When they explain the Apostle Paul’s words: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7), some people dissent from God’s intent. They say that “the true believer” is inevitably, that is, always, stronger than any “psychological disorder”! You do not ...
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Words of Love
In order for the words about God and about life with Him to cut to the hearts of people, it is needful that they see us sleeping and rising on God’s love. No words are truer than love.
Read moreA Story From Hollywood
Before Zach Galifianakis entered the world of film acting, he befriended “Mimi Haist”, the elderly lady he met in a California laundromat. He proudly tells that this lady has taught him to take care of his clothes. After he got immersed in acting and its concerns, he stopped seeing his friend “Mimi”. He rose in ...
Read moreGifts of the Spirit
He who seeks the gifts of the Holy Spirit for himself as well as for all people with one passion and one determination, is he who truly knows that the Spirit is the Giver. This does not only have to do with the awareness that the One Spirit cannot be monopolized up, but also that ...
Read moreGaby Habib
We have lost Gaby Habib, the beloved brother. Knowing him was one of the gifts of my commitment to the Orthodox Youth Movement (MJO). He has not always been here in Lebanon. Nevertheless, he has always been here! His humanity, rich in its depth and magnanimity, in addition to what I like to recall about ...
Read moreSami Madi
Sami Madi returned to his "Father's house". Only eloquent faces know that life, in its details, is not right unless it is contented with God as its foundation. When I met him thirty-four years ago, he said to me: “Our church is small. There is an idea among us to build a new church that ...
Read moreTo Love Knowingly
The words sown by God in our days are picked up by no other than he who is always bound to reading them and seeking to obey them as if he is hungry for acts of love. This is to love knowingly.
Read moreThe Testimonial of Love
I do not know if I have told you about her before. She was a sweetheart to many. She was poor, and poverty, as it seemed, favored her over all the people she knew or did not know. In human words, she is a widow who has no one, not any one. This was her ...
Read moreLove is Free
Every time it is proven to me that someone is boasting about something he finds beautiful in himself, I say that: “this one is in need of someone to love him or (in need of) understanding that love is always free”. Nothing restores our senses like our belief that “love does not seek its own” ...
Read moreChrist is Risen!
This morning, we woke to the news of the departure of two angels from among us to heaven, Nabil Al-Dibs from Mina Tripoli, and Rony Saad from Qannabet Brummana. Both men were two of our brethren who were well-pleasing in love and service, loving the Word and serving its people. Rony was a beacon in ...
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