Dalewood Middle School students with Bridge Chattanooga will volunteer with the Chattanooga Park Stewards to clean up the Brainerd Recreation Center on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Bridge Chattanooga uses nature and outdoor adventures as a springboard to form relationships and teach students essential skills that help them lead “healthy, productive and joyful lives.” Program Director […]

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 2 Samuel 7:18-29 New Revised Standard Version David’s Prayer 18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read 2 Peter 3 New Revised Standard Version The Promise of the Lord’s Coming 3 This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; in them I am trying to arouse […]

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 Jeremiah 33:14-16 New Revised Standard Version The Righteous Branch and the Covenant with David 14 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will […]

The Reverend Donald McConnell, 89, died November 25, 2021, in Farragut, Tennessee. He was an honorable retired member of the Presbytery of East Tennessee. Donald was born February 5, 1932, and grew up in the Powell community. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served two years during the Korean War. Don graduated from Bethel […]

John Delman Taylor, 78, of the Hardin community in Jefferson County, Arkansas, died November 25, 2021, in Pine Bluff from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was born July 15, 1943, in Pine Bluff. He was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Pine Bluff from childhood and served as an elder. A 1961 graduate […]

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 Psalm 25:1-10 New Revised Standard Version Prayer for Guidance and for Deliverance Of David. 1 To you, O Lord, I lift […]

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 Nehemiah 9:16-25 New Revised Standard Version 16 “But they and our ancestors acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments; 17 they refused to obey, and were not […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 New Revised Standard Version 5 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves know very well that […]

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 John 16:25-33 New Revised Standard Version 25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will […]