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Armenian Church Community of Tampa Bay St. Petersburg Florida
Sunday Worship & Fellowship: 10:30AM-1:30PM
Weekly Sermon (Page 14)
A life well lived is filling in the blanks in the course of our lives, in joy and in sorrow, until who we are, where we came from and what we are here for, is revealed to us and all those we love well.
This weekend our church remembers the day when Mary and Joseph named their child Jesus. We commonly say that this feast of naming happens eight days after Christmas, but that is an anachronism. In our church, the naming of Jesus is Christmas just as much as his birth and his baptism, they are all part…
Don’t stop with being just children of God, for we have great work to do as we grow up! I think that’s the special message which the Armenian Church and other Orthodox churches have preserved in celebrating Jesus’ baptism, as we are today, as one piece with his Christmas birth. Jesus was born, yes, this…
So here we are, and today I want to invite you into our Christmas scavenger hunt. If you want to be a Christian these days, you must go on scavenger hunts and work to recover the lasting things buried under so much stuff. For behind the inflatable lawn ornaments and the three billion dollars of…
It doesn’t matter how you learned to pray, the great equalizer is the prayer of desperation, the upside-down prayer, the prayer we pray with our backs up against the wall. And for so many people, scratch the surface of this holiday season and the New Year, and you will find times of great trial as…