Tag: Jesus
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Our Family Table: Widen Your Heart
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 13 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 6 “We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.” —II Corinthians 6:11-13 The widest…
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Our Family Table: Eternal Adventures
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 12 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 5 “So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away…
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Our Family Table: His Presence is Present Enough
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 11 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 4 “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring…
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Our Family Table: Living Epistles
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 10 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 3 “Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on ourhearts, to be known and read by all. And you show…
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Reflections on the Temptation of Jesus
A Restoration Reminder by Kenton Cheek Luke 4:1-14 The Temptation of Jesus 4 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son…
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Sin and Salvation, Part III
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek A key part of spiritual growth and sanctification is perseverance. In order for the event and process of salvation to not be in vain, we must continue in the faith until we reach the goal of salvation which is glorification. This means a continual rejection of sin and ardent…
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Sin and Salvation, Part II
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek Salvation is an event (the new birth), a process (sanctification), and a future goal (glorification). God loves everyone and we all have been made for relationship with Him and created in His image, but that relationship was severed by sin and that image has been corrupted by sin and…
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Sin and Salvation, Part I
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek A Biblical Perspective of Sin and SalvationWhen God created Adam and Eve, He made them in His spiritual image. The first humans enjoyed perfect, uninhibited relationship with God and were blessed with free moral agency to choose between right and wrong. Elohim placed them in the paradise of Eden…
Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God 