In this talk, Tim demonstrates the profound meaning of suffering and its relationship to a Catholic and biblical understanding of justification. As Tim explains, “Jesus did not suffer and die on the cross so that we do not have to; He suffered and died on the cross so that our suffering and death can be made salvific in him.” One of the many unfortunate by products of the so-called “material principle of the Reformation,” “sola fide,” is this loss of understanding of the role of suffering in the life of Christians. This talk not only gives you the theology of salvation from a Catholic perspective, but it will touch your heart as Tim shows how the Catholic understanding of suffering brings hope and a sense of purpose to the darkest moments in the lives of Christian men and women.

In this talk, Tim Staples challenges us Catholics to understand our responsibility to effect change in the culture in which we live. Tim will both paint a vivid picture of the perilous times in which we live and demonstrate just how we Catholics can engage the culture and change it without the culture changing us. The need of the hour is for Catholics to engage the culture in dialogue on every level—from Scripture to the arts, to politics, law, medicine, and more. The New Evangelization that our Holy Father has called us to involves much more than just engaging our separated brothers and members of quasi-Christian sects in biblical apologetics, though that is certainly important. Tim will show you what it means to truly confront the “culture war” in which we find ourselves engaged.

Tim teaches teens to evangelize using two basic principles: If teens are going to be effective in evangelizing their peers, they must be prepared and disciplined both intellectually and morally. They need to first know how to answer common objections intellectually and second they must live the Faith that they profess. There is no greater test of their moral lives than in the relationships they have with members of the opposite sex! Tim concludes this talk with a challenge to chastity.

Tim defends the real presence of our Lord in the Eucharist using the text of John 6 given in its historical context. According to St. Irenaeus, in the second century, St. John had the Gnostic heretic, Cerinthus, in mind when he penned his Gospel. Tim unlocks the keys to understanding, in this context, why St. John emphasized—1. The Divinity of Christ and his equality with the Father, and 2. The true presence of Christ in the Eucharist—more than any of the other Evangelists. He did so precisely because these were two of the central points Cerinthus and his Gnostic followers denied.