If you want God’s great magic tricks, head out to Tampa Bay in the evening and watch a sunset. If the beauty of the sunset itself doesn’t have you whispering a prayer, maybe one day you’ll see a giant cross in the sky or the face of our Lord in the clouds. But then let’s…

Rather, when we celebrate holidays sacred and secular, we celebrate and recognize something that is everywhere and always true but is so close to us that we tend to take it for granted.  I confess to you that I do this all the time.  I bought my mom a mug this year which says, “Happy…

You may think at first that this old music, this ancient church is irrelevant, just ‘in the way.’  But listen a few more times, come to worship and fellowship with us for a while and you will find that this old music, this old church is ‘in the Way’ with a capital W, meaning ‘in…

It is not only hard to find words to describe the great goodness of God, it is also hard to put into words the great badness of evil.   We Armenians come up against this problem whenever we refer to the greatest evil which has ever befallen us, the Armenian Genocide whose 107th anniversary we commemorate…

As you may know, I like to have a joke in my sermons from time to time. I recently found out that today on Easter Sunday, it is even more appropriate. It is actually a long standing tradition in some Eastern Orthodox churches for the priests to come prepared with a joke on Easter Sunday.…