Ah - I can see myself in that exact situation! loving the church so much but still being consumed by this sin! Lord have mercy on us all. The mistakes we have all made are behind us, what matters now is how we go forward. The devil is strong and his…
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Jimmy,
Didn't read.
It is not credible.
There was a recent thread about this book.
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Yeah here:
http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php?topic=9273.0
I heard that some people say before man sinned, all animals were herbivores - none ate meat. But I dunno where that idea comes from.
As for God killing in the OT, in a Bible Study we talked about how death / sacrifice is always the payment for sin.…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10156.msg124381#msg124381 date=1292250924]
I think it would be good if this thread was allowed to die a natural death now.
Father Peter
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Haha I'm sorry Father.
When I made the thread I was actually lo…
One time when I was a kid I went to a weekday liturgy and served as a deacon. There was a lot of Body left over during communion so the deacons partook several times. After the third time Abouna called me up again to take and I put my hand up and sa…
Yeah just like ILSM said, we are reaching out to him in love. If he is struggling with this sin - it is just as if a part of us is struggling with this sin. We don't want to be "against" him, which will no doubt cause him to go against us as well. W…
If we ask him to come to the site, things will definitely get out of hand. And most of us, myself included, are not capable of dealing with this lovingly as it should be. Maybe, like TITL said, we can draft up an email together, maybe on a google do…
Oh kk. Fixed it. To add a simple reference, after the text you want to cite, you put
[http://www.google.com description of the link]
Like
[http://www.tasbeha.org An awesome site about Tasbeha]
Have you listened to the sermon on chastity here:
http://www.stmaryscopticorthodox.ca/media_sermons/spirituality/spirituality.html
It was posted earlier by someone on this forum
It really helped me understand the situation better. Though I still f…
Hey,
I'm in my second year of college and I think it was the opposite for me. Before college, I wasn't very religious, I hated going to church, and I hadn't even heard of tasbeha before. I went to a college very far from home and when I felt alone …
The fact that for 2000 years the Coptic Church has endured the fiercest persecution yet is still alive and well to this day is a testament to God's grace and proof that God is watching over us despite the persecution. God sees everything and will ta…
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Excuse me if i am being rude, but i used to read the agpeya soooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo much.....and now they just became wor…