Tag: rest
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Our Family Table: Time Out
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 29 March 2025 Reading From Luke 5:1-16 “Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” —Luke 5:15-16 A few decades…
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Our Family Table: Rest, Relaxation, Recharge and Refresh
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 28 February 2025 Reading From Mark 6:30-56 “The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by…
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Our Family Table: Lord of the Sabbath
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 17 January 2025 Reading From Matthew 12:1-23 “Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” He…
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Our Family Table: Simple Faith and Trust
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 11 October 2024 Reading From Matthew 11 “At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: “O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. Yes, Father, it pleased you…
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Our Family Table: A Question of Value
Daily Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 6 October 2024 Reading From Mark 2 “One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat. But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”…
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Our Family Table: Laziness Leads to Ruin
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 9 June 2024 Reading From Proverbs 22-24 “I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from…
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Our Family Table: Leave a Legacy of Glory
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 22 May 2024 Reading From II Samuel 24, I Chronicles 22-24, Psalm 30 “David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for…
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Our Family Table: Identity, Community and Destiny in Jesus
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 27 March 2024 Reading From Joshua 19-21 “So the Lord gave to Israel all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession of it and dwelt in it. The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And not a man of…
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Our Family Table: Recharging
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 20 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 22-23 “There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.” –Leviticus 23:3 God set the…
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