4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even...
ASPIRATIONS (SHORT PRAYERS) TO OUR LORD (It has been noted, incidentally, that a very good effective prayer is just to say the name of Jesus!) Oh my Jesus, I surrender myself to You. Take care of everything! Jesus, I love You; Jesus, have mercy; Jesus, make Your will mine!Most...
Hebrews 10:23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. Romans 12:12rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer Psalm 37:4Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart....
The confession of unfaithfulness blindsided his wife and though they truly began to live as one, she never dealt with the hurt deeply. It clung, draped with anxiety in part. ( It took time for her to grip her past losses and shake anew… she did with her Savior’s grace.) His baselin...
afterwards it shall be set at liberty.' What if it come not to pass, either upon something intervening that prevents what was begun from being completed, or through obstinacy of an heretical mind denying the same things over again, although of some it had already begun t...
In contrast to Lutheranism, a very obvious reference to religious individualism (the circumvention of the private confession) and inner isolation, Calvinism captures a radically new perspective towards a mundane life, in the sense that every believer should have increased their level of morality in ...
Because they do not rest on stable causes, but are perturbed as groundlessly as they are born. But of what sort do you think those times are which even by their own confession are wretched, since even the joys by which they are exalted and lifted above mankind are by no means pure?All...
Having matured in this way the young hieromonk Porphyrios, by God’s grace, applied himself successfully to the work of spiritual father in Evia until 1940. He would receive large numbers of the faithful for confession every day. On many occasions he would hear confession for hours without a...
Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful. For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts,—when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take...
Churching is measured using the V-index, which includes five main indicators: Frequency of attending church services, frequency of confession and communion, observation of fasting, frequency, and type of prayer (church prayers or prayers in one’s own words), and reading of sacred texts. These...