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 The Glories of Byzantine Prayer
For the Byzantine Christian, prayer takes place in the court of heaven, to which believers have access by means of Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit. |
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When what is precious is taken from you
Perhaps the reality that is hardest of all to accept in life is the unalterable fact that everything that is precious to us will, in some way, eventually be taken away. Our kids grow up and leave home, friends move away, loved ones die, we lose our health, and eventually we die too. |
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 Our one great fidelity
Throughout two thousand years of history, Christians, both whole churches and individual believers, have consistently been able to ignore many of Jesus' key commandments and invitations. We have either been too weak to follow his counsels or we have rationalized them away in some way. |
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