WordCraft with Clint Lombard
Sermons and Bible talks from Clint Lombard across fifteen years of gospel ministry, teaching God's Word with care, conviction and clarity. Browse the latest uploads below. New messages every Sunday.
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What lies at the root of sin? Ultimately it all comes down to a deification of humanity, worshipping humanity in the place of God. And Isaiah tells us that God will not stand for it - he has a day when he will be exalted, and everything else brought low.
Read the Bible passage here: Isaiah 2:1-5; Isaiah 4:2-6
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This message was preached on 25 July 2021 as part of a teaching series through the first ...
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The problem isn't 'out there'; it's 'in here'. God's people are so deep in their own sin, and yet, the LORD still offers them forgiveness if they will just turn to him. The choice is theirs: eat or be eaten. But in order to save his people, the Lord still needs to judge sin.
Read the Bible passage here: Isaiah 1:1-31
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This message was preached on 18 July 2021 as part of a teaching series through th...
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At the very end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' challenge is simple: will you wisely build your life on his words, or foolishly build your life on the shifting sands of the world's ideas and aspirations?
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 7:13-19
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This message was preached on 28 November 2021 as part of a teaching series through Jesus' famous 'Sermon on the Mount' in Matthew 5-7, in the New Te...
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As we move towards the end of the sermon, it might seem like Matthew is just gathering disconnected fragments of Jesus' teaching. But there's a clear thread still running through this middle section of the sermon, focussed on Christian behaviour, and that's our relationship with 'our Father in heaven'. In 7:1-12, it's this relationship that must shape our relationships with others.
Read the Bible passage here: Mat...
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Our relationship with the Father touches every area of our lives, even down to our daily needs. Though we live in a kingdom that depends on and obsesses over material wealth, Jesus calls members of God’s kingdom to depend on their Father in heaven, and put their relationship with him first.
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 6:19-34
Recommended resource: Beyond Greed, by Brian Rosner © 2004, Matt...
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In Jesus' kingdom, we are called to show the things we're tempted to hide, and hide the things we're tempted to show. This is all so that our Father in heaven gets the glory. Jesus shows how this works in the area of religious practice.
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 6:1-18
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This message was preached on 7 November 2021 as part of a teaching series through Jesus' famous 'Sermon on the Mount' i...
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Now that Jesus has established that the 'greater righteousness' needed to get into heaven comes from him, he moves to show what it really means to live out that righteousness in a deep, heart-level obedience to God. The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, based on a cold-hearted, technical obedience to God's law, just won't cut it.
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 5:17-48
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Christians are often confused that two-thirds of our Bibles are Old Testament. What are we meant to do with it? Jesus teaches a more exacting approach to the Old Testament, where he has not abolished it, but fulfilled it. Please note: this passage has been spread over two messages, covering v17-20 in the first one, and v20-48 in the second.
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 5:17-48
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Christians are meant to live for the kingdom of heaven, but in the kingdom of the world. How are we meant to do that? Jesus answer is to live lives of profound influence: flavouring, preserving and illuminating the world around us, for God's glory.
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 5:13-16
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This message was preached on 17 October 2021 as part of a teaching series through Jesus' famous 'Sermon on...
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Being a member of God's kingdom is the path to true fulfilment. But that fulfilment, surprisingly must begin by emptying ourselves of self-righteousness, and self-assurance, and letting God do the filling.
Read the Bible passage here: Matthew 5:1-12
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This message was preached on 10 October 2021 as part of a teaching series through Jesus' famous 'Sermon on the Mount' in Matthew 5-7, in the New Testa...
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As we reach the end of Ecclesiastes, the Narrator gives his closing comments on the Preacher, his wisdom, and the book of Ecclesiastes. What's the bottom line?
Read the Bible passage here: Ecclesiastes 12:9-14
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This message was preached on 19 June 2022 as part of a Bible teaching series on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon.
We're usually familiar with the Bible's stori...
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Life is uncertain, except for death. It's certain that one day, each of us will die. How then should we live? We also look at the certainty of life after death that Jesus offers everyone who trusts him.
Read the Bible passage here: Ecclesiastes 9:1-10
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This message was preached on 5 June 2022 as part of a Bible teaching series on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon.
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We're rebels against time. And yet, God has created the seasons of our lives with purpose. Even Jesus had to face a difficult 'hour'.
Read the Bible passage here: Ecclesiastes 3:1-15
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This message was preached on 22 May 2022 as part of a Bible teaching series on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon.
We're usually familiar with the Bible's stories and rules, but what about...
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Can work give us meaning and purpose in life? Not really, if the Preacher's observations about life are right. But it doesn't have to end there. Could there be a way to redeem the work we all have to do?
Read the Bible passage here: Ecclesiastes 2:18-26; Ecclesiastes 4:4-8
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This message was preached on 15 May 2022 as part of a Bible teaching series on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, written...
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Can we find happiness and meaning in the things we can buy—in pleasures and possessions? The Preacher shows that we can literally have it all in this life, and still actually have absolutely nothing. By contrast, Jesus shows that we can have literally nothing in this life, and still actually have absolutely everything.
Read the Bible passage here: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
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If only there were easy answers to give us meaning and purpose in life. Unfortunately, as the wise Preacher has proven, however hard we try so much of life is as substantial and reliable as the morning mist. Jesus offers an alternative: if you want to really live, you first need to die.
Read the Bible passage here: Ecclesiastes 1:1-18
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This message was preached on 1 May 2022 as part of a Bible teaching...
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Wisdom helps us learn how to live well in the world that God has created, but we need to be careful we don't observe the creation apart from a right relationship with the Creator. What's more, the gospel actually supercharges our search for wisdom by showing us the path to the best life there is: a life which continues in Christ forever.
Read the Bible passage here: Proverbs 1:1-7
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In the church at Laodicaea, total dependance on the Lord Jesus Christ has been supplanted in favour of lukewarmness—neither being hot nor cold. It's this condition which nauseates the Lord of the church, so much so that he wants to spit them out of his mouth. To return to a state of burning bright, the centrality of the Lord Jesus in the life of the church, and the lives of individual believers, needs to be re...
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Jesus’ work in the church at Philadelphia teaches us something very important, that a struggling church may yet have great opportunities for the gospel. But there testimony also reminds us of another, equally important truth—that we must be careful what you trust to make you part of God’s family, because only Jesus himself is the open doorway into God’s royal household.
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The world looks at the church in Sardis and sees a living church. Jesus looks at the church at Sardis and sees a dead church. What killed it? And why is its 'life' an illusion? Of course, all hope is not yet lost – there are still a few who can make a difference, if only they would wake up.
Read the Bible passage here: Revelation 3:1-6
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This message was preached on 5 March 2017 as part of a Bible...
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