Tag: Bible
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Our Family Table: Growing in the Lord
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 27 November 2024 Reading From Acts 18:19-19:41 “Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor[a] and taught…
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Our Family Table: The Litmus Test
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God 25 November 2024 Reading From Acts 17-18:18 “10 As soon as it was night, the believers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. 11 Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica,for they received the message with great eagerness…
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Our Family Table: Spiritual Fusion
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 24 November 2024 Reading From Galatians 4-6 “Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.” –Galatians 6:15 There is no religious ritual of any kind that can take the place of the new birth experience. By faith and trust in Jesus…
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Our Family Table: No Other Gospel
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 23 November 2024 Reading From Galatians 1-3 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing…
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Our Family Table: Genuine Faith Produces Good Fruit
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek Reading From James 1-5 “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?…faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I…
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Our Family Table: The Enemy’s Plans Will Backfire
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God 17 November 2024 Reading From Acts 7-8 “And Saul approved of their killing him. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3 But Saul began to destroy the…
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Our Family Table: We Have Been With Jesus
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 16 November 2024 Reading From Acts 4-6 “Jesus is “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’[a] 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” 13 When they saw…