Tag: christianity
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Our Family Table: A Stairway to Heaven
21 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 27-29 “Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the…
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Our Family Table: We Are Never Alone
20 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 25-26 “Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.” –Genesis 25:8 As far as I can tell, the death of Abraham is the first mention of an afterlife in the Bible…
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Our Family Table: God Sees You
18 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 19-21 “Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. When the water in the…
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Our Family Table: Sarai, Sex and Self-Determination
17 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 16-18 “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’ Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in…
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Our Family Table, Restoration
15 January 2024 Reading From Job 40-42 “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.I spoke once, but I have no answer— twice, but I will say no more.” –Job 40:4-5 Though Job had done nothing wrong to bring calamity upon himself, he was not a perfect man. No…
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Our Family Table, Slow Your Roll
14 January 2024 Reading from Job 38-39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended.Their young thrive and grow strong in the…
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Our Family Table, Light in the Darkness
13 January 2024 Reading From Job 35-37 “If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.” –Job 35:6-8 Our…
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Our Family Table, Competing Voices
12 January 2024 Reading From Job 32-34 “For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,to preserve them from the pit, their lives…
Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God 