Topic: hope
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May 19, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: blessing, Capernaum, confidence, deserving, gratitude, healing, help, hope, obedience, provision, reciprocity, relationship, reputation, value
Book: Luke
Service Type: Sunday service
As we find out elsewhere in the New Testament, not… read more
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April 28, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: commitment, conviction, disappointment, experience, faith, feeling, hope, knowledge, prophet, recognition, relationship, Scripture, shame, suffering, victory, welcome
Book: Luke
Service Type: Sunday service
Easter is really glum! The women were sad. The apostles… read more
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January 6, 2025
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: challenge, clarification, communication, Communion, connection, disagreement, emphasis, hope, listening, obedience, Passover, presence, priorities, resistance, trust, turn
Book: Luke
Service Type: Communion Service
I have to think that Jesus was just a little… 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 3, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: Communion, disappointment, figs, fruit, fruitfulness, hope, Lord's Supper, tree, two natures of Christ
Service Type: Communion Service
Bethany is even closer to Jerusalem than Jericho, about two… read more
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March 18, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: authority, brokenness, healing, heart, holiness, hope, listening, need, obedience, power, presence, re-interpretation, rules, Sabbath, thinking, work
Book: Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
The most inconvenient part of our faith isn’t having to… read more
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February 26, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: ability, change, character, community, discipleship, example, exclusion, fellowship, hope, learning, Levi, Matthew, name, teaching
Book: Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
When I began attending church twenty-two years ago, I’m not… read more
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February 5, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: authority, bias, cleansing, Communion, complaining, congregation, expectation, healing, hope, impurity, Lord's Supper, offense, restoration, righteousness, Word
Book: Mark
Service Type: Communion Service
“They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus… read more
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July 3, 2023
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: comfort, Communion, grace, guilt, hope, hurt, Lord's Supper, Margaret Atwood, mercy, mourning, possibility, sin, sorrow, William Barclay
Book: 2 Corinthians, Luke, Mark, Matthew
Service Type: Communion Service
In Boston in 1770, Perez Morton penned these words: “When… read more