The Cross

Epistle: 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16) (Epiphany 5: Series A)

02/05/23

16 mins

By John Bombaro

Let us not recoil at the sight and sound of the crucifixion. It is the battlefield of victory. It is the throne of the King. It is the symbol of salvation.
God's Right Hand

01/30/23

15 mins

By Wade Johnston

Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
1 John 4:7-14: Love, self-hate, and the search for God

10/07/22

19 mins

By Bruce Hillman

To say that whoever loves has been born of God is also to say that those who are born of God are recipients of love. They do not have God because they love but because they are loved.
Who's the Judas?

06/24/22

1 min read

By Troy Neujahr Craig Donofrio

Judas, Peter, and you are all betrayers of Jesus, and yet He does the work necessary to forgive your sins.
How does the cross work?

05/10/22

3 mins

By Rod Rosenbladt Ted Rosenbladt
Good Friday’s Poetic Mercy

04/10/22

11 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

On Good Friday, poetic justice is satisfied. Poetic mercy is all which remains.
Bearing the Cross-A Sermon for Wednesday in Holy Week

04/10/22

8 mins

By John T. Pless

Simon carried the cross, but Jesus was carried by the cross to death.
Denied!-A Sermon for Tuesday in Holy Week

04/09/22

9 mins

By John T. Pless

Out there the instincts to protect yourself from embarrassment, ridicule, and rejection can easily overcome you as they did Peter. Our only hope is in Peter’s Lord.
An Unintended Sermon

03/30/22

16 mins

By Wade Johnston

What grace is this? It’s grace from Christ, who often seizes us when we least expect it, even through the hands of His enemies.
The Book of Esther and the Name of God

03/22/22

12 mins

By Wade Johnston

God is often hidden in history, even as we make it now, but He is always manifest where He has promised to be.
Crisis

02/12/22

12 mins

By Robert Kolb

It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.
Jesus' Transfiguration and Disfiguration

01/24/22

6 mins

By John Bombaro

If we think God’s power, love and beauty are reserved merely for the glories of Transfiguration, then we have not understood the Father; we have not understood divine revelation.

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