Tag: Jacob
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Our Family Table: We All Have A Choice
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 19 June 2024 Reading From Ecclesiastes 7-12 “A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth.It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting,for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this…
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Angels Descending and Ascending
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek We place too much pressure on our human relationships. The satisfaction and fulfillment we are searching for can only be found in God. Whatever your relationship with your earthly father figure is or isn’t, was or wasn’t, if we bravely reach out in faith and trust in God as…
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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: A Royal Priesthood
5 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 19-21 “Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, ‘This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on…
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Our Family Table: The Detours of Life
28 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 46-47 “So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, ‘Jacob! Jacob!’ ‘Here I am,’ he replied. ‘I am God, the God of your father,’ he said. ‘Do not…
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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: 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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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…
Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God 