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Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

The Ultimate Elevator Speech

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…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

The Language of Heaven

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…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

The Gift in Your Hands

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’…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

Phoney

So you young folks may not know this, but my generation and older had a very different relationship with phones. It sounds crazy, but we used them to talk to each other…and that’s all. That’s all a phone did! It was shaped to fit your ear and over your mouth, people conversed with each other,…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

The String Around Your Neck

Today’s feast of the cross is perhaps God’s greatest reminders, a reminder so big, that it goes from now through mid-November, this entire season of the church is the season of the cross.  It puts in front of us three holidays of the cross, it changes the hymns and variables, the color of the season.…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

Homeroom Teacher

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…

Sermons Fr. Hovnan Demerjian St. Hagop Armenian Church

Pain & Suffering

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…