John Bombaro

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.

Saint Paul recognizes the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus is how the Spirit of God translates people from death and darkness to life and light.

This Spirit of love permits no Christian to exercise their freedom at the expense of another Christian still troubled by old associations.

Because this life is transient and we already live in the new and eternal age restored in Christ (at least in part), our preoccupations are different to those bound to this world and life.

What does being free from sin, which is obviously a good thing, have to do with being free from the Law, which sounds dangerous?

The church does well to remind the world that God is unmasked, indeed, that God has unmasked himself in the person of Jesus.

Rituals resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.

In Scripture, to be "in Christ" is nothing but living in the light and reality of one’s baptism.

Here is Paul’s repacking of the Christmas gift in terms of the personal and corporate implications of God so loving the world that He gave His only begotten Son.

The incarnate Son of God makes ordinary events extraordinary by making them events that factor into our salvation.

Why is it important for us to confess and remember the virgin birth? It is important because of its place within the total story of redemption.

The mystery has been revealed! The mystery, of course, is the Gospel!

These exhortations are dependent upon the accomplishments of Christ in the first Advent, with the upshot that upon the final advent the faithful will stand “sanctified completely” and “blameless.” Be mindful of both, neglect neither.

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.