John Bombaro

The sneak-peek vision of the world to come, a preview of the Last Day, the Day of the Lord, has already been revealed, declares Peter.

Human history and especially the Christian life have a shape and Jesus is its shaper at every point.

The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.

Preaching the end times purposes to solicit and strengthen faith in the Savior of the world who is at the same time the Creator and Re-creator of the world.

There is life after death and, more gloriously, there is life after life after death, the resurrection of the body.

Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.

Mindful that the pagans’ understanding of death is a finality, Paul says, “NO!” Death is not the end of humanity in God’s new world.

John’s excitement invites his readers to lay hold of this above all else: The lavish love of God.

Passover is the story that lets us interpret the full meaning of Christ’s death and resurrection.

In the pursuit of democratizing the worship experience, we go from hearing the voice of God to hearing voices and in some cases hearing our own voice!

The Church is like a beehive: One working for all and affecting all and all working for and affecting one.

Nothing promotes good preaching quite like actually knowing the Word of Truth and delivering it from a disposition of passionate care, commitment through the long-haul, and life spent together with the people of God.

Paul has discovered something to put on the credit side in comparison with which everything else he can imagine can only be a debt.

Throughout the Gospels there is no quality more closely identified by Jesus with the life of His people than humility which echoes His own.

It is the Word of the Lord and His Word accomplishes what it says. Our favorable or unfavorable circumstances neither help nor hinder the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Our forefathers dedicated Holy Cross Day to jolt the Church into remembrance that Christianity is not principally about ethics.

Paul attempts to break down the walls which the early Christians effortlessly erected between those of different ethnic origins — specifically Jews and Gentiles — to drive them to the will and mind of Christ: Worship together as one body.

No good will come to the cause of the Gospel by followers of Jesus being regarded as crazy dissidents who will not cooperate with the most basic social mechanisms.

When it comes to the sermon, a Christian congregation should not expect a conversation from a friend or a TED Talk from an expert. Instead, they should anticipate a royal proclamation from the King’s ambassador.

Any note on its own can be perfectly fine. But bring it together with others and they will strike a chord or a discord – harmony or disharmony. It is the same with us.

We have been reconciled to the King by the King because of the King so we may be for the King—not when it is convenient and more tasteful and fashionable, but as a bold and confident proclamation.

We may never even get the opportunity to eat meat offered to idols, but a lot of things hinge on this test case: Is it permissible to eat the meat offered to idols or not?

God’s newly reconstituted Israel occurs in and around Jesus to include both Jew and Gentile, not by ethnic association but by faith and water (baptism) and blood (atonement and Eucharist).

Here we have the other major theme within Romans: God will have mercy on whom He has mercy, and He will have compassion on whom He has compassion

The lifeblood of Christ is the treasury that defines personal worth – your worth, my worth. Preach that; the price tag on your soul.