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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 […]

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 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 6 But Timothy has just now come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love. He has told us also […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read 1 Corinthians 14:20-25 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults. 21 In the law it is written, “By people of strange tongues    and […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Psalm 19:14 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart    be acceptable to you,    O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. Reflect Earlier this week, I dropped off my car to the dealership for an oil change and new headlight.  As I handed my key […]

William R. “Bill” Fly, Jr., 73, of Pegram, Tennessee, died October 28, 2020. Bill was born in Nashville June 19, 1947. He was a long-time member and an elder of West Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). He retired from the United States Army after serving for over 37 years during which time he served […]

The Reverend Dr. Robert Tony Janner (West Tennessee Presbytery) died November 5, 2020, of COVID-19. Janner was semi-retired and doing supply preaching in the presbytery. He was about to embark on an interim pastorate for First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in McKenzie, Tennessee, where he previously served as pastor. Denominationally, Tony served on both the Board […]

Focus Breathe in clear thoughts of peace and reflection as you prepare to hear God speak to you through the scripture and the writer. Put aside all the things the world says you have to accomplish today and use this time to rest in God’s presence. Read Amos 4:12 12 Therefore thus I will do to […]

Eddie Greene McKinney, 93, of Honobia, Oklahoma, died July 14, 2020. Eddie was a member of the McGee Chapel in Broken Bow where he was emcee over the singing there. He loved to sing gospel music, especially Choctaw hymns. He was born July 29, 1926 in Talihina, Oklahoma, served in the United States Army, and […]

Martha Burr Jackson Wilks, 93, of Springfield, Tennessee, died November 2, 2020. She once served as pianist for Mt. Denson Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery). She was born July 6, 1927, in Franklin, Kentucky. She majored in music during college and later taught piano. Besides Mt. Denson, Martha served numerous churches as music director and […]

Focus Let your soul take a moment of rest as you hear God’s word. Put your busy schedule, wandering mind, stressful thoughts, and burdened heart at the feet of the cross and open up to God’s voice as the Giver of Life tends your soul. Read Psalm 70 To the leader. Of David, for the […]