Tag: love
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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, 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, 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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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…
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Our Family Table, Day 5
5 January 2024 Reading From Job 6-9 “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.” Job 6:24-27…
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Welcome to the Family
A healthy, balanced personal relationship with Jesus can lead to an empowering awareness of identity, a fulfilling sense of belonging in a community built to last forever, and an exciting destiny that is without the limitations of our present reality. The identity of children of God is divinely revealed. It is not based on fleeting…