Tag: culture
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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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Our Family Table: Extending Grace and Mercy
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 30 March 2025 Luke 5:17-39 “After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus…
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Our Family Table: Time Out
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 29 March 2025 Reading From Luke 5:1-16 “Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” —Luke 5:15-16 A few decades…
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Our Family Table: Lord of the Sabbath
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 17 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 12:1-23 “Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” He…
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Our Family Table: We Cast Down Our Idols
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 16 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 11 “Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.” –Matthew 11:20 Human culture is by and large very keenly focused on the quality of life…
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Our Family Table: Faith Rewarded
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 10 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 8:1-17 “When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. I say to you that many will come from the east and…
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Our Family Table: Growing in the Lord
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 27 November 2024 Reading From Acts 18:19-19:41 “Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor[a] and taught…
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Our Family Table: One With Christ
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 19 November 2024 Reading From Acts 11-12 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ So if God…