Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Jesus has designated that Judas will be his betrayer. After sending him away, Jesus has taken the Passover and reconstituted it into a new memorial in which the disciples will remember his body and his blood of the covenant. The disciples are instructed to remember his sacrifice and remember the effect of his sacrifice. It […] The post Not My Will (Matthew 26:30-4...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at the meaning of the blood of the covenant. Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, called his disciples together and instituted the Lord’s Supper as a permanent memorial. As we have been studying the scriptures we have been seeing that the blood of the covenant has a rich meaning for […] The post Blood of the Covenant: Unworthy (Hebrews 10) app...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. In our last lesson we carefully considered the purpose and meaning of the memorial Jesus gave to us. In Matthew 26 we saw that Jesus is living during his final hours. During the Passover time Jesus gave a memorial so that we would remember him and what he accomplished for us. But before we move […] The post Remember Me… Together (Matthew 26:26-29, 1 Corinthi...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been spending our time looking at the meaning of the blood of the covenant. The reason this is an important study is because Jesus proclaimed that when we take the cup in the Lord’s Supper, that cup is representing his blood of the covenant. We looked at the use of this term in […] The post Blood of the Covenant: Forgiven (Hebrews 9) appeared first on Bibl...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are reading the last days of Jesus’ life on earth. The chief priests and the elders of the Jewish people have been plotting to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. However, they do not want to do this during the Passover to prevent an uproar from happening. But an opportunity has presented itself to […] The post Remember Me (Matthew 26:17-29) appeared first on B...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night when he was betrayed, he called for his disciples to remember him and proclaim his death until he returned. When Jesus took the unleavened bread, he said to his disciples to eat the bread, remembering that this was his body given for them. But then he […] The post Blood of the Covenant: Freed (Zechariah 9) appea...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Matthew 26 begins the final act of this gospel’s recording of Jesus’ life. You see this in the first verse of Matthew 26 with the words, “When Jesus had finished all these sayings.” This is the fifth and final time that Matthew marks off his gospel in this way. Our setting is the final week […] The post Give or Get? (Matthew 26:1-16) appeared first on Biblical Tru...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper on the night when he was betrayed, he called for his disciples to remember him and proclaim his death until he returned. When Jesus took the unleavened bread, he said to his disciples to eat the bread, remembering that this was his body given for them. But then he […] The post Blood of the Covenant: Committed (Exodus 24:8) a...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. This is our final lesson on how to have a fresh, renewed faith for the new year. The Lord has been announcing important truths to the people about their spiritual condition. However, the people have questioned those declarations, not seeing their own sinful condition. The Lord has then given remedies for the people so that […] The post Questioning God’s Faithfulne...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at how to have a renewed, fresh faith for the new year. Our text that we have been considering is from the prophecy of Malachi. God has making statements about the faith problems of the people. But the people are questioning everything God says because they do not believe they have […] The post Questioning God’s Care (Malachi 3:7-12) appeared...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at what a life of sin does to us from Jeremiah 2. The people had expressed the feeling that they were captured by their sins and it was hopeless to return to the Lord. In Jeremiah 2 God is describing to the people what their sins have done to them. We […] The post Overcoming Sin Addiction – Part 3 (Jeremiah 2:29-37) appeared first on Biblical...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been spending this month talking about how to have a fresh, renewed faith for the new year. Everyone likes the opportunity to restart. It is one reason we look forward to a new year. It is the chance to have a better year than the prior year. This is a time of year […] The post Questioning God’s Justice (Malachi 2:17-3:6) appeared first on Biblical Truths...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are looking at how to overcome sin addiction from the second chapter of Jeremiah. We are seeing this problem expressed in Jeremiah 2:25. Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, “It is useless for you to try and stop me because I […] The post Overcoming Sin Addiction – Part 2 (Jeremiah 2:14-28) appe...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at how to renew our faith for the new year. We look forward to a new year in hope of having a better year. As we think about the upcoming year, we are looking at how we can have an improved, deeper faith for 2024 and we are looking at this […] The post Questioning God’s Covenant (Malachi 2:10-16) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Pal...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are going to have a short series called Overcoming Sin Addiction and we are going to look at how to do this from the second chapter of Jeremiah. I would like you to take your copies of God’s word and turn to Jeremiah 2. The series theme comes from what God says through Jeremiah […] The post Overcoming Sin Addiction (Jeremiah 2:1-13) appeared first on Biblical T...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are in a series called Fresh Faith where God is exploring the people’s failures in their faith and telling them what needs to be different to belong to him. The people, however, have been surprised by this. They are questioning God throughout this prophecy. God has proclaimed his love for his people. Yet the […] The post Questioning God’s Instructions (Malachi...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. It is hard to believe how far people can fall in their lives. We are certainly able to watch it in the lives of celebrities who seem to have it all only to lose so much due to their foolish ways and sinful decisions. But this is not a problem that only afflicts those who […] The post Destroying Transformation (Judges 8) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are in a series called Fresh Faith where we are looking to how we can prepare ourselves for this coming new year to have the faith that God wants us to have and that we want to have. Our first step to a renewed faith is to see God’s love for you that he […] The post Questioning God’s Honor (Malachi 1:6-14) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We like to be in the majority. We like to be in the majority because we can think that this means we are on the right side. This is part of our culture war right now. There is a battle for the majority because the belief is if you have the majority, then you must […] The post Against All Odds (Judges 7) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The Troubles (6:1-6) To appreciate what God is going to do for the people of Israel through Gideon, we have to see what is going on in their history. We are told at the end of Judges 5 that Israel had experienced a time of rest and peace from the surrounding nations for 40 years. […] The post Why Has This Happened To Us? (Judges 6:1-32) appeared first on Biblical...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV) Just slow down and think about what the apostle Paul taught as he came to the end of his first letter to the Thessalonian Christians. This is God’s will […] The post Thanking Through It appeared first on Biblica...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Introducing Jeremiah (1:1-3) It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. This is probably the only line I remember from the required readings of Charles Dickens in high school. Yet as I opened the book of Jeremiah and read the first few sentences, it was the first thing that came […] The post Made For This Moment (Jeremiah 1) appeared first on Biblical...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Matthew 24 ended with Jesus warning his disciples that they need to be ready for his coming in judgment. In last week’s lessons we saw that Jesus warned that his delay to bring judgment will tempt his servants to no longer stay awake and be ready and will tempt his servants to mistreat one another […] The post Ready For His Coming (Matthew 25) appeared first on Bi...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are continuing our study of Matthew 24 that we began this morning. But in this lesson we are going to dig deeper into these pictures that Jesus is giving about the coming destruction against Jerusalem and the temple. This is the context of the discussion for Jesus with his disciples. Jesus has condemned the […] The post Why Wickedness Increases (Digger Further...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Matthew 24 is one of the most controversial and misunderstood passages in the New Testament. Any time there is a disturbance in the world, many run to this chapter to try to find answers. This comes particularly from verses 6-7 of Matthew 24. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that […] The post Ready For His Judgment (Matthew 24) appeared first on B...