Download Your Copy The Sunflower: Conforming The Will Of Man To The Will Of God By John Maximovitch Distributed In Paperback

Stoicism:
One of the best books I've ever read on the question of how A Good God permits suffering and how this suffering aids in our salvation.
For those who love God, all things work together for good, for those called according His purpose salvation, Romans:

Great book on Orthodox soteriology,

New favorite book A book you'll need to read again, Very simple prose, but with many layers, "May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflowers, so that even in days of hardship and sorrow we will continue to sail unerringly along the sea of life, following the directions of the barometer and compass of Gods will that leads us to the safe haven of eternity.
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This is a thoroughly practical manual of the spiritual life focusing on the central goal of every Christian: learning the will of God and struggling to mold our life to it, just as Christ “humbled Himself and became obedient.
” Phil.:Even more fundamentally, St John

addresses the question of why we should care about Gods will, Finally, the reader will find eternal wisdom running through these writings on questions of theodicy, free will, and Divine Providence,

This work is reminiscent of the classic text Unseen Warfare in its historical genesis as an Orthodox redaction of an originally Roman Catholic text.
First published inas The Heliotropium it was the work of a German Jesuit writer Jeremias Drexelius, The future St John adapted this text for an Orthodox audience as a student and then teacher at the Kiev Academy in thes but it was not published until, just a year before the authors death.
This is the first English edition of St Johns text, further edited and abbreviated for the contemporary reader, St John Maximovitchwas Metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia, His veneration among the people grew after his repose to the point that he was canonized by the Russian Church in, becoming the last canonized saint of the pre Revolutionary period.
He is best known today as the namesake and ancestor of the greatth century saint of the Russian diaspora, St John of Shanghai and San Francisco.
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