Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 8): God as Eternity

We now come to the last post in this series where I am going thorough Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way. The short epilogue in his book is entitled, “God as Eternity.” In it, he touches upon the Christian teachings regarding the second coming and the resurrection of the body. So, let’s take a look….

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 7b: God as Prayer)

We now come to the second to last post in this series on Kallistos Ware’s The Orthodox Way. In this post, I will be discussing the second half of his chapter, “God as Prayer,” in which he discusses what he considers to be the four qualities of the active life of a “traveler on the…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 7a: God as Prayer)

In these next two posts, I will discuss the next chapter of Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way. Chapter 6 is entitled, “God as Prayer.” Now, most Evangelicals think of prayer as that thing you do before meals in during your quiet/devotional time where you bow your head, close your eyes, and talk to God…

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If You Smoke or Drink, You Aren’t a Good Person (and probably not a real Christian!)

Please allow me this brief rant. You may call yourself a Christian. Your social media profile has Bible verses on it, you attend church, give money to charity, and sponsor children in Africa. …but if you smoke or drink alcohol, you are showing everyone just how dark and sinful your heart is. Cancer kills over…

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Ken Ham Thinks Vegetables Undermine the Authority of Scripture: (Ham’s Beef with Phil Vischer, the State of Evangelicalism Today, and My Take of it All)

Last Friday, on December 11th, Phil Vischer, the creator of Veggie Tales, put out a very good and informative video entitled, What is an “Evangelical”? in which he gave a brief history lesson on where modern Evangelicalism came from and the challenges it now faces. Yesterday, on December 15th, Ken Ham of the YEC organization…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 6: God as Spirit)

In this post, I will discuss the next chapter of Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way. Chapter 5 is entitled, “God as Spirit,” and (as the title suggests) discusses the Holy Spirit, as well as some of the components of the spiritual life. As Ware says at the beginning of the chapter, “The whole aim…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 5b): God as Man (more thoughts on the Incarnation, Suffering, Death, and Victory)

In this post, I will further discuss the second part of chapter 5 of Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, “God as Man,” which focuses on the mystery of the incarnation and all that it entails. After emphasizing that the Incarnation was ultimately about God effecting the next stage of man’s journey from being a creature…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 5a): God as Man (The Incarnation…and more musings about time and eternity)

In this post, I will discuss chapter 5 of Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, “God as Man,” which focuses on the mystery of the incarnation and all that it entails. Beginning his chapter with a passage from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Wasteland” that talks about a mysterious person walking beside the poet, Ware states that…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 4b): God as Creator (…and the question of the nature of man)

In this post, I will go through the second part of the chapter entitled, “God as Creator” in Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way. The second part of the chapter largely focuses on the creation of man and the issue of what man is. Truth be told, I do not thing churches do a very…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 4a): God as Creator

The next chapter in Bishop Kallistos Ware’s classic, The Orthodox Way, is entitled, “God as Creator.” There is so much packed into this chapter, that it will take two posts to actually unpack it. For about three years, I wrote quite a lot about the creation/evolution debate in general, and specifically about Ken Ham and…

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