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An idle question, but not maybe a bad one: is the Georgian Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox? Is the difference between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox simply that of nomenclature, or are there serious theological disagreements as well?

" When in Rome, live in the Roman style, when you are elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere." This quote is attributed to St. Ambrose of Milan ( 339-397), celebrated as a doctor of the Church, whose commemoration is today, 07 December ( the date he was ordained as a bishop). He was a very...

This Covid- 19 plague has really managed to overturn all expectations for 2020. When it first started, I had to take two Covid- 19 tests and neither experience was pleasant. That sleep study was a bust anyway. Who can sleep with a bunch of wires glued to him? Our church, Hope Lutheran Church in...

https://www.osvnews.com/2020/03/02/lourdes-shrine-closes-healing-pools-as-precaution-against-coronavirus/ That was kind of startling to read this morning. Apparently, the shrine officials fear contagion spreading in these pools where miraculous healings are supposed to take place.

God is good! He is good indeed! I have been successfully using my C- PAP machine and my hourly episodes have gone down from 63 per hour to 5 per hour! I feel a lot more energized and able to work these days and feel absolutely fine. Thank you all who have prayed for me during a very difficult...

Hello, everybody again! I hate to get right to it, but please pray for me. I've been sick pretty consistently since November and I really need prayer. I've been coughing like there's no tomorrow, my pulmonologist believes I have asthma and he's gotten me to take Symbacort for it, but the...

Thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0BGf0Aj-lg

https://medium.com/migration-issues/a-very-brief-history-of-american-lutheranism-be8b7a26fd59 I'm the first person in my family since my 3X great grandmother, Frances Montgomery Steinbrenner ( 1812- 1845) to be a Lutheran and I'm a convert. Nor is that story a unique one to my family. How can...

I'd like to tell a couple of stories. I'll go back three generations to my great- grandmother, Marie Elodie Pecot ( 1887- 1967) for the first story. My great - grandmother was born in Charenton, Louisiana, to a French- speaking, devoutly Catholic family. When she was in her teenaged years, her...

Surprised? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PscwvMDR-t0

I'm sorry I haven't been around as much, but I've been going through quite a bit of business regarding my application to Concordia- St. Louis. I need to take my Graduate Record exam ( studying), my Entry Level Competency Exam ( ordering the proper books and studying those) and I need to register...

I hope and pray that you all had as wonderful a Christmas day as I did today. It was definitely a time for family and friends, reunions with relatives I hadn't seen in quite awhile and great food, drink and conversation. My church had its Christmas Eve service last night ( I had to work, so I...

So, there are four views to Communion that might deserve debate. The Lutheran view holds that " is means is" and that the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ are truly present in the bread and the wine of the Sacrament of the Altar. The Roman Catholic view is Transubstantiation, where the bread and...

www.lcms.org www.bookofconcord.org http://steadfastlutherans.org/ The above provided websites are as good resources as I can think of to begin a discussion dealing with the LCMS's official doctrine. The Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod is a Confessional Lutheran Church that propagates the...

Today is the feast day of my namesake, St. Andrew the Apostle ( who also happens to be the patron Saint of Scotland). Now, St. Andrew was Simon Peter's younger brother, who first told him that " they found the Messiah " ( John 1:41) and led his older brother to Jesus. St. Andrew was one of the...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5105765/Adelaide-Catholic-School-covers-brand-new-statue.html I just wanted to open this thread because I thought we could use a laugh after all the tension and bile over the last couple of weeks. For those who don't find this kind of thing funny, I...

We are brothers and sisters in Christ and to that end, I'd like to spark a conversation dealing with our common Faith and what unites us as Christians rather than what divides us: #1: The Holy Trinity #2: The use of the Holy Bible ( 66 or 73) #3: Assembling with like- minded brethren on Sunday...

In this very personably written tome, Mr. Metaxas takes us on a grand tour not only of Luther's life, but the history of his family and the conditions around him that made the Glorious Reformation possible. This book is written from a very Lutheran point of view, in that truth takes first...

Snake- Handling is a phenomenon that gained currency in parts of Appalachia, particularly as an expression of Christian devotion. This link will speak of the faith movement that has spawned today's churches that still use poisonous snakes in their services...

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