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 Psalm 111New Revised Standard Version 1 Praise the Lord!I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart,in the company of the upright, in the congregation.2 Great are […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 57New Revised Standard Version To the leader: Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to […]

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 2 Peter 3:14-18New Revised Standard Version 14 Therefore, beloved, while you are waiting for these things, strive to be found by him at peace, […]

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 2 Samuel 15:13-31New Revised Standard Version 13 A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the Israelites have […]

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 James 2:1-8New Revised Standard Version 2 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus […]

First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 7702 Indiana Ave., Lubbock, Texas, 79423, will open for their 19th annual pumpkin patch Saturday, September 25, 2021, and will be open through October 31. The hours are Monday through Friday from 3:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. – 7:30 […]

Joseph William Hart, Jr., 82, of Longview, Texas, commonly known as Joe, died September 12, 2021. He was an elder of New Journey Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Longview (Trinity Presbytery). A surveyor by trade, Joe served in the US Air Force from 1959 to 1963.

Robert Donnell Presbytery met Saturday, September 18, 2021, in stated fall meeting at 10:00 AM at the Scottsboro Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Scottsboro, Alabama.  Presbytery welcomed the Reverend Edward Soule, who supplies the Big Cove Church and the Reverend Gary Tubb, Arkansas Presbytery.  The Reverend Brian Tanck was elected Moderator and the Reverend Matthew Ingram […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read James 3:13-18New Revised Standard Version 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. 14 But if you […]

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 James 1:22-27New Revised Standard Version 22 But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. […]