Lectionary: Series C

Epistles: Colossians 1:13-20 (The Last Sunday in the Church Year: Series C)

11/12/22

27 mins

By John Bombaro

The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
Epistle: 2 Thessalonians 3: (1-5) 6-13 (Pentecost 23: Series C)

11/05/22

17 mins

By John Bombaro

The Gospel outpaces all would-be and eventually fleeting identity-makers and brings in the truth of a renewed-in-Christ humanity.
Epistle: Romans 3:19-28 (Reformation Sunday: Series C)

10/23/22

20 mins

By John Bombaro

The phrase “works of the law” has an antithesis when it comes to righteousness—faith. What keeping the Law could not do, the gift of faith does.
Epistle: 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 (Pentecost 19: Series C)

10/09/22

16 mins

By John Bombaro

The Word and the Spirit go together. The Spirit, the breath of God, illumines and makes alive through the Word of God; both written and external, that is, preached and sacramented.
Epistles: 2 Timothy 2:1-13 (Pentecost 18: Series C)

10/02/22

17 mins

By John Bombaro

Paul is talking about military-level allegiance here, the strongest kind of allegiance sworn to a king.
Epistle: 2 Timothy 1:1-14 (Pentecost 17: Series C)

09/25/22

14 mins

By John Bombaro

This ministry of the Gospel, this standing in the stead and by the command of our Lord Jesus Christ, is demanding business and is entirely unsuitable for the weak-willed or those who compromise with the zeitgeist of the day.
Epistle: I Timothy 2:1-15 (Pentecost 15: Series C)

09/11/22

25 mins

By John Bombaro

St. Paul extends to us the call to arms. In particular, there is one weapon which is effective against so elusive an enemy. The weapon is prayer.
Epistle: Philemon 1-21 (Pentecost 13: Series C)

08/27/22

13 mins

By John Bombaro

As the Spirit does His work, He produces new ways of living for individuals, households (like Philemon’s) and communities, that is, the Church.
Epistle: Hebrews 13:1-17 (Pentecost 12: Series C)

08/21/22

13 mins

By John Bombaro

Love for the brethren should be the hallmark of the Christian Church. It is basic to our witness to an unbelieving world .
Epistle: Hebrews 12:4-24 (25-29) (Pentecost 11: Series C)

08/14/22

24 mins

By John Bombaro

We need to know the Christian faith—such as it does not capitulate with Zeitgeist—always comes with a price of being maligned, persecuted, marginalized, blamed, you name it.
Epistle: Hebrews 11:17-31 (32-40); 12:1-3 (Pentecost 10: Series C)

08/07/22

25 mins

By John Bombaro

The battle is not so much recognizing sins as admitting them. It is also not so much confessing them as repenting them or laying them aside. But we can do it. Looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith...
Epistle: Hebrews 11: 1-16 (Pentecost 9: Series C)

07/31/22

15 mins

By John Bombaro

To base and entrust your life on what can be seen in this world is to commit oneself to unreality. The reality of things, indeed, the way, the truth and the life of the world is in what is not readily seen: Christ as Lord.

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