Category: SERMONS, WORSHIP, MEDITATIONS

Two Sisters Luke 10:38-42 Chilmark Community Church July 19, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian    I wonder what is going on in the story of Martha and Mary and Jesus?  The two sisters are dearly beloved friends of Jesus.  Along with their brother, Lazarus, they live together about a half hour’s walk from Jerusalem in a…

“A  Prophet, A Priest, and a King….” Amos 7: 7-15 Chilmark Community Church July 10, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian   On this past Tuesday morning I made a delightful acquaintance  with a clergy blogger who writes under the name of “Preaching in Pumps.”   Her logo is a black, stiletto heeled shoe.  She is a…

“Quirky Stories” 2 Kings 5:1-15 Luke 4:14-30 Chilmark Community Church July 3, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian Jesus loved a good story. And he didn’t hesitate to use a good story to make a point. It is curious that he used the story of Namaan the Leper as a reference point in one of his first…

“Asleep On The Job” Mark 4:35-41 Chilmark Community Church June 26, 2012 Rev. Vicky Hanjian We had a dear niece and her son visiting with us this week. At breakfast on Thursday morning, Cynthia asked Armen if he woke up crabby. He quickly replied, “No – I just let her sleep in.” Jesus had been…

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE….?” 1 Kings 19:1-15 June 19, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian Chilmark Community Church It has been a horrifying and sad and difficult week.  During worship last Sunday the news of the massacre in Orlando was fresh.  We hardly knew what it meant or how severe it was.  As happens, almost routinely…

YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH Matthew 5:1-13 June 12, 2016 Rev. Armen Hanjian Chilmark Community Church “You are the salt of the earth.”  When Jesus said that, there were several obvious things to which he referred.  Today,  the implications of this vibrant sentence from the sermon on the mount are not quite so…

“City Gates and Thin Spaces” 1 KIngs 17:8-24      Luke 7:11-17 Chilmark Community Church   June 5, 2015 Rev. Vicky Hanjian It doesn’t take a degree in Biblical Studies to see how freely the author of the gospel of Luke  has drawn upon the story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath.  The similarities…

“Thunder, Lightning, Wind and Fire” Exodus 19:9-25 Acts 2:1-21 Chilmark Community Church May 15, 2016 Rev. Vicky Hanjian There is a lot of cosmic drama going on in the scriptures this morning. A  mountain rumbles, wrapped in smoke, fire descends, the smoke rises like the smoke from a furnace – the mountain shakes.   A …

RELEASED FROM FEARS MICAH 4:1-4            1 JOHN 4:3-21 CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH UNITED METHODIST MAY 8, 2016 REV. ARMEN HANJIAN Recently someone said,   “Almost everyone I know is either lonely or afraid.”  “Fear,” said Gilbert J. Chesterton, “is the greatest plague of mankind.”  Medical dictionaries list more than 3,000 fears…