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

You could say that it is dynamically motivational… We all can sometimes be easily motivated in the wrong directions, can we not? We see it happen every day. Your kid starts hanging with THAT OTHER kid… The one that you just get a sense that isn’t right A friend; A co-worker; The whole office; That workout partner; Your whole Social NETWORK… Maybe the hard situation that you’re dealing with right n...  Read More

Too many advances in our world have happened simply because in the face of the impossible people chose to believe in the possible... Jesus insistently presses people in the direction of believing. His teaching was to inspire belief. His healing was the vehicle to ignite belief. Everything that His disciples spoke, wrote and did was all about believing...https://youtu.be/v3KsnjeAquk...  Read More

Are you discouraged? Disappointed that things haven’t worked out the way that you thought that they might? Have you ever said: “It’s not supposed to be this way” This message is for you because things rarely, if ever, work out the way that we want them to. There is a silver lining and a real answer here for you!https://refugecf.org/media...  Read More

"CLOSING THE LOOP"  LUKE 17:11-19"It’s your attitude, not your aptitude that determines your altitude." Zig Ziglar Couples group For Instance... If you attend, you must have problems... Do you realize that you don’t need to have a problem... Sometimes you just need to be reminded... An attitude for altitude is lifted by gratitude Gratitude...https://youtu.be/aRe_blKBhTE...  Read More

"HOPE RENEWED" HEBREWS 11:35-40There is so much power in HOPE... The power found in Christ Jesus... Resurrection hope... When all hope is gone, the hope found in Jesus shines on as a living hope. God has been so good in the past, God is good now and God will still be good in the future! Right here is where HOPE LIVES!https://youtu.be/MAUzMQBQJLM...  Read More

"HUMILITY" LUKE 14:1-14PRIDE – THE PLACE Everybody knows The Pharisee’s cant get to Jesus... They have consistently contended... Yet they invited Him to supper after church to the home of not just a Pharisee, but also a RULER of the Pharisees......  Read More

When it comes to faith, it doesn’t take much to accomplish great things! It all depends on where your faith is planted, directed and founded upon. We all have faith in someone or something. God’s promise is this… if you trust in Him, He would lead you into the future and not only get you through – but by faith in Him, you will accomplish way more than you could ever imagine.    ...  Read More

There are times in every life where we run into a situation that you just can’t fix! No matter how hard we try, we come to the unyielding realization t hat there is literally nothing that we can do to find relief. This is the perfect place to discover Jesus and His ability to straighten out even the most unfixable situations.  https://youtu.be/xvql0KKAc6U...  Read More

"AN UNLIKELY EXAMPLE" HEBREWS 11:31Looking at the greats of the Family of Faith... They faced insurmountable odds YET came out victorious! Abraham; Isaac; Jacob; Joseph; Moses; Joshua... Every self-respecting Jew WHO knew, heard or read about it, would swell with national pride…BUT, One lesson that we seem to learn over & over & over again...  Things are not always what they seem! Enemies can beco...  Read More