Tag: Body of Christ

• Our Family Table: Christ, His Word, and the Church

  Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 23 October 2025 Reading From I Timothy 3 “I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the…

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  December 8, 2025

  Our Family Table

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• Our Family Table: In Tongues of Men and of Angels

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 3 & 4 September 2025 Reading From I Corinthians 14 “Therefore, my brothers and sisters, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. But all things must be done properly and in an orderly way.” —I Corinthians 14:39-40 The Apostle Paul writes in I Corinthians 12:1, “Now…

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  October 1, 2025

  Deeper Teaching, Our Family Table

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• Our Family Table: Unity in the Spirit

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 1 July 2025 Reading From Acts 10:24-48 “While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God…

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  July 1, 2025

  Deeper Teaching, Our Family Table

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• Our Family Table: A New Temple

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 31 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 20:17-34  “Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers…

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  January 31, 2025

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• Our Family Table: Eternal Marriage

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 29 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 19 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one…

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  January 29, 2025

  Deeper Teaching, Our Family Table

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• The Power of Baptism

  A Deeper Teaching for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek      In the Old Testament, Noah’s ark is a symbol of our salvation and its passage through the waters of the flood is a picture of baptism.[1]  When the Israelites passed through the waters of the Red Sea, they were leaving behind their old…

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  January 12, 2025

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• Our Family Table: The Fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 12 December 2024 Reading From Acts 24-26 “However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets, and I…

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  December 12, 2024

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• Our Family Table: Commanded, Commissioned, Empowered and Equipped

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 4 December 2024 Reading From II Corinthians 5-9 “So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone,…

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  December 4, 2024

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• Our Family Table: Agree to Disagree

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 22 November 2024 Reading From Acts 15-16 “Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with…

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  November 23, 2024

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• Our Family Table: Of One Mind, In One Accord

  A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 1 May 2024 Reading From Psalm 133 “How good and pleasant it is    when God’s people live together in unity!” –Psalm 133:1      The passage we looked at yesterday from I Chronicles spoke of how the people of God were all of “one mind” in making David king over all Israel…

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  May 1, 2024

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