern confusio of multiple Christs, here we have the perennial image of the incarnate God, the Theanthropos Christ. The book should appeal to every serious Christian and student of theology, history of dogma and Church History who is comfortable neither with liberalism nor fundamentalism, but who is searching for the authentically true teachings of Christianity. Hatzidakis draws richly from the patristic inheritance of East and West in an original, refreshing, and accessible way. He refutes opinions formed by many eminent postlapsarian theologians. This pivotal study is the first to address this topic from an Eastern Orthodox perspective and in this regard it constitutes an important contribution to Christology. A well-researched study it sheds light from an Eastern Orthodox perspective on this intriguing and crucial topic. It maintains that the subject of Christ’s humanity and its understanding is neither a theologoumenon nor an abstract intellectual cogitation, but a matter of profound soteriological and anthropological import.