Understanding Christianity as a Way of Life - 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.
Join Michael as he reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision and why we need more than ever to remain prayerful and faithful within ourselves, and civil with each other.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses the success of failure and the failure of success, and how our worldly success can be a blessing or a curse depending on we approach it spiritually.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael for a discussion on how to understand and overcome the subtle spiritual deafness and spiritual blindness we can suffer from that leads to spiritual heart disease.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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I Wish I Hadn’t Done That But Thank God I Did
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Join Michael for a discussion on how to avoid being paralyzed with guilt and shame over our worst failures, and experience God at work within them.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Healing the Soul through Self-Forgiveness
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Join Michael for a discussion on why forgiving ourselves is often so hard and what we need to understand and do to open our hearts to self-forgiveness.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he examines trauma and traumatic episodes from his life, and explores how to use them to develop a deeper trust in God.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he examines what it means to experience true freedom, and why what we think is freedom is a form of bondage we don’t recognize.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he examines the role expression of opinion plays in society today, how to guard ourselves against our own and other’s opinions that fuel our pride and cause anger and division, and what to do to maintain humility, thoughtfulness, and love of others.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses how we should understand God’s authority versus secular notions of authority, and why rejecting and tearing down authority does not result in liberation and freedom but rather the opposite.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses why we need separation that is holy before we can have true unity with each other; and how many are choosing an unholy type of separation based on fear, ideologies, and other things are the entry to the wide gate leading to destruction.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he addresses our choices and what we consent to that results in us either growing in holiness and union with Christ, or an unholy union with the devil that leads to our gradual and eventual complete destruction.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
What do we deserve in life? Anything? Everything? Join Michael as he addresses the various ways we can focus on what we deserve and how most of them lead us in the wrong spiritual direction.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Episode 100 – Dealing with Our Inner Darkness
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Inner darkness. We all have it whether we admit or not. How do overcome it? How do we find our way to Christ the Light and master our inner darkness? Join Michael as he addresses these questions in-depth and shows we can find our way to the Light no matter what darkness we are in.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Saving Ourselves and Others Through Patience
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Join Michael as he provides an in-depth discussion of the many spiritual aspects of patience that are critical to our salvation and the salvation of others, and how lacking this virtue is more spiritually harmful than we may realize.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as explores the subtly of idolatry and the little gods that lurk behind our idols that lead us slowly down a dangerous spiritual path.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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The Only True Religion or the Completely True Religion
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Join Michael as explores the question is our Orthodox Christian religion the only true religion or the completely true religion, and the how our answer to this question affects our internal self and outward behavior to detriment or betterment of ourselves and others.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses why God’s wrath is an expression of His love, what hinders us from understanding and accepting this, and why it is debilitating when it is intended to be transformative.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Eros, Agape, and Ordering our Disordered Desires Through Suffering
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Join Michael as he discusses what eros and agape really mean and why they cannot be separated, how growth in love is deeply linked to suffering, how disordered desire can grip us, how we never truly sin alone, and how it always affects both us and others when we act on our disordered desires.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Darn those Darnels: Acquiring Discernment in this Age of Deception
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Join Michael as he discusses what a darnel is and what it means to us, how easy it is to be deceived by the spirit of the age, and what we need to do to ensure we gain and apply Christ-like discernment in all matters.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses the challenge of living our Orthodox faith and Holy Tradition fully and without compromise, and witnessing effectively and lovingly to others outside of the faith. Listen as he explains how easy it is to fall into the trap of putting God in neat little box in our minds and hearts how this is detrimental to ourselves and…
Join Michael as he explains why we need to become, and always stay, “enchanted” by God through sacramental understanding and participation, and how this is our witness and demonstration of the truth of the Gospel.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he expounds upon these words we sing and chant between Pascha and Ascension Thursday and what they should mean to us even as we continue to face the reality of death.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses false power versus real power, our attraction to the former at our own expense, and how the powerlessness Christ demonstrates for us is the true power we gain when we let go of our need for control and surrender to God.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses how we are either living in repentance or rebellion at any given time in our response to God grace, and how this determines the quality of our existence both now and in the life to come.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
Join Michael as he discusses the failure of the first fast in the Bible and its implications to us; how fasting is not about food the way we typically approach it; and fasting’s corporate and communal nature and what it means to us as persons not individuals.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio