John Bombaro

Preaching is the first line of defense and catechetical offensive against these corrosive falsehoods.

Let us move beyond the milk and onto solid food — the meat of biblical, creedal, confessional theology in our preaching.

The new life Christ opened for us in His justifying resurrection, the new life into which we were baptized is a life of faith.

Here is the foundational cure for the evils of racism in human society, faith in Christ as definitive for racial identification.

Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?

The good news is Christ Jesus is faithful to the end, even to the point of death and through death, with a steadfast and vocal faith in God our Savior for those who cannot do so in their lives any longer on account of their altered state.

Accuracy and quality are the preacher’s responsibility. How affective and effective the sermon may be, of course, belongs to the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Sermon preparation is a way of life, a necessary discipline, and a serious mediation for the man of God, duly called and ordained to herald the royal proclamation of Jesus.

The Christian sermon is Gospel preaching. We only preach the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the sermon, notwithstanding necessary admonishments of law and requisite exhortations toward sanctification.

This is the litmus test for a Christian sermon: Did Christ have to die upon the cross for me to be able to say this and to say it as His very own message?

If you truly love the brethren, you will not grudge to help them in their distress.

This faith bears fruit, but it may be fruit that turns upside down the world’s values.

With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious.

Preachers are called to proclaim Christ as King over-and-against the sovereignty of the consumer.

Eyes which are fixed on what is unseen will see the whole world in a different way.

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.

We have the Gospel in Word and the Gospel in Sacrament. Both are poised to declare the peace of the Lord, the good news of God’s forgiveness because of the life, vicarious atonement, and resurrection of Jesus the Son.

The Apostle Peter’s monumental sermon on Pentecost declares the Kingdom purposes and divine saving work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit which culminates in the new world order with Christ in charge.

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.