Author Topic: Picture of the Day (Read 1765238 times)

Quote from: orthonorm on August 19, 2011, 12:32:09 PM
Any context for the first? Curious.

Yes:
http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,38963
http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,19933

Thank you. Very interesting and lovely photograph.

augustin717 · « **Reply #695 on:** August 19, 2011, 01:03:58 PM »

Great-grand father's burial.

Severian · « **Reply #696 on:** August 19, 2011, 01:04:20 PM »

Quote from: celticfan1888 on August 18, 2011, 10:36:02 PM

Quote from: Severian on August 18, 2011, 09:55:12 PM
Should this be my next avatar?

YES!

That settles it, I guess. When I get bored of this avatar that'll be my next one.

orthonorm · « **Reply #697 on:** August 19, 2011, 01:06:05 PM »

Quote from: augustin717 on August 19, 2011, 01:03:58 PM

Great-grand father's burial.

Memory Eternal!

augustin, can you explain a little about what is going on in the photo. From your previous avatar, I guess your great-grand father was in the military?

If too personal, I understand.

augustin717 · « **Reply #698 on:** August 19, 2011, 01:11:20 PM »

Quote from: orthonorm on August 19, 2011, 01:06:05 PM

Quote from: augustin717 on August 19, 2011, 01:03:58 PM
Great-grand father's burial.

Memory Eternal!

augustin, can you explain a little about what is going on in the photo. From your previous avatar, I guess your great-grand father was in the military?

If too personal, I understand.

No, he was just an illiterate peasant. From grand-mother I know he was kinda churchy and violent, cursed a lot etc.
It's the funeral procession heading to the cemetery.

biro · « **Reply #699 on:** August 19, 2011, 06:13:45 PM »

PeterTheAleut · « **Reply #700 on:** August 19, 2011, 07:56:50 PM »

Quote from: biro on August 19, 2011, 06:13:45 PM

Can't eat him.

Shiny · « **Reply #701 on:** August 20, 2011, 01:24:45 AM »

John Piper uses his dark Calvinistic magic.

He is just predestining God to make truth fit his ideas.

Gebre Menfes Kidus · « **Reply #702 on:** August 20, 2011, 01:39:25 AM »

Quote from: Achronos on August 20, 2011, 01:24:45 AM

John Piper uses his dark Calvinistic magic.

He is just predestining God to make truth fit his ideas.

I must say that he is one of the more tolerable evangelical Calvinists out there. But still...

Selam

akimori makoto · « **Reply #703 on:** August 20, 2011, 05:29:36 AM »

Quote from: Gebre Menfes Kidus on August 20, 2011, 01:39:25 AM

Quote from: Achronos on August 20, 2011, 01:24:45 AM

John Piper uses his dark Calvinistic magic.

He is just predestining God to make truth fit his ideas.

I must say that he is one of the more tolerable evangelical Calvinists out there. But still...

Selam

I will be hearing from him in person next week or the week after. Anything I should be particularly interested in or wary of?

Poppy · « **Reply #704 on:** August 20, 2011, 05:40:39 AM »

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I will be hearing from him in person next week or the week after. Anything I should be particularly interested in

yeah, whoever told him that jacket whent with that tie and shirt lolOl

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or wary of?

his magic wand

Volnutt · « **Reply #705 on:** August 21, 2011, 03:36:04 AM »

mike · « **Reply #706 on:** August 22, 2011, 01:08:31 PM »

Volnutt · « **Reply #707 on:** August 24, 2011, 11:01:30 AM »

Gebre Menfes Kidus · « **Reply #708 on:** August 24, 2011, 11:31:24 AM »

Quote from: akimori makoto on August 20, 2011, 05:29:36 AM

Quote from: Gebre Menfes Kidus on August 20, 2011, 01:39:25 AM
Quote from: Achronos on August 20, 2011, 01:24:45 AM

John Piper uses his dark Calvinistic magic.

He is just predestining God to make truth fit his ideas.

I must say that he is one of the more tolerable evangelical Calvinists out there. But still...

Selam

I will be hearing from him in person next week or the week after. Anything I should be particularly interested in or wary of?

