TOPIC INDEXEssays on Preaching (73)

  1. The Rituals of Preaching

    book
    04/13/24
    25 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.

  2. Passion Sunday's Dynamic of Location

    book
    03/16/24
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.

  3. The Sermon Not "Liked"

    book
    02/17/24
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Whatever happened to things not liked? Can there be such a thing anymore? Does the desire to have a sermon “liked” factor into the craft of preaching?

  4. Deep Diagnosis: Preaching to the Heart (Part 3)

    book
    01/27/24
    9 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Sin affects body and soul, right down to the core of our humanity. It calls for a drastic cure, for extreme measures.

  5. Deep Diagnosis: Preaching to the Heart (Part 2)

    book
    01/13/24
    11 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The outward sins we do all begin with Sin hidden in our hearts. But we cannot see that, it has to be revealed to us by a spiritual scan, an MRI from above.

  6. Deep Diagnosis: Preaching to the Heart (Part 1)

    book
    12/30/23
    12 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Jesus is taking the Law and setting it forth in such a way that we get a good look at what is going on in us.

  7. God In the Womb

    book
    12/10/23
    27 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.

  8. The Gospel for Dogs: Grace in Matthew 15:21-28

    book
    08/12/23
    32 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Other non-Jews received healings, and these miracle-events illustratively preached the Gospel each time. Certainly, Jesus will jump on this opportunity, right? Wrong…at least for the moment.

  9. Preaching Justification and Regeneration Together

    book
    07/22/23
    9 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Preaching justification by faith should not exclude the truth of regeneration, as if justification were an altogether separate phenomenon that took place sometime before and regeneration taking place later.

  10. Prayer Before Preaching

    book
    06/24/23
    20 mins
    By John Bombaro
    In order to respect both liturgical consistency and the role of the homilist in the drama of the Divine Service: Let the pulpit be for proclamation, not personal prayer.

  11. Preaching the Ascension as Thy Kingdom Come

    book
    05/13/23
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.

  12. When Your Sermon Is Not YOUR Sermon

    book
    04/22/23
    25 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Dependence on Him, confidence in His mission, begets joy in God and joy in God begets mission, and mission perpetuates joy inasmuch as it arises from gospel impulses over and above the mandate.
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