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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 Isaiah 53:4-12 New Revised Standard Version 4 Surely he has borne our infirmities    and carried our diseases;yet we accounted him stricken,    struck down by God, and afflicted.5 But he was wounded for our […]

This past season the Bethel University women’s basketball team found themselves in unfamiliar territory. The Lady Cats finished 12-13 overall and 6-10 in the Mid-South Conference. With that mark they were 7th in the MSC regular season standings and finished the campaign falling short in the second round of the conference tournament. Coming into this […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God, however that may take place. Read Job 39:1-18 New Revised Standard Version 39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?    Do you observe the calving of the deer?2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,    and do you know the […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35 New Revised Standard Version 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul.    O Lord my God, you are very great.You are clothed with honor and majesty,2     wrapped in light as with a garment.You stretch out […]

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 Romans 15:7-13 New Revised Standard Version 7 Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. 8 For I tell you that Christ has become a […]

The Reverend Oscar Lee Nichols, 93, North Central Presbytery, died October 14, 2021. He was born May 17, 1928, in Trilla, Illinois. At seventeen he felt the call to ministry while at church camp. He attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, for two years and was ordained on August 30, 1951 by Foster […]

The Reverend Sammy Kay Romines, 71, died October 14, 2021, as the result of an ATV accident on his farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Sam, semi-retired from the ministry in 2019, was a member of Cumberland Presbytery and the long-time pastor of Lewisburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Logan County, Kentucky. When he wasn’t preaching, he […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Luke 16:19-31 New Revised Standard Version 19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate lay a poor man […]

The Reverend Paul Gary Green of El Paso, Texas, a member of Presbytery del Cristo, died October 13, 2021. Born around 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Paul was raised in the Catholic Church but became a Methodist in 1985. While a Methodist, he experienced a call to ministry. Paul attended the University of Delaware, the University […]

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 Job 28:12-28 New Revised Standard Version 12 “But where shall wisdom be found?    And where is the place of understanding?13 Mortals do not know the way to it,    and it is not found […]