Tag: pride
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Our Family Table: We All Need The Lord
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 23 October 2024 Reading From John 9:1-10:21 “When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” The man answered, “Who is he, sir? I want to believe in him.” “You have seen him,” Jesus said, “and he…
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Our Family Table: Dining With Scum
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 15 October 2024 Reading From Matthew 9-10 “As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him. Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his…
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Our Family Table: Truth with Grace and Love
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 24 August 2024 Reading From Lamentations 1-3:36 “The visions of your prophets were false and worthless;they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity.The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.” –Lamentations 2:14 Preaching without conviction will not do listeners any good. If those…
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Our Family Table: Taken from the Miry Clay
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 10 August 2024 Reading From Jeremiah 18-22 “This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the…
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Our Family Table: Pride Goes Before Destruction
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 7 July 2024 Reading From II Kings 15, II Chronicles 26 “But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the Lord followed him in. They confronted King…
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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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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: 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, Restoration
15 January 2024 Reading From Job 40-42 “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.I spoke once, but I have no answer— twice, but I will say no more.” –Job 40:4-5 Though Job had done nothing wrong to bring calamity upon himself, he was not a perfect man. No…
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