The moral of this powerful story is clear and always relevant. There is no venom quite so deadly as mistrust and fear. Fear of the unknown; fear of the other; fear of failure; fear of death—nothing causes spiritual and emotional paralysis more effectively than fear. It corrodes faith, cuts off our pathways for giving and…
Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers. Acts 9:31 ‘The shoe must never tell the foot how big it should grow.’ This is a good bit of wisdom about…
Very truly, I tell you…the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Jn 6:33 Our family is considering another attempt to travel to Armenia this Summer, and the one thing we are dreading is the 24 hours of planes and layovers. Daddy my shoe fell off. Momma,…
Introduction “Learning Lament” Has a PR Problem Our sermon series is called Learning Lament, and I will admit to you right off the bat that I realize the title has a PR problem. People either don’t know what Lament is, or they have negative associations with it. When I told the altar servers that the…
“No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.” -Prov. 12:3 I am reading a book called Boomerang by Michael Lewis, he is the financial journalist who wrote the Big Short and Moneyball. A common theme that comes up in his books are that the security of financial systems are…
Meet the men who first conquered Ararat! Mount Ararat has held a sacred fascination since the dawn of history. But it was not until the 19th century that any human being dared to conquer Ararat’s 17,000-foot elevation, and reach the summit. The story of that daring expedition is the subject of “Scaling Ararat,” the latest…
The sixth video in the series “Bread and Salt: Stories from the Armenian Church” shines a light on the meaning of candles in the Armenian Church.