Tag: repentance
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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: John the Wild Man
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 3 October 2024 Reading From Matthew 3, Mark 1, and Luke 3 “John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in…
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Our Family Table: Lead Us Back Home
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 25 September 2024 Reading From Nehemiah 1-5 “Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost…
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Our Family Table: Choose Wisely
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 20 September 2024 Reading From Zechariah 1-7 “Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your…
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Our Family Table: Letting Go of Shame
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 7 September 2024 Reading From Ezekiel 38-39 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced…
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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: God is Our Refuge
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 3 August 2024 Reading From Nahum 1-3 “The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath.The Lord takes vengeance on his foes and vents his wrath against his enemies.The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished.His way is in the whirlwind and the…
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Our Family Table: Humility and Contrition Pave the Way
A Daily Devotional for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 31 July 2024 Reading From Isaiah 64-66 This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into…
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Our Family Table: Genuine Repentance
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 27 June 2024 Reading From I Kings 20-21 “But the Lord said to Elijah,“Go down to meet King Ahab of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He will be at Naboth’s vineyard in Jezreel, claiming it for himself. Give him this message: ‘This is what the Lord says: Wasn’t it enough that you killed Naboth?…
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