Seeking the truth that is Christ. Get back up every time you fall to sin. ☦️
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I deal with severe abdominal pain and nausea every single day. It’s from prior diabetic damage and my anti rejection meds. Over the last 6 years I have been on dialysis, went blind in both eyes, had chronic pancreatitis and now deal with constant pain and nausea. I had a kidney/pancreas transplant 3 years ago and after 2 doses of a very common anti rejection med, I fell into a coma for 2 weeks and was on a breathing machine.
When I was blind, on dialysis and having chronic pancreatitis I considered ending my dialysis and letting nature take its course. I was done with life.
I was raised Christian but I never took it seriously. One night I cried to God to help me. I told Him everything bad I had done and truly felt sorry for it all in that moment. I told Him if He could find it in His mercy to help me I would give my life to Him and do whatever He wanted me to do in life.
About 4 or 5 days later I woke with my eyesight in my right eye completely back to normal. I was shocked. I cried tears of joy and gratitude.
9 months later I received my organs.
I have my eye sight restored by the grace and mercy of God. I woke from my coma and my new organs work flawlessly. I still deal with constant pain and nausea but I can say my health is the best it’s ever been in life.
I can say I’ve seen the lengths God will go to so that someone will finally be humble and submit to what He wants.
A month or so after my healing I started going to an evangelical church, I know and met some really good people there who truly do love God as best as they can in their position.
I eventually found Holy Orthodoxy and am now a baptized Orthodox Christian. Since coming to Orthodoxy I feel I truly know God better and can say that despite everything terrible that happened to me that I’m glad it all happened. Thank God for allowing all my pain suffering and using it to bring me to Him.
Some days it’s easier to be thankful than others but I am trying. Praise God through the pain.
Hate me for saying this but this type of stuff is super cringe worthy and not a good way to bring people to Christ. I’m glad I’m Orthodox and we don’t do stuff like this.
Gen Z is turning back to God
125 young Christians walked into a mall in Portland and broke out in worship singing "Our God Is an Awesome God"
This is the America the left told us was gone
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As a white dude with a 3.5 gpa it is hard to get into a 4 year university. I keep getting told it’s “competitive right now.” Makes me feel like it’s because I’m not a stupid 85 IQ foreigner is the issue.
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The Nicene Creed ☦️
I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with the Father through Whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried; And He rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father; And He will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead. His kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.
In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come.
Amen 🙏🏻
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Wes and Gavin have avoided addressing Holy Orthodoxy on the merits and have consistently relied on the heavily subjective “you’ll know them by their fruits” argument.
Well, by God’s providence, Wes and Gavin finally been refuted on those grounds, too.
First, @gavinortlund argued there’s no evidence of appeals to the hagioi in heaven by the church prior to 200AD. When I showed him numerous biblical passages and primary sources like 1 Enoch, Testament of Levi, and the songs of sabbath sacrifice, Gavin resorted to fraudulently representing 1 Enoch 106 and handwaiving psalm 103, as well as other primary sources.
Gavin severely and fraudulently misrepresented the scholarship of Meir bar Ilan, Hurtado, and Stuckenbruck. Gavin preached against “triumphalism” and in the same video Gavin accused @StephenBoyce333 of saying “numerous times” that he “demolished Gavin’s arguments,” which is a lie—Dr Boyce never said that.
Gavin won’t address that his pastor emeritus (who is also literally his dad) endorsed Kamala Harris. Gavin won’t address his confessed admiration for Obama, plugging Obama’s book on his YouTube channel, or the fact that his church knowingly hired a gay pastor and fired him only in the midst of scandal. Gavin rejects a worldwide Noahic flood and teaches a form of God-assisted evolution. Gavin is a liberal.
@daveedsims has shown Gavin engaging in numerous instances of contextomy and misrepresentation in the literature on the history and theology of icons. @Michael__Garten, too, has demonstrated Gavin engaging in contextomy and misrepresentation.
It’s a pattern of behavior over a long period of time. The list is seemingly endless.
Now, we know of numerous instances (of varying severity) where @WesleyLHuff decided to engage plagiarism.
It was NOT just one time 10 years ago. It was throughout his graduate coursework and his public-facing apologetics work. There are instances from 10 months ago and 2 years ago that Wes hasn’t responded to. It appears to be a pattern of behavior for Wes over the last 10 years to frequently engage in taking other people’s work and claiming it as his own.
