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St John Orthodox Church

St John Orthodox Church

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St. John the Baptist is an Orthodox Christian church of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. We are located in Beaverton, Oregon (Portland westside). Most of what we upload are the weekly Sunday homilies, mainly offered by Fr. Theodore Dorrance and Fr. Timothy Pavlatos. Each recording begins with intonations of the appointed Epistle and Gospel readings. We cite the Gospel reading in the sermon title, as this is the passage on which the sermon is usually based. We trust ...
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Become Orthodox Podcast

St. Gregory American Coptic Orthodox Church

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The mission of this church is to serve those English-speaking Coptic individuals and families, as well as serve those who have converted to Coptic Christianity by offering only English and Coptic service. By God’s hand, we strive for an organized and thriving church that will nurture a sense of fellowship within its congregation, and focus on raising its youth with diligence, so that future generations may understand and fully appreciate the beauty of the holy sacraments and enjoy an intimat ...
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Healing Addictions

Fr. Christophe Lepoutre and Ancient Faith Radio

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The Orthodox Method of Treatment - This podcast series is an attempt to present a holistic and comprehensive perspective on the treatment of addictions combining the value of both traditional 12-step recovery fellowship participation and the pure methods of treatment within the Holy Orthodox Church as taught by the Fathers and Mothers.
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Walking and communion with God are not automatic. How then do you experience the reality of a personal relationship with God, or read your Bible and experience God’s presence? Put simply, how do you know God? These are huge questions that need serious discussion. Every Tuesday, Michael Durham of Real Truth Matters Ministries will lead in such a conversation. This podcast tackles the experiential side of Christianity with teaching, interviews, and question and answer episodes. If you want to ...
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This show places a unique emphasis on "deep theology and heavy conspiracies." We'll emphasize a diverse number of topics such as biblical theology, ancient texts, beliefs and practices, historical cycles and Catastrophism, alternative cosmologies, revisionist history, conspiracy facts and theories, Illuminati symbolism and hoaxes, disinformation and propaganda, contemporary events, alternative health and science, Christian philosophy, comparative religion and non-Christian cults as well as d ...
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Launched in April 2006, this podcast, originally named the "About The Church" podcast, has journeyed through a remarkable evolution. Its inception saw me, your host, deeply rooted in fundamentalist, evangelical Christianity, even holding the title of associate pastor. However, over time, my spiritual perspectives have shifted. In 2011, the podcast took a turn when I broke ties with the traditional institution of the church and "performance-based Christianity," prompting a rebranding of the s ...
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Send us a text If Christ is living in the believer, how can we discern who is living? The Apostle Paul said, ". . . it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh . . ." He says he doesn't live but then turns around and says he lives. Which is it? And how can both Christ and Paul live in the same pers…
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Send us a text How does the law of the Spirit of life in Christ work? It is the principle that Christ lives in us by the person of the Holy Spirit. This dynamic becomes a law, meaning Christ is always in us because the Holy Spirit is always in us. His life is a constant. The life of the Spirit becomes, to the Christian, a governing principle or law…
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Send us a text What is spiritual maturity, and how do we achieve it? We hear this term in church and among Christians, but have you ever wondered what it is? How would you define spiritual maturity? This is so important because we are commanded to "grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ." We are exhorted not to remain babes but to…
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Send us a text What is spiritual maturity, and how do we achieve it? We hear this term in church and among Christians, but have you ever wondered what it is? How would you define spiritual maturity? This is so important because we are commanded to "grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ." We are exhorted not to remain babes but to…
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Send us a text This is the second of two very special episodes. RTM director Michael Durham is joined in the studio with his two adult sons. They will discuss growing up as PKs (preacher's kids) and their conversion. You will discover biblical parenting insights, whether you are a pastor or not. Also, this will be a behind-the-scenes look at the hi…
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Send us a text This is the first part of two very special episodes. RTM director Michael Durham is joined in the studio with his two adult sons. They will discuss growing up as PKs (preacher's kids) and their conversion. You will discover insights into biblical parenting, whether you are a pastor or not. Also, this will be a behind-the-scenes look …
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From July 2021 through August 2023, I had published many updates about my spiritual faith evolution in this podcast. However, it has now been a whole year since I’ve published anything about my faith journey. This has caused many people to become curious about the sudden silence over the past year. Today, I woke up, listened to a piece of content t…
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Send us a text In this final episode on the subject, Killing Sin, Michael Durham explores and explains the final principle: how to be violent toward sin. We are commanded to do this, but we cannot do it without the Holy Spirit's help and power. You can learn what it takes to fight and kill your sin in a very practical and biblical way. If, by chanc…
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Send us a text If we are to obey the Scriptures and fight our sin, we must supply the heart with a greater fascination and obsession than the sin we are fighting. The heart cannot equally pursue two opposing desires. The key is to expel a lesser longing with a greater, more pleasure-offering desire. When the heart is offered a superior affection, t…
