“The Prayer Team” is a daily devotion written by Fr. Stavros N. Akrotirianakis, written every day since February 2015. Fr. Stavros is the Parish Priest at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, Florida. It began in February 2015 as an opportunity to write more on the subject of prayer and now has branched into other subjects.
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. As you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the Gospel of God in the face of great opposition. Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we are imperishable. Well, I do not Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Jesus said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. But we beseech you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and Read more…
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. II Corinthians 3:17 Today’s reflection will be about “freedom” in honor of Independence Day. There is a saying that states “freedom isn’t free.” As we celebrate Independence Day today, I think back to the Founding Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. For a whole year they met with the church, and taught a large company of people; and in Antioch the disciples were for Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to Him, He said in a parable: “A sower Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great Read more…
Welcome to The Daily Prayer Team messages, each day includes a passage of scripture, a reflection and a prayer. Sponsored by Saint John Greek Orthodox Church in Tampa, FL. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. And He Read more…