Tag: Jesus
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Restoration Reminder
The New Eden The goal of our salvation is perfect harmony and uninhibited unity with God the Father as His eternal family through Jesus Christ by the power of the Spirit. This goal is called glorification. Jesus told us, “For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”[1] …
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Our Family Table: Love Wins if You Let It
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 12 August 2025 Reading From Romans 12 “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be…
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Restoration Reminder
The New Covenant The healing and deliverance ministry of Jesus showed us that He is about conquering sin and its corrosive effects. The connection between the atonement and both spiritual and physical is perhaps most clearly communicated in Matthew 8, “And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her…
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Restoration Reminder
The Old Covenant Eventually Yahweh revealed through His prophet Moses a sacrificial system to temporarily cover sins and set up laws providing guidance in every aspect of human life. This became known as the Old Covenant. It was a bilateral, conditional agreement wherein God’s people were to obey His Law and in return He…
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Restoration Reminder
The First Eden Before we can know what God has for us, we need to know what we’ve lost. Before we can know where we’re going, we need to know where we’ve come from. God will move us forward together into becoming who we were always meant to be if we walk by faith and…
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Our Family Table: Spiritual Fusion
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 4 August 2025 Reading From Romans 7 “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law…
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Our Family Table: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 3 August 2025 Reading From Romans 6 “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us…
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Our Family Table: Death Through Adam, Life Through Jesus
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 2 August 2025 Reading From Romans 5 “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but…
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Our Family Table: Redemption Available to All
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 31 July 2025 Reading From Romans 3 “But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith inJesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have…