Barbara Ruth Lynch Frost, 85, of Franklin, Tennessee, died January 12, 2021, of COVID-19. She was a lifelong member of Franklin Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) where she sang joyfully in the choir and prepared the church bulletins for many years. For 25 years she assisted in the production, with her husband Don, of the […]

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”  (I John 3:18).  Appropriate words for this week in the United States as we observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and we watched a peaceful transition of power during the U.S. Presidential inauguration ceremony.  In the third chapter of 1 John the […]

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 86 New Revised Standard Version A Prayer of David. 1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,    for I am poor and needy.2 Preserve my life, for I am devoted to you;    save your […]