/christian/ - christian

>>28075
I don't get it. What does the unfunny cartoon guy larping as tarrant the obvious FED agent in the fake shooting video have to do with this thread topic?

Dunno where to post this, so I'm leaving it here

🔴 LIVE: Pope Leo celebrates first Easter amid Middle East war | AFP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sREmPpdtUJ4

Happy Easter /christian/?

Hi, I'm looking for a caring loving partner who will become my emotional support system. I'm not an atheist

>>28132
Go outside and look for one?

>Bad request
>Thread creation locked
Why?

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>>26231
I knew i got one wrong, i even double check and didn't see it.

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There you go.

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>>22362 (OP) 
Tried and failed to edit a Captain Falcon helmet on St. Nicholas. Still, good banner hopefully.

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>>26545
And I forgot to scale it down. Mea culpa

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I hope this doesn't count as a Mormon banner.

A debate (although more of a dialogue) between an Eastern Christian and a Western Buddhist. I found it to be interesting, although it felt like both of them didn't have much time and couldn't hit on everything. Definitely shows the more New Age and relativistic side of Buddhists in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXSYehSUGog

>>27531
I've been told that Fr. Seraphim Rose's book "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" is a good resource of New Age and Eastern Faiths from him

Some more testimonies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHDaqhpQRbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp2BS3GwyAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESElYh_zQM4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfWrna46tMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-cJhKyMec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnHEcfX2hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txAoawRYDIQ

>>28164
These are great!
I tried finding a copy, and I think this is it (in Russian): https://www.azbyka.ru/otechnik/Nikolaj_Japonskij/izbrannye-uchenye-trudy-svjatitelja-nikolaja-arhiepiskopa-japonskogo/

>>28171
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future covers Hindu-influenced sects, other New Age practices, and even UFOs and pentecostalism far more than it does Buddhism, but what it does have on Buddhism is quite good. It's popular for good reason.
Would you happen to know what branch of Buddhism that temple belonged to, by the way? I'm not super knowledgeable about it, but I do know that Buddhism tends to integrate the native pantheons in some way, and that this is especially pronounced in Tibetan Buddhism.
>>28172
Thanks for digging that up, anon. I don't speak Russian, but that's probably a great resource if anyone here does.

>>27681
Sadly this is how people are now conditioned by technology.

>>28176
Not that anon, but I prefer text. You can read faster than watching a video, and you can analyze the content rationally without being influenced by the speaker's style/charisma/pacing/accent.

>>27716
Keep going, brother!

>>27716
Garfield hard at work in The Phantom Menace remake.

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>>23460 (OP) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDaUvVBuTpc

I typically don't like posting YouTube vids but this short testimony helped to set me straight. For context, I have had listened to other testimonies in a similar vein which lines up exactly what this author describes. Ultimately, anytime you sin in lust you are giving these entities more and more power.

>>23460 (OP) 
I would say reading the Bible daily helps. I think it should be O.K. to take off the Sabbath, though. 

It fills me a spiritual enlightenment and mindfulness that helps with some of my worse habits. Other than that it's just actively wanting to change. Even when I smoked marijuana and tobacco I "wanted" to quit, but didn't want to quit "right this second" because I was "still having fun." 

Eventually I got a good job and the marijuana started giving me panic attacks thinking about getting fired, so I quit that. Then I started approaching 30 and the thought occurred to me that I could quit "in my twenties" and that sounded like I could grow old and still be O.K. because it was "just something dumb I did when I was young" but if I kept it up suddenly it would start turning into a serious problem. 

Other than that a combination of willful change and rising prices has helped me start to curb fast food and energy drinks, though I need to do better about that (I'm hoping with my wife's new schedule it will be easier to cook at home and summon the motivation to drink home made black coffee instead of energy drinks or sugary iced coffees from the store, though.)

Lastly, it's just going to be slimming down and curbing pornography/masturbation, but like the above I think a combination of spiritual fulfillment, willful change, and my wife's increased presence will help with that

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I ask god to help me.
When it comes to temptations, you should remove them from your environment, and then also avoid looking at them when you encounter them in the world.
While we're on Earth, we are stuck in our flesh, which is corrupt and constantly bombarded by demons and their evil temptations.
When we go to Heaven, we'll receive new bodies, ones that can't corrupt, decay, hurt, etc.

Ask god to send life lessons and guidance your way, and pay attention to anything that he sends you.

