Location:
United States
Description:
Understanding Christianity as a Way of Life
Twitter:
@ancientfaith
Language:
English
Contact:
800-967-7377
Email:
contact@ancientfaith.com
Episodes
Growth and Struggle in Liminal Space – Lessons from St. Mary of Egypt
4/11/2024
Join Michael is a discussion on our need to navigate the difficult liminal spaces in our lives with patience and discernment, as illustrated beautifully in the story of St. Mary of Egypt, and how it is possible to overcome sin and depravity to fulfill our calling to become saints and living icons of Christ.
Duration:00:32:26
A Dangerous Time of Year
3/21/2024
Join Michael in a discussion of some of the spiritual pitfalls we can fall into during Great Lent if we are not careful and attentive to its true purpose
Duration:00:33:03
The Real Energy Crisis
3/6/2024
Join Michael in a discussion of God’s essence and energies, other energies present in the world, and how we should really understand our motivations to ensure we participate in our actions with God’s grace and not with the enemy.
Duration:00:30:06
Tragedy, Clarity, and Reconciling Suffering
2/2/2024
Join Michael as he discusses questions about why good people suffer, bad people thrive, and reconciling this with the goodness of God.
Duration:00:32:31
Two Thieves, Two Ways, Two Choices
1/11/2024
Join Michael in a discussion of what Christ said in the Gospel accounts, and what the New Testament in general says about being a thief or thieves, and how the symbolism of the thief applies to us and the choice of salvation or condemnation.
Duration:00:29:46
Repentance is Our North Star
12/15/2023
Join Michael as he uses the symbolism of the North Star to take a deep dive into the true nature of repentance and why we often misunderstand it to our detriment.
Duration:00:30:02
Hypocrisy and the Mask of Death
11/30/2023
Join Michael for a discussion about the meaning of hypocrisy and what Christ said about it in the Gospel, and how to understand and protect ourselves from this deadly sin that causes us to wear “masks” and fall into self-deception, deception of others, and spiritual death.
Duration:00:37:21
Beauty and Theodicy
8/4/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about experiencing God’s healing and redemptive beauty and goodness even in the worst of life’s circumstances.
Duration:00:32:01
Well-Being or Non-Being - It's Our Choice
7/18/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about what well-being and non-being really mean, and how we often do things we think are beneficial but really are not in our best interest and lead us father from God rather than towards Him.
Duration:00:32:34
Heat Without Light
6/26/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about what it means to create “heat” without “light” and how ego driven self-motivation and self-focus is poisoning society, and what we should be mindful of not to be contributors to this.
Duration:00:28:22
Living Intentionally to Live Life Hopefully
6/13/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about living intentionally to embed hopefulness in our body, mind and soul, and accept death with the hope of eternal life.
Duration:00:29:47
Clothed in Christ
5/18/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about what the Scriptures and our Holy Tradition teach us about the importance of clothing as it relates to salvation, communion, or lack thereof, and what our attitudes and actions toward clothing reveal about us individually and culturally.
Duration:00:33:22
Strangers in a Strange Land
4/27/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about what is means to be feel like a stranger in our own surroundings and in this world in general and why this actually a good thing.
Duration:00:26:24
Tears
4/18/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about the many different aspects of tears, why some tears are good, some are evil, what they indicate about our hearts, and why they are necessary for salvation.
Duration:00:30:01
Our Bodies and the Sin of Self-Neglect
3/6/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about how we often neglect our bodies, the physical and spiritual ramifications to ourselves and loved ones, how this is profoundly unspiritual, and what we need to think and do to treat our physical selves the way God intends us to.
Duration:00:30:41
How Much We Loved Not How Much We Sinned
2/21/2023
Join Michael for a discussion of the primacy of focusing on loving more not sinning less and why this will be the basis of how God judges our lives.
Duration:00:33:08
Dealing with Difficulties and Setbacks
2/6/2023
Join Michael in a discussion about prayerful and practical ways to frame our understanding in regard to our difficulties and setbacks, and deal with them in a spiritually healthy way.
Duration:00:29:40
Mutual Accountability and the Awesome Judgment Seat of Christ
1/17/2023
Join Michael in discussion of what it means in the Liturgy when the Priest prays “And let us ask for a Christian end to our life, peaceful, without shame and suffering, and for a good defense before the awesome judgment seat of Christ” and how that should drive our daily behavior.
Duration:00:28:42
Consumed Through Consuming
12/19/2022
We live in a consumer culture. Businesses gather and sell data and information about us to target us as consumers. We are increasingly treated more like consumers than persons. The Christmas season for many has become nothing more than frenzied consumerism. John Michael as he discusses the human person in the context of consumer culture, comparing and contrasting the language of consuming used in our Liturgy and throughout the Bible with modern notions of consuming and how this relates to our love and growth as human persons.
Duration:00:30:49
Hospitality and Our Salvation
11/25/2022
Join Michael as he discusses the deep theological truths of simple hospitality and how it directly relates to our salvation.
Duration:00:29:39