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Focus Relax and listen. Consciously prepare to hear God’s Word. Clear your mind of the worries and tasks that lie before you. Open your heart and allow it to refresh. Read Luke 1:26-38 New Revised Standard Version 26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read John 7:40-52 New Revised Standard Version 40 When they heard these words, some in the crowd said, “This is really the prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some asked, “Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he? 42 Has not the scripture said that […]

John Gordon Skeen, Jr., 79, of Lebanon, Tennessee, died December 12, 2020. He was a member of Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where he had served as a deacon, elder, and taught Sunday school for many years.

December 16, 2020, Memphis Theological Seminary president, the Reverend Jody Hill, announced the institution’s accreditation had been reaffirmed by SACSCOC for ten years without stipulations. MTS was also accredited by ATS through 2025. Both of these accrediting bodies have also approved Memphis Theological Seminary to offer distance education.

July 23, 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the “Face It, Masks Fight COVID-19” public service announcement campaign designed to encourage Tennesseans to wear protective face masks when in public situations. The campaign launched the next day and is running on “broadcast and cable television, digital, social media, print, and billboards” statewide. November 18, 2020, […]

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read Hebrews 1:5-14   New Revised Standard Version 5 For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son;    today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be his […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read 2 Samuel 6:1-11 New Revised Standard Version 6 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 David and all the people with him set out and went from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of […]

Alice Joan Mason Wilson, 75, of Dickson, Tennessee, died December 8, 2020. She was born August 26, 1945, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was a life-long Cumberland Presbyterian. She belonged to the Dickson Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). She taught Sunday school, helped with vacation Bible school, belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry, and always […]

Reflect By the world’s standards, Luke’s account of the birth of Jesus was certainly not an occasion for joy. A poor, teenage girl, under a cloud of suspicion driven away from home by a heartless bureaucracy, in the last days of her pregnancy, forced to endure a hazardous journey to a strange place where there […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Psalm 125   New Revised Standard Version A Song of Ascents. 1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,    which cannot be moved, but abides forever.2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,    so the Lord surrounds his people,    from this […]