Tag: christianity
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Our Family Table: Loving Difficult People
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 6 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 22-24 “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.” –Exodus 23:4-5…
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Our Family Table: A Royal Priesthood
5 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 19-21 “Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, ‘This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on…
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Our Family Table: Broken Pride
2 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 10-12 “So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.’” –Exodus 10:3 The cure for a hardened…
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Our Family Table: The Value of Human Life
29 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 48-50 “When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” ‘They are the sons God has given me here,’ Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, ‘Bring them to me so I may bless them.’” –Genesis 48:8-9 This passage of Scripture shows that children are blessings from God…
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Our Family Table: The Detours of Life
28 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 46-47 “So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, ‘Jacob! Jacob!’ ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘I am God, the God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not…
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Our Family Table: Everything We Need
27 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 43-45 “Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come close to me.’ When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save…
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Our Family Table: New Clothes
24 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 35-37 “Then God said to Jacob, ‘Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.’ So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you,…
Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God 