Bible Text: Colossians 1:15-23 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Millions want to know God. Knowing God isn’t easy. There is so much around us and within to distract us, deflect…
Bible Text: Colossians 1:1-14 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | “He rescued us from the power of darkness” (1:13). Do you believe there is a power of darkness? I read the…
Bible Text: Galatians 6:1-10, 14-16 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Some of you may know Lou Reed’s song “Perfect Day.” At one point in the song, he repeats, four times—as…
Bible Text: Luke 8:26-39 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Tornadoes, hurricanes, fires—our lives can be turned upside down, so quickly, so completely. The news cameras are almost always there, after,…
Bible Text: Romans 5:1-5 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | We don’t tend to get all excited about a doctrine of the Church. Just to use the word doctrine sort of…
Bible Text: Acts 16:16-34 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Paul and Silas, still in Philippi, encounter a girl, a slave girl. That wasn’t unusual. This slave girl is possessed; a…
Bible Text: Acts 16:11-15 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Before Paul and Timothy arrive in Philippi, they had tried to make Jesus known in a couple other places. Luke tells…
Bible Text: Acts 11:1-18 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | None of us are immune from the Us/Them mentality. Our interpretation of Scripture, in a way, permits such thinking: Jesus tells…
Bible Text: Acts 9:36-43 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | There are many place names in the Bible. If we had been born and raised in that part of the world,…
Bible Text: Acts 9:1-20 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Saul didn’t know Jesus. Blind, thrown down in the dust there on the road, Saul calls the one speaking to him…