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…
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. –Jn 1:1-3 God speaks and we get it, no other creature is like this. So when we…
Krisdos Hareav ee Merelots! Christ is Risen from the Dead! Not only am I warming up the crowd with that greeting, I also intend to make this our simple and profound Easter greeting the topic of today’s sermon. Like any greeting, like ‘how are you,’ it is used so formally that it can lose its…
A Sermon for the Burial Service of Our Lord 04/02/21 Jesus’ funeral is hardly like the funeral of a king. Heads of state and religious leaders and crowds of people would honor any real king at his passing. Important people would eulogize him. Yet at the funeral of the most influential human who ever lived,…
A Sermon for the Service of Washing of Feet 2021 The closest thing we have to a sacramental renewal of our baptisms is tonight’s service of the washing of feet, Votnlva. Votnlva is of course similar to baptism in its use of water and oil and its imagery of repentance and cleansing. But it also…
Behold, your King is coming to you, lowly, and sitting on a donkey. -Mt 21:5 ‘What if the donkey on which Jesus was riding had thought all the cheering was for him? What if that small animal had believed that the hosannas and the branches were in his honor?’ Behind the humor, this is a…
Witness to the Armenian Orthodox Way Review The Two MountainsIn session two I mentioned a quote about tribalism and community from David Brooks’ book which I got for my birthday The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. The concept behind that title of that book ‘the second mountain,’ is based on a profound…