1 Corinthians Bible Study (Correcting Corruption) – West Palm Beach church of Christ

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. Paul is in the midst of describing to the Corinthian Christians the way followers of Jesus are to behave. Paul has taught the necessity of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. Without love we are nothing before God and have gained nothing before God. The spiritual gifts these Corinthians possessed were nothing without love. Further, Paul […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. The thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians is a chapter that is widely known, yet routinely taken out of its context. This is another situation where the arbitrary chapter breaks interfere with the author’s message. Before this chapter Paul wrote to the Corinthians to teach them that though they have different spiritual gifts, they were dependent […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. How are Christians to function together? There is a great challenge that must be considered when we think about the local church. Think about all of us. We are different ages. We are from different cultures. We are different races. We come from different states and even different countries. Many countries are represented in this […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. The apostle Paul is writing to the Corinthian church about spiritual gifts so that they would not be uninformed and would have their faith confirmed concerning these gifts. We have noticed in our studies thus far that spiritual gifts were given through the Holy Spirit when an apostle laid his hands on another Christian (Acts […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. We began our study of spiritual gifts last week by examining how spiritual gifts were given to Christians. We noticed in that study that the scriptures repeatedly describe Christians receiving spiritual gifts only by an apostle laying his hands on a Christian (Acts 8:15-18; Romans 1:9-11; 2 Timothy 1:6-7). Paul writes this section concerning spiritual […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. Today we are kicking off our summer series as we study miraculous spiritual gifts. Our text for this study is 1 Corinthians 12-14 where Paul writes to the Corinthian church about miraculous spiritual gifts. There has been a resurgence in charismatic teachings and increasingly people seem to be drawn to seeking the gifts of the […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. The apostle Paul has been explaining how the resurrection will take place. In 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 the apostle has described that we must be given different bodies that are prepared to live in the spiritual realm. These bodies that we have now are created by God to live in this world. But just as a […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. The apostle Paul has strongly asserted that those who are in Christ, though they die, will be raised from the dead. Since Christ has risen from the dead, then with certainty we know that we also will be raised from the dead. But understanding how this resurrection could occur is difficult to grasp. It seems […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. In verses 12-19 of the fifteenth chapter of Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul has argued that if the dead are not raised then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then we are still in our sins, our faith is futile, our preaching is vain, the […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. Can we really believe that we will live after we die? This is perhaps one of the great challenges to our thinking where faith is demanded. When we die, is there something more? For us, the question is do we go out of existence after the body dies. Some of the Christians in Corinth had […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. Just as the heart pumps life giving blood to every part of the body, so the resurrection is the gospel life to our souls. The resurrection often seems to be ignored discussions concerning Jesus. Often the focus remains on the life of Jesus. Certainly the death of Jesus is proclaimed, especially as we partake of […]