"Palm Sunday" Explained by the Crunchy Christian Mar 24, 2024
Why do Christians do what Christians do? Ashleigh Hensch dives in weekly to help clear the fog of confusion with easy to understand Church history and tradition.
🌿 Blessed Holy Week, everyone! 🌿 what is Holy Week? When does it start? How do we participate in Christian worship during Holy Week? The short answer is: go to church 🤪, but I go into some more detail for those not familiar with liturgical worship/practices. This will be a series of videos, and we start with the start of Holy Week: Palm Sunday.
Yes, yes. Ashleigh cannot stop trying to make "Penitial Season" the noun into an adjective "penitentiary". Seems to be a glitch in her system, please forgive it 🙏.
The word "synoptic" means (1) affording a general view of a whole, (2) manifesting or characterized by comprehensiveness or breadth of view, (3) presenting or taking the same or common view specifically, often capitalized : of or relating to the first three Gospels of the New Testament. (Merriam-Webster). Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the synoptic Gospels because they generally agree, and are told in a similar way, of the account of Jesus. John's account is told in a different style, and so the accounts don't always line up nicely to his.
I'll try and get this edited and re-uploaded as quickly as possible, but didn't want to miss Palm Sunday! Please ignore the screaming toddler... he's fine, just resisting bedtime 😅
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"St Murphy" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Feb 27, 2024
"St Murphy" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Feb 27, 2024.
Scripture Reference: Romans 8:28; Genesis 50:20; Proverbs (like, most of them)
Prepare the Disciples for Works of Service. ♰ 🙏🦁
*** WE ARE ADDING "THE CRUNCHY CHRISTIAN" content created by Ashleigh Hensch to the Walk Like Lions ministry. You will find the videos on WLL Rumble channel and on Facebook: The Crunchy Christian.
Pastor (Fr.) Steven "Chappy" Balog is a retired Army chaplain and current rector of Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit in Prescott Valley, AZ. Each weekday morning, Chappy comes to you live via Facebook Live to bring hope, encouragement, and instruction in Christian daily living to help equip the You and every saint for a fulfilled life, living for God and his purpose in your life.
SUBSCRIBE to this channel and to (Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit) ACHSpv channel on Rumble.com for future messages equipping the saints for works of service. Visit us on our website: Walklikelions.com or ACHSPV.com or on Facebook @AnglicanChurchPrescott or come and see us live in Prescott Valley, AZ.
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"Colors" Explained by the Crunchy Christian Mar 07, 2024
Why do Christians do what Christians do? Ashleigh Hensch dives in weekly to help clear the fog of confusion with easy to understand Church history and tradition.
🎨Oh, what a cacophony of colors! If you've ever noticed that the vestments (special priest robes/clothes) or paraments (altar coverings) change at a liturgical church, you may be wondering why and when these changes happen. Today, it's all color talk! 🎨
✨New word: Adiaphoron (plural, adiaphora): a religious ceremonial or ritual observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden nor enjoined by the scriptures, or a matter having no moral merit or demerit. It comes from the Greek word adiaphoros, which means "indifferent" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/)
📜I learned that there was a word (adiaphoron) used to describe what my mother and I talk about often in this article, which also has some great explanations on liturgical colors from a "Western" perspective: https://www.lcms.org/.../chu.../colors-of-liturgical-seasons
📜I gleaned most of my Orthodox information (since I am not as well versed as I'd like to be in Orthodox traditions) from here: https://www.goarch.org/-/liturgical-colors-in-the-church and from here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://stnicholasoca.org/.../Why-Do-We-Do-That...
💡In my attempt to distinguish between Orthodox churches and "Western" churches, I sometimes call them "catholic" tradition. This is little "c" catholic, which means "universal", NOT big "C" Catholic which is used to references THE Catholic Church.
#crunchychristian #WalkLikeLions #liturgicalcolors #liturgy
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"Vacuum" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Feb 13, 2024
"Vacuum" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Feb 13, 2024.
Scripture Reference: Luke 11:24-26; II Peter 3:18; Hebrews 6:1; Colossians 1:9-10, 2:6-7; Psalm 92:12-14
Prepare the Disciples for Works of Service. ♰ 🙏🦁
*** WE ARE ADDING "THE CRUNCHY CHRISTIAN" content created by Ashleigh Hensch to the Walk Like Lions ministry. You will find the videos on WLL Rumble channel and on Facebook: The Crunchy Christian.
Pastor (Fr.) Steven "Chappy" Balog is a retired Army chaplain and current rector of Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit in Prescott Valley, AZ. Each weekday morning, Chappy comes to you live via Facebook Live to bring hope, encouragement, and instruction in Christian daily living to help equip the You and every saint for a fulfilled life, living for God and his purpose in your life.
SUBSCRIBE to this channel and to (Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit) ACHSpv channel on Rumble.com for future messages equipping the saints for works of service. Visit us on our website: Walklikelions.com or ACHSPV.com or on Facebook @AnglicanChurchPrescott or come and see us live in Prescott Valley, AZ.
#WalkLikeLions #WLL #dailydevotion #christiandiscipleship #faith #standfirm #wordofGod
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"Confession" Explained by the Crunchy Christian Feb 28, 2024
Why do Christians do what Christians do? Ashleigh Hensch dives in weekly to help clear the fog of confusion with easy to understand Church history and tradition.
