The Simple Path to God

Father Spyridon exhorts us to remember that our lives are ordered by God, and that worry stems from a refusal to recognize His providence.

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.

Father Spyridon highlights why, even as we celebrate the Feast of Feasts, we must be on our guard against demonic deception.

Saint John Climacus sets before us the rungs that we must climb to God's Love.

Christians must recognize the true nature of the philospohy of evolution in order to reject it.

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.

The Triumph of Orthodoxy is the preservation of the narrow way.

We must recognise where we are in the timeline of God's plan.

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.

The demons work to turn our virtues into condemnation.

Christians must ask themselves how brightly they burn with love for God.

Christians face the difficult tension between our calling to establish peace while living in a fallen world.

Our preferences must not be the foundation of our judgment and understanding.

God has revealed much about the journey of the soul after physical death. To avoid deception we must not remain ignorant.

Christians must live in constant readiness for spiritual attack.

The Church Fathers warn us of the self-deception that can separate us from God's grace.

The Church Fathers teach us how to conduct the spiritual warfare.

Let us grasp the present moment to make ourselves ready for Christ's return.

The sign of the cross is one of the three things the demons fear most.

The parables of warning to the Jews now apply to Christians.

Despair and spiritual over-confidence are opposing errors.

Christians must repent of faithlessness in order to resist what is to come.

Let us understand the difference between worldly and spiritual silence.

Short Bible study exploring the significance of St Peter walking on the water with Jesus

As so many people feel disconnected with their lives, the path to healing will incur the world's rejection.

Spiritual darkness yields evil fruit.

Christ's authority to forgive challenges worldly thinking.

Who is Israel?

The world is full of lifeless voices which we must learn to identify and resist.

We translate the "holy" from the Greek "agios", meaning not of this world. Jesus teaches exactly what becoming unworldly entails.

Satan's attack on man is ancient and persists today.

The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost enables us to enter the Kingdom of God.

Jesus calls us to drink that we may never thirst again, and so free the soul from the shackles of the world.

There is a true horror within us that takes great courage to face.

Many people express difficulty praying. Often it is a a matter of the prayer not being meaningful.

The parable of the Sower teaches us who may be saved or lost.

Let us understand the kind of faith that leads to miracles.

Christ's call to self-denial is a call to crucifixion.

Christians cannot compromise in order to conform to the world.

The voice of God is not silent, the same God Who spoke to the prophets and apostles speaks to us today.

When we be begin to recognise the true depth of our sin, we must resist despair and hear Christ's promise in the parable of The Prodigal Son.

As we approach Lent, God calls us to reflect on The Final Judgement.

Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’

The Lord seizes the mightiest of the Devil's vessels, and destroys his cities - St. Theophylact of Ohrid.

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tested him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up immediately out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and remain there until I bring you word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be healed, and she will live.”

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’