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Our Family Table: His Presence is Present Enough
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 11 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 4 “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring…
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Our Family Table: Living Epistles
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 10 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 3 “Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on ourhearts, to be known and read by all. And you show…
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Our Family Table: Pleasing Aroma
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 9 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 2 “But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledgeof him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are…
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Our Family Table: Sharing Comfort
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 8 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 1 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort…
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Our Family Table: Be Strong in Love
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 7 September 2025 Reading From I Corinthians 16 “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.”—I Corinthians 16:13-14 As boys and girls follow the ways of Jesus they will become strong and mighty men and women…
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Our Family Table: The Company You Keep
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 6 September 2025 Reading From I Corinthians 15:29-58 “Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”—I Corinthians 15:33 Jesus Himself spent time with tax collectors, prostitutes, religious types, wealthy people, poor people, young, old, and everyone in between. But the example that He set for us…
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Reflections on the Temptation of Jesus
A Restoration Reminder by Kenton Cheek Luke 4:1-14 The Temptation of Jesus 4 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son…
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Sin and Salvation, Part III
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek A key part of spiritual growth and sanctification is perseverance. In order for the event and process of salvation to not be in vain, we must continue in the faith until we reach the goal of salvation which is glorification. This means a continual rejection of sin and ardent…
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Sin and Salvation, Part II
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek Salvation is an event (the new birth), a process (sanctification), and a future goal (glorification). God loves everyone and we all have been made for relationship with Him and created in His image, but that relationship was severed by sin and that image has been corrupted by sin and…
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Sin and Salvation, Part I
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek A Biblical Perspective of Sin and SalvationWhen God created Adam and Eve, He made them in His spiritual image. The first humans enjoyed perfect, uninhibited relationship with God and were blessed with free moral agency to choose between right and wrong. Elohim placed them in the paradise of Eden…