Tag: Bible
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Our Family Table, “A New Eden”
7 January 2024 Reading from Job 14-16 “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.” Job 14:1 This world is not functioning as God intended it. We look at the perfect fellowship that Adam and Eve enjoyed with God in the paradise of Eden and we see a tiny glimpse of the…
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Our Family Table, Day 6
6 January 2024 Reading from Job 10-13 “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.” Job 13:15 Job was a man of admirable integrity and unbreakable faith. In the face of tremendous loss of family and property, He still believed in and followed…
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Our Family Table, Day 5
5 January 2024 Reading From Job 6-9 “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.” Job 6:24-27…
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Our Family Table, Day 2
2 January 2024 Reading from Genesis 4-7 “So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.” Genesis 7:23 Noah was…
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Faith: The Key that Unlocks the Door
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”[1] The Bible assumes the existence of God. There are countless elements of Scripture that give strong evidence that He is real and that His Word is true, but the book does not set out to prove that. One must…
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Welcome to the Family
A healthy, balanced personal relationship with Jesus can lead to an empowering awareness of identity, a fulfilling sense of belonging in a community built to last forever, and an exciting destiny that is without the limitations of our present reality. The identity of children of God is divinely revealed. It is not based on fleeting…