Bible Text: John 14:15-21 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | An advocate to help us and to be with us forever. Help. Forever. You know this word advocate: someone who speaks…
Bible Text: Acts 16:16-34 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Paul and Silas, still in Philippi, encounter a girl, a slave girl. That wasn’t unusual. This slave girl is possessed; a…
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: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | John didn’t look like a Messiah, didn’t act like a Messiah, but some thought that maybe he kind of spoke…
Bible Text: John 6:22-40 | Preacher: Paul Kucera To be in the presence of Jesus is to be in the presence of salvation. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper on the…
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…
Bible Text: John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 | Preacher: Paul Kucera Pentecost is a day of power. Every Sunday should be a day of power. Indeed—every day that we live in Christ…