Feb 9, 2018 | Author - Andrew Klager, Author - Brad Jersak
The Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” “When we identify ourselves as sinners, we are not speaking ontologically. That is, we are not speaking of our truest selves seated with Christ in the heavenly realms or as those...
Feb 3, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
“Erasmus was too good a humanist to live only in the past.” – P.S. Allen In these days of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Wittenburg manifesto and the strange opposition between Christianity and humanism, one can only wonder how...
Jan 29, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak
Fr. Seraphim is establishing the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull (near Iona) of the west coast of Scotland. He shared the homily at Holy Apostles Orthodox Mission in Chilliwack, BC on Sunday, Jan 28, 2018. Midway through the homily, I felt...
Dec 27, 2017 | Author - Brad Jersak
Invite Them—Go Bring Them—Compel Them to Come The Escalating Compulsion of Grace Brad Jersak The Parable of the Great Supper 15 Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall...
Dec 19, 2017 | Author - Brad Jersak
Reading the Psalms Christianly Apocalyptic Poetry and Resurrection Prophecies Brad Jersak Psalm 17 (18):4–19 (Orthodox Psalter) For the end [telos], for the child of the Lord, David: what things he spake unto the Lord, even the words of this ode, in the day...