We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: Our National Leaders will be God’s people, and He will be...
Author: City of Refuge
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What Are You Looking At?
The author of Hebrews tells us to “look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.” Where we set our gaze is very important to measuring the outcome of our given situation. I believe that we reap from where we set our attention. If our attention is set our circumstances, on our difficulties, on...
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Joyfully Free
Have you ever been to a party that suddenly went bad? A time that was supposed to be a celebration that out of nowhere became filled with tension, sadness or even strife? After the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem all of the people of Israel gathered at the Water Gate for a celebration that...
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Day of Prayer for National Leaders
We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: Show our National Leaders Your ways, O Lord; teach them Your...
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Strong Joy
As Jerusalem gathered to hear the book of the Law read after they had rebuilt their walls an amazing thing happened, they realized that they fell short of the Law that was being read and they fell on their faces and began to weep and mourn. At that moment, Nehemiah, Ezra and the Levites ran...
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Standards, Curfews and My Dad
When I was a senior in high school I went to my Father to try to negotiate a later curfew. At that time my curfew was earlier than that of all my friends and so I went with that as my one argument. I had made an assumption that this would be an easy win,...
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Day of Prayer for National Leaders
We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: In all things our National Leaders will show themselves to be...
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Jesus is the Plumb Line
In Amos 7 God gave the prophet a vision of His coming judgment upon Israel. It was a fearful thing to know that God was about to intervene and do whatever was necessary to make His people return to Him and to their calling as a nation of priests. Today God continues to hold a...
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Seen by Love
What would life be like if we were all treated according to our worst moment? What if we all wore our own scarlet letter? A constant reminder to ourselves and announcement to those around us of what has gone wrong? These things would bring certain judgment, humiliation, anxiety and condemnation. While we don’t have the...
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Day of Prayer for National Leaders
We have set aside every Tuesday as a day of prayer for our National leaders: President Obama, the Senate and the Congress. Each week we present a specific focus, birthed from Scripture, that we can agree and pray together. This week we pray that: Our National Leaders will declare “our hearts are steadfast, O God,...