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Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 80 (NRSV) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir […]

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 1:1-7 (NRSV) Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Genesis 17:15-22 (NRSV) God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover I will […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Galatians 4:21–5:1 (NRSV) Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Acts 20:17-38 (NRSV) From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, asking the elders of the church to meet him. When they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know […]

Rev. Kenneth Paul Phillips The Reverend Kenneth Paul Phillips, 81, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, and pastor of Heartland Cumberland Presbyterian Church, died August 16, 2022. He was born June 28, 1941, to William Ed Phillips and Thelma Phillips. Ken graduated from Lenoir City High School in 1959, married Marjorie Sue Lee in 1963, and spent […]

Cumberland Presbyterian: October 17, 1961 Bethel College has enrolled more full time students and also more Cumberland Presbyterian students in its fall session than any time in the past. Although the total enrollment is not as high as expected, 540 students have enrolled, which is slightly above the enrollment of 1960. This is the 119th […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Isaiah 55:1-7 (NRSV) Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. […]

In 1961, Rita Wilson, a young Cumberland Presbyterian from Humboldt, Tennessee, won the Miss Tennessee pageant. She is featured in “Our Stories” in the August 2022 issue of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine. She was also featured, along with two other pageant winners, in the August 25, 1961, issue of LIFE.   LIFE®© 1961

August 15, 2022 (RNS) By Emily McFarlan Miller Frederick Buechner was asked on numerous occasions how he would sum up everything he had preached and written in both his fiction and nonfiction. The answer, he said, was simply this: “Listen to your life.” That theme was constant across more than six decades in his career […]