Saint Luke Orthodox Christian Church
@saintlukeabilene.bsky.social
Ancient Faith, Liturgical Worship, Spiritual Discipline, and True Community: 501 Sunset Drive, Abilene, TX 79605
www.stlukeorthodox.net
www.stlukeorthodox.net
If we want to straighten up like the woman who had been bent over for eighteen years, we must become the Lord’s holy temples as we open our hearts to receive His gracious divine energies for strength and restoration.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
If we want to straighten up like the woman who had been bent over for eighteen years, we must become the Lord’s holy temples as we open our hearts to receive His gracious divine energies for strength and restoration.
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/12/06/h...
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/12/06/h...
If, like St. Andrew, we want to play our unique role in the salvation of the world, we must embrace the spiritual disciplines of this season of preparation for Christmas with faith, humility, and repentance. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/29/h...
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If, like St. Andrew, we want to play our unique role in the salvation of the world, we must embrace the spiritual disciplines of this season of preparation for Christmas with faith, humility, and repentance. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/29/h...
To indulge in self-centeredness will make us isolated individuals who view others either as enemies to be feared and conquered or as pawns to be manipulated. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/22/f... #Orthodox #Advent #Christmas #Theotokos
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
To indulge in self-centeredness will make us isolated individuals who view others either as enemies to be feared and conquered or as pawns to be manipulated. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/22/f... #Orthodox #Advent #Christmas #Theotokos
If we are truly sharing in the life of the Savior, we must not become like those who judged Him for treating tax collectors and sinners with compassion. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/15/h...
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
If we are truly sharing in the life of the Savior, we must not become like those who judged Him for treating tax collectors and sinners with compassion. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/15/h...
"This book is thought provoking, scholarly, and accessible for theologians and non-theologians. Fr. Philip offers a Eucharistic vision of marriage to present and resolve many of the issues, distortions, and confusions involving ethics and sex in our modern time." www.svspress.com.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"This book is thought provoking, scholarly, and accessible for theologians and non-theologians. Fr. Philip offers a Eucharistic vision of marriage to present and resolve many of the issues, distortions, and confusions involving ethics and sex in our modern time." www.svspress.com.
Since the Savior taught that “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” we must invest the treasure of our time, talents, and energy in tangible actions that convey the mercy of the Savior to the poor Lazaruses of our lives. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/01/p...
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Since the Savior taught that “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” we must invest the treasure of our time, talents, and energy in tangible actions that convey the mercy of the Savior to the poor Lazaruses of our lives. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/11/01/p...
He is not a saint because of his military prowess but because, despite the grave dangers to the soul of shedding the blood of others, he gained the spiritual strength to make the ultimate witness of shedding his own blood.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
He is not a saint because of his military prowess but because, despite the grave dangers to the soul of shedding the blood of others, he gained the spiritual strength to make the ultimate witness of shedding his own blood.
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We fool ourselves if we assume that malnourishment, homelessness, disease, trauma, imprisonment, and injustice are spiritually irrelevant. Were that the case, why would the Savior teach that however we treat “the least of these” is how we treat Him?
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October 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We fool ourselves if we assume that malnourishment, homelessness, disease, trauma, imprisonment, and injustice are spiritually irrelevant. Were that the case, why would the Savior teach that however we treat “the least of these” is how we treat Him?
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/10/18/h...
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/10/18/h...
Blessed Feast Day of Saint Luke, the Holy Apostle and Evangelist!
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October 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Blessed Feast Day of Saint Luke, the Holy Apostle and Evangelist!
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www.stlukeorthodox.net
Welcome home!
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Welcome home!
The icons are not merely religious art, but reminders that to become a truly human person is to become like Jesus Christ, Who refused to accommodate His ministry to what was popular and easy in first-century Palestine. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/10/11/h...
October 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The icons are not merely religious art, but reminders that to become a truly human person is to become like Jesus Christ, Who refused to accommodate His ministry to what was popular and easy in first-century Palestine. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/10/11/h...
Like it or not, the true state of our souls is revealed by how we treat those we find it hardest to love. That is why we must be on guard against obsessing about the failings of people who have wronged us and cultivating fear and anger against them.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Like it or not, the true state of our souls is revealed by how we treat those we find it hardest to love. That is why we must be on guard against obsessing about the failings of people who have wronged us and cultivating fear and anger against them.
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/10/04/t...
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Our hope is neither in perfection acquired by our own willpower nor in our ability to dominate anyone else, but in the gracious mercy of the One Who offered up Himself for our salvation purely out of love. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/09/20/h...
