Spiritual Warfare: Fighting Demons, Our Passions and Sin

About this episode

Kara Mosher and Michaela Nikolaenko discuss their experiences and changing views on spiritual warfare as ex-occultists and ex-Protestants who have embraced Orthodox Christianity.

Join Michaela Nikolaenko and me as we discuss how our view on spiritual warfare has changed. Michaela and I have a similar path; we are both ex-occultists and ex-Protestants and now newly Orthodox Christians. During our journey into the Orthodox faith, we both fell victim to misconceptions about spiritual warfare. As occultists, we both encountered demons. Not realizing what they truly were yet, we were tricked into believing they were our spiritual "friends," trying to utilize them on our p...

People in this episode

Host: Kara Mosher

Guest: Michaela Nikolaenko

Topics covered

• spiritual warfare
• Orthodox Christianity
• occultism
• demons
• personal journey

Keywords

• spiritual warfare
• Orthodox Christianity
• demons
• occultists
• personal journey
• misconceptions

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