As Refuge was gathered together on Sunday morning, Max and Nicolai filmed a short video to update us on their recent activities. Check out this video to hear more from the guys about what they've been up to.
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Yesterday we had the pleasure of hearing from Trista Eazell. In addition to being a member of Refuge, Trista is a Save the Storks Ambassador. Her mother was only 13 when Trista was born and when Trista turned 7, she learned that her birth mother was in a coma due to a heroin overdose.
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Yesterday we had the pleasure of hearing from Mike Neglia - a missionary and pastor in Ireland. Having attended Bible college together, Char and Mike are dear friends. Char wrote a little bit about him so you all can know more about this person who spoke at Refuge and the work that the Lord has called him to.
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As we’ve been going through the Psalms, we have talked a lot about meditation and prayer. We have been taught how to sit with the text, think it over, and to respond in worship and prayer to God through contemplation, confession, petition and praise.
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We at Refuge are excited to be supporting Allison and Paul on their mission to spread the gospel and bring an end to human trafficking in Thailand.
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Great resources for families, a few books suggested by our Elders.
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If you would like to study more on relationships we have a great list of books suggested by our Elders.
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As I write this, the Supreme Court has handed down what will be the “Roe v. Wade” of marriage, redefining marriage in all 50 states. This is a sober moment, and I am a conscientious dissenter from this ruling. The Court now has disregarded thousands of years of definition of the most foundational unit of society, and the cultural changes here will be broad and deep. So how should the church respond?
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The Psalms by and large are brutally honest to the complexities of life. The righteous man does not always do or think the right thing. The righteous does not always win or prosper the way that he should. The wicked are not miserable, they aren’t wicked in every way, and usually do not receive their justice.
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We must distinguish two things which might both possibly be called “nearness to God.” One is likeness to God. God has impressed some sort of likeness to Himself, I suppose, in all that He has made. Space and time, in their own fashion, mirror His greatness; all life, His fecundity; animal life, His activity. Man has a more important likeness than these by being rational. Angels, we believe have likenesses which Man lacks: immortality and intuitive knowledge. In that way all men, whether good or bad, all angels including those that fell, are more like God than the animals are.
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