Paul wants us to live with concern for the discipleship of others. This is part of a larger discussion of the uses and abuses of freedom. We have been…
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Eph 2:10). Our new birth in Christ…
God shall supply all your need. I never grow tired of hearing that. I rejoice when I hear that! Those words speak in the emptiest parts of me and…
Paul gives an overview of the life to which Christ calls us here and hereafter. Jesus speaks of himself as the way to the hereafter. Paul calls us to…
Bible Text: Philippians 1:21-30 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Series: For Progress and Joy in the Faith | “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain”…
Bible Text: Matthew 18:21-35 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also…
Bible Text: Romans 13:8-10 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Debt is one of those things you get into that you can’t wait to get out of, like a bad job,…
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: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | In July of 2017, I was sitting beside my mother. She was lying in a hospital bed in the middle of…
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Have you ever been at the grocery store and seen what you wanted there on the top shelf, and realized, after…