Tag: salvation
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Our Family Table: Eternal Progression
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 24 October 2025 Reading From I Timothy 4 “Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, immerse…
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Our Family Table: The Relationship Between Faith and Works
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 13 October 2025 Reading From I Thessalonians 1 “We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. 3 We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love,and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”—I Thessalonians…
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Our Family Table: Sealed to the Father
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 28 September 2025 Reading From Ephesians 1 “In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his…
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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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Sin and Salvation, Part III
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek A key part of spiritual growth and sanctification is perseverance. In order for the event and process of salvation to not be in vain, we must continue in the faith until we reach the goal of salvation which is glorification. This means a continual rejection of sin and ardent…
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Sin and Salvation, Part II
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek Salvation is an event (the new birth), a process (sanctification), and a future goal (glorification). God loves everyone and we all have been made for relationship with Him and created in His image, but that relationship was severed by sin and that image has been corrupted by sin and…
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Sin and Salvation, Part I
A Deeper Teaching by Kenton Cheek A Biblical Perspective of Sin and SalvationWhen God created Adam and Eve, He made them in His spiritual image. The first humans enjoyed perfect, uninhibited relationship with God and were blessed with free moral agency to choose between right and wrong. Elohim placed them in the paradise of Eden…