I would like to start today’s Easter sermon with a few questions if I may. ‘How many of you sent out hundreds of Easter Cards this year?” “Has anyone attended a work or family Easter party?” “Is anyone sick of hearing endless Easter carols on the radio and endless Easter-themed television specials?” That’s what I…

‘In the short run, the market is a voting machine; but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.’ I don’t usually quote billionaire investors to begin sermons, but Warren Buffett said this, and they call him the ‘Oracle of Omaha’ for a reason. His inciteful words capture something deep about human behavior and…

The word advent, or coming, implies a future tense, when Jesus Christ returns in power andglory to render a final judgement and an ending of all things. In the Christian sense, however,the “end” is neither a point in time nor the conclusion of a historical timeline. This is explainedto us in Revelation. The End is…

We must remember these words and think of them especially now, through Lent. But the most important words in the parable come at the very beginning, when the Master asks the Steward: “What is this I hear about you? Give me an account of your stewardship!” (Lk 16:2). This is the point Jesus was making…

How do you see yourself in this parable? Are you hungry for God and looking for the peace of the Father? Every Sunday at St. Hagop we are like the sons, coming home to church, to the Father.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, will ever be wasted.

Great Lent in our tradition has always been a reminder that the battle for good, truth and love rages on in a world which opposes all these things.  The first Lent was a battle; Jesus’ 40-day fight against the evil one before his world altering ministry for good.  Every Lent also begins with a battle…

We always talk about being enlightened in our faith, that the more we know about God, our faith and our church, the closer we are to Him.  That works for a little while, but Jesus most often pushes us in the exact opposite direction.  He tended to endarken people to faith much more than enlighten…

A life well lived is filling in the blanks in the course of our lives, in joy and in sorrow, until who we are, where we came from and what we are here for, is revealed to us and all those we love well.