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.
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Join Michael in a discussion of God’s essence and energies, other energies present in the world, and how we should really understand our motivations to ensure we participate in our actions with God’s grace and not with the enemy.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Tragedy, Clarity, and Reconciling Suffering
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Join Michael as he discusses questions about why good people suffer, bad people thrive, and reconciling this with the goodness of God.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion of what Christ said in the Gospel accounts, and what the New Testament in general says about being a thief or thieves, and how the symbolism of the thief applies to us and the choice of salvation or condemnation.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael as he uses the symbolism of the North Star to take a deep dive into the true nature of repentance and why we often misunderstand it to our detriment.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael for a discussion about the meaning of hypocrisy and what Christ said about it in the Gospel, and how to understand and protect ourselves from this deadly sin that causes us to wear “masks” and fall into self-deception, deception of others, and spiritual death.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about experiencing God’s healing and redemptive beauty and goodness even in the worst of life’s circumstances.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Well-Being or Non-Being - It’s Our Choice
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Join Michael in a discussion about what well-being and non-being really mean, and how we often do things we think are beneficial but really are not in our best interest and lead us father from God rather than towards Him.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about what it means to create “heat” without “light” and how ego driven self-motivation and self-focus is poisoning society, and what we should be mindful of not to be contributors to this.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Living Intentionally to Live Life Hopefully
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Join Michael in a discussion about living intentionally to embed hopefulness in our body, mind and soul, and accept death with the hope of eternal life.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about what the Scriptures and our Holy Tradition teach us about the importance of clothing as it relates to salvation, communion, or lack thereof, and what our attitudes and actions toward clothing reveal about us individually and culturally.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about what is means to be feel like a stranger in our own surroundings and in this world in general and why this actually a good thing.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about the many different aspects of tears, why some tears are good, some are evil, what they indicate about our hearts, and why they are necessary for salvation.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about how we often neglect our bodies, the physical and spiritual ramifications to ourselves and loved ones, how this is profoundly unspiritual, and what we need to think and do to treat our physical selves the way God intends us to.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael for a discussion of the primacy of focusing on loving more not sinning less and why this will be the basis of how God judges our lives.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael in a discussion about prayerful and practical ways to frame our understanding in regard to our difficulties and setbacks, and deal with them in a spiritually healthy way.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Mutual Accountability and the Awesome Judgment Seat of Christ
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Join Michael in discussion of what it means in the Liturgy when the Priest prays “And let us ask for a Christian end to our life, peaceful, without shame and suffering, and for a good defense before the awesome judgment seat of Christ” and how that should drive our daily behavior.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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We live in a consumer culture. Businesses gather and sell data and information about us to target us as consumers. We are increasingly treated more like consumers than persons. The Christmas season for many has become nothing more than frenzied consumerism. John Michael as he discusses the human person in the context of consumer culture, comparing …
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Join Michael as he discusses the deep theological truths of simple hospitality and how it directly relates to our salvation.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Remembering the Future to Reframe Our Past
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Join Michael as he discusses how we should understand time and reconcile our past through the eternally crucified Christ, and let Him transform it and free us of guilt, shame, and regret.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael as he discusses how we should see and experience ourselves and others as living icons of Christ, and how we achieve this through the difficult task unknowing ourselves.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael as he discusses the complementary nature of light and darkness, how both are under God’s control, and how we can understand this to maintain hope during tough times, grow in faith, and shine the Light of Christ to others.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael as he recounts a story of a good friend’s nervous breakdown and his experience of theophany, theosis, repentance, and God’s beauty amidst his trauma and suffering.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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Join Michael as he shows why restraint is Christ-like and liberating, and the path of ultimate freedom out of the self-inflicted tyranny of our own thoughts and behaviors.By Michael Haldas and Ancient Faith Radio
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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
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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
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