Tag: idolatry
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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: Saved by Grace Through Faith Unto Good Works
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 18 December 2024 Reading From Titus 1-3 “At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,he saved…
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Our Family Table: Rescue, Redemption and Restoration
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 30 August 2024 Reading From Ezekiel 16-17 “Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, and because you…
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Our Family Table: Defining Our Destiny
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 26 July 2024 Reading From Isaiah 44-48 “This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before mewhat has happened since…
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Our Family Table: The Power of Acknowledgement
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 19 July 2024 Reading From Hosea 1-7 “She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold—which they used for Baal. Therefore I will take away my…
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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: Return to Your First Love
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 5 July 2024 Reading From II Kings 14 and II Chronicles 25 “In the second year of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years.…
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Our Family Table: Our First Resort
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 1 July 2024 Reading From II Kings 1-4 “One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would…
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Our Family Table: New Clothes
24 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 35-37 “Then God said to Jacob, ‘Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.’ So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you,…
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