My phone buzzes at odd, unpredictable hours, especially around the big holidays: amber alerts—child abductions. Often at those times of the year, it seems one parent is taking a child…
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People were just floored by how Jesus spoke and taught. “[H]e taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law” (Mk 7:29). The rabbis said,…
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I suppose we each have a picture of how the church ought to be, including this little congregation of it. No one’s picture looks just like the church as it…
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We’ve been reading our way through 1 Timothy. Timothy was in Ephesus, trying to get some things straightened out in the church there. If we think of Ephesus at all,…
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About all I remember of high school health class was sex education, trying to remember and write down what I ate in a week, and a film about a…
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Bible Text: 2 Corinthians 5:13-21 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | For quite some time, Christians didn’t need to think very much about their faith and beliefs. Yes, sure, society and…
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Bible Text: Job 1:6-12, 2:1-10 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Satan? Are we really going to hear about that old myth, that nonsense? Beloved, whether you believe there is such…
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Bible Text: Mark 6:30-34,53-56 | Preacher: Paul Kucera As Mark tells it, crowds are gathering even before Jesus arrives. People are gathering, expectantly, eagerly, excitedly, because they hear that Jesus…