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@JonahInWales 2 күн бұрын

Father Bless! 🙏🏻❤️

@FaithEncouragedTV Күн бұрын

@@JonahInWales The Lord’s blessings

@KirstinParker-iw8fr 2 күн бұрын

Bless

@riapresley5446 2 күн бұрын

Beautiful

@michelleg8432 3 күн бұрын

Where’s Fr Barnabos?

@FaithEncouragedTV 2 күн бұрын

@@michelleg8432 Our parish is in Cumming, GA. It is a suburb north of Atlanta in the US.

@JonahInWales 8 күн бұрын

Father Bless! 🙏🏻❤️

@adambogle5093 9 күн бұрын

Father Barnabas - I come from Pentecostal (Assemblies of God) background and and currently inquiring at Christ the Savior GOC where Fr. Stephen Mathewes is Pastor. He told me about your ministry and I am very thankful that he did. Thank you for your transparency and wisdom. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

@mavisemberson8737 9 күн бұрын

Thanks

@JonahInWales 17 күн бұрын

Father Bless! 🙏🏻❤️

@petermentis5106 17 күн бұрын

Fr. Barnabas, thank you for your timely and timeless homily. The way you merge The Word, story telling, humanity and applying relevance to us and leaving us wanting to look internally to see where we stand with the Lord is a gift. Thank you again. Αχιος!

@FaithEncouragedTV 17 күн бұрын

Thank you. Please pray for us.

@dogechrist 17 күн бұрын

True

@mickkali 18 күн бұрын

Thank you Father. Your homilies make me think, reflect and want to be better ❤️

@KirstinParker-iw8fr 18 күн бұрын

God is Greek 😂

@nicholasbailey157 21 күн бұрын

So many times I hear visitors say, “I feel such a sense of the sacred here. Finally.”

@tedp629 16 күн бұрын

So very true, and I felt that way too

@williamdickson468 22 күн бұрын

8:32. Choose. No coercion. No force. No " you must". We humans choose, of our own free will; darkness or The Light. Choose.

@JonahInWales 22 күн бұрын

Father Bless! 🙏🏻❤️

@DSSCat 22 күн бұрын

Great sermon Father. Appreciate all you do.

@ProtestantismLeftBehind 22 күн бұрын

I love it! The stewardship of God, his love, power, time, and life was directed toward the apple of his eye. May we do the same.

@portcontainer9727 28 күн бұрын

I am Greek Orthodox from Thessaloniki, up near Mount Athos in Greece, and I just love your energy and passion. I also love your humour. The meeting of American energy and temperament with Orthodoxy, is a great blessing for the world. Let us thank God for this.

@FaithEncouragedTV 28 күн бұрын

@@portcontainer9727 Thank you. Please pray for me.

@tedp629 27 күн бұрын

Very nice comment

@JonahInWales 28 күн бұрын

Father bless! 🙏🏻❤️

@FaithEncouragedTV 28 күн бұрын

@@JonahInWales The Lord’s blessings

@JustinBrasfield-dk8kt Ай бұрын

Also big point about contract versus relationship with ontological aspects

@JustinBrasfield-dk8kt Ай бұрын

"I've finally found something that is large enough for the borders of the human soul. Something I don't find the end of. Something that will keep my attention for the rest of my life." Wow

@mansourannab7078 Ай бұрын

المجد لله في العلى وعلى الارض السلام وفي الناس المسره كل سنه وانتم سالمين يارب☦️☦️☦️

@LNR65 Ай бұрын

The scandal of orthodoxy is that it's a false religion and cult based on racism and nationality.

@ghassansayegh2383 Ай бұрын

Ameen +++Hallelujah +++

@jamesarmstrong6666 Ай бұрын

Thanks to you Fr. Powell. I started listening to you 5 years ago, and I am now a full member of an Orthodox parish where I live. May God continue to bless you.

@Andrew2k18 Ай бұрын

God doesn’t need anything from us? Then why does he want us to pray to him everyday, to go to church every week, and give him (through a church) 10% of our income ? He seems very needy.

@louiiks6292 Ай бұрын

Why does he want us to pray to Him everyday: because He loves you, and if you love Him you would want to talk to Him everyday all the time. Just like if you love your wife; you will want to call her everyday. Why go to church every week: Divine liturgy is akin to heaven on earth, a worship that is happening outside of time. To show our love and faith and commitment, we go to church. If you love your wife, you would want to spend time with her. Other benefits of church include: having the priest as your spiritual father to guide you, a supportive community we can call brothers and sisters, partaking of the sacrements. Why give 10% of our income: God is the creator of all things. He made all matter and non-matter. All things physical and spiritual. He put this phone in your hand so you are able to read this comment. He makes sure you are fed everyday. The shelter you have over your head. The 10% should be given with a sense of gratitude for the things we have and appreciate. God isnt looking for quantity, He's looking for cheerful givers, who give from their heart. [Mark 12:41-44] "And he (Jesus) sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”" Other benefits of 10% to the church: keeps the church alive, allows the church to do works to help the less fortunate, allows for expansion to spread the faith. I hope these answers your questions. I do hope you come to liturgy sometime, all are welcome. God bless!

@benw1827 24 күн бұрын

All of that is for our good and for His glory.

@MariaEVasquez-ye6zh Ай бұрын

Don’t have the words to express the gratitude for the wonderful Orthodox message of salvation and eternal life. The Holy Orthodox Church is the fountain of Inmortalice; the greatest spiritual treasure on earth.

