TOPIC INDEXEschatology (11)

  1. Epistles: Colossians 1:13-20 (The Last Sunday in the Church Year: Series C)

    book
    11/12/22
    27 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.

  2. Epistle: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8, 13-17 (Pentecost 22: Series C)

    book
    10/30/22
    16 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Whatever else may be said about the Last Day it consists of these two inseparable things: Christ’s coming and His kingdom people being gathered to Him.

  3. Advent Three Times Over

    book
    12/17/21
    9 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The Advents of Christ (past, present, and future) elicit faith in the word of Christ, confirmed by his presence.

  4. Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (11-17) (Pentecost 3: Series B)

    book
    06/05/21
    15 mins
    By John Bombaro
    With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious.

  5. Epistle: I Corinthians 15:20-28 (Pentecost 25: Series A)

    book
    11/15/20
    19 mins
    By John Bombaro
    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.

  6. How Does It End? Preaching the End Times to the Baptized

    book
    11/08/20
    20 mins
    By John Bombaro
    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.

  7. Jesus Did Not “Pass Away”: On Preaching Death and Dying

    book
    11/01/20
    32 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.

  8. Epistle: Romans 8:18-27 (Pentecost 7: Series A)

    book
    07/12/20
    16 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, just like our bodies on the day of the resurrection.

  9. Epistle: Romans 8:12-17 (Pentecost 6: Series A)

    book
    07/05/20
    14 mins
    By John Bombaro
    Our passage from Romans steers us between these two dangerous misconceptions: The mythical monster Scylla of believing the body to be evil on the one shore, and the beast Charybdis of believing the body constitutes all there is on the other.

  10. Epistle: Romans 5:12-19 (Lent 1: Series A)

    book
    02/24/20
    20 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The main point Paul has been getting at in Romans is what God has done in the One man Jesus the Messiah—the rightful heir of God’s earthly kingdom—is far, far more than simply putting the human race back where it was before the intrusion of sin.

  11. Epistles: Colossians 1:13-20 (The Last Sunday in the Church Year: Series C)

    book
    11/18/19
    25 mins
    By John Bombaro
    The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.