Approval Is Power

January 11, 2026
Paul takes much of the first chapter of Romans to articulate the trouble: it’s a big trouble and deeply troubling.  It has caused all of us all kinds of trouble. …

Holy Now and Yet to Be

March 30, 2025
“It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (10:4).  So much, then, for the entire sacrificial system established in the first books in the Bible. …
Around seventy years ago, a psychiatrist named Murray Bowen began to articulate a theory of how emotions operate in family systems.  Bowen noted, as our own experience shows, that when…

Shining Faith, Shining Life

December 22, 2024
How to respond to the news that God has specially favored you, made you acceptable to Him, because God is who God is?  How to respond when you’re told, by…
Bible Text: Ephesians 1:3-14 | Preacher: Paul Kucera Give thanks.  Praise God.  Praise God’s glory.  St. Paul calls us to worship.  Some people worship justice—as they conceive it.  Some worship…