@dimitriosvlissides5781 Ай бұрын

Πολυ ωραιο κυρηγμα γεματο ελπιδα

@johncarsone1579 Ай бұрын

Well & powerfully said!!!!- Thank you so much Father.

@peter_eva Ай бұрын

To follow up on my greetings note, I wanted to comment on the point of God not needing anything to exist and be. The only rational answer of why God would create life and Man, enter His own creation and then be sacrificed in it FOR their sake would be love. To me, it's a paradox. Orthodoxy is chalk full of paradoxes though. This one however, is the icing on the cake. God chose to share his energies with created beings and by doing do, He imparted a path to theosis. My mind almost stops when I truly attempt to process eternal life in Christ, our God. Great sermon again Father. May God grant you all that you deserve. Many years to you in your parish with good health and love. Υγεια και αγάπη

@meropivannooten5240 Ай бұрын

"and nothing will ever be the same again" beautiful life-changing words....thank you Father🙏

@My2bits-wp7ig Ай бұрын

Let them who have ears to hear, hear...

@ΓεωργιοςΖαχαρακης-τ3β Ай бұрын

Amen

@user-xi6wi3mv8r Ай бұрын

Greetings from Corinth Greece..happy new year.father... amazing powerful sermon

@goodlife_9940 Ай бұрын

Amazing homily! Thank you Father!

@Blessedmomma12 Ай бұрын

I’ve never in all my life heard an Orthodox Church service until today. One from Kansas and then this… my Father was a Baptist preacher who talked with his hands. This was very comforting and surprising ! Great message! Bless you Father:)

@NicBob89 Ай бұрын

That’s not a service - it’s an intermission. The liturgy is 1.5 -2 hours and is pretty standardized globally but in different languages. People from around the world glorify God in the exact same way. It is the liturgy of St John Chrysostom, you can look up the liturgy if you like 😊

@Blessedmomma12 Ай бұрын

@ I definitely figured it was just a short segment of the sermon:) the one I listen to yesterday morning was a orthodox church out of Overland, Kansas, and they did the traditional liturgy that you’re speaking of. It was very beautiful.

@NicBob89 Ай бұрын

@ very nice!! You are so lucky to have so much in English also ❤️

@Blessedmomma12 Ай бұрын

@norwardradtke1361 Ай бұрын

Yeah and the nice thing is they are told to give no more than about 8 minutes of a sermon, I believe it was one of our Church elders that suggested this, otherwise you start to lose your congregations attention. This one is about that length which I feel is perfect.

@Blessedmomma12 Ай бұрын

@ on my own, I could definitely listen to much longer sermon. But if I have little ones at my feet, which I usually do eight minutes is perfect! Morris is caught and taught, and perhaps they will catch the gospel as well :-)

@earlryburn3037 Ай бұрын

I love the message Father. Thank you! Blessed Feast day and New Year! You were my favorite professor at St. Athanasius College!

@surikat-q9i Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the Eastern Orthodox church is not a gospel-centered church. It is a legalist church. It is a synergistic theology. It always starts with the gospel ''Christ offers and gives you eternal life'' and, always immediately, it continues like this ''but''. And they start to demand things from you. But he said ''God does not demand something from you''. This is exactly their way of speaking so that you think they mean something they do not mean. They do not love the gospel. They mean ''God started something and offers it, but it depends on you, on your free will if you accept it and keep it and prove it or you won't''. This is not the gospel. This is a kind of Islam. If you really want gospel-centered theology and church, find a confessional lutheran one and read the lutheran confessions. There is where you will find the truth, the best explanation of the Bible. Avoid the liberal lutheran churches which are lutheran in name only. Find an LCMS church, WELS church, churches like this, confessional ones.

@ImMyBeloveds_HeIsMine Ай бұрын

Thank you for your inciteful comment. I've been looking into Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox to decide if either resonates more with the gospel than the other. I'm currently attending an Anglican church ACNA affiliated. I find that the issue I have going through to the RC or EO is that it feels more legalist to say the least. I also find it odd because EO seems very humble yet they remind me somehow of Pharisees when it talks about making it harder for people to understand Torah therefore have a genuine relationship with God. That isn't to say these folks don't, but I feel some of their traditional methods may obscure the gospel truth.

@peter_eva Ай бұрын

Αμην (amen) Fr. Barnabas. Greetings from Toronto, Canada. Δοχα τον θεο ...glory be to God

@BarbaPamino Ай бұрын

🙏🏼

@KnoxEmDown Ай бұрын

The preaching style of a southern protestant, yet with the theology of the Orthodox Church.

@surikat-q9i Ай бұрын

They have exactly the same soteriology with Baptists. Find a lutheran church.

@evanhi450 Ай бұрын

Why is that? Have you heard an Orthodox Preacher in a Foreign language?

@KnoxEmDown Ай бұрын

@@evanhi450 Yes actually, in Arabic with subtitles. As for this priest's style, it's likely because he was formerly a charismatic protestant, according to other comments on his videos.

@evanhi450 26 күн бұрын

@@KnoxEmDownNever seen a Charismatic Heretic!

@evanhi450 23 күн бұрын

Charismatic and Heretical is like water & Oil being united Charismatic Orthodox you will notice if only if your next to them in there Presence.