Tag: Life
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Our Family Table: God Provides For His Kids
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 10 March 2024 Reading From Deuteronomy 1-2 “The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.” –Deuteronomy 2:7 One of the Names of…
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Our Family Table: Broken Pride
2 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 10-12 “So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.’” –Exodus 10:3 The cure for a hardened…
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Our Family Table: The Value of Human Life
29 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 48-50 “When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?” ‘They are the sons God has given me here,’ Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, ‘Bring them to me so I may bless them.’” –Genesis 48:8-9 This passage of Scripture shows that children are blessings from God…
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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…
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Our Family Table, We’re Rich!
9 January 2024 Reading from Job 21-23 “Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ But their prosperity is not in their…
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Our Family Table, “A New Eden”
7 January 2024 Reading from Job 14-16 “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.” Job 14:1 This world is not functioning as God intended it. We look at the perfect fellowship that Adam and Eve enjoyed with God in the paradise of Eden and we see a tiny glimpse of the…