Though the way may seem unending, the Lord grants the grace to endure. Trust that each moment of steadfast faith is blessed from above and brings you nearer the goal.
“My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
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Growth is forged not in a comfortable lifestyle, but in the crucible of trials—stand fast today in quiet confidence. Each challenge faced is a step deeper into endurance, each moment of faith edging you nearer to the promise kept.
“My power is made perfect in infirmity.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
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Do not measure your worth by the ease of the path, but by the faith with which you climb. The ascent may be steep, but every upward step is seen and sustained by God.
“The Lord is faithful, who will strengthen you and keep you from evil.” (2 Thessalonians 3:3)
“Whoever has not experienced temptation cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Without temptations no-one can be saved.” (St. Isaac the Syrian)
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The Eastern Orthodox Church is not a denomination, a sect, a branch, or a reimagining of early Christianity. She is the original Church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20). She is not a renovation, nor a restoration, for she has never collapsed. She is not a movement toward some ideal Church; she is the Church.
From Pentecost until the present hour, the Orthodox Church has preserved without alteration the fullness of the Apostolic Faith. She has neither added to the deposit once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3), nor subtracted from it. Her councils are ecumenical, her doctrine is patristic, her worship is the unbroken continuation of the heavenly Liturgy. Her bishops stand in direct, physical, and spiritual succession from the Holy Apostles, and her sacraments are grace-filled mysteries, not symbolic gestures or human inventions.
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Though the trials you face may feel overwhelming, they are but passing storms—not permanent walls. Steadfast in faith, walk forward assured that the calm and reward prepared for you will arrive.
“My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity.” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
“Take courage … The storms will pass, and calm will return. God’s providence watches over us, and He never allows us to suffer more than we can bear … Our trials here are temporary; the reward is eternal.” (St. John Chrysostom)
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The earthly ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ is radiant with compassion, a divine quality inseparable from His very Person, for He is Love Incarnate. This compassion is an eternal aspect of the uncreated energies of God, made manifest in the Theanthropos—God-Man—Jesus Christ. In the Gospels, our Lord is often described as being “moved with compassion”, a word which conveys a visceral stirring of divine love in response to human suffering. “And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd” (Matthew 9:36). This compassion is kenotic—self-emptying—and seeks not personal admiration but communion. Every healing, exorcism, and every act of mercy in the Gospels is a theophany, a revealing of the living God, as the One who stoops down to lift up the fallen.
Christ’s compassion is not limited to physical affliction, though it does not ignore the body, for the body itself is sacred and destined for resurrection. In Orthodox anthropology, the human being is a psychosomatic unity—soul and body are not at odds but interwoven, both created by God and both redeemed by Christ. Thus, when He healed the blind, cleansed the lepers, and restored the paralytic, He was not addressing superficial ailments, but revealing the holistic nature of salvation. However, His mercy reaches deeper still, to the noetic heart of man—the innermost chamber of the soul where true communion with God is either sustained or broken. It is here that the deepest wounds fester, wounds invisible to the world yet more damaging than any bodily infirmity—pride, envy, despair, hardness of heart, and separation from the Source of life.
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The heretical doctrine of “once saved, always saved”, also known as the perseverance of the saints or eternal security, is a novel invention born from theological ignorance and wilful misreading of the Holy Scriptures. It is a dogma foreign to the mind of the early Church, repugnant to the witness of the Saints, and dangerous to the souls of those who embrace it. This idea, largely promoted within certain Calvinist and Evangelical Protestant circles, suggests that once a person has been “saved” or justified before God, they can never forfeit that salvation—regardless of future sins, apostasies, or abandonment of the faith. Such a notion is not only unbiblical; it is spiritually lethal. Certain sects have their own variations and spin on this teaching—some worse than others.
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The Cross is not enforced with a sword, and the Kingdom of God is not advanced by law, but by grace.
An Eastern Orthodox Witness to the Atrocities of Luther and Calvin, the Absurdity of Vicarious Apology, and the Idolatry of Men
From the vantage point of the Orthodox Church—the Body of Christ unbroken since Pentecost—the Protestant Reformation certainly does not stand as a renewal of the Gospel, but as a violent rupture from the life-giving Tradition of the Apostles. The schism that began in 1517 with Martin Luther did not liberate the Church; it fragmented her further. It did not restore Christian unity; it fostered theological chaos and licentious individualism. The Orthodox Church, as the keeper of Holy Tradition, observes with grief the moral incoherence and spiritual pride that have often accompanied the cult-like veneration of Protestantism’s founding figures – Martin Luther and John Calvin.
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You are not defeated by falling—you are only defeated by refusing to rise. Let today be your answer to despair. Get up, and walk on.
“The just man shall fall seven times, and shall rise again.” (Proverbs 24:16)
“If you fall, rise up. If you fall again, rise up again. Only do not abandon your Physician, lest you be condemned … Wait on Him, and He will be merciful, either reforming you, or sending you trials.” (St. Peter of Damascus)
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In the unfolding drama of Christian history, few ironies are as striking, and as spiritually tragic, as the Protestant invention of sola scriptura—the doctrine that the Bible alone is the supreme authority in matters of faith—while simultaneously rejecting the very Church through whom the Scriptures were received, preserved, canonised, and interpreted for centuries. Indeed, among many Protestants, especially within Evangelical and “non-denominational” circles, there exists a deep-seated ignorance, whether innocent or wilful, regarding the actual origin of the Holy Scriptures and the ecclesial context in which they were discerned and safeguarded.
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