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Anna Jean Cooper Ordway, 83, of Calvert City, Kentucky, died November 11, 2020. Anna Jean was born November 6, 1937. She graduated from Marion, Kentucky, High School in 1956 and married the Reverend Wendell Ordway. She was a member of Vaughn’s Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Covenant Presbytery) in Calvert City where Wendell is pastor. She […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 119:9-16    New Revised Standard Version 9 How can young people keep their way pure?    By guarding it according to your word.10 With my whole heart […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read 1 Corinthians 15:10 New Revised Standard Version 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 70   New Revised Standard Version To the leader. Of David, for the memorial offering. 1 Be pleased, O God, to deliver me.    O Lord, make haste to help me!2 Let those be put to shame […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Matthew 15:1-9     New Revised Standard Version The Tradition of the Elders 15 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 “Why do […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Acts 13:1-12    New Revised Standard Version 13 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, […]

Reflect A middle school teacher is suspended because two students had sex when he stepped our of the classroom for fifteen minutes. A bomb goes off in a church on Sunday morning, injuring worshippers. A KKK rally turns violent. A teenagers kills his parents, then goes to school and begins shooting teachers and classmates. These […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20     New Revised Standard Version 13 We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from […]

Mary L. Clark, 93, of St. Joseph, Missouri, died November 8, 2020. Mary was born in 1926. She was an active member of Harmony Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Missouri Presbytery), just east of St. Joseph, where she served as treasurer.

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read 1 John 3:1-3   New Revised Standard Version 3 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason […]