Tag: wisdom
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Our Family Table: Loving Difficult People
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 6 February 2024 Reading From Exodus 22-24 “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.” –Exodus 23:4-5…
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Our Family Table: Everything We Need
27 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 43-45 “Then Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Come close to me.’ When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save…
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Our Family Table: A Stairway to Heaven
21 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 27-29 “Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the…
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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, 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, We’re Rich!
9 January 2024 Reading from Job 21-23 “Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ But their prosperity is not in their…
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Our Family Table, Day 3
Family of God Daily Devotional 3 January 2024 Reading from Genesis 8-11 “And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”[1] After the flood, Noah…
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