Tag: holy
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No One is Above God’s Law
Observations from Scripture of Our Times and Seasons by Kenton Cheek “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar?To whom will you…
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Our Family Table: The Power of Choice
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 17 July 2024 Reading From Isaiah 23-27 “The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth.The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws,violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt.Therefore earth’s…
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Our Family Table: An Undivided Heart
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 14 July 2024 Reading From II Chronicles 28, II Kings 16-17 “To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the Lord nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel. When…
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Our Family Table: Pride Goes Before Destruction
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 7 July 2024 Reading From II Kings 15, II Chronicles 26 “But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the Lord followed him in. They confronted King…
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Our Family Table: His Holy Temple
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 10 June 2024 Reading From I Kings 5-6, II Chronicles 2-3 “This must be a magnificent Temple because our God is greater than all other gods. But who can really build him a worthy home? Not even the highest heavens can contain him! So who am I to consider building…
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Our Family Table: Reign With Christ
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 4 June 2024 Reading From Proverbs 7-9 “Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold,for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her. By me kings reign and rulers issue decrees that are just;by me princes govern, and nobles—all who rule on…
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Our Family Table: Seek Wisdom
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 2 June 2024 Reading From Proverbs 1-3 “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your hear and lean not on…
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Our Family Table: Be Honest With God
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 8 April 2024 Reading From I Samuel 4-8 “Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord. So Samuel said to all the Israelites, ‘If you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only, and he will…
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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…