I CONFESS, this episode is longer than I intend most videos to be, but it's a bigger topic so it needed more time to go over.
**please ignore the screaming children in the background. They are just playing, and there is no help for them 😅**
💡Topics to remember:
Venial is a "slight and pardonable offense"
In Persona Christi means "in the person of Christ"
In Persona Ecclesiae means "in the person of the Church", in contrast to In Persona Christi, where the priest is the "stand-in" for Christ to the Church, In Persona Ecclesiae is where the priest is the "stand-in" for the Church to God. These are two different schools of theological thought, though sometimes, you may find people blend the two thoughts together based on circumstance.
📖Bible Verses Quoted/Mentioned:
1 Corinthians 11:27-29 (having a right heart when receiving the Eucharist)
Matthew 27:51, Mark 15:38, Luke 23:44-45 (account of the physical veil being torn)
Book of Hebrews (lots of mentioning of the spiritual veil)
Proverbs 16:24 (power of words being used for good)
John 20:23 (authority to pronounce absolution)
🧓 Church Father quotes:
https://www.churchfathers.org/confession
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"Lent" Explained by the Crunchy Christian Feb 21, 2024
Why do Christians do what Christians do? Ashleigh Hensch dives in weekly to help clear the fog of confusion with easy to understand Church history and tradition.
**I'd like to thank my mom for this video, for pointing out I FAIL and that the word is not Penitentiary, but Penitential Season*. I knew that, but for some reason, my squishy fat/meat brain decided to momentarily forget that. So now you can play a game and count how many I times I totally messed that up 🤣**
Also! I didn't mention a cool new word related to this topic: Xerophagy, which is a noun that means "the strictest Christian fast which is observed chiefly in the Eastern churches during Lent or especially Holy Week and in which only bread, salt, water, and vegetables may be eaten and meat, fish, milk, cheese, butter, oil, wine, and all seasonings or spices are excluded" (Merriam-Webster). It's a Late Latin word of Greek origin, where xerophagia meant "eating of dry food".
Credits:
📜 Church Father quotes: https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/.../fasting-according-to...
📖 Bible References:
The Widow's Offering: Mark 12:41-44
Jesus's Teachings on Almsgiving, Fasting, and Prayer: Matthew 6
True Fasting: Isaiah 58
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"Iron Fist" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Jan 30, 2024
"Iron Fist" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Jan 30, 2024.
Scripture Reference: John 16:33; I John 5:4-5
Prepare the Disciples for Works of Service. ♰ 🙏🦁
*** WE ARE ADDING "THE CRUNCHY CHRISTIAN" content created by Ashleigh Hensch to the Walk Like Lions ministry. You will find the videos on WLL Rumble channel and on Facebook: The Crunchy Christian.
Pastor (Fr.) Steven "Chappy" Balog is a retired Army chaplain and current rector of Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit in Prescott Valley, AZ. Each weekday morning, Chappy comes to you live via Facebook Live to bring hope, encouragement, and instruction in Christian daily living to help equip the You and every saint for a fulfilled life, living for God and his purpose in your life.
SUBSCRIBE to this channel and to (Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit) ACHSpv channel on Rumble.com for future messages equipping the saints for works of service. Visit us on our website: Walklikelions.com or ACHSPV.com or on Facebook @AnglicanChurchPrescott or come and see us live in Prescott Valley, AZ.
#WalkLikeLions #WLL #dailydevotion #christiandiscipleship #faith #standfirm #wordofGod
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"Shrove Tuesday" Explained by the Crunchy Christian Feb 14, 2024
If you've ever been interested, or confused, or wanted to know more about Shrovetide/Shrove Tuesday (or Mardi Gras or Pancake Day) and Ash Wednesday 🥞🙏✝️, I put together all I know about those two things to hopefully shed some light! Thank you for watching!
Why do Christians do what Christians do? Ashleigh Hensch dives in weekly to help clear the fog of confusion with easy to understand Church history and tradition.
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"Battle of Brest" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Jan 25, 2024
"Battle of Brest" Walk Like Lions Christian Daily Devotion with Chappy Jan 25, 2024.
Scripture Reference: I Corinthians 15:58
Prepare the Disciples for Works of Service. ♰ 🙏🦁
*** WE ARE ADDING "THE CRUNCHY CHRISTIAN" content created by Ashleigh Hensch to the Walk Like Lions ministry. You will find the videos on WLL Rumble channel and on Facebook: The Crunchy Christian.
Pastor (Fr.) Steven "Chappy" Balog is a retired Army chaplain and current rector of Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit in Prescott Valley, AZ. Each weekday morning, Chappy comes to you live via Facebook Live to bring hope, encouragement, and instruction in Christian daily living to help equip the You and every saint for a fulfilled life, living for God and his purpose in your life.
SUBSCRIBE to this channel and to (Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit) ACHSpv channel on Rumble.com for future messages equipping the saints for works of service. Visit us on our website: Walklikelions.com or ACHSPV.com or on Facebook @AnglicanChurchPrescott or come and see us live in Prescott Valley, AZ.
#WalkLikeLions #WLL #dailydevotion #christiandiscipleship #faith #standfirm #wordofGod
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