Saint Hagop Armenian Church

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’…

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,…

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.…

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…

Our age is in danger of becoming-through and through-a human engineered life. Engineering is a great tool, building great science and machines. But men are not machines, to be engineered and optimized. Yet we are sold that message daily. Are your eyes baggy, your lips thin, get surgery and injections-engineer, optimize!  Is your constant striving…

That’s why Paul’s deep wisdom about the glory of the body is so important, and why each and every week when we come to worship in this church, we actual reverse the disembodiment of modern society. Every Sunday we are called back into our bodies, back into this community, back into the here and now.…