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Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God, however that may take place. Read 1 Kings 19:4-8 New Revised Standard Version 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: […]

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 2 Samuel 15:1-13 New Revised Standard Version 15 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run ahead of him. 2 Absalom used to rise early and […]

The Reverend Aaron Holmes, 88, of Atwood, Tennessee, an honorably retired minister of West Tennessee Presbytery, died August 1, 2021. Aaron was born August 4, 1932, in Atwood, Tennessee. He graduated from Milan High School and then Bethel College (now Bethel University) in McKenzie, Tennessee, with a degree in education. He worked at Milan Army […]

Lorena Glasner Wiseman, 95, died July 29, 2021. She was born March 26, 1926, in Estill Springs, Tennessee. She graduated from Cowan Public School in 1941, and Central High School in 1945. September 16, 1950, she married David G. Wiseman, Jr., and moved to the Harmony Community where she joined the Harmony Cumberland Presbyterian Church […]

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Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Galatians 6:1-10 New Revised Standard Version 6 My friends, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Psalm 130 New Revised Standard Version A Song of Ascents. 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.2     Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentive    to the voice of my supplications! 3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,    Lord, who could stand?4 But there is forgiveness with you,    so that […]

Roy Gene Martin, 91, of Columbia, Tennessee, 91, died February 12, 2021. Martin was a life-long Cumberland Presbyterian born to Lee and Grace Martin, a Cumberland Presbyterian family, in Cord, Arkansas, April 20, 1929. He served as an elder at Mt. Pleasant Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) from 1961. Roy excelled in basketball and baseball, […]

Reflect When the time comes for Jacob to return to his homeland, he is understandably nervous about it. After all, he swindled his brother twice and then ran away. His last view of his brother—and the one he has carried with him during the intervening years—is of Esau filled with rage and vowing to kill […]

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 Mark 8:1-10 New Revised Standard Version 8 In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, 2 “I have compassion […]