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Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read 2 Samuel 3:12-16 New Revised Standard Version 12 Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and I will give […]

The Wildcats will play five home games and six road game this fall. Bethel plays six of their first eight games on the road. The Cats open the season on the road in Cleveland, Mississippi Thursday, September 2 against NCAA DII Delta State. It will be the 12th meeting between the programs with DSU holding […]

The Reverend Charles “Keith” O’Keith Eddlemon, Jr., 56, of Memphis, Tennessee, a member of West Tennessee Presbytery, died July 8, 2021. He served on the teaching staff at Lindenwood Christian Church in Memphis and, after graduating from Memphis Theological Seminary and being ordained, was the pastor of Cherokee Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery) in Cherokee, […]

Reflect Put yourself in Abraham’s place. God has just asked you to sacrifice the most precious thing in the world—your child, your marriage, your health, your home. You name it—God wants it. What would you do? Could you follow God’s commands to sacrifice your child as unquestioningly as Abraham did. But wait, you say. “I […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 68:24-35 New Revised Standard Version 24 Your solemn processions are seen, O God,    the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—25 the singers in front, the musicians last,    between them girls playing tambourines:26 “Bless God […]

Jesse B. Jones, 87, of Jackson and Union City, Tennessee, died July 3, 2021. He was a faithful member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church while a resident of Union City, and later at Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Jackson, where he served in many different capacities. Both churches are in West Tennessee Presbytery.

Frank Butcher Hillard Franklin Butcher, Jr., 75, died July 12, 2021. Frank was a former 40-year member and elder of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Cookeville, Tennessee, (Murfreesboro Presbytery) but was currently a member of Cloyd’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, (Murfreesboro Presbytery) where his son, the Reverend Kenneth Franklin Butcher, is associate […]

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 85:8-13 New Revised Standard Version 8 Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,    for he will speak peace to his people,    to his faithful, to those […]

Elizabeth Smith Love Everett of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died July 7, 2021. She was a long-time member of Red Bank Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) and taught a women’s Sunday school class for many years.

MCKENZIE, Tenn. July 8, 2021 – Bethel University announced on Thursday that it will extend its waiver of standardized test requirements for admission through the fall semester of 2022. The waiver comes as part of the University’s continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic and applies only to the College of Arts and Sciences traditional undergraduate […]