Love Invites

April 6, 2025
Some people are confident—we kind of admire them.  Some are over-confident.  Confidence isn’t a bad thing—quite good, actually.  We need confidence daily, even when we don’t think about it, as…
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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. …
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Ready to Build

February 23, 2025
So here is the sum of it.  Jesus has been describing a way to live governed by God’s principles, life God’s way, a heart being filled with God.  This happens…
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According to Your Word

December 8, 2024
More than the other three tellings of the Jesus story, Luke keeps the angels before us.  Those angels are busy!  It’s as if most people had stopped really expecting anything…
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If Jesus is always teaching, he is also preparing his followers.  He has something he’s asking them to do, wants them to be doing.  In much of the first part…
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Power, Promise, People

March 28, 2024
“On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, ‘Where do you want us to go and…
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I dread getting God’s Word wrong.  In the interests of full disclosure, this proclaimer of God’s Word also dreads parts of God’s Word.  There are parts that seem hard to…
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Bible Text: Luke 12:32-40 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | I pastored a church in Illinois, right out of seminary. A fellow pastor in that presbytery served two congregations. Those of…
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Let Your Sword Be Prayer

April 19, 2019
Bible Text: John 18:10-11 | Preacher: Paul Kucera | Where did Peter get a sword?  How long had he been carrying that around?  He has it with him, that night,…

Spirit and Fire

January 13, 2019
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…
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