Bible Text: Romans 5:1-5 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | We don’t tend to get all excited about a doctrine of the Church. Just to use the word doctrine sort of…
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: Acts 9:1-20 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Saul didn’t know Jesus. Blind, thrown down in the dust there on the road, Saul calls the one speaking to him…
Bible Text: Nehemiah 8:9-12 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | I never took George Burns to be an especially religious man. I was surprised, then, to hear this bit of religious…
Bible Text: John 13:1-17 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Life happens, and we wonder what God…
Bible Text: John 1:1-14 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Many people do not know Jesus. Many, even today, because they have not heard of him. Many others because they do…
Bible Text: Luke 3:1-6 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | We hear this list of names at the beginning of this third chapter of Luke’s account, and we probably don’t think…
Bible Text: Revelation 1:4-8 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Every so often, our Scripture reading brings us to Revelation. We call it a book; it’s much closer to a vision,…
Bible Text: Hebrews 9:11-14 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | My last year at seminary, one of the theology professors taught a course called something like “Theories of the Atonement.” Over…
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…