September 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Our hope is neither in perfection acquired by our own willpower nor in our ability to dominate anyone else, but in the gracious mercy of the One Who offered up Himself for our salvation purely out of love. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/09/20/h...
Let us take up the cross of refusing to fill our eyes, ears, and minds with media that tempts us to hate, disregard, or refuse to forgive anyone who bears the image and likeness of God. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/09/13/h...
September 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Let us take up the cross of refusing to fill our eyes, ears, and minds with media that tempts us to hate, disregard, or refuse to forgive anyone who bears the image and likeness of God. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/09/13/h...
"The Gospel in the Ashes" by Fr. Samer Youssef
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September 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"The Gospel in the Ashes" by Fr. Samer Youssef
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Today, education and human thinking have changed. People are formed in scientific reasoning, logic, and critical inquiry. They are more culturally aware, requiring the Gospel to be presented in a manner faithful to its spirit yet suited to the modern mind.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Today, education and human thinking have changed. People are formed in scientific reasoning, logic, and critical inquiry. They are more culturally aware, requiring the Gospel to be presented in a manner faithful to its spirit yet suited to the modern mind.
www.antiochian.org/regularartic...
www.antiochian.org/regularartic...
Let us celebrate the Nativity of the Theotokos by taking up our crosses as we turn away from all that distracts us from entering into the joy of the fulfillment of the ancient promises to Abraham to which the Savior has made us heirs by faith. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/09/06/h...
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Let us celebrate the Nativity of the Theotokos by taking up our crosses as we turn away from all that distracts us from entering into the joy of the fulfillment of the ancient promises to Abraham to which the Savior has made us heirs by faith. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/09/06/h...
Regardless of how right we may be in any disagreement, if we are so enslaved to the passions of pride and anger that we refuse to forgive anyone, then we reject our Lord because we refuse to conform our character to His.
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August 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Regardless of how right we may be in any disagreement, if we are so enslaved to the passions of pride and anger that we refuse to forgive anyone, then we reject our Lord because we refuse to conform our character to His.
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/23/f... #Orthodox #Christian #Abilene
easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/23/f... #Orthodox #Christian #Abilene
We will experience pain in our hearts when we persistently open even our deepest struggles and the darkest crevices of our souls to the healing of Christ. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/16/h... #Abilene #Orthodox #Christian
August 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We will experience pain in our hearts when we persistently open even our deepest struggles and the darkest crevices of our souls to the healing of Christ. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/16/h... #Abilene #Orthodox #Christian
We serve Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos at 6 pm this evening at 501 Sunset Drive, Abilene. All are welcome to pray with us!
www.stlukeorthodox.net
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August 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We serve Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos at 6 pm this evening at 501 Sunset Drive, Abilene. All are welcome to pray with us!
www.stlukeorthodox.net
www.stlukeorthodox.net
The path to transfiguration in holiness is open to us all and exemplified fully by the Theotokos, the woman who was the first receive Christ as His virgin mother and then to follow Him as a whole, embodied person into the heavenly kingdom upon her death. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/09/d...
August 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The path to transfiguration in holiness is open to us all and exemplified fully by the Theotokos, the woman who was the first receive Christ as His virgin mother and then to follow Him as a whole, embodied person into the heavenly kingdom upon her death. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/09/d...
We must not offer only bread and wine or think that communion with Christ concerns only what we do on Sunday morning. To be truly in communion with Christ means living every day as those who share in His life and are being transfigured in holiness. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/02/p...
August 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We must not offer only bread and wine or think that communion with Christ concerns only what we do on Sunday morning. To be truly in communion with Christ means living every day as those who share in His life and are being transfigured in holiness. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/08/02/p...
Read about "The Dormition Fast, August 1-14."
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August 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Read about "The Dormition Fast, August 1-14."
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www.antiochian.org/regularartic...
Like Elijah, we must cultivate the spiritual sensitivity to hear the “gentle breeze” or “still small voice” of the Lord and not to be distracted by the winds, the earthquakes, and the fires of our life and world. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/07/19/h...
July 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Like Elijah, we must cultivate the spiritual sensitivity to hear the “gentle breeze” or “still small voice” of the Lord and not to be distracted by the winds, the earthquakes, and the fires of our life and world. easternchristianinsights.com/2025/07/19/h...
Here's a newly published book about the "one flesh" relationship of husband and wife as a path to salvation!
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July 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Here's a newly published book about the "one flesh" relationship of husband and wife as a path to salvation!
svspress.com/sex-and-salv...
svspress.com/sex-and-salv...