TOPIC INDEXReformation Doctrine (20)

  1. Epistle: Romans 3:19-28 (Reformation Sunday: Series C)

    book
    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.

  2. Stoicism Is Good, But It Isn't the Gospel

    book
    10/03/22
    19 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Stoicism’s opening premise fails to understand that, from its conception, the heart is a thorny bramble.

  3. Epistle: I Timothy 2:1-15 (Pentecost 15: Series C)

    book
    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.

  4. 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.

  5. An Impossible Standard...Attained!

    book
    07/13/22
    10 mins
    By John Bombaro
    In Jesus, the most totalizing summary of the law becomes the gospel of the one made perfect through obedience.

  6. 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.”

  7. Preaching Justification and Regeneration Together

    book
    01/22/22
    9 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.

  8. First Principles of Preaching: The Verb Itself (Part 2)

    book
    06/27/21
    16 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The Christian sermon is Gospel preaching. We only preach the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the sermon, notwithstanding necessary admonishments of law and requisite exhortations toward sanctification.

  9. Epistle: Acts 2:14a, 22-36 (Holy Trinity: Series B)

    book
    05/23/21
    13 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The Apostle Peter’s monumental sermon on Pentecost declares the Kingdom purposes and divine saving work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit which culminates in the new world order with Christ in charge.

  10. Epistle: Philippians 2:5-11 (Palm Sunday: Series B)

    book
    03/21/21
    19 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Paul wants us to see this “present evil age” is dominated by a theology of glory and “the age to come” is dominated by a theology of the cross. They are two ways of understanding and interpreting all of reality, but especially the ways and nature of God.

  11. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 (Lent 3: Series B)

    book
    02/28/21
    17 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Christianity is not about principally about ethics. It was the Cross on the Hill rather than the Sermon on the Mount that produced the impact of Christianity upon the world.

  12. To Lent or Not to Lent

    book
    02/14/21
    15 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The season of Lent gives almost unparalleled opportunity for preachers to placard before their auditors the Cross of Christ and beckon Christians to take up their cross and follow Him.
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