>>28140
That's a good question. I'd say there were a few, but especially Zechariah and Ecclesiastes. I didn't know really anything about them going in and they were very impactful. One thing I really enjoyed was in Zechariah we see the first and possibly only mention of both angels that resemble women and angels that are explicitly described as looking like humans with swan-like wings on their back which it's become very popular for antichrists to say isn't a "biblically accurate angel" when it is. Honestly, none of those so called accurate angels seem all that accurate and there's a good number of times people in the old testament meet an angel and don't even realize it until they start talking to them or they ascend into heaven. Likewise, there's a part in the New Testament where Jesus says come judgement Day we'll be "like the angels." It's in response to a Pharisee trying to trip him up by asking about who a resurrected woman who had remarried after being widowed would be married to if her husbands were resurrected, too, but it shows where that idea comes from. 

For Ecclesiastes I was surprised by how timely the advice in there was and find myself quoting it and Proverbs a lot. Honestly I feel like my moral/value system has changed a lot now that I've read the whole Bible and have a more accurate grasp on what is and isn't accepted by God.

Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all stood out to me a lot an

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>>28136
Ive finished Acts and begun Romans, but the way Paul writed is so packed with meaning I struggle to progress very far. I took a detour to read/finish Timothy Wares Introduction to Eastern Christianity instead and thats proven very fruitful thus far.

>read almost any epistle in the OSB
>read the notes
>the editors are annoyed at the NKJV's translation choices again
I wish they'd done a full Bible translation instead of leaving the New Testament to the NKJV. At this point, I'm tempted to get a Douay-Rheims Bible for the NT.

>>28147
Finished Romans. First Corinthians next.
Concerning the arguments of justification by Faith vs by Works, Paul seems speak more of a separation of Faith from the Law as in just blindly following the Law as if he's talking to the Jews specifically, in that Abraham had no law to follow but was justified by Faith before the Law. I would assume this then to imply the later arguments of justification by works to be because of the inherent desire in (You) to love Christ and then follow his commandments, which follows from Faith, fulfilling you with the desire to show that faith through works
I suppose I'll have a more accurate understanding once I read Timothy, but this is my hunch currently.

>>28167
Paul teaches that justification is by faith alone because faith alone apprehends the righteousness of Christ by which we are justified.
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>>28149
Anon, that’s a false church.

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>>27549
>I pray to God for me to be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
Today I have heard an answer to this. Thank the Lord. And the answer is so what if I am afraid of such a thing? The people I am talking about are so hopelessly addicted to their misery, and excess, and great wastefulness, that they're basically dead already. And they have been dead for a long time. And there is a non zero chance that they were never really alive to begin with. Because of how they have fallen so far, that they willfully allow "The Empire's" ideas into what ought to be their own personal oasis away from The Empire, literally 24/7 via television and social media. So that they never rest from The Empire.
Moreover if there was only one object I could use to summarize their outlook on life, it would be a magnet on their refridgerator that is similar to this post's picture. I am keen to notice the proverb doesn't say anything about asking the child's permission for the loan. It doesn't say anything about repaying the loan either.

Existence is giving me a headache today.

I ask for a prayer too truly feel like im actually trying for God to turn my life around and better myself

>>28105
Praying for you 🙏

I've learned and read too much and I've outpaced my spiritual maturity and im turning into a fucking schizo about life and i keep listening to the wrong things in my mind
please help pray for my wayward heart and eyes and desires

I asked god to perform a miracle today.

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>>28027
Unworldly Sounds 40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCmL-0Uqg0

And that's all for now! The guy in charge of this series has announced that it will cease for now. Hopefully some of you got something out of some of the songs—I know I did. I hope you all have a merry and blessed Christmas.

>>28028

I certainly did, too. Bless you anon, and Merry Christmas.

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>>28028
The guy who made the Unworldly Sounds playlists has announced that he's going to start posting full albums from old Christian artists whose music is completely unavailable on the Internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97B0Nw8jA4

I know that a lot of people make fun of Christian rock, but here's a bunch of stuff that I like:

Grammatrain: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPFjATa2MhkCm0c_EwY1BQ
subseven: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR3Zzz8Kw4ITZUB8MTfAa1w
Poor Old Lu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxlBQk3PvEiSdcUuwAEPYOw
CLOD: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4d0pztZhSKA1HJh8edDgQ
Antestor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCes1e9Lcdbisu_yL_vjPd6Q
Extol: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFIhUM82LmVkOOFIdJSnw0g
Johnny Q. Public: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHpQODEf_Uasq2mWIfMi-Ow
Morella's Forest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0xAenzhNVQKlTb8IqBRkvA
awake eternally: https://www.youtube.com/@awake.eternallyy
CHANGETHEWXRLD: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkiC27y3LNR1OD7v1XuC1JQ
ZION (자이온): https://www.youtube.com/@ZIONXROCK/videos and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbut2pXNSo0PbaOVmUBIN8Q
Seraphim (六翼天使): (The tracks from their album "The Soul That Never Dies" is here): https://www.youtube.com/@bonghorst/videos
Imari Tones: https://www.youtube.com/@imaritones/releases

>>28166
You can listen to all of Michael E. Owens Genevan Psalter here as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLncoPHAa8F1AUwmNNkY10r0VgUhFI3719
He also has sung psalms of out of the KJV

Some more tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK_Q3xzj0nc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWDO8VWaihI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qZ0C-Olnq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooi3uic6lNc

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Tolkien's abandoned sequel for the events after LOTR.

