Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Our theme for this year is a focus on Jesus and what he did to save us. In particular, we are going to look at all of the pictures that the scriptures give to describe our atonement. There is not a single picture or single teaching describing the work of Christ. So what I wanted […] The post Jesus Is Our Sin Bearer appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. In our last lesson we talked about overflowing in contentment. Discontentment leads to all kinds of problems in this life. Not only does it lead to problems in the present, it can also draw you away from the pain and pierce you with many sorrows (6:10). The apostle Paul teaches us another picture of how […] The post REWIND: Live Generously (1 Timothy 6:11-21) appe...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Our theme this year, though disrupted by the coronavirus, has been the theme of Overflow. Jesus told his disciples that out of our hearts would flow streams of living water. So we have asked this question through the year: what flows out of us? It was not initially planned this way but two of the […] The post REWIND: Finding Contentment (1 Timothy 6:3-10) appeared...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have spent a number of our lessons this year talking about how to have hope when crushed by trials, when hopeless because of suffering and loss, when feeling alone, and when tempted. All of these difficulties of life, from temptations and trials to sinning and being alone can cause us to be anxious. In […] The post REWIND: Hope When Anxious (James 5:1-5) appear...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The first word in Matthew 6:25 is the word, “Therefore.” Before we can enter this paragraph about worry, we need to reconnect to the prior paragraph. In verses 19-24 Jesus told us to treasure heavenly treasures and not earthly treasures. Make your treasure in heaven and not on earth. This idea is going to lead […] The post REWIND: Hope When Worried (Matthew 6:25-3...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will […] The post REWIND: Fearless: Anxious For No...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. It seems that there is so much to be anxious for in life. Work brings anxiety. Life choices bring anxiety. Family brings anxiety. ISIS and terrorism brings anxiety. The world is full of anxiety. Yet the scriptures are going to teach us how we can overcome and defeat anxiety. The apostle Paul is going to […] The post REWIND: Defeat Anxiety (Philippians 4:2-7) appea...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at this section in Jeremiah’s prophecy in which we see the Lord teaching how to have a heart for God. As we come to Jeremiah 25 we are coming to a chapter that most people are not going to be happy reading. We live in a time in our society where […] The post A Heart From God’s Wrath (Jeremiah 25) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Pal...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Romans 1:16-17 is the thesis for this letter. Paul is not ashamed of the gospel because the gospel is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes. But then Paul continues by saying that in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith. Romans 1:17 has so much written […] The post The Faith of the Gospel (Romans 1:17) appeared f...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. I want to begin the lesson by hearing a promise that God makes: I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart. (Jeremiah 24:7 ESV) God says that he […] The post A Heart To Know God (Jeremiah 24) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach churc...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel…” (Romans 1:16). It is a bold statement that I want us to think about as we begin this lesson. Paul was not ashamed of the gospel. Do you feel ashamed of the gospel? We do not want to be ashamed but we can certainly be tempted to […] The post Not Ashamed of the Gospel (Romans 1:16) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Pal...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Our culture has coined a phrase that we consider to be new. People will speak about “my truth.” I expect that you have heard this phrase used before. In fact, we are encouraged to speak “our truth.” You are told that you need to speak “your truth.” The idea is that there is something that […] The post A Heart For Truth (Jeremiah 23:9-40) appeared first on Biblical...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Listen to what Paul says: “I am a debtor…” (Romans 1:14). We do not want to be debtors. We do not want to have obligations. We try to free ourselves from every debt. But this is a good debt. Paul embraces the fact that he is debtor and it is understand the debt of the […] The post The Debt of the Gospel (Romans 1:8-15) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West P...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. There are many New Testament scriptures that speak about the glory of God as seen through the amazing work of our Lord Christ Jesus. But we can miss the depth of what those images and teachings are giving because we do not know intimately what the prophets were proclaiming. Often the New Testament assumes we […] The post The Righteous Branch (Jeremiah 23:1-8) appe...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. I want to begin the lesson today by asking an important question. What is the gospel? If someone were to come up to you, could you answer this question? If your neighbor asked you, “What is the gospel?”, what would you tell them? What exactly is the gospel? Now if you have grown up in […] The post The Gospel of God (Romans 1:1-7) appeared first on Biblical Truths...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are in a section in the prophecy of Jeremiah where we are learning about having a heart for God. In Jeremiah 20 we saw the terrible treatment of God’s prophet. Jeremiah is mocked, scorned, and verbally abused. His close friends seek revenge on Jeremiah because of his teachings. Jeremiah was arrested, beaten, and put […] The post The Way of Life or Way of Death...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are looking at how to fight against the temptations that our enemy, the devil, is using to attack our faith. Our enemy wants us to doubt God, doubt God’s love, doubt our relationship with God, and doubt that God cares for us. There are many, many doubts that the devil launches at us so […] The post Doubting His Promise (Matthew 4:8-11) appeared first on Biblica...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are beginning a new series called A Heart For God. We are going to be looking at how to have a heart for God when life is particularly painful while trying to live for God. We would think that doing the right thing would keep us safe. We want to think that if we […] The post Fire In My Bones (Jeremiah 20) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach c...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are looking at how to fight against the temptations that our enemy, the devil, is using to attack our faith. Our enemy wants us to doubt God, doubt God’s love, doubt our relationship with God, and doubt that God cares for us. There are many, many doubts that the devil launches at us so […] The post Doubting His Protection and Care (Matthew 4:5-7) appeared first...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The apostle John is writing to help Christians know if they have eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:13). John does not want anyone to be deceived regarding their relationship with God. He wants us to evaluate our walk so that we can know if we are walking in the light or if we are walking […] The post Love Assured (1 John 3:19-24) appeared first on Biblical Truths from We...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are looking at how to fight against the temptations that our enemy, the devil, is using to attack our faith. In last week’s lesson we observed the first step that the devil uses against us is doubt. Our enemy wants us to doubt God, doubt God’s love, doubt our relationship with God, and doubt […] The post Doubting His Provision (Matthew 4:3-4) appeared first on...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The apostle John is writing to help Christians know if they have eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:13). John does not want anyone to be deceived regarding their relationship with God. He wants us to evaluate our walk so that we can know if we are walking in the light or if we are walking […] The post What Is Love? (1 John 3:10-18) appeared first on Biblical Truths from W...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are beginning a short series called Filters where we are going to talk about how to look at temptations properly so that we can overcome them. The apostle Paul claimed that there is no temptation that is unique to you. Listen what he taught in 1 Corinthians 10:13. No temptation has overtaken you that […] The post The Doubt (Matthew 4:1-2) appeared first on Bibl...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The apostle John has proclaimed a glorious truth for us to hear. “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God, and so we are” (1 John 3:1 ESV). We have been placed into an amazing, undeserved relationship with the Father, being called his children. […] The post The Power of Love (1 John 3:4-10) appeared first on Bibli...

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The teacher of Ecclesiastes brings us to the final conclusions regarding his look at life. Remember that this book began with the teacher trying to determine what a person gets for all of his efforts in life. What is the gain? What is the advantage? What is the benefit? Do you get the payoff for […] The post The End of the Matter (Ecclesiastes 12:9-14) appeared fi...