pieces on Orthodox Christianity and sexuality I have seen in a long time can be found here. The link is to part two, make sure to go to part one as well.
Category: Life
My first hate mail…
Congratulations to “Ali in Dioschland” for sending me my first hate mail. In response to a post from sometime ago he accused me of being part of the crusades and having sex with children during the liturgy.
Lets see. It’s “Deutschland”, or Germany as most people around here call it. I’m Orthodox, we were for lack of a better term “crusaded upon” and if you had ever been to a Liturgy you might discover that its pretty difficult to have sex with anyone while you’re wearing three layers of clothing and people are watching.
But I digress…
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Just a note to…
all the Vikings fans. You were warned about Brett Favre, amazing moments, consuming ego, abounding talent, heartbreak plays, and summers of drama. There was a reason the Packers were okay with letting him go and now you know.
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Happiness is…
a root beer popsicle on a warm day. Not ultimate happiness, of course, but not a bad kind of happiness nonetheless.
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In my own life…
and in my service in ministry I have brushed up against the dark side of things more often than I can recount. It really is a jungle out there and all of us, even if we don’t think so, are being hunted.
All I know for sure is that if you stay close to Jesus you’ll make it through. Yes, you will get dinged up a bit and if every once in a while you wander away you’ll know some dangerous times. Just stay within eyeshot of the Light and you can find your way back.
You don’t have to always understand everything and there will be a lot of things out of your control. Yet if you’re with Jesus it will be okay, one way or another. Time passes, things change, but Jesus remains. Know just that and you will live well.
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St. Elias is getting ready…
for their new Priest. The call has gone out to fix up clean up and make everything ready. My prayer was that they would rise to the occasion and it looks like they have.
I wish them only the best in the future. To date they have been the best Parish I have ever served and while it is time for me to go, there are good things ahead for me as well, there will always be a part of me in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
I hope I have left them better, more ready, and set to be the church that God wants them to be. They have everything they need in the grace of God, the Holy Spirit present in them, and they can do all things through Christ who strengthens them.
Come September 1, I’ll be out of a job as a Pastor and ready to rest, retool, and see what the future brings. I’m staying a Priest and Orthodox, but I still don’t know exactly where I will land. Been there, done that, and God has always shown the way.
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Ladies and gentlemen…
the “Beetles” are back in my birch tree.
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Meandering around the www…
I came across these YouTube videos of AC/DC before Bon Scott, Bon Scott before AC/DC and the AC/DC with Bon Scott in the early part of their career. We know, of course, how the story ends. Bon Scott found dead in a car at the height of his fame. The whole gain the whole world and lose your own soul thing, true then true now. Yet I thought it would still be interesting to take a journey in the way back machine.
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Much better thank you…
AC/DC with Bon Scott. Ah, there we are!
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The essential Christian "bucket list"…
Matthew 25
31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
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