faith

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 37:10-13 (NRSV) By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his […]

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 Mark 16:9-18 (NRSV) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. […]

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 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (NRSV) Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also […]

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 52:13–53:12 (NRSV) See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read 1 Peter 2:4-10 (NRSV) Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Luke 18:15-17 (NRSV) People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called […]

Being Connectional Elinor Swindle Brown   Call to Worship Leader: Two hundred and eight years ago, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was born out of the prayers of our forbears. People: Be to us a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save us, for you are our rock and our fortress. Leader: Since the birth […]

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 Genesis 6:11-22 (NRSV) Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw that the earth […]

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 Hebrews 11:1-7 (NRSV) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, […]