Tag: heaven
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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: No Other God
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 11 March 2024 Reading From Deuteronomy 3-4 “Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard…
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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, “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 3
Family of God Daily Devotional 3 January 2024 Reading from Genesis 8-11 “And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”[1] After the flood, Noah…
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Welcome to the Family
A healthy, balanced personal relationship with Jesus can lead to an empowering awareness of identity, a fulfilling sense of belonging in a community built to last forever, and an exciting destiny that is without the limitations of our present reality. The identity of children of God is divinely revealed. It is not based on fleeting…