John Bombaro

The world’s history and Jewish history was like a story in search of an ending; and when Jesus rose from the dead the ending was now revealed.

Pentecost is the event which jolts the world into taking note that something entirely new is taking place.

If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.

If we humans willingly operate by the testimony of men in all sorts of matters, then how much more should we readily embrace the testimony of God concerning the death, resurrection, ascension, and rule of His Son?

Love, as it pertains to divine qualities, is an unconditional love, love to the loveless and unlovable, divine love. God is agape. God is love.

Preaching needs to recover the recognition that it is a monumental event, setting forth through proclamation the monumental Gospel.

If Christ is the holiness, righteousness, salvation, truth, grace, resurrection life, eternal life, and perfection of God, then the spirit of the world is the antithesis of all those.

Just as the grave could not hold the Lord of Life, neither could the calendar contain Easter to just one Sunday.

What kind of shepherd does God provide? The answer, of course, starts and ends with Christ.

Resurrection life is not something cast into the future. The future is now.

Preaching is the vehicle of salvation because God engages in self-giving through the heralding of His Word.

Preachers are called to consider how the resurrection reverberates in the present but also the future.

In the next three weeks, Saint John will explore some of the implications of the resurrection, especially for Christians as they consider how to live in the present and what is in store for us in the future.

In the resurrection Jesus transcended time, space, and death; those things which limit human existence. So, the stone was not rolled away for Jesus, but for the disciples and for us.

Undue Protestant antipathies toward Mary have muted not only her place in redemption history and its necessary connection to Christology, but also the virtue of virginity.

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.

The fact of Jesus being the greatest of all priests in the greatest of all orders of priesthood, means Jesus is the consummate pastor for those in need of a powerful and availing shepherd.

Is it possible to take a cyber approach to the season of Lent? I do not think so.

The preacher of this text should follow the logic of the text, the divinely inspired genius of Saint Paul, and get out of the way.

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.

The “Word” isn’t a thing, it is a person, the Son of the Father, who with the Holy Spirit is one God.

We were enemies, but because of the self-sacrificing love of Christ, we are made friends, indeed, even the adopted children of our Heavenly Father.

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.

While God may and does test one’s faith and life, yet He does not tempt with sin.

Because we have this hope and calling, we must speak boldly and plainly; no veil, no shiny veneer, just the truth about God nailed to a tree.