The Bible teaches a kind of package plan: You have God, truth, life and glory, or you have demons, darkness, death, satan, sin, corruption, ugliness and rot. This is the basic reality, and there is no middle path.
Fr. Thomas Hopko, spoken in Brisbane, Australia, October 1999
Fr. Stephen is a priest of the Orthodox Church in America, Pastor Emeritus of St. Anne Orthodox Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He is also author of Everywhere Present and the Glory to God podcast series.
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Deuteronomy 30:19
It’s like a (very) concise version of the Didaché 🙂
Is there a podcast some place where we can listen to this lecture?
davidperi,
Not a podcast – but a text. I’ve placed the link in the post (which I should have done when I posted it). The link is:
OCN has a series Fr Thomas Hopko gave which seems very similar.
Starting (go to the last page and then the second to last page):
http://www.myocn.net/index.php/Special-Moments-in-Orthodoxy/
The Death of Jesus & Our Death in Him
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