A sermon from Brent Kercheville. When Jesus delivered his sermon while on the mountain, one of the things he proclaimed was that those who are blessed are those who are peacemakers (cf. Matthew 5:9). Part of the fruit of the Spirit is peace (cf. Galatians 5:22). The apostle Paul declared that we are to pursue what makes for peace and […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. As God tries to teach us about himself and what he expects from his people, sometimes he will use two events and set them next to each other so that we can compare and contrast the situations. As we come to Jeremiah 34-35 we are going to read about two groups of people who have […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. In our last lesson we looked at healing anger. We noted that quick anger is foolish, causes problems, shows a lack of restraint, and is contagious. The key of the lesson was to see that our anger is not accomplishing what we think it will accomplish. Rather, than helping us, our anger is destructive to […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. So if you have grown up on the pews, we are coming to an account that you might have learned about in your children’s Bible classes. It is the account of the nation of Israel dividing into two nations. The northern nation would be called Israel and the southern nation would be called Judah. One […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. We are returning to a series we began some time ago called Storm Proof. The book of Proverbs is a book of wisdom, written to help the readers live wisely. We spent some time going through the first couple chapters of Proverbs where Solomon gives various teachings about the importance of wisdom. The book of […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. We are spending time in this series looking at how Jesus transformed Simon into Peter. There are many events and many teachings in Jesus’ life where his effort it to teaching Peter and the disciples. One of those moments is recorded for us in Matthew 14. Jesus has just finished with a miracle of feeding […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. Please open your copies of God’s word to Acts 9:26. Our annual preaching theme last year was, “We, Not Me.” But there were more things that I wanted for us to talk about but we ran out of time last year. So I do hope to be able to come back to this series from […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. How do you deal with guilt? It is an interesting question to think about, especially in the context of our culture today. Right now our culture has made great efforts to erase feeling guilty about anything that we do. We are told that we should live with no regrets. But if you think about that […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. We are looking at some pictures of our atonement in our annual series which intentionally coincides with our study of Romans. In our last lesson we noticed the beauty of Jesus as our redemption. We looked at this in Romans 3:24. Even though all of us have sinned and all of us have fallen short […]

A sermon from Brent Kercheville. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:28-29 ESV) One of our challenges while on earth is to understand the kingdom God has prepared for us. One of […]