Antioch Alexander

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. What is the meaning of life?   What does it mean to be a human being?   These questions, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, are fundamental to our existence: among all of humanity, whatever religious beliefs, we ask the questions, “Why am I here?   What is the meaning of my life?” How then are we to approach these questions?   We look to our origins, our foundations.   Some will look to a Big Bang , which led to a series of causes and effects which, in turn, led ultimately to you and to me: in other words all my achievements and failures are not the result of me but of the cause and effect of the universe.   I can do nothing which has not been predefined by fate — an interesting concept in the age of secularism, science and reason.   Yet this line of thinking leaves no room for the cause of the Big Bang, the Ultimate Cause, from which our universe is th...

Brethren, grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore, it is said, “When He ascended on high He led a host of captives, and He gave gifts to men.” (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that He had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is He who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And His gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:7-13 At that time, when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee; and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulon and Naphtali, so that what was spoken by ...