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Send us a text We have thus far shared two necessary principles or biblical strategies for fighting sin. Principle one is an intense desire to be free from the sin. Without this, why would you fight against your sin? Principle two is an intense hatred for the sin in question despite the fact that it has an attraction to the flesh. You not only want…
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Send us a text In this series, we explore how we can put to death sin. As the Apostle Paul defined it, "the deeds of the body," that is, the remaining impulses of sin that use the natural desires of the mind and body to act contrary to the Holy Spirit. In this episode, Michael Durham states the first two principles of how we can, through the Holy S…
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Send us a text How do you kill sin? How do you stop sin in its tracks? How do you face temptation and overcome its appeal? Temptation has appeal; it has attractiveness. Otherwise, it would not be tempting. How do you confront it and put the stake through its heart? In this episode, we will learn where temptation begins and how it starts. This is ex…
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Send us a text In this final episode on the assurance of salvation, Michael Durham shares how faith is to fight so that you can know peace with God. What should you believe, and how do you deal with your doubts? If you have not already secured your copy of Michael Durham's book, The Fight of Faith: How a Christian Can Experience Assurance of Salvat…
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Send us a text Sanctification is the work of God conforming Christians to the image of Christ, meaning it is the process the Lord uses to make us more like Jesus. But what role does our sanctification play in our having confidence we have been genuinely saved? In this episode, we continue our study of the assurance of salvation by looking at this q…
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Send us a text Continuing our theme on assurance of salvation, today, RTM speaker Michael Durham explains the relationship between confession of sin and assurance. The two are related and confession plays a vital role in your experience of assurance. Many express confusion on why the Bible requires confession of sin when all our sin is already forg…
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Send us a text In this episode, Michael Durham continues to show how a biblically informed mind needs to think for doctrine to become experiential, meaning real and felt. Too many Christians think that learning doctrine is the goal. The more information they learn about God, the more they assume they know God. But that is only half of the process o…
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Send us a text In this episode, we resume our examination of the assurance of salvation. The lack of assurance is from a lack of knowing God on a personal level. Assurance is based, in large measure, on how accurate one's knowledge of God is, and how the doctrine of God is translated into a felt conviction. In this episode, Michael Durham begins to…
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Send us a text In this episode, join RTM evangelist and director Michael Durham alongside RTM associate evangelist Nate Freeman as they discuss the sealing work of the Holy Spirit as distinct from the baptism with the Holy Spirit. This is the third installment of a discussion between the evangelists on the work of the Spirit, which started as a rev…
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Send us a text In this episode, join RTM evangelist and director Michael Durham alongside RTM associate evangelist Nate Freeman as they try to unravel the intricacies of the Holy Spirit's works in the Christian life. The focal point of their discussion lies in Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's teachings on the baptism of the Spirit and the sealing of the Sp…
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Send us a text Welcome to the Real Truth Matters Podcast with your host, Michael Durham! Joining Michael in the studio for the first time is special guest Nate Freeman, RTM associate evangelist, bringing a fresh perspective to the conversation. In this episode, we take a break from the current study of the assurance of salvation and embark on a jou…
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Send us a text This is part two of our study of the assurance of salvation. In our last episode, we laid down the premise that a great deal of the struggle with the lack of assurance is due to a lack of understanding and belief in justification by faith alone. If you have not yet listened to episode one of The Assurance of Salvation, go back and li…
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Send us a text Many Christians struggle with assurance temporarily; some struggle off and on for years, and others struggle their whole Christian lives. Michael Durham deals with assurance in a way that diagnoses the cause of assurance struggles. He gets to the root cause of why a Christian grapples with God's acceptance. In this podcast, the focus…
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Send us a text This episode discusses how to combat and cure our spiritual downturns. As already explained, all Christians suffer this malady from time to time. No one is exempt. Therefore, if we experience it, it stands to reason that we need to know how to see its end and experience recovery from spiritual declension. Please listen and share this…
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Send us a text We have already looked at some of the causes and the root of not growing in grace but instead digressing. Spiritual declension is defined as any lessening of the heart’s fascination with Jesus Christ the Lord. In this episode on spiritual declension, we continue by learning how to detect it. It is essential to overcome spiritual decl…
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Send us a text How is it possible for the child of God to turn away from following the Lord? How do sheep go astray? What makes people who have been loved by God, who has done nothing but good to them, drift in their love for Him? In this episode, RTM founder and director Michael Durham will answer these questions. There is one root from which all …
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Send us a text Do you know why you suffer times of low devotion, a weak heart, and lukewarmness? There’s more to it than meets the eye. With this podcast, we begin a new topic we want to dive into for the next few weeks. That topic is spiritual declension. Now, what do those two words mean? Please listen as Michael Durham explains.…
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