Weekly Sermons from St. Hagop Armenian Church features the weekly talks by Fr. Hovnan Demerjian during our Sunday Morning service. Please do share sermons or offer your comments!
Introduction to Healthy Church Culture & Why It is Important Prayer that God bless this Lent and this study….Իմաստութիուն Հոր Հիսսւս 1 Why Lenten Study? Thank you for joining us in church and via livestream for our sermon series 5 Signs of Healthy Church Culture. I love Lent and I love our Lenten Sermon Series.…
Today’s feast of the Presentation of the Lord commemorates the day when Mary and Joseph, following tradition, took their 40-day old son Jesus to the temple and offered him back to God. For, as written in Mosaic law; “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice…
O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. -Is 64:8 This week the leadership team of our church finished up our annual report, sent it yesterday via email and today has made copies available in the narthex for those without…
Very truly, I tell you…the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Jn 6:33 Our family is considering another attempt to travel to Armenia this Summer, and the one thing we are dreading is the 24 hours of planes and layovers. Daddy my shoe fell off. Momma,…
‘It is I; do not be afraid.’ –Jn 6:20 There is a parable from the ancient East about a deadly disease that meets up with a large family travelling by caravan to Baghdad. ‘Why are you travelling to Baghdad?’ asked the family elder. ‘To take five thousand lives,’ said the disease. On the way back, they…
Timing is important. What’s the most important part of telling a good joke……timing. Timing is important in jokes, and it’s important in sermons. Until I figured out the 2.45 second delay between the live stream video and audio, my sermons looked like old Bruce Lee movies. Timing is important in conversations. Zoom meetings have unexpectedly…
“This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased.” (Mt 3:17) Gabriel Garcia Marques, in his classic 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, writes about a village in Central America. A virus strikes this community and the virus causes amnesia. It becomes necessary to hire people from the outside world to…