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!
Every week, in preparation for my sermon, I read and listen to other people’s podcasts, sermons, and commentaries for inspiration. This is an important thing for me as a pastor to do, because if I am not myself reading and reflecting on God’s word every week, why would I expect you to. Doing my preparation…
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.’ Jn 3:16 Before the arrival of our children Narek and Nora, I received a good deal of unsolicited advice about parenting. “God gives us children to remind us…
Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?’ Mt 19:3 The content of today’s message from the Gospels is about marriage and divorce, but today I am not going to focus on the message so much as the messengers,…
This weekend, in the Armenian Church sacred calendar, we celebrate the feast day of “The Twelve Holy Apostles of Christ and St. Paul, the Thirteenth Apostle.” We would do well to think of the twelve apostles on this day, it was their faith and sacrifice which extended the sacrifice of our Lord to all corners…
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo, saying: The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. Therefore say to them…Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you…Zech 1:1-3 This week in the Armenian Church sacred calendar, Tuesday…
They say the whale swallowed Jonah/ Out in the deep blue sea? Sometimes I get that feeling/That same old whale has swallowed me If you’re like me, you also sometimes get that feeling, that same old whale has swallowed you. The circumstances vary for each of us, you might feel overwhelmed and stuck in a…
“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” –Matthew 12:7 Next Sunday is Father’s day. I expect that many of you, like me, who are blessed to have your father still living, might be scrambling to try to get something for your father to show your love. Well I am finding that the older a person becomes, the…