Spiritual Articles and Resources

"Who Do You Say that I Am?" The Identity of Jesus in the New Testament

If Jesus were to pose to us His famous question "Who do men say that I am?", He would receive a much more skeptical response than the one given by the first disciples (Matt. 16:13). It has become increasingly predictable over the past few decades that the media industry focuses its pens and cameras on Jesus primarily at Christmas and Easter. <read more>

With Angels and Archangels: Worship in the Book of Revelation

Heaven is understood too often as a faraway place with which Christians have no contact until after death. The Book of Revelation, however, helps us to see that heaven is not an "up there" and purely "future" reality, but an accessible and present reality that we participate in through the Divine Service. <read more>

The Nature and Function of the Church, and the Marks of a Christian Life

The Catholic or General Epistles First Peter belongs to that group of New Testament letters which are known as the Catholic or General Epistles. First Peter itself is written to the strangers scattered abroad through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia (1 Peter 1:1). It is true that these General Epistles have a wider range than the letters of Paul; at the same time, they all have a definite community in mind... <read more>

The Burdens of False Guilt

"I have never smuggled anything in my life," author John Steinbeck said. "Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?" <read more>

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