50 Search Results for Get Out of Hell Free
Let’s Get Out of This Place
... cried Hell. Your Friend stands calling to you: ‘Come out.’ Go, then, and I too shall feel relief. For since I swallowed you, all ... as if when Christ says, “Come forth!” Hell cries, “Get out!” Most of the Orthodox hymns surrounding Christ’s death and ...
Let’s Get Out Of This Place
... cried Hell. Your Friend stands calling to you: ‘Come out.’ Go, then, and I too shall feel relief. For since I swallowed you, all ... as if when Christ says, “Come forth!” Hell cries, “Get out!” Most of the Orthodox hymns surrounding Christ’s death and ...
Get Real for Lent
... set off in a sprint and fail before the first week is out. The failure comes in anger, self-recrimination, even despondency. The ... the most difficult fast of all. Lent is a time to "get real." Not eating some things is actually normal. In our modern world we ...
Hell, Justice and the Heart of Prayer – Thinking Like a Slave
Getting Your Mind Right
Get Real for Lent
Orthodoxy and the Christ-Haunted Culture of the South
... continue my short series in honor of Vladyko DMITRI of the South. This wonderful talk was given by the priest, Paul Yerger, of Clinton ... Whenever a decent-sized mirror was available, he would get in front of it and study his overall look. The effect was not of one ...
Jerusalem – Heaven and Hell
... after the Metropolitan entered the altar, a priest came out and invited the three OCA priests in our party to enter the altar. Nuns in ... residence at St. George's College at 5 a.m., reflected together on the day. It was a journey from Christmas to Pascha, Bethlehem to the ...
What Do You See Outside Your Window – Evil in a One-Storey Universe
... question was put several days back about what would be said about "evil in a one-storey universe?" Of course, as I've thought about the question, my simplest conclusion is to ... Those who point to the plenitude of evil around us will get little argument from me, other than to say that what appears to be a ...
Orthodoxy and the Christ-Haunted Culture of the South
... of my favorite priests in the Diocese of the South is Fr. Paul Yerger who ... Whenever a decent-sized mirror was available, he would get in front of it and study his overall look. The effect was not of one ...
Hope: The Unashamed Virtue
The Ladder of Divine Ascent and Moral Improvement
... with the mind of the fathers. Here, I reaffirm that without equivocation. We simply are not saved by getting better. It is a false image and a false goal. Of course, critics will ...
The Singular Goodness of God
A Single Moment
... The Brothers Karamazov, relates a now-famous fable about an old woman: Once upon a time there was a woman, and she was wicked as ... she began to kick them with her feet: ‘It’s me who’s getting pulled out, not you; it’s my onion, not yours.’ No sooner did she ...
Not a Single Individual Will Be Saved
... the most striking thing about human beings is that we don’t actually come into existence by ourselves. There are parents (two of them when the laws of biology are allowed to work). The parents themselves ... individual salvation. It is, above all, the “gathering together into one all things in Christ Jesus.” The drive towards independence ...
The Translation of the Faith
Humble and Meek and Middle-Class Morality
A Priest’s Thoughts on Depression, Anxiety, the Soul, Your Body and Your Brain
The Work that Saves
... of God is taken by force. You will never attain it without forcing yourself." ~ Saint Innocent of Alaska Do we cooperate in our ... Received, O Christ our God, and to You we ascribe glory, together with Your Father, Who is without beginning, and Your all-holy, good, and ...
A Bunch of Stuff We Don’t Know
The God Who Fights For Us
The Ladder of Divine Ascent and Moral Improvement
You Are Not Your Sin – Part 2…the Chains that Bind
The Work That Saves
The Church and the Scriptures
The Scope of Passover and Penal Substitution Theory
... a substitutionary punishment. I have written previously about the lack of Scriptural warrant for this teaching, as well as its creation ... we were held captive and God sent His only Son to come and get us. And since we were held captive by death, He entered death itself to get ...
Saving the Atonement
... how to speak to a culture that increasingly doesn't care about the Scriptures or even know them. I suggested that we are more like St. ... the icons are not idols). Though the culture shifts and forgets its original roots in a Christian view of the world, man himself does not ...
It Is Not Good to be Alone
... of the greatest tragedies of the modern world is the continuing collapse of ... is a mutual suicide pact - a community of death. Throughout most of human history, community has nonetheless been the hallmark of human ... not good to be alone - but it's hard to be together. It is the work of ...
