Tag: God
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Our Family Table: The Heart of God
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 2 April 2024 Reading From Judges 10-12 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.” The Lord replied, “When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from…
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Our Family Table: Honor Where Honor is Due
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 1 April 2024 Reading From Judges 8-9 But Gideon told them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.” And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.” (It was…
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Our Family Table: God Sees Potential in You Even When You Don’t
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 31 March 2024 Reading From Judges 6-7 The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me,…
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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: Courage to Commit
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 28 March 2024 Reading From Joshua 22-24 “So the people answered and said: ‘Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods; for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those…
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Our Family Table: Identity, Community and Destiny in Jesus
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 27 March 2024 Reading From Joshua 19-21 “So the Lord gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it and dwelt in it. The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of…
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Our Family Table: Jesus is Enough
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 26 March 2024 Reading From Joshua 12-15 “But to the tribe of Levi Moses had given no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as He had said to them.” –Joshua 13:33 This section of Joshua goes into great detail regarding the conquest of Canaan and how the land was divided…
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Our Family Table: Simple Faith
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 20 March 2024 Reading From Deuteronomy 30-31 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we…
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Our Family Table: Mercy Found in the Law
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 17 March 2024 Reading From Deuteronomy 21-23 “If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand them over to their master. Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them.” –Deuteronomy 23:15-16 Many of the laws that God gave to…
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Our Family Table: The King
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 16 March 2024 Reading From Deuteronomy 17-20 “When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God…