Tag: worship
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Our Family Table: Be Honest With God
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 8 April 2024 Reading From I Samuel 4-8 “Then all the people of Israel turned back to the Lord. So Samuel said to all the Israelites, ‘If you are returning to the Lord with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the Lord and serve him only, and he will…
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Our Family Table: Courage to Commit
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 28 March 2024 Reading From Joshua 22-24 “So the people answered and said: ‘Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods; for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those…
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Our Family Table: Blessings and Curses
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 14 March 2024 Reading From Deuteronomy 11-13 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you…
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Our Family Table: A God We Can Count On
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 4 March 2024 Reading Numbers 23-25 “God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind.Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?” –Numbers 23:19 This gem is found in the second of Balaam’s seven messages and reveals deep…
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Our Family Table: Holy Tools
A Daily Devotional by Kenton Cheek 26 February 2024 Reading From Numbers 7 “When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings. He also anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who were…
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Our Family Table: New Clothes
24 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 35-37 “Then God said to Jacob, ‘Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.’ So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, ‘Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you,…
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Our Family Table: Sarai, Sex and Self-Determination
17 January 2024 Reading From Genesis 16-18 “Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.’ Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in…
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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, Share the Abundance
11 January 2024 Reading From Job 29-31 “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered…
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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…
Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God 