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Offering a Defense for our Faith
Today we discussed how to understand Peter’s admonition to prepare ourselves to provide a defense of our faith. This defense is best offered by living the faith vs. be...
Can You Imagine No Christmas?
In contemplating the fact that the Nativity story is not included in Mark’s Gospel, our episode today focused on the most important aspect of the life of Christ, which...
Salvation: Listener Questions
Today’s episode focused on listener questions regarding salvation. Fr Aaron explained that there are different ways to approach this issue, which lead to a discussion ...
Mary in Scripture
Today’s episode focused on some of the most common questions regarding Mary, including the important distinction between worship and veneration. From a theological per...
Violence & Freedom: A Reflection on January 6, 2021
In this episode, Fr Aaron expounds on his sermon from January 17, 2021, which reflected on the "siege of the US Capitol" building on January 6, 2021. In that sermon, F...
Enter By The Narrow Door
In today’s episode we began with a discussion of the mustard seed and the leaven from Jesus’ parable, and how we learn from this teaching that no Christian work is too...
Exposing Darkness and Redeeming the Time
Today we discussed how to juggle various ideals, namely our exposure of darkness while avoiding condemnation by our judgement of others. Father Aaron explained that we...
Delivering People to Satan and Forbidding Women to Speak?
In today's passage Paul speaks of delivering people to Satan and forbids women to speak: what on earth does that mean and why does he say those things? Fr Aaron explai...
You Must Hate Your Father and Mother???
Why does Jesus say we must hate our father and mother?!!! To better understand this statement, we considered the preceding Parable of the Great Banquet, and the excuse...
Weddings, Adultery, and Stripes
Today we discussed the common theme of a wedding or marriage to teach us about deeper biblical concepts. One example given was that of Christ and the Church in which C...
The Rich Man & Lazarus
Today’s episode explored the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. On the surface, this parable is about wealth and poverty, but Fr Aaron argued that there is much more...
He Who Is Not With Me Is Against Me
In today’s episode we went back to Genesis 10 to help us properly understand Jesus’ statement in Luke 11: “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gat...
Just Say The Word
We discussed the biblical theme that sinners and outsiders are the ones who recognize God’s Messiah rather than those who are viewed as righteous. We examined this the...
Paul's Warning to the Corinthians
Today we discussed the context of the Epistles to the Corinthians, noting the community was predominantly Gentile, one made up of Roman converts to the faith. We then ...
Jesus' Appearance to His Unbelieving Disciples
We discuss Jesus’ appearance to His disciples and his questioning of why they did not believe in Him. We evaluate this appearance and “proof” of the Resurrection in li...
Justification Is Just the Beginning
In this episode we discuss what it means to be “justified.” Fr Aaron explained that the Greek word that is often translated as “justified” can also be translated as “d...
The Pharisees & Self-Righteousness
We began by focusing on the problem of self-righteousness addressed in the Gospel. It is important to note that while the Pharisees were often portrayed in a negative ...
Why Does Jesus Teach in Parables?
Today we examined the role of parables in Scripture. We began by stressing the importance of viewing the entirety of Scripture as parable, as well as the value of para...
The Unforgivable Sin
We begin with an examination of the so-called “unforgivable sin.” From a thorough understanding of the preceding verses in Mark’s Gospel, we see this blasphemy against...
The Meaning of Fasting
We discuss the tradition of fasting, dating back to pre-Christian Judaism. This helps us better understand why Jesus was questioned by the disciples of John as to His ...