Category: SERMONS, WORSHIP, MEDITATIONS

Between Two Gardens Genesis 2:15-17 and 5:1-7 Matthew 4:1-11 Chilmark Community Church March 5, 2017 Rev. Vicky Hanjian It would seem that whether one finds oneself in a lush and primal garden or in the middle of the wilderness, there is danger and temptation in the Bible.  There be serpents and devils abroad!  I love…

HOW DOES GOD GUIDE? MATT. 7:21-28 REV. ARMEN HANJIAN FEB. 26, 2017 A man moved out West and joined a Lutheran Church; a drought came and ruined his crops. He concluded God didn’t want him in that Church. So he joined the Baptist Church; lightning struck his barn and it burned down. So he joined…

Parting Words Deuteronomy 30:11 – 20 Matthew 5:21-26 Chilmark Community Church February 12, 2017 Rev. Vicky Hanjian We are starting out in the Book of Deuteronomy this morning. It is the 5th and final book of Torah in the Jewish tradition. Biblical tradition considers the entire book to be written from Moses’ perspective as a…

An Acceptable Fast Isaiah 58: 5 – 9 Matthew 5:13 – 20 Chilmark Community Church February 5, 2017 Have you ever fasted? For most of us, the closest we come to fasting is going without food after mid-night prior to having morning blood work done – or perhaps prior to surgery. Fasting is not something…

TRAVELING LIGHT MARK 6:7-13 JANUARY 28, 2015 CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH REV. ARMEN HANJIAN (Pastor pulls up a chair facing the cross and reads into mike with back to congregation.) It’s about time you and I had a talk, Lord. Here I am at least 3/4 of the way thru life and it’s about time I…

“RE-Membering” Genesis 1:1- 9 Matthew 3:1-17 Chilmark Community Church January 22, 2017 Rev. Vicky Hanjian Rev. Mahlon H. Smith poured a little water on my head and baptized me in the Cedar Cliff Methodist Church in Haledon, NJ, on June 21, 1942. “Hazel Victoria Clark, child of Raymond Victor Clark and his wife, Helen Doris…

“Packing For The Journey” Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 Matthew 2: 13-15; 19-23 Chilmark Community Church January 1, 2017 Rev. Vicky Hanjian Over the last couple of months, I have been reading Scott Peck’s book IN SEARCH OF STONES. The theme of the book is built around his travels in Scotland with his wife, Lily, searching out pre-historic…

Together in Christ Dec. 31, 2016 My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As we start our journey as Christians in the new year, I want to reflect on one thing that always fascinates me – the journey of the Magi as they…

OPEN SESAME ISAIAH 9:1-7; MATT. 4:12-17 CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH DEC. 18, 2016 Armen Hanjian, Pastor The passage from Isaiah 9 has become for Christians one of the major Hebrew scripture references picturing Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah. I see two reasons for this. Matthew quotes the first two verses of Isaiah 9 and suggests…