Are We Connected?
... came to be seen as flawed - similar to a belief in an outer space filled with the "heavenly ether." The rise of the mechanical ... the body of Christ has a more accurate meaning of "mixed together." "Composed" is not an incorrect translation, but our own weak reading ...
Therapeutic Substitutionary Atonement
... on man's behalf. Justification is extrinsic - it happens outside of man and apart from man. By faith, man acknowledges Christ's gift on ... walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness ...
Notes from the Underground
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Life in a Sacramental World
... - there is no necessity in its existence - it is created out of nothing. But in the words and volition of human beings, the gifted ... O Christ our God, and unto Thee do we send up glory, together with Thy Father, Who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and ...
Preaching to the Dead
... man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: "My Lord be with you all." Christ answered him: "And with your ... us leave this place, for you are in me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated.For your sake I, your ...
Notes from the Underground And Man’s True Heart
... arms akimbo will say to us: 'Now then, you fellows, what about smashing all this Reason to bits, sending their logarithms to the devil, ... much, but the annoying thing is that he would immediately get plenty of followers - men are made like that. And the cause of all this is ...
The Mystery of Pascha – Expanded
... However, his description of Christ has much to say about the mystery ofPascha (Christ's resurrection). First, it is clear that ... We believe that especially when the Church gathers together for worship, we stand in Christ's Pascha. Heaven and earth meet and we ...
The Grace of Repentance
... my heart. Two seemingly totally incompatible states met together in me. I am recording facts. I did not understand myself what was happeing to me. Outwardly I was no less fortunate than most people. Later, things became clear ...
The Poor in Spirit
... comes the occasional lack of attention, in which we forget to ask, "What does that mean?" I think this is particularly the case with ... I come back to this point. But I want to think first about the question of need - our necessity. "Blessed are those who know their ...
The River of Fire – Kalomiros
... 1 Is it not death? What does Western theology teach about death? All Roman Catholics and most Protestants consider death as a ... evil for evil and does not permit Him to pardon and to forget the evil done against His will, unless an infinite satisfaction is offered ...
Give Thanks In All Things
... profound I never understood it. Only when thinking about this explanation reported by Archimandrite Zacharias did the saying become ... of being obscured within Christianity - with Christians forgetting this essential teaching and following after a human Lordship and model ...
In the Image of God
... of Christ through the ages. Of course, we can't just go out and sign ourselves up for apprenticeship with a saint. Good people are ... of saints. They are always present with us as we are, together with them, one body in Christ. We have the witness of their lives and ...
Orthodoxy and the Apocalypse
... parts of the world. And yet, all of these events added together do not make for the time of the Apocalypse. Though it is always true ... us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir ...
What Faith Shall I Defend?
... of the Christian faith. To some degree, one can beget the other. I occasionally find myself in social situations in which a ... faith for one reason or another - or becomes curious about why I am an Orthodox Christian rather than the Anglican I once was. The ...
Christianity in a One-Storey Universe
... - Death in a Two-Storey Universe I have written before about the two-storey universe that is part of our cultural inheritance in the ... has it that when some one of us dies, their soul gets to move to the second-storey. If, however, they were bad, or failed to ...
The Struggle of the Person
... are the critical aspects of love and freedom, without which the person cannot exist in its proper fulfillment. The life of the ... this is the image in which we were created. But before we get too abstract - the Trinity has its most complete revelation to us in the ...
Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev on the Descent of Christ into Hades
... never depict the resurrection itself, i.e., Christ coming out of the grave. They rather depict ‘the descent of Christ into Hades’, or ... differently. Liberal Western theology rejects altogether any possibility for speaking of the descent of Christ into Hades ...
“Do You Know Jesus?”
... have written in numerous posts about various aspects of conversion to the Orthodox Christian faith. Oftentimes there is an unspoken ... in the late 60's, wearing long hair, I was a walking target for street evangelists. Somehow I have never considered St. Paul's ...
The Grace of Repentance
... my heart. Two seemingly totally incompatible states met together in me. I am recording facts. I did not understand myself what was happeing to me. Outwardly I was no less fortunate than most people. Later, things became clear ...
The Problem with having a God
... (there is usally some everyday even when I am writing about something else). But today I am thinking about the problem of having a ... How is that not a problem? It certainly doesn't mean you get to have your own way all the time, or even much of the time. I frequently ...