Sermon by Diocesan Vicar Hayr Simeon Odabashian on June 23, 2024.
Armenian Church Community of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Florida
Sunday Worship & Fellowship: 10:30AM-1:30PM
Sermons (Page 4)
A reflection on Father’s Day by Dn. Kevork Demirjian.
Next Sunday is Father’s day. A nice American tradition, but not very old, it was just made official in 1972. Next Sunday, and every Sunday is Father’s day in our much older, 2000 year old church tradition. Kiraki is the Lord’s Day, God the Father’s Day. One things both traditions hold in common is it…
When we say Holy Etchmiadzin we reaffirm Orthodox and Catholics belief in sacred spaces. This includes the bricks and stones, architecture and icons of a place, as these can point to the story of God and man just as the words of the Bible do. And it is the story that is sacred. One Christian…
Today we celebrate the feast day of Elijah, renowned prophet of the Old Testament. One of our assigned readings describes Elijah’s great prophetic demonstration of the power of God-picture Billy Graham preaching to 100k in Yankee Stadium-Elijah was that impressive! The second reading, though, is much less dynamic. It portrays Elijah at the end of…
‘They act like they own the place.’ If you have been a boss or a landlord, you know this can be a good or a bad thing. The good part of a worker or tenant acting like they own the place is that they feel buy in. Apparently at Facebook/Meta ‘This is now YOUR company,’…
According to today’s scripture, and just about everything we read in the Bible, increase in numbers is never directly achieved by human effort, it always seems to be the result of something else that God has initiated. That’s what we see in today’s passage. The Apostles says that the new church was built up by…