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Not Rejection, But Redirection

On my way back from a family funeral service for Nora Keuroghlian, God rest her kind soul, I passed a sign in front of a humble church with the phrase “God’s ‘no’ is not a rejection but a redirection.” Funny that a sign on Curlew road can reveal wisdom for our everyday lives which also penetrates the depths of God’s relationship…

‘Does Anybody Want Anything?’

And this is the confidence we have in God, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. –1 Jn. 5:13-21 We get a fair amount of visitors and newcomers to…

God’s Maternal Nature

“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” Is 66:13 We speak of God the father dozens of times in liturgy, i.e…our doxology begins “Park Hor—Glory to the Father…” This is proper, of course, as the Bible speaks constantly of God as a father. But today…

Trash to Triumph

Our church does indeed believe in recycling and has been earth friendly for over seventeen hundred years. But we also believe in recycling on a much deeper level, which goes to the heart of what it means to be Armenian Orthodox Christians. You see we don’t just recycle things, we repurpose them. These vestments I…

Fear Not, Fear God!

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…

Word World

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…

Find the Words

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,…