Tag: christianity
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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…
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Our Family Table, Glean Wisdom
10 January 2024 Reading From Job 24-28 “Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds in the sky. God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is…
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Our Family Table, We’re Rich!
9 January 2024 Reading from Job 21-23 “Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ But their prosperity is not in their…
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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 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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