I read his book "Desiring God: Confessions of a Christian Hedonist" years ago, when I was still Protestant. I like the book back then, but now I would probably find it very unOrthodox. The thesis of the book is that the purpose of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. A neat idea that appealed very much to me at the time. But now that I'm Orthodox, I realize that the experience of God is not always pleasant or enjoyable. The experience of God is inextricably linked to the Cross. Of course, Christ enables us to bear our Cross, and the Holy Spirit is our ubiquitous Comfortor. But the Christian life is arduous, and there is no nove theological innovation that can help us escape the struggle.

To be fair, John Piper might not disagree with this. But I am now very leary of all these famous Protestant preachers who keep trying to put their own unique heterodox spin on the ancient Christian Gospel.

Selam

vamrat · « **Reply #709 on:** August 24, 2011, 12:09:26 PM »

Quote from: Volnutt on August 24, 2011, 11:01:30 AM

I know how I am playing chess next time!!!

Volnutt · « **Reply #710 on:** August 24, 2011, 12:22:34 PM »

hehehe!

Shiny · « **Reply #711 on:** August 26, 2011, 03:06:50 PM »

Signed by James Earl Jones

IsmiLiora · « **Reply #712 on:** August 26, 2011, 03:20:16 PM »

I want one signed by the real author.

PeterTheAleut · « **Reply #713 on:** August 26, 2011, 03:31:11 PM »

Quote from: vamrat on August 24, 2011, 12:09:26 PM

Quote from: Volnutt on August 24, 2011, 11:01:30 AM

I know how I am playing chess next time!!!

Smoking or no smoking?

Volnutt · « **Reply #714 on:** August 26, 2011, 07:19:45 PM »

Quote from: IsmiLiora on August 26, 2011, 03:20:16 PM

I want one signed by the real author.

I'm sure there are some people out there who think James Earl Jones is God...

Reminds me of when people would always try to get celebrity televangelists to sign their Bibles.

akimori makoto · « **Reply #715 on:** August 26, 2011, 08:00:24 PM »

Quote from: Gebre Menfes Kidus on August 24, 2011, 11:31:24 AM

Quote from: akimori makoto on August 20, 2011, 05:29:36 AM
Quote from: Gebre Menfes Kidus on August 20, 2011, 01:39:25 AM
Quote from: Achronos on August 20, 2011, 01:24:45 AM

John Piper uses his dark Calvinistic magic.

He is just predestining God to make truth fit his ideas.

I must say that he is one of the more tolerable evangelical Calvinists out there. But still...

Selam

I will be hearing from him in person next week or the week after. Anything I should be particularly interested in or wary of?

I read his book "Desiring God: Confessions of a Christian Hedonist" years ago, when I was still Protestant. I like the book back then, but now I would probably find it very unOrthodox. The thesis of the book is that the purpose of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. A neat idea that appealed very much to me at the time. But now that I'm Orthodox, I realize that the experience of God is not always pleasant or enjoyable. The experience of God is inextricably linked to the Cross. Of course, Christ enables us to bear our Cross, and the Holy Spirit is our ubiquitous Comfortor. But the Christian life is arduous, and there is no nove theological innovation that can help us escape the struggle.

To be fair, John Piper might not disagree with this. But I am now very leary of all these famous Protestant preachers who keep trying to put their own unique heterodox spin on the ancient Christian Gospel.

Selam

Thanks, Gebre. I generally belong to the "if it feels amazing you're probably doing it wrong" school of Christianity (which is hopefully close to the teaching of the Church), so it will be interesting ...

Shiny · « **Reply #716 on:** August 26, 2011, 10:02:23 PM »

What an awesome cover

Volnutt · « **Reply #717 on:** August 26, 2011, 10:32:13 PM »

At first I thought that second by line said "Bobby Ghanoush."

augustin717 · « **Reply #718 on:** August 27, 2011, 12:21:04 AM »

Another old family picture

biro · « **Reply #719 on:** August 27, 2011, 02:38:52 PM »

From the Lyons, IL news site Suburban Life:

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Olga Bertosa of Westchester walks to the pew after paying respect to saints at the alter during the service held at St Nikola Serbian Orthodox Church Sunday August 14, 2001. The church has had a presence for a year in the community.

News:

Author Topic: Picture of the Day (Read 1765238 times)