Topic: rejection
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December 1, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: apostle, change, congregation, David, fellowship, Incarnation, listening, Lord, obedience, promise, rejection, relationship, servant, slave
Book: Romans
Service Type: Sunday service
Most Bible translations soften what Paul says in the opening… read more
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November 24, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: compulsion, freedom, house, king, obedience, Pharisees, plan, power, preference, prophet, purpose, rejection, relationship, savior, solace, threat, will
Service Type: Christ the King
So, the Pharisees always manage to surprise me. I often… read more
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September 29, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: Bible, change, compassion, cost, faithful, falsehood, help, interpretation, rejection, righteous, rules, sacrifice, self-service, Spirit, surrender, transformation, truth
Book: Luke
Service Type: Sunday service
My mother-in-law grew up in The Bronx, attending, as I… read more
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August 18, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: accomodation, assimilation, church, commitment, compromise, culture, decision, doctrine, idolatry, obedience, peace, purity, rejection, relationship, sin, submission, teaching, truth, ultimatum, unity
Book: Luke
Service Type: Sunday service
“Not one of us” (9:49). I am not interested in… read more
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January 27, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: abundance, blessing, change, decision, follow, foolishness, labor, listening, Lord, Master, presence, priority, profit, purpose, rejection, resistance, right, self, teaching, understanding, unknown
Book: Luke
Service Type: Sunday service
Jesus is back from the wilderness, tested, steeled with the… read more
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December 30, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: Anna, Bible, change, choice, consecration, contentment, feelings, gratitude, holiness, hope, indifference, invitation, patience, purification, rejection, responsibility, Simeon, Spirit, waiting, wisdom
Book: Luke
Service Type: Sunday service
Though Luke is a Gentile, a Christian, and one of… read more
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September 23, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: covenant, freedom, gratitude, listening, obedience, parable, preference, prophets, rejection, Scripture, vineyard
Service Type: Sunday service
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Rank ingratitude. … read more
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July 17, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: appearance, Communion, hero, holiness, king, Lord's Supper, Messiah, plan, prophet, rebuke, rejection, salvation, suffering, victory
Book: Mark
Service Type: Communion Service
General, later President Eisenhower and, a few years after, General… read more
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June 17, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: belief, doubt, Gideon, Jesus Christ Superstar, Last Temptation of Christ, Pharisees, questions, rejection, sign, Spirit, trust, trustworthy, W Graham Scroggie
Service Type: Sunday service
I suppose there are those here who know of Marfa—so… read more