Voices are trustworthy and deeply personal, and since God made everything including us, he knows this. So does his Son Jesus, which is why he uses the metaphor of voice recognition of a loved one to describe the intimate bond he wishes to have with us his faithful. Jesus illustrates the bond in the case…

There is always a choice in what we want to see and hear, and as God’s children we don’t always make the wisest choices. We tend to hear what we want to hear and see what we want to see, because we don’t know any better. Yet our Scriptures, our church and our Lord continually…

In this way you could say that the Armenian church has always been like a “recycle bin,” a “repurposing bin” for its people and for individuals. We come to church, confessing and putting aside our old sinful selves, and through communion with God, He recycles and repurposes us for a new week to do His…

The danger in dealing with loss, and where our faith is absolutely crucial—is that we can easily get stuck in our loss, in our grief; I see it all the time and it happens to me too.  We can be so diligent to remember and preserve the past, that we forget to live in the…

There is an old story of two travelling monks, which might help us remember to put down our burdens and seek up for God. These monks come to a river where a woman was waiting, unable to cross alone without soiling her silken robes. She stood there with arms crossed scolding her attendants whose hands…

My son Narek’s birthday was on Friday and when asked what he wants for his birthday, he prizes one gift above all others. I want a yes day.  If you aren’t aware, a yes day is when anything you ask for- you get.  Narek’s yes day started with asking to go to a fancy restaurant.…

In the final Session of the Lenten Nicene Creed Sermon Series, Fr. Hovnan discusses the final end of God’s amazing relationship with humankind, to raise up a church that is one and is holy, that raises up its members and the entire world to its highest calling in Christ.

And so that’s the Holy Spirit as presented in the words of the Creed. It is like the air we breathe, so hard to notice because we have been in it, but more than air, it is air from God, breath of God that changes and inspires us from inside.  Jesus gives a very clear,…

Last week we saw that the Creed gives us only 18 words to describe God the Father last week, because though words like Father and Creator point to His nature, God is beyond all words. We have a different problem when we try to describe Jesus the Son in our Creed.  Words aren’t enough to…

In the second session of our Lenten Sermon series on the Nicene Creed, we talk about God the Father, a God so great that we must choose our words very, very carefully!