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>>25745
If you can get your hands on it (New Martyr Press sells an edition of it, last I checked), St. Paisios' The Signs of the Times talks more about some of that. That was the book everyone passed around excerpts from during Covid, as in it he discussed a forced vaccination as a sort of prelude to the mark of the beast.

>>27419
Been meaning to read this bevause I'm a pulpfag

Anyone know where one can find Facing East by Frederica Mathewes-Green online for free?

How does one identify what is good fruit and not? Is it as simple as having children or doing your part to preach and spread the Word? Or is it deeper than that. When reading some of these parables about the talents and fruit/pruning again I know that I haven't been doing my part in the last few years on both parts, though I am now working to fix it slowly but surely after living in the world and falling away for far too long.

>>28135
>How does one identify what is good fruit and not?
I always thought these verses were part of the answer to that, specifically verse 22-23:

"19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit."
Galatians ch. 5 KJV

>Or is it deeper than that.
It's deeper. It's your heart's disposition.

>>28137
Thank you anon for the response. Reading it when you first replied, compared to now just some month and a half later I already read it with more and further clarity as I've grown and will surely continue to do so.
I have found my way to attend Divine Liturgy and am wholly convinced as now to start Catechesis at my local Parish come September, Lord willing.

As for a new thread topic question: I've been advised to "Read the Fathers". Is there any resource where one can peruse their works, or work out "where to begin"? There are many of them, and surely they have multiple works each. 
I picked up a small guide on an "introduction to the Philokalia" but upon the first few short terms definition pages I've read, have concluded that the actual text of the book proper would surely be beyond my spiritual level at this time (the intro book itself mentions two other prepatory books before reading the actual Philokalia after all)

I suppose I'm asking if theres some sort of library, or resource guide on how to follow the Fathers writings, whether by chronological or level of capability to comprehend and understand (spiritual level vs release order, as I would define it in my head)

I have no idea how to live my life and its killing me. I've been going to church again and its been so refreshing each time but as soon as I'm gone and everyone filters out, i just feel the terrible weight of existence and dread and that everything i look at, i do, i touch, is somehow wrong and that im sinning
i break down so many times a day in my head even though I try to pray but clearly im doing something wrong otherwise I'd know what faith and trust in the Lord looks like but i just fucking cant even deal with the weight of existing in my current place, my "goal"s and how to achieve them or if they are worth achieving or if its what He wants for me

Im so much more lost than ever before and my fucking head wont shut the fuck up and let me sit in peace and prayer so then i just turn to bullshit nothingness or i try to read something healthy or good like the bible or something educational but then i just end up making myself feel worse because i cant action any of the things i learn about so it just beats me down over and over
im fucked up in the head so much and i dont know how to live my life anymore
i should be perfectly happy on paper and yet im in the worst state of existence ive ever been

people pray for me constnatly and i just fucking waste my time and effort into bullshit even when i feel like im finally starting to "get it" and understand what a life in Christ is like
i dont really have a question i guess but i just need help in understand whats ok to do and whats not ok
Luke 6:46 "And why do you call me Lord Lord, but do not do the things that I say?"
I know some things are certainly bad like porn and jacking off and getting angry at things or people i shouldn't be angry at, but even when im not doing those things, how the fuck do i live my life? what do i focus on? Focus on Christ but HOW? what is it like to actually do things in Him and try to live because even when i feel like i try, i cant figure it out or im fucking blind and deaf and just always still focusing on the wrong things

i dont even know how to function on a basic level right now and im just tired and im losing the fight and i need help i have no idea what im doing and i have no idea how to ask for help properly or even how to accept it

no question i guess i just have no where else to post this where someone might listen that i might actually beable to hear because im deaf as fuck when it comes to know whats from God and the Lord and whats not

>>28160
>Focus on Christ but HOW?
You can't do it by your own effort. You need to ask your heavenly Father.
"What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”"
Luke 11:11-13 ESV

"But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”"
Luke 18:16-17 ESV

How does a child receive something? Does he go out and work for it? No. Lacking any and all means, he runs to his father and asks. He has nothing to offer in return, but he knows his father loves him.

>always still focusing on the wrong things
Focus on the person of Jesus. Preach the Gospel to yourself daily. It's not a one-time thing. You live in Christ by remembering that you're saved because He was judged in your place as your substitute. 
"Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”"
John 6:28-29 ESV