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Like the snake was speaking the truth - just a satanic truth.

I miss the old Pencils and Prayer Ropes format.

Shout-out to my confessor, Fr. Stephen! I'd recognize his illustration anywhere.

I am an Orthodox priest. I do actually watch your stuff, not least because I know some of my people watch you, especially our catechumens. I think your content is great. I think we're free to differ on certain subjects! May God bless you and your work. Fr Mark

I think the key issue here is discernment. There’s a time to hold hard to dogmas and a time to lighten up in the hopes of exemplifying Jesus’s teachings. Jesus broke bread with sinners, i imagine he wasn’t glazing them but rather admonish their sins through his divine love

To agree to disagree. I do admit The Owl House does have some things that can be uncomfortable with some audiences (the presence of demons, LGBTQ+ themes, etc.) but I do like it for it's story and being of the few modern (post 2010) cartoons I do like. Most of the cartoons by Nickelodeon and later Cartoon Network during that span became unwatchable garbage with their oversimplified and ugly character designs and themes that don't sit well with me. Bottom line, I do respect your views on it.

“Help my unbelief” is possibly the most emotionally-driven thing you could do. Rather than investigating the reasons for your doubts, your advice is to hope that God will magic it away?

What motivates you and what do you do? I don't think anyone is a perfect Christian in this life, but we get better as we let God influence us, listen to Him, and even do things He asks us. Think less about what you are, and more about what is God calling me to do.

I would like to congratulate you, Bojane, on your ease and fluency in English- it is splendid; and yet I feel sure you did not learn it at a very young age (some peculiar English phonology wil probably always escape you) so this makes it doubly amazing. I understand that in order for you to share the good news it is good to have mastered this island's tongue so well. God bless you.

Brother Bojan, my brother in law killed himself. He was a meth addict who dealt with that addiction for many years after his wife cheated on him. He put her through school and helped her get a job. He took on a lot of debt to help her through school. Then he found out that she had cheated on him. He took meth to help him carry the heavy workload without feeling tired, which is very unwise. They got split up, and he had all the debt on his shoulders which he couldn't handle anymore. He decided to live in the streets and has been on the streets for about 10 years. Many times, he tried stopping his addiction as what he described he kept seeing sounded to me like demons. On September 3rd, 2024 he killed himself. His family is distraught. He had told us a while back that he didn't want to be in the streets anymore and he didn't want to go to jail(for petty theft to fuel his addiction). What should I tell his family to comfort them?

Orthodoxy in South America is very rare. I found a church in Argentina and Perú, but that's about it. I'm from Bolivia, where there are currently no orthodox communities I could find. Lots of roman catholic and protestant churches, and for some reason quite a few coptic ones as well. I'll pray for all those persons looking for a community and a way to the Orthodox Church. Please pray for me as well.

The Ancient Faith Psalter has all 150 psalms, but they’re organized in a unique way, giving you a lot of options when it comes to praying them. There are large groupings, which itself is separated into smaller packages. So you can pray the large group, smaller group, or just ignore that and pray what you like

Saints say you yourself can be your own deceiver

I came back to Christ a few months ago after being an atheist for 10 years, and that is exactly what I prayed: "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" He has blessed me with more and more faith each day. God is good. And what is more important is to follow the commands of Christ. Pick up your cross daily and follow Him. Don't get distracted by your ever-fluctuating emotions. That is living a life with yourself at the center and not Christ. Lord bless you all!

An excellent video. One suggestion would be to read the Psalms. Orthodox services are full of the Psalms for a very good reason. Reading the Psalms is of great help and benefit. Most importantly, as suggested, pray to Christ.

Bojan I'm so thankful to God you uploaded this. I've been struggling with basically the same thing for almost a year or two now. I was born and raised Orthodox and still consider myself Orthodox. In fact I pray almost every day and go to church almost every Sunday. However I do constantly feel doubt setting in that I might just be acting, that when I pray no one listens or that when someone dies that's the end. I know deep down that its not true and God is real but its almost like there is a layer in my brain blocking me from fully believing. It always comforts me to know I'm not the only one who deals with this and that we simply need to ignore these doubts and "feelings" and stay focused on God regardless trusting he knows what we're dealing with and has a plan. I do think this is more common nowadays due to the surge of atheism and agnosticism especially in many western countries which does test the faith of many. Some also (like me) deal with many intrusive thoughts that call for blasphemy against God or also sow doubt in the minds of people with this condition. Anyway again I'm very thankful for this and I'll be sure to save it so I can rewatch it when I struggle. God bless!

I feel like I don’t love God because I can’t stop sinning and even when I know I’m sinning, I continue sinning. Like I go to confession, Divine Liturgy, pray, but I fall back into sin after a few days. Like how do I avoid this trap?

Sin will teach you how to pray if you don't lose faith for God in the process

What struggle would there be if we could all know exactly what is true or false? What meaning would Salvation have if it weren't hidden by our willingness to sin? There would be no test of the Will

Thankyou Bojan. I had a similiar question and I found this very insightful.

Thank you Bojan! I've been going through a hard time and not feeling it lately and having to drag myself to my icon corner, and then I feel bad for not feeling like it and wondering if it still "counts." This is very encouraging

Reading the Sayings of the Desert Fathers and the Holy Gospels always renews my faith!

good point: emotion and belief are not the same thing.

