Saying goodbye is never easy. When I was about 9 years old, my family and I moved from our house to an apartment on the other side of the city. On moving day, just before we loaded the last of our ...

Around the Christmas period, most families are preparing for the festivities by hanging decorations, planning dinner parties, and thinking about Christmas presents. However, for Orthodox Christians ...

One way to start out the New Year is to invite God into your home and to ask for his blessings to flow into your home and family. There are many ways to start out the New Year, such as promising to ...

If home is where the heart is, it may be beneficial to have a blessing carved in stone on the front. While date stones featuring the year a home was constructed — and often the inhabitants’ names — ...

What are blessings REALLY? Why do we say, “God bless you”? In this episode, Jimmy Akin masterfully unpacks the mystery of blessings! From praising God to powerful invocative prayers that call down ...