Bible Text: Matthew 4:12-23 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | In Matthew’s timeline, Jesus has just returned from his time of temptation in the wilderness. We’ll get to that in about…
Bible Text: John 1:29-42 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Twice in as many days, John the Baptist points to Jesus: “Look, the Lamb of God!” (1:29, 36). Lambs had one…
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Have you ever been at the grocery store and seen what you wanted there on the top shelf, and realized, after…
Bible Text: Jeremiah 31:7-14 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Jesus is the proof that God keeps His promises. He keeps His promises not because of us but despite us. That…
Bible Text: John 1:10 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | In the eighty-first psalm, the voice of the people of God, in slavery in Egypt, says, “I hear a voice I…
Bible Text: Isaiah 7:10-16 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Well, this is all pretty obscure, except we know Isaiah is talking about Jesus, five hundred years before the Christ-child’s birth.…
Bible Text: Isaiah 11:1-10 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | A shoot from a stump. We’ve seen that; that happens. The stump about which Isaiah speaks is the stump of David,…
Bible Text: Isaiah 2:1-5 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | What a glorious, happy day that will be, when people seek out the church, seeking God and knowledge of God. Some…
Bible Text: Jeremiah 23:1-6 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Today is a day for wrapping up. Next Sunday, I’ll start telling the story from the top once again. What…
Bible Text: 2 Thessalonians 3:3-16 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Second Thessalonians is short. When I first read through the Bible, it was a real relief finally to get to…