Tag: love
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Our Family Table: The Path to Peace
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 21 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 24-25 “Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.” –Leviticus 25:17 The world would be a better, kinder place if this verse of Scripture were followed. This sentiment is echoed in the Golden Rule of Jesus found…
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Our Family Table: Compassionate Laws
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 19 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 19-21 “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the…
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Our Family Table: Just Deserts
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 14 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 5-7 “If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.” –Leviticus 5:1 This verse should be punctuated with a mic drop from…
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Our Family Table: Loving Difficult People
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 6 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 22-24 “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.” –Exodus 23:4-5…
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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: Everything We Need
27 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 43-45 “Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come close to me.’ When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save…
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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,…