Tag: Sin
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Our Family Table: Saved, Sanctified and Glorified
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 14 November 2025 Reading From Hebrews 10:19-39 “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of…
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Our Family Table: Freedom from Sin, Shame and Death
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 13 November 2025 Reading From Hebrews 10:1-18 “And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord:I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”…
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Our Family Table: The Infinite God
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 10 November 2025 Reading From Hebrews 7 “We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of…
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Our Family Table: Reaping a Harvest of Righteousness
Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek 29 October 2025 Reading From II Timothy 3 “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure…
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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: 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…