Tag: family
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Our Family Table: Hope for Our Nation
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 29 March 2024 Reading From Judges 1-2 “After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals. They forsook the Lord, the God of their ancestors,…
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Our Family Table: Bring Your Best
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 13 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 1-4 “If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect.” “When anyone brings a grain offering to the Lord, their offering is to be of the finest flour.” –Leviticus 1:3, 2:1 Our journey through the Bible brings…
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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: 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, 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, Day 5
5 January 2024 Reading From Job 6-9 “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.” Job 6:24-27…
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