Wes’s recent “apology” video ignores all of the most recent instances, attempting to frame the issue as merely a single occurrence from 10 years ago. That’s a load of nonsense.
The state of apologetics for this American folk religion is in shambles.
They have lost on every level.
All they have left is cope.
Please say a prayer for the soul to Brendan. He is a family member who ended things last night. He was not Christian by any metric but please still say a prayer for him. He had a lot of issues mentally and had some demons for sure but he was good person.
Lord have mercy. ☦️
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Fr. Don Purdum, a man with zero Orthodox education was ordained seven months after meeting a self-described entrepreneur and pioneer in private finance who holds no theological degrees. For the sake of our Orthodox Christians who would be led away by his preaching, here are some things they should know.
1. Every Orthodox church on earth rejects the AOCC.
Fr. Don Purdum represents the AOCC. This is not a canonical church. Constantinople, Moscow, Antioch, ROCOR, the OCA: all 14 autocephalous churches, independently, do not acknowledge the AOCC, regardless of whether they say they're canonical or not.
2. The AOCC's founder deposed himself by marrying in 1933.
Aftimios Ofiesh, the AOCC's founder, broke his monastic vows and married a young parishioner in a civil ceremony. Under Orthodox canon law, a bishop who contracts marriage forfeits his office by the act itself. He never served as a bishop again. He died in 1966 asking to be buried "without any clergy of any kind." The canonical Orthodox world treated this as the end of the AOCC, and it was.
3. His "bishop" is off by 400 years on basic church history.
The AOCC needs Aftimios's marriage to be a minor breach of etiquette, not a self-deposition. So "Archbishop" Daniels claims episcopal celibacy only became normative "after the 11th century or so." However the Council in Trullo mandated it in 692 AD. Canon 48 requires a bishop's wife to enter a monastery after consecration. Canon 12 reinforces it. These are ecumenical council canons; four hundred years is not a rounding error. If episcopal celibacy is what it actually is, ecumenical council legislation from the 7th century, then Aftimios deposed himself the day he married and every ordination flowing from that broken line is worthless.
4. Their "apostolic succession" has a 29-year hole in it.
Archbishop Aftimios died in 1966. He asked to be buried "without any clergy of any kind." The next group to claim the AOCC name showed up in 1995. For three decades: no bishops, no priests, no church. Then in 2006, someone filed a 501(c)(3) with the old name. Filing paperwork with a state does not restore an apostolic line. A chain with a 29-year gap is just two pieces of chain.
5. He was "ordained" seven months after first encountering "Orthodoxy."
Purdum met Wayne Daniels in spring 2023. By December 2023 he was a deacon. By mid-2024, a priest. In any canonical Orthodox church, catechesis alone takes one to two years before you're baptized, let alone ordained. No canonical bishop on earth would ordain someone who had been Orthodox for seven months. That only happens when there is no canonical bishop involved. Now, he posts his AI generated images about "Orthodoxy" and tradition, amassing many followers.
6. His education, his language, and his theology are all Protestant.
Lancaster Bible College. Westminster Seminary. Dallas Theological Seminary. Protestant seminaries. Four years of dispensationalist training. His other degree is a political management MA. His own words: "Coming up Southern Baptist and later entrenched in the Bible Church movement." The AOCC chaplaincy website says they blend "liturgical/catholic/sacramental, evangelical, and charismatic" streams, which is the Protestant convergence movement wearing a cassock. They recognize six sacraments, not seven. Purdum writes about personal exorcisms and seeing angels in his home in language you could paste into any Pentecostal testimony and nobody would notice.
7. The man who ordained him has no education at all.
"Archbishop" Wayne Daniels's own website says he "holds no degrees." He calls himself "a trailblazer in the apostolic and prophetic movement" whose ministry produced "countless miracles, healings, signs & wonders." Before the AOCC he ran a Protestant church plant in Missouri and belonged to another unrecognized body. He also calls himself "a seasoned entrepreneur, business strategist, and pioneer in private finance and ecclesiastical law."
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A powerful thing that I fully believe everyone should be doing is to be encouraging to those around you. Not to inflate their pride but to give them good words to help them walk through this world with a little more hope and happiness.
“Hey I just wanted to say your chanting has improved a lot, keep it up.”
“You’re a good friend and I really appreciate that. Good friends are hard to find.”
“Hey honey I really love how you think about things. You make me think in ways I’ve never considered.”
These are examples but I believe as Christians it is our responsibility to bring light to people around us.
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