“And he said to them, ‘I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer’” (Luke 22:15 ESV). This coming Sunday begins what many Christians call Holy Week or Passion Week. It is called “Passion” week because of its connection to the Greek word πάσχω (pas’-kho), which means to feel heavy emotion or passion,
Author: Gary Combs
ASK THE PASTOR – 4/8/22
Pastor Gary Combs responds to a question about a recent sermon. The question is from the reading in Zechariah 11:10, which reads: “And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.” The question submitted was: “Which covenant was annulled by the breaking of
Ask the Pastor – 3/14/22
Pastor Gary Combs responds to a question about a recent One Year Bible reading. The question is from the reading in Leviticus 23, concerning the “Feast of Weeks.” This feast is also called the Feast of Harvest. The question was: “Isn’t the Festival of Harvest a fall festival? Whereas Jesus was crucified after Passover in
Ask the Pastor – 2/19/22
Pastor Gary Combs responds to a question about one of this week’s One Year Bible readings. The question is from the reading in Exodus 33:7-9, concerning the “Tent of Meeting.” What was the difference between this tent that Moses erected outside the camp and the Tabernacle?
Ask the Pastor – 2/12/2022
Pastor Gary Combs responds to questions about this week’s One Year Bible readings. The first question is from Numbers 13:33 concerning the “Nephilim.” The second question concerns how to reconcile the readings from Matthew 28 and John 20 on Mary Magdalene “clinging” to Jesus.
Ask the Pastor – 02/05/2022
Pastor Gary Combs responds to a question about this week’s One Year Bible readings. He responds to a question about why many of the 1st Century followers of Jesus thought he was a prophet like Elijah or Jeremiah raised from the dead.
Ask the Pastor – 01/22/22
Pastor Gary Combs responds to questions about this week’s One Year Bible readings. He discusses the meaning of the name “Israel,” the dream that Joseph had of his brothers and parents bowing to him and the Matthew reading about what some have called the unforgivable sin.
Ask the Pastor – 1/15/22
This week’s question probably comes from one our our One Year Bible readers concerning the use of names in the book of Genesis. Here’s the question: “In Genesis, why is Jacob/Israel so inconsistently named? When God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, that was that, but not with Jacob/Israel.”
Ask the Pastor – 1/6/22
Pastor Gary answers questions asked about the Chosen TV series and a question about the OYB reading from Revelation 20 concerning the release of Satan at the end of Christ’s Millennial reign on earth.
Ask the Pastor – 12/11/21
Pastor Gary answers questions asked about the Millennial reign and also some questions from his One Year Bible readers about the book of Jude.