I think we all can identify on some level with Elijah; we all have good days and bad days. Some days there is hardly anyone in church, no one can serve on the altar and the toilet is broken. Other days the church is full, as is the altar, and the toilet is still broken. …
Second only to videos starring cats, the most popular genre of clips and videos these days is the ‘epic fail’. Go ahead, open youtube today after church and type in ‘epic fail.’ You’ll see dozens of videos, each with a million views, of a parent getting on their child’s kiddy toy, and destroying the toy…
Jesus’ Resurrection was not resuscitation. He didn’t die and come back to live out his natural life, before eventually dying again. Jesus’ death was intentional, it had a purpose, and that purpose was to raise up all things, to Ascend to the Father and lead us to the same. Jesus’ Resurrection, the Gospels make 100%…
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed.—1 Jn. 3:2-4 For whatever reasons, God chooses not to reveal himself fully until the time is right, until his people are right. And because none of us like it when we aren’t in on the secret, we tend to make…
If you want God’s great magic tricks, head out to Tampa Bay in the evening and watch a sunset. If the beauty of the sunset itself doesn’t have you whispering a prayer, maybe one day you’ll see a giant cross in the sky or the face of our Lord in the clouds. But then let’s…
Today, May 8, 2022 is the Fourth Sunday of Easter in the Armenian church calendar, and also in this country, the day when we celebrate our mothers. We are a very diverse group of people in this church; in age, country of origin, politics and personalities. But there are two indisputable things we have in…
‘You may think at first that this old music, this ancient church is irrelevant, just ‘in the way.’ But listen a few more times, come to worship and fellowship with us for a while and you will find that this old music, this old church is ‘in the Way’ with a capital W, meaning ‘in…