Sacramental Living show

Sacramental Living

Summary: Sacramental Living is a series of podcasts by Michael Haldas about how to understand and live our Orthodox Christian faith in the context of real life and real world issues and continually grow closer to God.

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  • Artist: Michael Haldas, and Ancient Faith Ministries
  • Copyright: Ancient Faith Ministries

Podcasts:

 Our Thoughts (and Actions) Determine Our Lives | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Many of us have read the book Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives by Elder Thaddeus which is packed with holy wisdom. However, our thoughts gives rise to our actions, and our actions in turn reflect our thoughts. We are held to account by God for both what we think and what we do. Join Michael as he discusses the relationship to thoughts and actions, how we often entertain and get seduced by the wrong thoughts, and can make philosophy, psychology, and even theology and excuse to not have the right thoughts or take the right actions.

 The Liturgy of Human Need | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael as he offers a reflection on how and why the liturgical life of the church should be lived continuously both inside and outside of the church walls, how Christ teaches and demonstrates this in the Gospel, and how we can sometimes make our liturgical worship a requirement instead of a means to draw closer to Christ and love others.

 The Liturgy of Human Need | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:36

Join Michael as he offers a reflection on how and why the liturgical life of the church should be lived continuously both inside and outside of the church walls, how Christ teaches and demonstrates this in the Gospel, and how we can sometimes make our liturgical worship a requirement instead of a means to draw closer to Christ and love others.

 Not Losing Heart in These Troubling Times | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:13

Join Michael as he discusses what it really means “not to lose heart” according to Christ and St. Paul, examines the scriptures where these words are used, looks at their meaning in the original Greek, and why we actually have a responsibility to others not to lose heart.

 Not Losing Heart in These Troubling Times | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael as he discusses what it really means “not to lose heart” according to Christ and St. Paul, examines the scriptures where these words are used, looks at their meaning in the original Greek, and why we actually have a responsibility to others not to lose heart.

 Self-Denial or Self-Desire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:58

Join Michael as he discusses the danger of giving into the wrong desires, some of which seem benign but aren’t; the struggles we encounter on the journey from self-desire to self-denial; what authors such as Lewis, Tolkien, and others can teach us; and ways we can frame our thought to help us with this important struggle.

 Self-Denial or Self-Desire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael as he discusses the danger of giving into the wrong desires, some of which seem benign but aren’t; the struggles we encounter on the journey from self-desire to self-denial; what authors such as Lewis, Tolkien, and others can teach us; and ways we can frame our thought to help us with this important struggle.

 I Don't Feel God | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael as he discusses what we should do when we feel like God is absent from our lives, and how we can overcome the tyranny of our negative thoughts and feelings that create this false sense of separation.

 I Don’t Feel God | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:47

Join Michael as he discusses what we should do when we feel like God is absent from our lives, and how we can overcome the tyranny of our negative thoughts and feelings that create this false sense of separation.

 Do We Want to be Well? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:45

Join Michael for an in-depth discussion of healing, what Christ demonstrates in the Gospels, and some surprising reasons why we are and are not as open to healing as we’d like to think.

 Do We Want to be Well? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael for an in-depth discussion of healing, what Christ demonstrates in the Gospels, and some surprising reasons why we are and are not as open to healing as we’d like to think.

 Imposter Syndrome and the Enemy Within | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael in an in-depth discussion about the self-defeating voice in our head that makes us feel like imposters who we will be discovered a frauds, the internal and external influences that feed this negative self-talk, and how we can overcome it in Christ.

 Imposter Syndrome and the Enemy Within | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:13

Join Michael in an in-depth discussion about the self-defeating voice in our head that makes us feel like imposters who we will be discovered a frauds, the internal and external influences that feed this negative self-talk, and how we can overcome it in Christ.

 God, COVID-19, and PTSD | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Join Michael as he tells the story of a family who all contracted the virus, what they suffered, what medical experts and articles are saying about COVID-19 and PTSD, and how we can understand this spiritually.

 God, COVID-19, and PTSD | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:55

Join Michael as he tells the story of a family who all contracted the virus, what they suffered, what medical experts and articles are saying about COVID-19 and PTSD, and how we can understand this spiritually.

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