The Valley Church of Christ

Series: Hebrews (Cling to Jesus in the Wilderness) Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville In the midst of the wilderness, the Israelites — who had seen God’s mighty hand in the ten plagues, in the Red Sea, in daily manna, in the water from the rock, and on Mount Sinai and who were on their way to rest in the promised land — they began to grow weary, to compla...

Series: Daniel (Faith among Babylonians) Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  When all the work is done, and all the accolades for our work have been received, and when we are alone at the end of the day, what are our thoughts? How do we think about and process our successes? Notice 1 Corinthians 4:7. Paul, who is frustrated with the pride of the Corinthians says this,...

Series: Hebrews (Cling to Jesus in the Wilderness) Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to his home for a meal. Pharisees were a sect that grew out of a genuine frustration that God’s promises for Israel were not coming through. They responded to this by trying to zealously keep God’s law and to reform Israel to do the same. But in the end, they failed miserably. Their...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  Introduction: Ecclesiastes disrupts naive imaginations, and counsels the discouraged. Children have vast imaginations — any place or room can instantly become a stage, restaurant, zoo, hospital ward, battlefield, or dungeon. Problems are solved with a simple word or gesture. As children grow, they learn to see the...

Series: Hebrews (Cling to Jesus in the Wilderness) Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville The Israelites had been brutally treated in Egypt. But God worked wonder after wonder to rescue his people. Now? God’s glory was constantly visible before them over the tabernacle. They ate bread from heaven. They drank water from the rock. But the way to the promised land was throu...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville

Series: Daniel (Faith among Babylonians) Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  The majority of voters in the U.S. believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. The U.S. has been the most powerful nation on earth for the past century, but there’s some unsteadiness. Our country is wealthy, but prices keep climbing. We have food and medicine, but the number o...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  Anger presents another challenge: anger is both a sin of man and an attribute of our perfect God. How can this be? How can it be a sin we commit, and yet a good attribute of God? This is because Anger is often the emotion we feel when we perceive something to be wrong or unfair; anger propels us to correct the perceived...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville Do you ever feel exhausted from wondering what in the world we are doing, where God is? Hoping for some sort of direction or action from God? That’s not uncommon for people of God, especially this time of year. The days are shorter. It’s darker and colder. The Scriptures are full of people who live in darkness and...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville How can we become mature, fruitful — fruit-bearing — humans remade into the image of God? That’s really what the technology series has been about — shining a light on the dark places where we have potentially accepted the darkness or even just the fruitlessness that has resulted from our use of technolo...

Series: Christians and Technology Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville (Credit: Daniel Broadwell's Sermon on this topic)Genesis 2:5 rewinds to back before the creation of humans to present a problem. Plants are not growing abundantly in the land not only because there is no rain, but also because there is no man to work the ground. But, God forms man from the dust of the...

Series: Christians and Technology Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville Psa. 119:37 ESV, “Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.” Heb. 12:1–2 NIV, “Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles… fixing our eyes on Jesus…” Luke 23:47–48 ESV, “N...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville Most all of us know the story of Judas Iscariot. He was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus, one of Jesus' closest followers with whom he entrusted much. When the religious leaders wanted to execute Jesus quietly by night but no one knew where he stayed at night, Judas stepped forward and led them straight to Jesus for 30 piec...

Series: Christians and Technology Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville The world would be an untamed, chaotic, unsafe place if humans did not work fruitfully, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Technology — whether shovels or screens — can have a place there. But I have argued in this series that there is something about modern technology that should give u...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville

Series: Daniel (Faith among Babylonians) Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  Nebuchadnezzar believed he and his father were the ones who caused Babylon to increase, and now that Babylon was on top, he was sleepless with nightmares about what might come after this because he also believed he was the one who had to maintain it all. Would he be able to hold onto his powe...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  The nation of Israel was supposed to be a model for the nations of God’s ways. The nations were supposed to walk by the light cast from their land. But they turned from Yahweh who taught them his ways of love and justice toward idols who are demonic. They became selfish. They stopped loving as they should. They sto...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville Notice Philippians 3:13-14. I’ll never forget watching a documentary a few years ago about the sorts of training Olympians do to prepare to compete in their sport. They reorganize their entire lives around the hope of even to maybe compete and maybe win a medal. Sure, they get up early and work out. But they eat differen...

Series: Daniel (Faith among Babylonians) Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  Babel. They used their brick technology to build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so they wouldn’t be scattered and so they could make a name for themselves. God scattered them, but the Babel/Babylon of Daniel’s day is a retry at that same project. Nebuchadnezza...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  Proverbs 27:4, “Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?” Do you remember what it was like the last time you dealt with an angry person? What were they like? Were they red hot? Solomon’s wisdom: if you think anger is tough to endure, try standing before jealousy. Jealous...

Series: Daniel (Faith among Babylonians) Service: Sun AM (1) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville Babylon was in the business of conquering nations, hand-selecting the brightest and the best-looking, and giving them a free ride to Babylon University so they could rewrite their worldview and identity from the ground up. The young men Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were in this group. And...

Series: N/A Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville  Due to their wickedness, Israel has been oppressed repeatedly for a couple hundred years. They cried for help and God sent a judge to rescue them. The judge would gather the tribes to battle against the enemy and dispense judgments. Now: Samuel has been a righteous judge and prophet to the people his whole life. Israel h...

Series: Daniel (Faith among Babylonians) Service: Sun AM (2) Type: Sermon Speaker: Scott Kercheville A few months ago I was doing work at our kitchen table while Ashley was with the girls in our room. She asked me to pull out dinner at a certain time. I was hard at work and at some point the smoke alarm went off. Dinner wasn’t due to be done for another 15-20 minutes, so I thought it was jus...