Tag: Jesus
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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: Trust and Obey
19 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 22-24 “Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, ‘Father?’ ‘Yes, my son?’ Abraham replied. ‘The fire and wood…
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Our Family Table, Restoration
15 January 2024 Reading From Job 40-42 “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.I spoke once, but I have no answer— twice, but I will say no more.” –Job 40:4-5 Though Job had done nothing wrong to bring calamity upon himself, he was not a perfect man. No…
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Our Family Table, Slow Your Roll
14 January 2024 Reading from Job 38-39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended.Their young thrive and grow strong in the…
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Our Family Table, Light in the Darkness
13 January 2024 Reading From Job 35-37 “If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.” –Job 35:6-8 Our…
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Our Family Table, Competing Voices
12 January 2024 Reading From Job 32-34 “For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,to preserve them from the pit, their lives…
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Our Family Table, Share the Abundance
11 January 2024 Reading From Job 29-31 “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered…
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