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!
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you. -1 Pt 5:10 Yesterday, I gave a few tours of our church during the Armenian Heritage Festival, and today I will give more. These tours are…
“The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit (Jn:3:8).” Toward the end of Lent, Narek got a nice early Easter present from a close friend. Named the…
Spiritual growth is always a two-step process. The first step is to stop doing and being evil, and the second step is to start doing and being good. This one two punch of Christian discipleship is found throughout our church life and liturgics. It’s why, before every morning service and any baptism, we first renounce…
‘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 Merry Christmas, everybody! I know, I know…it’s been a tough week, but not that tough…I just wanted your attention. Well actually, I wished you Merry Christmas…
During the forty days of Great Lent, as many of you know and some of you have practiced, it is our tradition to abstain from all animal products, eating only vegetables. Each year I attempt this, I end of eating lots of lentils, beans, and seeds and also find myself going online to read about…
Every couple of years Forbes magazine publishes a list of “The World’s top 100 Most Powerful People.” In the last edition, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Angela Merkel were among the top five most powerful. This should come as no surprise, since these heads of state sit atop multi trillion dollar economies, with one million…
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.”’Jn 7:37-38 A week ago we talked about how Jesus miraculously fed the 5000 with a few loaves of bread, but a short…