What is true of writing is also true of the spiritual life. Nouns clutter, verbs move and inspire. Before Thanksgiving, Advent & Christmas were nouns, collections of things, they were verbs-powerful movements of the grace of God.
Armenian Church Community of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Florida
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Sermons (Page 10)
I want to leave you with a story which has always inspired me to live boldly beyond our perceived limits. Irish author Frank O’Connor tells, that as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the Irish countryside and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high, too difficult…
Visiting up North this time of year, as Fall gives way to Winter, has lessons for the soul. It reminds us of the seasonal nature of God’s creation, which you can lose track of in Sunny Florida. Life is seasonal. We live for a season and then we die, as the natural world demonstrates every…
A metaphor might help us make this more concrete. Imagine that you are standing near an airplane. That plane can do something that you cannot do yourself. You are held down by the law of gravity and no matter how hard you flap your arms, you cannot fly. The plane, on the other hand, was…
Helena surely knew the importance of establishing the historical reality of Jesus, as several generations had passed since his life and death and the personal connection to him and his witnesses was fading. She basically made one of the first known archeological expeditions, going to Jerusalem with a team, seeking out and discovering fragments of…
