Unification

We Come Separate But Are Made One Unification Task Force Call to Worship We come to this place and time of worship as individual worshipers. We come from north, south, east and west. We come as young adults, children, widows, families, single people, employed, retired, and somewhere between. We come with diverse political and theological […]

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 5:1-5 (NRSV) Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort […]

There was a moment during the Friday morning business meeting at General Assembly recently when an all-too-familiar wave of something akin to nausea swept over me. Perhaps you’re familiar with it, too: that gut-cramping, face-flushing moment when you realize you’ve been caught in sin; that moment when you know you’ve done something really bad, and […]

A few days from now, several hundred representatives from various entities of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (CPC) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America (CPCA) will descend on Nashville, TN. For the CPC, it will be the 186th such gathering, while it will be the 141st for the CPCA. Of no small significance is the […]