Tag: truth
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Our Family Table: Strange Fire
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 15 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 8-10 “Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to his command. So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. Moses then said to Aaron, ‘This is what the Lord spoke…
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Our Family Table: Just Deserts
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 14 February 2024 Reading From Leviticus 5-7 “If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.” –Leviticus 5:1 This verse should be punctuated with a mic drop from…
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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, 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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Our Family Table, Competing Voices
12 January 2024 Reading From Job 32-34 “For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,to preserve them from the pit, their lives…
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Our Family Table, Glean Wisdom
10 January 2024 Reading From Job 24-28 “Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing, concealed even from the birds in the sky. God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells, And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is…
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Our Family Table, Day 5
5 January 2024 Reading From Job 6-9 “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong. How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.” Job 6:24-27…
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Our Family Table, Day 2
2 January 2024 Reading from Genesis 4-7 “So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.” Genesis 7:23 Noah was…
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