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: 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: 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…
Bible Text: 2 Thessalonians 2 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Well, okay . . . so that’s a lot. Scholars regard Paul’s two letters to the believers in Thessalonika as…
Bible Text: 2 Thessalonians 1 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Paul speaks of the people who belong to God and to the Lord Jesus Christ (1:1). Have you thought much…
Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | One of my hardest ministry moments so far was when a very involved member (not here at Bethel) told me that…
Bible Text: 1 Timothy 2:1-10 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | How are we supposed to do church? How are we supposed to be church? Those are good questions, even though…