TOPIC INDEXMinistry of the Church (173)

  1. Epistle: Hebrews 13:1-17 (Pentecost 12: Series C)

    book
    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 .

  2. Epistle: Hebrews 12:4-24 (25-29) (Pentecost 11: Series C)

    book
    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.

  3. Epistle: Hebrews 11:17-31 (32-40); 12:1-3 (Pentecost 10: Series C)

    book
    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...

  4. Epistle: Hebrews 11: 1-16 (Pentecost 9: Series C)

    book
    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.

  5. The Children’s Sermon: Pitfalls and Pay Dirt

    book
    07/24/22
    15 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The pastor, then, possesses the prerogative of calling the children to himself, in the stead of Christ and after the manner of Christ, to particularly bless them with the Word.

  6. Hate and Death Flipped Upside Down

    book
    07/20/22
    17 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Vilification of the other is married to the justification of the self.

  7. Preaching to the Imagination - Part 1: Crisis

    book
    07/16/22
    23 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Preaching the Word made flesh liberates the imagination from this world’s false and crippling vision of reality, and once again brings the imagination into an encounter with the one and only true and living God through Immanuel: “God with us.”

  8. Epistle: Galatians 6:1-10, 14-18 (Pentecost 4: Series C)

    book
    06/20/22
    15 mins
    By John Bombaro
    According to the Law, everyone will be judged by their own deeds, on his own work. So, before the judgment of God we only have our own works to boast in and not our neighbor’s. But the Gospel shows us a wonderful exception.

  9. Virtue Signaling Justifies Nobody: Paul and Galatians 5:13-21

    book
    04/30/22
    21 mins
    By John Bombaro
    In the Church, the cry is, “He loves,” and it is that message which transforms our worldviews from taking to giving, from radical individualism to trans-demographic inclusivism, from selfishness to selflessness, from “tolerate my rights” to “loving rightly together.”

  10. Holy Week’s Trio of Jerusalem, Temple, and King

    book
    04/10/22
    27 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Jerusalem, temple, and king, all three bespoke of Yahweh’s kingship, as well as of His Kingdom and presence on earth and all the blessings bound up with it.

  11. Passion Sunday’s Dynamic of Location

    book
    04/02/22
    10 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.

  12. Lent for All (Part 2)

    book
    03/06/22
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Perhaps this year we shall see Lent reaching more toward Easter and tethered to the resurrection then the economy-car style tradition which simply terminates in Good Friday.
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