Our Gospel reading today shows us in a powerful way that if you want to get anywhere in life Jesus can get you there. And he can get you there fast. It is written that the disciples just starting rowing across the lake, a vast lake and when they saw Jesus immediately the boat reached…
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…