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    The Orthodox stayed true

    How about... Different generation.... Different church. And admiring the Orthodox for not getting overly secularized with the changes in generation.
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    I used to go to a Methodist camp meeting that increasingly became more secularized. They got a seasoned leader to speak last year. He recalled a man of the area who had a very unique laugh. He said he was at a funeral home and you could here the man laughing from the other side of the building...
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    Noting... The Pope mentioning the Orthodox and Catholic as "sister churches" in which he was correct in stating. In which I would consider the Orthodox as the elder.
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    I am glad to see the Pope extending a hand of friendship to the Orthodox church... "After centuries of disagreements and misunderstanding, the resumption of genuine dialogue between the sister Churches of Rome and Constantinople was made possible through courageous and farsighted steps taken by...
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    As someone who takes delight in church history... It would have been a treat to have visited Orthodox churches in Eastern Roman Empire times. I believe there was a beauty there like none other for a full thousand years. I have Constantinople falling in 1453 to the Ottoman Turks. There were no...
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    Spirituality and the Three Little Pigs

    That story came from a generation with very little education. Family pictured below from that generation. There was no such thing as high school, very little materially, no part in church politics... But the children considered them intelligent, rich, and very spirit filled...
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, after consultation with his boyars, Russian leader Vladimir the Great sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. The result is described by...
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    I forgot who recorded it... But the services seemed like heaven on earth at that time.
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    I post this as I don't believe many understand that there was an Orthodox church before they came around.
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    The Eastern Roman Empire is the only thing Christian on the map. It was Constantine who established this. If I remember the history right he left Rome and built Constantinople to build a much better Christian empire. The Eastern Orthodox are older than the Catholics and Protestants who came...
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    The Orthodox stayed true

    Photo says it all!
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    Putting my dog to sleep.

    My gosh is that tough! Remembering the family in prayer. And... Our pets are family too!
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    Am I a false Christian or a "victim" of Satan?

    And again repeating the advice of the Methodist Circuit rider... "Well, now let me say to you that if you love God, if you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior from sin and if you love your fellowmen and intend by God's help to lead a religious life, that's all there is to religion. In fact, that...
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    Am I a false Christian or a "victim" of Satan?

    Important.... * From clay we are created... From clay we will return * This clay has been programmed to make more clay * Unwelcomes desires comes from our clay nature * The bible teaches if we forgive others we will be forgiven Here is a Methodist circuit rider helping someone along who did...
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    Look for me at Jesus feet

    And... Again while having the Singing Cookes out... Kids holding on tight as a train out of West Virginia climbs the divide from the New River to the eastern part of the state with tons of coal behind her...
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