yeah, i am praying.
can't believe i cried today at my friends' house, they r muslim, we were watching the arabic channels, but it wasn't the pictures that did it, i started thinking how awful it must be in the hospitals with so few resources and so …
i agree with peter farrington, if all adultery lead to divorce automatically, we wouldn't have so many married people! i am actually glad some people think it would as it means they are pure and don't expect people to sin like that!
in fact even lus…
i agree with mina.
although psalm 22 (23) also reminds us of times of refreshing as well as of trial.
may we all seek to be ever closer to God through all our hours and all our times.
hey, peter farrington, u have a fan club of 2 and counting ;)
ans sorry, i should have said 'welcome back', i was not 2 surprised 2 see u were here before me!
may God bless yr work, i will go and visit the other site u r on :)
copts, british orthodox, eritreans, catholics and anglicans cross themselves from left to right.
romanians (orthodox) and russians do right to left.
i don't know about everyone else, can you fill us in?
does anyone know why the difference? i think i…
Hi Peter and welcome to tasbeha forum!
we now have a true expert in our midst :)
i would like to ask what exactly happened in 451, did it really get violent?
(the brief version pls, u can send me the 10,000w version to my home email add!
;-)
mabsoota
i just posted on spiritual warfare in the discussion on martial arts, here is a quote from it that i hope will help u;
I think st antony fought in the manner of ephesians 6,
using the 'armour' of God, i.e. those things that our life needs to be ful…
I think st antony fought in the manner of ephesians 6,
using the 'armour' of God, i.e. those things that our life needs to be full of when we are close to God, like truth, righteousness, salvation (being grateful and realising that we are saved by f…
i investigated this on the internet before church on tuesday, as far as i can tell the churches who celebrate with us are:
serbian and russian eastern orthodox and ethiopian oriental orthodox (and obv. our 'daughter' churches such as eritrean, briti…
i see. but i think fighting to defend your tribe or your country is different.
interestingly, in eritrea, Christians are currently being punished severely for not fighting because they believe the wars their government is waging against ethiopia and…
hi hos erof,
when i was 18 i was planning to get married at around 60 as well. it didn't work out ;)
i think any age between 18 to 100 is ok, maybe under 18 in special circumstances, like if yr in a country with an average life expectancy of 30 or …
sure, i understand there are good messages in the stories, and its normal to have some kind of fantasy and story-telling, its just that fairies, dragons, ogres etc don't exist and witchcraft does, so i think any book or film that implies it is innoc…
sorry i disagree with severus, which is unusual as he/she has posted some awesome stuff on the other discussions.
i don't think it's good, unless u want to read them in order to understand the sad pagan culture we live in and reach them with the glo…
i agree with london copt.
btw when i married my husband was a new unemployed immigrant who hardly spoke english.
that was 15 years ago
i was 22 and still a student
and it worked...
so don't put any limits on God ability to care for you!
;)
i'm glad my husband isn't egyptian ;) but i would have sold all i had to marry him :)
(it's ok when i got married my life savings were in the region of £150 and we did spend half of it on the wedding rings!)
london copt, don't worry, u don't need …
hey, the mission web page was excellent. u should all check it out.
aidan, i have an idea about spreading the church's mission that i didn't share before as i think i need help formulating the idea. in most counties that don't know about orthodoxy,…
hi, i think God let abraham send hagar away because otherwise sarah would have kept mistreating her. he was releasing abraham from the responsibility of looking after her and ishmael because he planned to look after ishmael himself.
i didn't hear about this man, Godislove260, but i agree with you that God only gives gifts for a reason, certainly never for people to make a big show and get rich.
mikeforJesus, what i was saying is that meditation without Jesus is dangerous. when …
oh, also learning self defense is ok. just not martial arts. most big cities in developing countries will have self defense classes, but if they emphasise on mediation or ways u can kill people then just leave.
hi meena, hi everyone,
it's not the potential violence that's a problem with martial arts, although it may encourage violence, it's the fact that it's based on religions like buddism and shintoism, which worship spirits and ancestors. all the martia…
you can find the answer to that question in the gospel to the 3rd watch of the midnight prayer in the Agpeya (if you don't work night shifts, you can read the Agpeya at any time of the day!)
the gospel is Luke 12 :32-64 and tells the story of a mast…
Hi brothers and sisters :)
2 points:
1. all the eastern and oriental orthodox had a meeting in 1990 in geneva, switzerland and agreed that we basically believe the same thing. they need to get together again though, and sort out us being allowed to …