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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 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Matthew 5:21-30 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) “You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’; and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that if you are angry with […]

The Reverend Glenda Melson, 79, (Missouri Presbytery) died February 14, 2020, at her home in Swansea, South Carolina, after a struggle with Parkinson’s and Lewy Body Dementia. Glenda was born to Paul Lee Cook and Mabel Ophus McNutt Cook on May 19, 1940, near Murray in Callaway County, Kentucky. She attended Powell High School in […]

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 Corinthians 3:1-9 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Psalm 119:1-8 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Happy are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways. […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Deuteronomy 30:15-20 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I […]

Tom Hunter, 91, died February 9, 2020. He was born November 19, 1928, to Ella Catherine Hessey Hunter and Thomas William Hunter, Sr. Tom made the Shackle Island community, near Hendersonville, Tennessee, his home. A devoted Cumberland Presbyterian, he was a faithful elder and very active member of Beech Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery) and […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read 1 John 2:7-17 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the […]

Trinity Presbytery, February 21, 2020, Bertram CPC, Bertram, Texas. Japan Presbytery, February 22, 2020, Koza CPC, Tokyo, Japan. Hong Kong Presbytery, March 2, 2020, Taohsien CPC, Hong Kong. West Tennessee Presbytery, March 7, 2020, Bethel University, McKenzie, Tennessee. East Coast Korean Presbytery, March 9, 2020, New York Cho Dae Church, Bayside, New York. Presbytery del […]

Retired US Army Chaplain, Lieutenant Colonel Billy F. Ivey, 87, (Presbytery of East Tennessee) died February 4, 2020. Billy was an ordained minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was born in Farragut, Tennessee, to Lloyd and Pearl Ivey. He graduated from Farragut High School in 1950, and the University of Tennessee in 1954, with […]