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…
‘A proud man’ wrote Lewis ‘is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.’ Pride also distorts our second love of others. ‘Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,’ Lewis continues, ‘only out of having more of…
Jesus is not saying that God has a hit squad that takes out people who are sinners, and you could be next. Jesus’ whole life is contrary to that. What he seems to be saying is that, since we are all going to die, and since we are all sinners, the only way that our…
I want to leave you with a story which has always inspired me to live boldly beyond our perceived limits. Irish author Frank O’Connor tells, that as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the Irish countryside and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high, too difficult…
Helena surely knew the importance of establishing the historical reality of Jesus, as several generations had passed since his life and death and the personal connection to him and his witnesses was fading. She basically made one of the first known archeological expeditions, going to Jerusalem with a team, seeking out and discovering fragments of…
Jesus, somehow led the Apostles in a manner opposite to how our society leads today. He didn’t make a team of ‘factional friendships’ of those who saw things the same way on. He didn’t assemble a bunch of moderates, or even people that were like him. What Jesus does with the disciples and wants to…
Yes God has extended his hand to us Armenians throughout the centuries, and we can see how he has written himself Diarnagrer Er, all over our history, in our alphabet, in the thousands of churches which bear his form, in the 100s of thousands of khachkars (cross stones) which dot the countryside and mark the…