In this Good Friday homily, Fr. Aaron explores how Evil sets itself against God's good, true, and beautiful creation - recruiting both the "bad guys" and "good guys" in the process. All are called to join the Centurion in recognizing that Jesus is the Son of God, whose cross won our deliverance from slavery to the Evil One.

Corruption happens when human selfishness hijacks human service, when power & privileges are abused rather than spent for the life of the world. Fr. Aaron Damiani reflects on Jesus' unique way of delivering us from corruption, as pictured in Jesus' encounter with the fig tree and temple in Mark 11.

Our talents seem to take us so far that we start trusting them too much. Jesus calls us on a different journey - where our eyes are opened to our true condition and to the beauty of the cross of Christ.

We are tempted to:

* obsess in prayer over small problems

* muscle in the kingdom of God in our own timing

* bring our own solutions to God

Katherine Ruch addresses these temptations in a powerful teaching from Habakkuk 1-2.

"I am doing a work in your days

that you would not believe if told."

We are tempted to:

* obsess in prayer over small problems

* muscle in the kingdom of God in our own timing

* bring our own solutions to God

Katherine Ruch addresses these temptations in a powerful teaching from Habakkuk 1-2.

"I am doing a work in your days

that you would not believe if told."

We love to start at the top, but that never quite delivers.

In Mark 10:35-45, James & John ask Jesus for a promotion in status.

Dr. Leslie Martin brings an exposition of this text, demonstrating how the closer we get to Jesus, the lower we go and the more joy we have.

This seminar on marriage was given by Fr. Aaron Damiani to the engaged couples of Immanuel Anglican. In it, Fr. Aaron helps the couples identify the two potential trajectories for their future marriage.

People send distress signals our way all the time, hoping we will respond with a blessing. We are tempted to mis-read the signal as enemy fire and react, reject and hold them in contempt. In his teaching on Mark 10:1-16, Fr. Aaron explores how Jesus restores our capacity to pass on the Father's blessing to the people in our life.

In the face of evil and dysfunction, we are tempted to get productive and prayerless as we attempt to solve the problem ourselves. Jesus invites us to rediscover his power, as narrated in the story of a demon-posessed boy in Mark 9:14-29. This is the first in our series, "Deliver Us."

In the wake of discouragement and confusion over the body and sex, Fr. Aaron shares three ways that he prays for the congregation as they live their life in the body.