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The Simple Path to God
by Fr. Spyridon Bailey, and Ancient Faith Ministries
Fr. Spyridon Bailey applies the teaching of the Church Fathers to modern life with reference to the Sunday gospels.
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How Can We Acquire Love For God?
Christ commands us to love God, we must examine how we have responded and learn from those who have acquired love.
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Christians Who Still Believe in Evolution
Christians must confront the incompatibility of the doctrines of their faith with the theory of evolution.
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Seeing Our True Spiritual Condition
God reveals the true condition of our soul through suffering.
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Finding Peace in a World of Stress and Anxiety
The Church Fathers teach us practical ways to find peace.
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Evil Has Revealed Its True Nature
Father Spyridon offers some thoughts on how the reality of evil is revealed through the possessed.
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Godless Fear
Father Spyridon shares a few insights on how to recognize and reject the kind of fear that bears unrighteous fruit.
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What Does God Ask of You?
Father Spyridon reflects on the sacrifices we must all make to live a Christian life.
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Worldly Happiness Is a Deception
In this episode, Fr. Spyridon explains how Orthodox Christians can respond to the constant bombardment of programming designed to convince us that the things of this world can bring lasting happiness.
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How Should Christians View the Body?
Father Spyridon explains how the Ascension of Christ transforms how we must understand our physical reality.
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Get Away from Me, I Never Knew You
Father Spyridon reminds us that even those who believe they worship God may not, in fact, know Him.
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Excessive Worry About the World Is a Spiritual Condition
Father Spyridon exhorts us to remember that our lives are ordered by God, and that worry stems from a refusal to recognize His providence.
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True Christian Asceticism
Every Christian is called to a life of self-denial, but we must understand what this requires of us: a journey of humility and intense spiritual warfare.
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Do Not Presume to Be Saved
Father Spyridon highlights why, even as we celebrate the Feast of Feasts, we must be on our guard against demonic deception.
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Climb the Ladder of Divine Ascent—Even in an Age of Deception
Saint John Climacus sets before us the rungs that we must climb to God's Love.
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The Myth of Evolution
Christians must recognize the true nature of the philospohy of evolution in order to reject it.
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The Jesus Prayer: A Summary of the Gospel and a Tool of Transformation
The Jesus Prayer is a summary of the Gospel and is a tool for transforming our spiritual condition. Many of these ideas are found in the writing of Met. Anthony of Sourozh.
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Orthodoxy: The True Path to Salvation
The Triumph of Orthodoxy is the preservation of the narrow way.
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As in the Days of Noah
We must recognise where we are in the timeline of God's plan.
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Wasting God's Gifts Risks Uniting the Soul to Evil
The parable of the Prodigal Son offers both assurance of God's mercy for those who repent, and a warning to those who squander God's gifts.
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Spiritual Poison
The demons work to turn our virtues into condemnation.
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You—But Not Everyone
Christians must ask themselves how brightly they burn with love for God.
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Should Christians Go to War?
Christians face the difficult tension between our calling to establish peace while living in a fallen world.
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Impulses That Darken The Mind
Our preferences must not be the foundation of our judgment and understanding.
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What Happens After Death?
God has revealed much about the journey of the soul after physical death. To avoid deception we must not remain ignorant.
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Christians Must Be Ready for Battle
Christians must live in constant readiness for spiritual attack.
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Few See the Depth of This Deception Within Themselves
The Church Fathers warn us of the self-deception that can separate us from God's grace.
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We Must Learn Our Enemies Strategies
The Church Fathers teach us how to conduct the spiritual warfare.
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Fantasy Restricts Spiritual Growth
Let us grasp the present moment to make ourselves ready for Christ's return.
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The Cross Burns the Demons
The sign of the cross is one of the three things the demons fear most.
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Christ Died for All—But Few Will Be Saved
The parables of warning to the Jews now apply to Christians.
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Why We Must Resist Despair
Despair and spiritual over-confidence are opposing errors.
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Faithlessness Now and the Mark to Come
Christians must repent of faithlessness in order to resist what is to come.
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Hesychia, Silence, & the Jesus Prayer
Let us understand the difference between worldly and spiritual silence.
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Your Fear is Temporary
Short Bible study exploring the significance of St Peter walking on the water with Jesus
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An Age of Madness
As so many people feel disconnected with their lives, the path to healing will incur the world's rejection.
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Escaping Spiritual Darkness
Spiritual darkness yields evil fruit.
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The True Nature of Forgiveness
Christ's authority to forgive challenges worldly thinking.
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Do Christians Have a Duty to Support Israel?
Who is Israel?
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Reject the Dead Voices of the World
The world is full of lifeless voices which we must learn to identify and resist.
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How Can We Become Holy?
We translate the "holy" from the Greek "agios", meaning not of this world. Jesus teaches exactly what becoming unworldly entails.
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The Lies of Atheism Are Demonic
Satan's attack on man is ancient and persists today.
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The Tongues of Pentecost
The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost enables us to enter the Kingdom of God.
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The Holy Spirit Can Unshackle Your Soul From the World
Jesus calls us to drink that we may never thirst again, and so free the soul from the shackles of the world.
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Christians Who Run From the Cross
There is a true horror within us that takes great courage to face.
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Pray Like the Saints
Many people express difficulty praying. Often it is a a matter of the prayer not being meaningful.
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Christ Revealed Who Will Be Lost
The parable of the Sower teaches us who may be saved or lost.
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A Life of Miracles or Unanswered Prayers?
Let us understand the kind of faith that leads to miracles.
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What Does It Mean to “Deny Yourself”?
Christ's call to self-denial is a call to crucifixion.
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Separate Yourself From a Fallen Culture
Christians cannot compromise in order to conform to the world.
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How Can I Hear God Speak?
The voice of God is not silent, the same God Who spoke to the prophets and apostles speaks to us today.
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Fr. Spyridon Bailey applies the teaching of the Church Fathers to modern life with reference to the Sunday gospels.
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