doyouhaveaminute 2016 10 31+what are you going as tonight
What are you "going as" tonight? I will be going as a Christian, and a sinner, who is trying. It is not a costume. And I will celebrate St. JOHN OF KRONSTADT. 2016-10-31 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ2J6CEddHo
Romans 12:6–14
Matthew 9:1–8
Healing of the Paralytic. After Jesus heals the man, he tells him to rise, take up his bed and go to his house. This command is suggestive of the need for labor after healing, both out of gratitude to God and in order to awaken within ourselves the fullest fruits of the healing. But a deeper meaning can be drawn from the story, which is that God himself makes this labor possible; He inspires it, He enables it, and He makes it possible for us to do things we do not have the strength to do on our own.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUdJcVQ1yU
Reading the Ancient Faith published book about Sasha and the Dragon to my very engaged grandson, Owen/Obo/Boobaloo/the little obowski, for the millionth wonderful time.
Children need to know that monsters can be killed!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhMh741H1X8
Questions and Answers: Partial list: Confession, genealogies, Mary & Joseph, sexuality, marriage, sacraments, prayer.
Q&A after Vespers at the St Nectarios Fellowship, University of Texas at Dallas.
AUDIO: http://www.orthodox.net/catechism/catechism_2023-09-04+q-and-a+genealogies-theotokos-theosis-sexuality-sacraments.mp3
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/3FmBh_Zpdeo
Timestamps:
0:25 – 1:44 Father, would it be acceptable to write my sins on a paper…
1:44 – 5:34 Please explain the genealogies in Matthew and Luke.
5:34 I was taught that Mary and Joseph had regular sexual relations and more children after Jesus was born. When did this view belief come to be? We also give several reasons why this belief is false.
8:45 Tell the story about why James is called the “Brother of the Lord”. We tell the story, and also much about how Joseph became betrothed to Mary.
15:30 – 20:54 Comments about contemporary sexuality as compared to Orthodox Christian sexuality and the institution of marriage.
17:50 – 19:46 Marriage is a battleground. And why same-sex relationships lack a crucial component for personal growth, sacrifice, and humility.
20:58 – 24:58 Why do different Christian groups accept different books in their canon of (OT) scripture?
25:07 – 27:48 Can someone be named a “class” of angels?
27:48 - 31:15 How do the sacraments not end up being considered "works of the law"?
29:16 – 31:15 *Nothing* in the church is legalistic.
31:27 – 39:38 Why do you believe Joseph was 85? And lots of comments about the virtues of Joseph, his doubts when Mary was found to be pregnant, and why he is in the lower corner of the Nativity icon, talking to an old man.
39:38 – 42:19 Theosis?
42:19 – 47:20 What is it about Mary that the Catholics get wrong? A small answer to a big question, which included the Latin doctrine of original sin, the “immaculate conception”, and the Dormition of the Theotokos.
45:20 – 47:20 Concerning Dormition and the Last Judgment
47:43 – 53:24 Is there any significance that Jesus was buried in a tomb, not in the ground? And a discourse on the visits to the tomb on the day of the resurrection.
53:44 – 59:15 If God knows everything, and is for us, why do we need other people to pray for us?
59:17 – 1:03:32 How do I know what my cross is? Is the sin I struggle with the most, or is just the general concept of denying the flesh as a whole?
1:03:34 – 1:05:43 (end) How to distinguish the Holy Spirit’s “ideas” from your own?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FmBh_Zpdeo
After Jesus healed the demoniac boy with merely a word, his disciples were confused, and He explained to them that nothing would be impossible for them, with prayer and fasting. He then immediately told them that He was going to be killed. It is always this way in the Christian life, and perhaps to us it seems even more so in our chaotic times when people are acting more and more insane. With faith, and struggle, nothing is impossible but many times things are very hard.
Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-sun-10_2021+nothing-shall-be-impossible+prayer-and-fasting.mp3
YouTube:https://youtu.be/A2VqKJhGso0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2VqKJhGso0
The Connection between Baptism and the Resurrection. Holy Saturday, 2023
It is appropriate on the Holy Saturday, when we proclaim the resurrection to compare baptism and the resurrection. The readings for the baptism service and this day are basically the same. We compare our baptism to Christ’s baptism and His resurrection.
Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/hw-06_2023+holy-sat+connection-baptism-and-the-resurrection.mp3
Video: https://youtu.be/duK9VQMJ-po
Audio and Video timestamps
0-1:00 The connection between the readings for Holy Saturday a traditional day for baptisms) and the Baptism service,
1:10 – 1:33 Everything we read, and pray, and know MUST be APPLIED to the way we live.
1:38 -2:08 “In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.” (Matthew 28:1) Who was the “other Mary”?
2:25 – 4:58 ‘”And the angel answered and said unto the women...” (Matthew 28:5 ) God answers questions we do not ask, if we are open to the answers.
4:58 the connection between baptism and the resurrection.
6:15 – 11:24 Comparing our baptism to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:3-4,Christ’s death was voluntary, victorious , free, healing, one time. After His resurrection, His body was perfected, and in the light, and wholly with God, and eternal.
10:13 – 11:08 My favorite description of “heaven”, from 1 Thessalonians 4
11:08 – 14:26 “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.” (Romans 6:6-7)
12:23 – 12:57 The resurrection became even more important to me after my son +Daniel died (2017-06-11)
14:26 – 16:14 In our age of everyone making up an identity for themselves, always based on sin, we should IDENTIFY as being free from sin!
15:26 – 16:14 “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:9-11)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duK9VQMJ-po
In telling us what he prays, St. Paul teaches how to pray. What are we praying for when we pray that someone would be "filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding"?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOSzTOjtqlY
Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-sun-01_2023+why-celebrate-all-saints-the-sunday-after-pentecost.mp3
Video: https://youtu.be/SrGYlZUgkQ8
Why the Sunday of All Saints is appropriate for the Sunday after Pentecost, mixing in essential Christology, and the word “synaxis”.
A clip (from 0:28 – 2:11) from the sermon on Pentecost, 2023 (https://youtu.be/F5ueLVemLjY, Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-sun-01_2023+becoming-a-saint.mp3)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrGYlZUgkQ8