If the New Testament was a book like any other, we would say that it is badly written. It shows us nothing of the development of its main protagonist Jesus.  We know nearly nothing about where he came from, how he was raised and was socialized.  We know nothing about how his upbringing affected his…

it just so happens that today on Armenian Christmas, celebrating the baptism of our Lord, we have one of the greatest calls and responses the world and this church has ever known. As Jesus is being baptized in the river Jordan, suddenly the heavens open, the Spirit of God descends like a dove and a…

Dn. Alex Calikyan’s Sunday message on how we derive authority in our society and in God’s kingdom.

The Son of God could have taken the world by storm, with the power of a hurricane, but instead He came quietly like the winter snow falling softly in the night-what beauty there will be when we wake from our slumber! Our church calendar and Scriptures know of the hidden blessing of quiet and rest…

With faith in God, we can be assured that though we go around in circles in our sin and suffering; all the while God is gently lifting us up.  Repentance and faith in God assure us that not only is repeated sin and suffering a learning loop, it can also be a spiritual spiral, that…

‘A proud man’ wrote Lewis ‘is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.’  Pride also distorts our second love of others.  ‘Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,’ Lewis continues, ‘only out of having more of…

Jesus is not saying that God has a hit squad that takes out people who are sinners, and you could be next.  Jesus’ whole life is contrary to that.  What he seems to be saying is that, since we are all going to die, and since we are all sinners, the only way that our…