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Spiritual Warfare, Orthodox Christianity, Overcoming Sin, Faith & Personal Growth Michaela Nikolaenko Spiritual Warfare, Orthodox Christianity, Overcoming Sin, Faith & Personal Growth Michaela Nikolaenko

Practical Steps to Overcome Pride with Humility | Ep. 100

Is your sense of self worth based on what others think of you? Do you find yourself in constant conflict, feeling jaded at others for how they wronged you? Or perhaps you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders to have it all together all the time. If so, you may be facing the deadliest spiritual enemy of all: pride. Drawing from Scripture, "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" by Saint John Climacus, and "Thirty Steps to Heaven" by Fr. Vassilios Papavassiliou, discover how this "complete anti-God state of mind" destroys our capacity for genuine love and how cultivating true humility becomes the antidote to every other spiritual poison.

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