Craft of Preaching

Our Our Testimonies Are Not Sermons

07/19/20

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By John Bombaro

Our stories, be they ever so inspiring or worthy of emulation, should never be equated with proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Gospel Jesus Christ commissioned to be proclaimed.
Epistle: Romans 8:28-39 (Pentecost 8: Series A)

07/19/20

1 min read

By John Bombaro

It is that love, finally, which comes back again and again, not as an afterthought, but as the underlying theme of the entire section.
Epistle: Romans 8:18-27 (Pentecost 7: Series A)

07/12/20

1 min read

By John Bombaro

The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, just like our bodies on the day of the resurrection.
Epistle: Romans 8:12-17 (Pentecost 6: Series A)

07/05/20

1 min read

By John Bombaro

Our passage from Romans steers us between these two dangerous misconceptions: The mythical monster Scylla of believing the body to be evil on the one shore, and the beast Charybdis of believing the body constitutes all there is on the other.
Epistle: Romans 7:14-25a (Pentecost 5: Series A)

06/28/20

1 min read

By John Bombaro

Paul has gone through all this explanation to belabor the point: The incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ changes everything.

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