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Reflect As we move further into the future, we can look back on amazing developments in humanity’s knowledge and power. We can also see the tragic consequences of the abuse of that knowledge and power. How can we find things for which to be hopeful as we begin a new year? We hear all kinds […]

God is Still Working Through Us Dwayne Tyus Call to Worship Leader:            Praise the Lord! Happy are the Cumberland Presbyterians who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in God’s commandments. People:            We know we are rich;                            we strive to be gracious, merciful, and righteous. Leader:            God reminds us to conduct our affairs with justice, […]

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 Luke 21:20-24 (NRSV) “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. […]

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 Revelation 8:1 5 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half […]

Moving. It’s a chore many of us have had to do at least once or twice in our lives, and I imagine that most ministers have practiced the ritual even more than that. As a veteran of ten or twelve moves myself, I’ve come to regard it as an experience only slightly more appealing than […]

Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Psalm 22:25-31 (NRSV) From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him. The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Psalm 45:10-17 (NRSV) Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow […]

Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Daniel 2:24-49 (NRSV) Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will give the king the interpretation.” […]