Tag: patience

• Our Family Table: Life in the Eternal Family of God

  Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 11 October 2025 Reading From Colossians 3 “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put…

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  November 16, 2025

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• Our Family Table: Godly Sorrow

  Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 20 September 2025 Reading From II Corinthians 12 “Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. For I fear that perhaps when I come…

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  October 21, 2025

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• The Tree of Life

  A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek Blessed are those who find wisdom,    those who gain understanding, She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her;    those who hold her fast will be blessed. –Proverbs 3:13, 18      The Tree of Life was found in the Garden of Eden, a perfect paradise where mankind enjoyed…

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  March 15, 2025

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• Our Family Table: The Plan for Peace from the Prince of Peace

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 5 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 5 “God blesses those who work for peace,    for they will be called the children of God.” “So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, leave your…

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  January 5, 2025

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• Our Family Table: Patience With One Another

  Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 10 December 2024 Reading From Romans 14-16 “Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who…

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  December 10, 2024

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• Our Family Table: Patience Will Pay Off

  Daily Encouragement for the Eternal Family of God by Kenton Cheek 28 September 2024 Reading From Nehemiah 11-13, Psalm 126 “When the Lord brought back his exiles to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!We were filled with laughter and we sang for joy.And the other nations said, “What amazing things the Lord has done for them.”Yes, the Lord has done amazing…

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  September 28, 2024

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• Our Family Table: He Brings the Lonely into His Family

  A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 4 May 2024 Reading From Psalms 1, 2, 15, 22-24, 47, 68 “Blessed is the one    who does not walk in step with the wickedor stand in the way that sinners take    or sit in the company of mockers,but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,    and who meditates on his law day and night.That person…

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  May 4, 2024

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• Our Family Table: The Lord is in the Waiting

  A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 10 April 2024 Reading From I Samuel 13-14 Saul remained at Gilgal, and all the troops with him were quaking with fear. He waited seven days, the time set by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and Saul’s men began to scatter. So he said, “Bring me the burnt offering and…

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  April 10, 2024

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• Our Family Table: Sarai, Sex and Self-Determination

  17 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 16-18 “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’  Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in…

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  January 17, 2024

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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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  January 5, 2024

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