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…
Bible Text: Nehemiah 8:9-12 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | I never took George Burns to be an especially religious man. I was surprised, then, to hear this bit of religious…
Bible Text: Luke 24:1-12 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | They went into the tomb. They knew they would have to. Could you? They were trying to prepare themselves. They see…
Bible Text: John 18:10-11 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Where did Peter get a sword? How long had he been carrying that around? He has it with him, that night,…
Bible Text: John 13:1-17 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Life happens, and we wonder what God…
Bible Text: Luke 19:29-40 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | “Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he,…
Bible Text: John 12:1-8 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Jesus and his disciples are celebrating, eating; it’s a joyful occasion: the one who brought life is with them. Lazarus who…