You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. Mk 12:30 Are you a head person, a heart person or a gut person? This summarizes in one question our entire Lenten study using the spiritual personality typing of…
Life is full of turning points and so are our Holy Scriptures. There are always points in life where you might have gone one way or the other, and in choosing, things were never the same again. Or, as is often the case, we don’t choose events–sometimes events chose us. Alfred Nobel had one such…
[Jesus Christ] is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word.(He 1:3) More than twenty percent of adult Americans have a tattoo. That’s about 50 million people. Surprisingly, I have been called to consult on a couple tattoos. I’m asked questions…
‘When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be…
This Tuesday in the Armenian Church sacred calendar, is the Feast of Saint Abgar, the first Christian King. From the tile, this feast doesn’t seem particularly relevant. Mention saints and kings and we see images of bearded men in purple robes, a golden halo echoing, a golden crown and gold rings on every finger. Saints…
And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more…so that on the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God. (Pp. 1:9-11) This Sunday in the Armenian Church calendar is the pre-festive or…
Speak the truth in love. I think this phrase captures much of the discipline we Christians should seek in nurturing relationships. Like many spiritual disciplines, speaking the truth in love sounds easy until you actually try it. When we do, it seems we always end up falling short on one side or the other, speaking…