Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understandingof the natural and social world following a systematic methodologybased on evidence...Truth is the understanding of all things as they are...Things as they are, are the inescapable realities of life...Truth is a force to be reckoned with...We all have to deal with the truth if we are going to enjoy life to any degree.Those of us,...  Read More

We live in a world where anything goes. In every corner, you will find the encouragement to pursuewhatever your heart desires.However, everything comes with a price.Are there things that your heart wants that can hurt you?Are there things that YOU should not want even though I want them?ABSOLUTELY... Well then, where is the balance…How much is too much and when is enough, enough? Come on out and l...  Read More

God is at all times fulfilling His purposes in every place…Even today with all that we see.He is working things out even when things aren’t looking so GOOD!No one is immune from hard situations and God never guaranteesgreen grass and high clouds in life.Storms will come and go, but the Lord is always with you.(Matthew 28:20) KEEP IN MIND:Circumstances & Situations don’t define us but what we do in...  Read More

Have you ever had someone give you a piece of his/her mind? I mean seriously, let you have it... And there you were in kind of a frenetic shock unable to respond in a way that truly fits the occasion? Only later, when you calmed down, do you think of the perfect comeback… SO MUCH of life is exactly like that:  DELAYED UPON ARRIVAL Like they say, "Hindsight IS Always 20/20"... If you, like me, have...  Read More

Have you ever found yourself in a place in life where you look around and what you see is not what you expected to see? I ask you – could it be that we all hold some expectations and or notions that are not exactly rooted, in reality?   FACTORING God into your life means that you are allowing Him to restructure. HOW YOU THINK, SEE & FEEL.... Allowing His influence to define success, failure, stren...  Read More

Most of us are holding on to hope!Hope – because we have expectations…Hope that our kids, our families, our coworkers are going to “GET IT”We expect that from them…We say things like"Act “Act your age, not your shoe size”When are you ever going to grow up?When we show up for work, the boss expects us to be prepared...When I fly in an airplane, I expect it to leave on time and arrive on time…With a...  Read More

What are we going to do?What are we going to say?  When should we do or say it?  We pray for the answers; we ask our closest advisors, and still nothing.  We've got problems...You face it right now, the tension that lives between departure and arrival, the inevitable pressure that lies smack-dab in the middle, between every burden and blessing.  Could there be something that we’re missing?  Let's ...  Read More

We all deal with Blindness to one degree or another!There are things going on all around us, and within us that the eye cannot see…Even if we believe in the unseen, we still struggle to see because we all can only deal with so much truth!This is why so many are too busy explaining, justifying, excusing or condemning themselves or others.In so many ways all of us are either completely/partially bli...  Read More

The first step in solving any problem is realizing that there is one! Look at your world. We see problems everywhere and most of the time; we can't even see the forest for all the problems like trees standing in every direction. Growth, Freedom, Blessing, Healing, Strength, Forgiveness Are ALL available right now for anyone and everyone who needs it! Come and see, hear and touch the answer.https:/...  Read More

Are you satisfied with the life you live?Do you look around and say… I’m glad that I played my cards right?Or do you look back on bad decisions and wasted years wishing that somehow,If you could get a "do-over" you would change so much?Or just maybe you’re that person that has spent a considerable portion of your lifefeeling like…is this all there is?All the while knowing that under the surface, t...  Read More

When you’re in a place where there are no easy answers…In every direction, ominous!When the pressure is on!You want answers!You need direction!Sometimes we don’t know how we got where we got with whom we got it!It’s so easy to get off course!Sometimes the slightest course corrections can have the greatest impact in life.Consider a new course... ...  Read More

"LIFE IN THE BALANCE"  GALATIANS 5:1-6 How’s your balance? Not talking about physical equilibrium but emotional balance, spiritual balance, mental balance, physical balance…   Finding the balance is the key to coping with everything that this life can throw at us. It doesn’t mean that we’re perfect, far from it. What it does mean is that we can approach life with a sense of stability and consisten...  Read More

When people encounter the supernatural Savior, it is a game-changer. In an instant, they begin to see things differently, feel strangely relieved, and even the way they think begins to change. That encounter brings with it a whole new paradigm shift in everything internal. Everything that was once the driving force for life on earth has changed.  It's almost like being from another world, like an ...  Read More

"HINDS FEET ON HIGH PLACES"It’s the story of a young woman named Much Afraid, and her journey away from her Fearing family and into the High Places of the Shepherd, guided by her two companions Sorrow and Suffering. It is an allegory of a Christian devotional life from salvation through maturity.DARE I SAY IT? There are many of us today struggle through life carrying hurts inflicted by others and/...  Read More

If there is anything sorely lacking in your world or mine, it’s rest! Significant moments in life are often missed – because we’re either too wound up, too stressed out or too worn out to see! REST is not the absence of work but something infinitely far greater… Join us tonight and discover the road to rest.  Refugecf.org...  Read More

Into a world with loud voices and deep divisions, class envy, racial prejudices, sexual inequality and political corruption, one voice rings out through the ages… “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”The One thing that is needed, a unifying agent = JESUS  He understands!...  Read More

Need a change?New start, a new beginning, a do-over, a revolution?There is something on the table that could revolutionize any life.What is it?A REVELATION-SHIP...If you're alone, or rolling deep, there is no other relationship that could compare… Jesus and His people are all walking together through everything that life can throw at them. Him in us and us in Him a true Revelation-ship! ...  Read More

Jesus breaks with all normal conventions! He took the road less traveled. He went to the place where decent people never go. He spoke openly to a person no one would talk to. His tone was so loving and shockingly direct that the only possible explanation was this was God! One empty woman with an empty jar received something that day by the well that she would never lose. LIFE!https://youtu.be/QqSG...  Read More

I know that it may not seem like it as we look at the world around us…BUT God IS in control…He’s stoking fires in one place while smothering fires in others…Yes, that means that some are being consumed;Others are confirmed and some are being comforted…At the moment that you decided to trust Him,whether you realize it or not,you gave Him permission to consume,confirm or comfort whatever He wants!Le...  Read More

How can I be free?Freed from the insecurity of what people might do if they really knew the real you.The hard part: breaking free of the chains of my own insecurities.Where do I begin?  Where do I start?  How long will it take?  What do I have to do?We will answer these questions and more tonight!https://youtu.be/b_wtZQYrnSQ...  Read More

 Who are you? Why are you here? What are you doing?  These are a few of the most important questions in life! Because decisions will need to be made,challenges will need to be met and overcome.This is why we gather:For Directions… For Answers…  For Hope…  ...  Read More

“We are living in a time of in-between” We are all waiting and hoping things will work out! You can be the eternal optimist, always looking for the silver linings... The pessimist may be waiting for the other shoe to drop… Whatever is happening, where ever you are...   God has an answer!  His Answer... He always reaches into our in-between with a promise of hope. https://youtu.be/_EIaHE3cf10...  Read More

What is it that grounds you?What keeps you going and stable?Gives you strength, boosts your life?Picks you us when you are down?Everybody has a go-to!What’s yours and how has that been working?Every problem has its root cause and produces something.This is how you can tell… THE PRODUCT!Let's get to the root of things tonight!...  Read More

Every challenge that we all face…Every obstacle that we all have to deal with…OUR health; OUR age; OUR jobs/money; The love life;The wife/husband/kids/family.The future can be all-consuming & completely overwhelming but by faith, every one of us can be transformed for the better…We can’t be liberated from the challenges or obstacles we all have to face. However, we can be freed through them!...  Read More