TOPIC INDEXMinistry of the Church (173)

  1. 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.

  2. Epistle: 1 John 3:1-3 (All Saints Day: Series A)

    book
    11/05/23
    30 mins
    By John Bombaro
    John’s excitement invites his readers to lay hold of this above all else: The lavish love of God.

  3. Resurrection Life for Resurrection People Part 3: New Possibilities of Epistemology and Ontology

    book
    07/24/23
    24 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Only the resurrection of Jesus guarantees and facilitates divine presence and love to us as divine life for us.

  4. Pastoral Presence Makes All the Difference

    book
    06/28/23
    13 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.

  5. 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.

  6. Why the Church Is Theologically Conservative

    book
    03/10/23
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    We don't make Church "happen." Only Christ can do so. It's his happening.

  7. Authentic Proclamation: How Good Pastoring Factors into Good Preaching

    book
    01/29/23
    16 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.

  8. Very Superstitious: A History of the Sign of the Cross

    book
    01/13/23
    24 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The sign of the cross, according to the earliest centuries of Christians, is “the sign of the Lord,” and every baptized Christian was “marked” with it.

  9. Unavoidable Jesus: Good News on Christmas Eve

    book
    12/24/22
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.

  10. Epistle: Romans 13: (8-10)11-14 (Advent 1: Series A)

    book
    11/19/22
    15 mins
    By John Bombaro
    For Christians, Advent is the time when the Church patiently prepares for the coming of the Great King, Jesus the Christ.

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

    book
    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.

  12. Epistle: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 13-17 (Pentecost 22: Series C)

    book
    10/30/22
    16 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.
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