Sermons
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November 18, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: belonging, complaining, cost, gift, gratitude, hospitality, oil, poor, posturing, sacrifice, welcome
Book: Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
Big things happen in little Bethany. Bethany was on the… read more
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November 11, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: arrival, autonomy, change, conscientiousness, Day of the Lord, difficulty, expectation, failure, membership, obedience, patience, preparedness, reform, return, sleep, watchfulness, wisdom
Service Type: Sunday service
“But about that day or hour no one knows, not… read more
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October 20, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: church, congregation, cost, denomination, discernment, evangelism, failure, fear, fellowship, guard, guardian, happiness, Holy Spirit, salvation, sin, stand, trouble, truth, watching, withstand
Book: Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
The lectionary that several denominations use—the order of Scripture readings… read more
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October 14, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: action, authority, compassion, honor, humility, hypocrisy, knowledge, law, love, power, pride, religion, respect, self, service, status, work
Service Type: Sunday service
Prestige, status, honor, respect, deference—marks of power and authority. The… read more
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September 30, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: assumption, belief, genealogy, humility, imagination, Judah, law, marriage, metaphor, possibility, power, prestige, priesthood, resurrection, Ruth, Sadducees, Scripture, service, Sheol, Tamar, Thomas Jefferson, trust, wealth
Book: 1 Corinthians, 1 John, Genesis, Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
The resurrection—one of the essentials of the Christian faith. I’m… 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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September 16, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: authority, belief, competition, conflict, confrontation, favor, institution, knowledge, office, position, power, prestige, self, service
Book: Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
You’d think, after what had happened there just the day… read more
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September 9, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: access, business, convenience, custom, disappointment, exclusion, Gentiles, presence, Temple, worship
Service Type: Sunday service
Jerusalem, Jerusalem—people from all over were eager to come to… read more
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August 26, 2024
Speaker: Paul Kucera
Topic: blindness, call, change, devotion, faith, healing, hopeless, knowledge, mercy, remember, sight, trust
Book: Mark
Service Type: Sunday service
Wasn’t it Kenny Rogers, bless his heart, who sang about… read more