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Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything, but God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Matthew 17:1-9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition The Transfiguration 17 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Isaiah 51:4-8 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 Listen to me, my people,     and give heed to me, my […]

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 Timothy 1:3-7   New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   Thanksgiving and Encouragement 3 I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when […]

Meeting on March 4, 2023, Cornerstone Presbytery (formerly part of West Tennessee Presbytery), meeting at ACTS Korean Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee, endorsed the Reverend Mitch Boulton as a candidate for moderator of the 192nd General Assembly which will meet in Denton, Texas, from June 18-23, 2023. A biography of Rev. Boulton: Mitch Boulton […]

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 51:1-3 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Blessings in Store for God’s People 51 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,     you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which […]

Albert Couch Boykin Sr., 90, of Scottsboro, Alabama, died February 26, 2023. Known as Bert, he was a Sunday school teacher and elder at Scottsboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Robert Donnell Presbytery).

Trevor Martin Scott, a senior at Tennessee’s South Gibson High School, is the 2023 winner of the Hendrix Scholarship at Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee. The runner-up is Raanan Sellers, a senior at Obion County High School, also in Tennessee. The scholarship is the top academic scholarship awarded annually and provides the winner with a […]

Ruby Mae Tarrance, 101, of Bremen, Kentucky, died March 1, 2023. She was born Dec. 12, 1921, in Horse Branch, Kentucky, and was a member of Brier Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery). She wrote two books, Curse of Sawmill Holler and Roads End.

On March 2-3, 2023, severe storms causing tornadoes occurred from Texas to Indiana across the areas of many Cumberland Presbyterian churches. The Missions Ministry Team is seeking information regarding any damages which might have been caused. If any churches were damaged, we will post information as it is available.

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Psalm 32:7-11 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 7 You are a hiding place for me;     you preserve me from trouble;     you surround me with glad cries of deliverance. Selah 8 I will instruct you […]