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Some people are very comfortable with selling themselves, after all that’s the way of the world, and don’t hide your talents. Others are very uncomfortable with it, after all pride is the queen of sins, and humility is the key to truly knowing God. Jesus, as always shows a third way, the way for Christians…
Today, on the Feast of the Holy Translators, we remember St. Mesrob Mashdots & St. Sahag Partev. We know who they were right? Yes they created the Armenian Alphabet and oversaw the translation of Bible and others texts to Armenian. What they did with language translation in their time was amazing and revolutionary. But, truth…
St. Hagop is God’s home and your and my home. We are stewards of it and stewardship is literally what has made this church-it’s a gift literally from floor to ceiling. Stewardship is also what makes a Christian, floor to ceiling-head to toe. This is not metaphor. By Jesus’ example, it is literally true. Jesus’…
Don’t underestimate the importance of the homeroom class. We spend so much time making sure our kids get the best in math & science education and we outsource that to institutions-schools; fine. But never forget that the most important things in life, character, values, right & wrong, gratitude, what I believe about my life, these…
Here now is how the Christian is to respond to pain and suffering, by turning not to the god of mammon, but the true, living God. When we do, our pain is not only acknowledged, but we find a partner in pain, a God who suffers through and with us. A God who redeems old…
What is different for Christians, though, is that we not only strive to finish our own masterworks, we allow God to finish his masterwork, which is you, and me, and every soul in the world and all of his creation! In this way, everyone has a masterpiece which is their own life, and you are…
Paul says, don’t trust your eyes, don’t trust your vision-100%-because your hard-wired glasses, the invisible glasses by which all humans see life, is blurry and flawed. Only in looking for God can we truly see, truly find full understanding and completion. Yes this full understanding and completion will take place beyond this life, but it…