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January 5, 2023
8 Years Old! Happy Anniversary
We celebrate the anniversary of our Daily Devotional in earnest on January 5. After 8 years of this devotional being a widespread outreach of our ministry, we are thrilled to announce that our little work to share the holy scriptures with you daily has crossed the 1 million views mark! Over 1 million views mean our efforts are touching people all over the world and reaching people with the sober and healthy…
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January 4, 2023
How Can a Man Be Born When He is Old? Part 3
The implications of this false idea are enormous! This notion that the Physical world and the Spiritual world are separate and disconnected causes all kinds of problems, and that is mainly because this idea is FALSE. The Physical world and the Spiritual world are ONE WORLD because Jesus bridges the divide. IF you live as if the Spiritual world is either unreal or irrelevant, you are going to fall into the false…
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January 3, 2023
Don’t Become Prey – Happy New Year!
The answer to the Choas of life, personally and societally, is an Incarnate Christ rather than an opposing philosophy and theology. Centering my thinking, my choices, and my mindset on the Mystery of Jesus Christ. The Enfleshing of God heals the divide between the physical and the spiritual. And in so doing, Jesus offers us the medicine that truly heals our broken lives.
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How Can a Man Be Born When He is Old? Part 2
Well, this has never happened before! After all these years of doing this devotional, we are sticking with yesterday’s passage again so we can unpack the power of this passage to set us up for some real spiritual growth and maturing in 2023! But be warned: Spiritual maturity takes a willingness to both to hear correction AND embrace the resetting of the whole idea of what a “normal” Orthodox Christian life is…
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January 2, 2023
How Can a Man Be Born When He is Old? Part 1
Happy New Year! At least that’s my prayer for you on this first Monday of the new year. Of course, we Orthodox started our New Year back in September, so this secular change of the calendar is just one more step for us as we celebrate the Church Year and learn the wisdom of our calendars being “Christianized” by our Purposeful Orthodox Faith! This brand-new devotional is a good start in mining…
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December 31, 2022
Happy New Year – The Year of Our Lord 2023
Another year has passed. 2022 has been filled with challenges, I have to confess. The pandemic saw much of our financial support dry up (over half of our monthly support), and we had to revert back to an all-volunteer staff. We made the cuts we needed to but we really regretted it! But now, things are looking up! Fr. Barnabas is getting back on the road and will be speaking around the…
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December 30, 2022
A Better Hope; A Better Covenant
A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas: Only 1 MORE DAY left to participate in the End of the Year Campaign and we are so close to our goal! While you’re thinking about it, go to FaithEncouraged.org and click the Donate button and make this gift today, or click the picture below! Thanks. Oh, and don’t forget to email me how Faith Encouraged helped you in 2022! email hidden; JavaScript is required Christ…
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December 29, 2022
Called Out Of Egypt
A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas: The year is almost gone. The Feast is upon us and we celebrate the entire feast and prepare for the New Year. We here at Faith Encouraged are preparing for the New Year as well. Will you help us before the year is done? Your gift of $5, $10, $20, or $50 is your way of saying “We support your work, Fr. Barnabas!” Click the picture…
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December 28, 2022
By Now You Ought to Be Teachers!
Christ is born! Glorify Him! On this 3rd day after Christmas, the Church calls us to remember what it costs to be a disciple of Jesus in the early years of the Faith. Today, we remember the 20,000 martyrs of Nicomedia. Yep, 20,000 at one time. This occurred in 303 while these witnesses of the Faith were gathered in church on the Feastday of the Nativity. These were killed for their faith…
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December 27, 2022
We Need to Be Marvelled!
A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas – We are just a few days away from 2023, and our Partnership Drive ENDS December 31st. For as little as $5 a month you can support our media work in the coming year. Just go to FaithEncouraged and become a monthly donor today! Click here – https://faithencouraged.org/make-a-do... and you can make a ONE-TIME gift OR become a MONTHLY donor to help us grow! Christ is…
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