Roy Gene Martin, 91, of Columbia, Tennessee, 91, died February 12, 2021. Martin was a life-long Cumberland Presbyterian born to Lee and Grace Martin, a Cumberland Presbyterian family, in Cord, Arkansas, April 20, 1929. He served as an elder at Mt. Pleasant Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) from 1961. Roy excelled in basketball and baseball, […]

Reflect When the time comes for Jacob to return to his homeland, he is understandably nervous about it. After all, he swindled his brother twice and then ran away. His last view of his brother—and the one he has carried with him during the intervening years—is of Esau filled with rage and vowing to kill […]

Focus Turn off your cell phone, TV, or radio. Listen to the silence that is around you. Listen for God to speak to you. Read Mark 8:1-10 New Revised Standard Version 8 In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, 2 “I have compassion […]