Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
Transcriptions of FtFtL podcasts on Ancient Faith Radio
St Theophan the Recluse said that, “Most people are like a shaving of wood which is curled round its central emptiness.”
Much of my life — and I assume, much of life for many of us — is directed at trying to fill that emptiness. The question to ask of ourselves, of course, is How? How do we do it? We all have instinctive, unconscious ways of doing it, ways that we have been practising… [ read more ]
Why freedom is essential to repentance.
Jesus said “Everyone who practices sin is the slave of sin!” (Jn 8:34). This is true of all sin. We have seen in our extended discussion of pornography and addiction how easy it is to become a slave of sexual sin, and specifically how that slavery eats away at our freedom, and at the same time increasingly degrades and destroys the likeness of God in us — though the… [ read more ]
How talking about anything — including violence and sexuality — can lead to consequences in others’ lives, intentionally and unintentionally.
When I was a young student, some Evangelical friends took me to a talk by a well-known Evangelical speaker. The subject was the Resurrection. It was an interesting talk, and I found his presentation convincing in terms of the reality of the Resurrection as it is described in the gospels. However, the question that I… [ read more ]
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