I needed this message today. Thank you!

Great video but can we start with the 'hands...hands' thing again? 😉

Extremely useful video for the current age , thank you Bojan

Hi, I am a Christian and for the last couple of months I have fell away from god. I don’t know how to get back on track and I keep falling into sin. I feel like my prayers are worthless or even that I don’t put enough effort into them. I don’t even know if god here’s me with all the sin I have done. So now I barely talk to him and when I do I don’t even know what to say or where to start so I just stop after a minute. I stopped reading my Bible and even though I grew up in the Orthodox Church my parent stopped going since Covid and the only church I could go to is Protestant. Please help me get back on track, I am so lost. I want to have a relationship with god but I keep prioritizing him last. What should I do? Where should I start? How do I get to feel like god is listening to me again? I think I have become lukewarm. Thank you, I hope you see this comment.

Thank you for the video Bojan Glory to God!

Hello

Great video!

hopefully first :-)

A Christian who does not know his lord Jesus would be easily swayed to other religion because to him it does not matter if he would be good and do good. However, to believe in Jesus Christ is to acknowledge that He is God, He came as man, died, and rose again on the third day; He came to save the sinners, for all have sinned. As a Christian, as a believer, is to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is now sitting on the right hand of God the Father and the Holy Spirit is helping us to live right and to do good. To be good and to do good are not for blessing; to be good and to do good is the duty of a Christian. God is good all the time. A Christian is to be Christ-like.

Hello, Bojan! I hope you're doing well. Although I consider myself to be agnostic, I've been watching your main channel for a while now and I love your illustrations. I have a few questions, if you have time/want to answer them: How does one know they are Christian? As in, how does one "know that they know" that they have Christian beliefs and aren't just lying to themselves, or putting on a mask? Secondly, how does one get themselves to, or force themselves to believe in the Christian God when they simply just don't believe in it despite the evidence proving it's the most rational worldview? I've struggled with this topic for so long. Back when I was a "fake" Christian (looking back now, I didn't actually know much about theology, nor did I genuinely have Christian beliefs like I claimed to have), I tried convincing myself all the time, writing little notes to myself even, that I WAS a Christian and that the devil was just trying to make me believe that I didn't actually believe. I don't know how real my faith was or if I was just faking it the whole time and realized later on (when I started labeling myself as agnostic) that it wasn't genuine. Nowadays, I have these random emotional moments when I listen to my brother's chants/songs (he's Catholic), or when I read a certain scripture (I'm using a podcast to go along with a "Bible in a year" program), and I "feel" in those moments that I'm Christian and that I have actual Christian beliefs. But, after the feelings fade, it's like I snap back to reality and see that I don't actually have biblical beliefs. I have a hard time explaining it. Thank you for your time, if you get around to reading this.

Forcing yourself is the BEST thing you can do, I have never been closer to God than when I CONSISTENTLY forced myself to prayer and to read.

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Wait. Bojan looks 60 in the illustrations and miloş looks 45. This visual isn’t possible. Thanks for the encouragement

greeting Bojan, I really enjoy your channel I learn a lot of your content, simply and easy. Im Orthodox Christian and ethnicity is Hispanic American, I was a former Catholic and I found in Orthodoxy a very mystical approach of God.

When I read the title of this video my first thought was "I hope not, because I feel like I'm forcing myself most of the time."

Hi Bojan! I used to watch a lot of your content back in the day. I have a question, I heard you once tell a story about a priest, or someone, who died and was incorrupt, but the body was tested and it was found that, because he ate a lot of preserved food, it interacted with the natural decomposition process. I forget what exactly led to him being tested, but I think the point you were trying to make is that we should be careful to not rush calling something a miracle. Would you happen to have more details on this? Or a source? Thanks!

Where should I ask a question?

I like a number of different Psalters. Rafael (at the channel "Orthodox Review") has reviews of a number of different Psalters. 🙏🕯️☦️

I forget to pray so I have reminders to help me pray

Do you believe in ecumenism

My mind keeps coming to work without faith and faith without work. Like these both sit at each end of the specrtum of the lukewarm Christian and the one dragging their feet.

When I am not ready to pray, I listen to Orthodox chants like "Kyrie Eleison," which are very repetitive and meditative. This usually gets my mind and my heart quiet before the Lord. Then I am ready to say my prayer rule. Sometimes I will keep the chant on in the background while praying to keep my mind and heart focused on the Lord. God bless you.

Hey Stefan here thank you Bojan for answering the question I asked love the videos 👍 ❤

Hello Bojan I hope you will help out a Catholic here:) You have said in your videos that you should get a prayer rule from your spiritual father. I am Roman Catholic but I find that the eastern way of praying fits my temperament much better. I have begun praying St seraphim’s prayer rule but I feel like it is only the bare minimum. I can’t turn to my spiritual father since he is also Roman. Could you share some resources that could help or even your own prayer rule? Thank you in advance, and God bless.

Elder Theofanio Theodoropoulos said, when the devil said "your mind will be distracted, you're so tired!": "Let it be so. It means that half the battle is won."

I feel like I just go through the motions even when I force myself to pray and it's hard for me to stay focused on what the church is saying. Like during Divine Liturgy, I usually pray by myself during the service without listening to what the church around me is saying. And also, it's hard to hear what other people are saying because sometimes they mumble while singing and I have a bad ear

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