A Sunday Only Experience

Sunday logo and illustration on a white background

I often say that Orthodox Christianity is a 24-hour life. There is never a time when we are not Orthodox Christian. Our faith is not limited to Sunday morning and Feast Days. Our faith is lived daily for Christ. Unfortunately, the Church in America has become in too many cases a ‘Sunday only’ experience. There…

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Our Own Church

The Pinnacle Church

One of the struggles we experience within ‘American Individualism’ is a sense that nobody has the right to tell us what to believe or how to live. In fact, this has led to more than 45,000 denominations of Christianity in the world. As the name suggests, Protestantism features an individual or group that protests the…

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Division Cannot Stand

All hands united together

It is easy to get wrapped up into the political frenzy ‘of the day’ no matter what side of the aisle you stand. Today’s frenzy is tomorrow’s silliness. When it comes to politics, you will always find yourself changing sides. You change not because you changed, but because your side changed. That is the nature…

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Hypocrites or Sinners?

children putting hands on each other shoulder

It comes up all the time in conversations. The Church is full of hypocrites. I know how those people are when they leave the Church. They pretend to be so holy on Sunday. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. The normally opens the following conversation. Me: Do you know any alcoholics?…

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It is Safe in the Ark

We read the story of Noah’s Ark in the Old Testament. (Genesis 6-8). The only way for Noah and his family to be safe from the flood was to get in the Ark. For forty days and forty nights the storm raged and the floodwaters came. Everything that was not in the Ark was swept…

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