Bullies will kick sand in our face and then shame us for being blind. When toxic people have discouraged & distracted us, we need to hear King Jesus advocate for us and rally us on in the good race we are running. Hear Father Aaron preach on Jesus' letter to the Church in Philadelphia from Revelation 3.

Jesus gives everyone an invitation to come into his house- where we can let our hair down, be fully loved, and stop pretending. But as Bishop Stewart Ruch explains from Luke 13, we can't get in the house without letting go of the things that make us feel secure in this life.

How can we influence culture without getting seduced by it? If we want to share in Jesus' cultural influence, we must receive his cultural immune system. Hear more about Jesus' letter to the church in Thyatira in Revelation 2 in the series "Return to Your First Love."

When our fellow Chicagoans suspect us of being extreme for the things we believe, how should we respond? It's tempting to respond to suspicion by living a double life in the city. To help us find a better way, Father Aaron draws resources from Jesus' letter to the church in Pergamum, an ancient city much like Chicago. In this letter, Jesus points the church to their ultimate hope.

In his exposition of Jesus's letter to the church in Smyrna, Father Stephen Gauthier reflects on the purposes of God for temptations, slander and poverty.

Fatigue makes false lovers of us all. When our love for God has dimmed, how can Jesus restore it? Hear Father Aaron's sermon about Jesus' letter to his church in the ancient city of Ephesus.

If we would hear from God during Lent, we must learn to filter out all the noise. Father Aaron offers insights from Revelation 1 that will help us better listen to Jesus during the season of Lent.

Why do so many bands - and churches- break up? Father Aaron concludes the series "This is My Body" by exploring this question in light of 1 Corinthians 13. The Church of Jesus must resist the temptation to play the song of comparison & the song of resentment - because we have a much better song to play. And the city is listening.

When we ignore those with low status in the church, we are discarding the people that God has chosen to bless us. In this teaching from I Corinthians, Father Aaron describes two gifts that we can receive from those we outrank.

Father Aaron Damiani delivers a lecture to the Student Theological Society of Moody Bible Institute called "The Baptized Imagination in a Pornographic Age." How can we feed our hungry imaginations without succumbing either to hedonism or moralism?