“The eye is the lamp of the whole body. If your eye is pure, then your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, then your whole body will be full of darkness. And if the light that is in you is darkness, how terrible…
Many of us think of Jesus’s perfection as something simple and static—he was good, kind, holy, sinless. He knew the Scriptures and followed the Father’s will. All good. But sometimes it seems like we don’t really understand what his divine perfection means. We view him through the lens of conventional…
“Which of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?” In real life, many people can neglect one sheep and not bother to look for it. Recent…
Jesus and Paul taught differently about spiritual gifts. At first glance, Paul surpassed Jesus in the complexity of the concept of spiritual gifts and their place in the structure of the church. Jesus’ parables (about the talents, for example) seem simple, even rustic, in comparison. However, if you look more…
One evening, in the last year of Jesus’ ministry, He and the apostles left Jerusalem. As they were climbing the mountain, one of the disciples expressed admiration for the majestic temple complex, illuminated by numerous lights. Jesus, turning around, predicted the sad fate of the temple and the city: “not…
What are the basic principles, the fundamentals of Jesus’s personality? Although we certainly cannot copy His qualities or His unique life path that ended with the cross, we can partially apply His sublime principles of life to our own lives. The concept of gradual spiritual growth cuts off the very…
What is the “green” Gospel? This is a teaching close to the words of Jesus himself about the Kingdom of God within man, which is like a green plant. Jesus told a large number of parables on this topic. If this spiritual plant grows in the mind and heart of…
In the history of the Church, we see how Jesus’ teachings on love, spiritual growth, and nonviolence were buried under complex doctrines of the Trinity, atonement, predestination, clerical hierarchy, and rituals ranging from infant baptism to indulgences and crusades. How could Jesus preach “love your enemies” when later Christians killed…
If I love, for example, a state or religious order, then my conversation with its ministers will be reduced to praise and dithyrambs, expression of bright feelings and loyal mood. What could thirteen-year-old Jesus talk about with the scribes and priests in Jerusalem? The conversation was certainly diplomatic, but its…
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How to come to know Jesus, to commune with Him, to discern His presence? The first decision is to devote as much time as possible to Him: read, study, return to what you don’t understand. Accumulate “Christ-hours” until the information coalesces into a recognizable face and study becomes an encounter. It seems that after a…
A person sits in the kitchen staring at their phone. They want to call someone — to tell how their day went, to complain, to hear, “I understand you.” They scroll through names and put the phone down. This one will be studying. That one will make a joke. Another will listen and then tell…
A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. We have known this since childhood and have almost stopped being surprised: a creature whose whole life took place on the surface of a leaf one day unfolds its wings. But what if the possibility of change is hidden in a person as well—change that cannot be imagined from inside…
