Immanuel Anglican Church

To wonder is to give your soul permission to take delight in God to the point of overflow - even before all your problems are solved. In Psalm 34, we find King David feasting on the goodness of the Lord even though his life is in danger. From this Psalm, we can learn how to train our souls for wonder.

Insider knowledge creates and sustains an Inner Ring, with insiders and outsiders. Godly knowledge creates and sustains the body of Christ. In this message, Fr. Aaron explores the way Paul taught a new church plant in Corinth to stay unified despite the cultural differences that threatened to divide them.

Justice is not specialty work; it requires the whole church for the whole of our lives. How can we set about this work without falling prey to self-hatred or complacency? Father Aaron speaks to this question from Deuteronomy 10:12-21, in which he encourages us to seek the Father's heart for the vulnerable.

What is the larger story of our work? If we are in a tragedy or crisis, we will create value only for our own survival. But if the resurrection of Jesus is making all sad things come untrue, our work has value for the life of the world, no matter how insignificant it seems.

Is human love bound to be dysfunctional and co-depenent, or can it overflow for the life of the world? In this teaching from Genesis 1:26-28, Fr. Aaron explores the trinitarian roots of our relational nature. He encourages us to get our hands dirty in the work of love- whether in friendships, romance, celibacy, and the body of Christ.

In the first sermon from the sermon series For the Life of the World, Fr. Aaron asks the question: "how do we deal with the tension between our citizenship in God's kingdom and the broken state of man's kingdom?" Instead of domination, fortification or accommodation, God's call for us is to be exiles - neither at home nor in a panic.

Our life starts out as an adventure, which turn into commitments, which turn into responsibilities. And like the boulder that Sisyphus rolls up the mountain, our responsibilities can be toilsome and frustrating. If Jesus is resurrected, we are called to look beyond our lists to see where he is working to renew the world.

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.

When we feel financially limited, we are tempted to become financially passive. No matter how much or little we have, God ennobles our finances by expecting a return on investment from them. This requires and strengthens our trust in his goodness.

How should we handle money if we don't have much of it? What is the wisest way to relate with wealth, given the shortness of our life? Fr. Aaron Damiani unpacks Jesus' teaching on money from Matthew 6:19-24 to answer these questions.

How can we make a meaningful, lasting contribution in this life? Joel Raedeke answers this question by recovering the metaphor of the body of Christ in I Corinthians 12. the Lord dignifies our contribution as we invest our abilities in God's work and God's people.

How can we enjoy a friendship, romance or professional connection without clinging too tightly? The answer begins in the love of God; fidelity to him requires freedom towards everybody else.

How does one enter into the love of God? In this new series, Fr. Aaron Damiani explores six areas of life where we can move from saying "Mine" to "Yours" in relationship to God- our time, relationships, abilities, money, body and story. In this first sermon, Fr. Aaron describes how we can escape patterns of slavery by entering into God's holy Sabbath.

In this sermon, Dr. Josh Evans encourages us to receive Epiphany moments by encountering Christ's glory in everyday life .

The more we hunger for relationships, achievements and experiences, the less satisfied we are feel from them. Why are our appetites so large and never quite satisfied? In this Christmastide teaching from John 1:1-18, Fr. Aaron explores the spiritual intensity of our appetites and their ultimate resolution.

In our insecurity that we won’t be more than we are, we put up fig leaves to hide our ordinariness. In this final Advent sermon from Luke 1, Fr. Aaron explores how the Kingdom of God came powerfully through Mary’s ordinary, mundane life. Reflecting on Mary’s life, he suggests ways that the Kingdom of God can come through an ordinary local church.