Category: <span>Blog & Bible Study</span>

This month Jonathan Cornelius, who is part of our City of Refuge family, shares his heart with us in his blog post titled “Dealing with Misconceptions Can Help Remedy Racial Tension” One of the main reasons I love my time at CORF is that many of the popular misconceptions that we take for granted about...

Tonight, we begin to dive into Paul’s conclusion of his letter to his friends in Philippi. To do so we are going to have to look back at the beginning of the letter a few times so that we can really grab hold of the end. As Paul wraps the letter up he thanks his...

I’m not sure how or why it happened, but for some reason, these two verses have largely been cut off from the context in which they were first written and have become some sort of personal roadmap to Christian positive thinking. Tonight, as we discuss this passage I want us to know from the beginning...

Our last time together we discussed the need for corporate conflict resolution. Paul called the entire church to help two women that were in conflict because within the Body of Christ conflict among us affects all of us, as I Corinthians 12:26 says “if one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it.”...

Amanda Mackie is our youth pastor at City of Refuge Fellowship and below is a blog post she wrote about this year’s Kid’s Day titled “Kids Day 2017: For Such A Time As This” My Saturday started at 6am with torrential rain, thunder, and a tornado warning. Kids Day Burlington 2017 was scheduled to start...

For the better part of a year we have been studying the book of Philippians as a letter among friends. Paul wrote, from prison, to a group of people that he held in high regard and deep affection. In the letter Paul prayed for them, gave thanks for them, addressed their concerns about his situation...

Veronica Y. Brayboy is part of our City of Refuge Fellowship family and each month she will be sharing her heart on our website blog. Below is her blog post titled “Where does your help come from?” “I just don’t know how we are going to survive?”, “This country is going to be destroyed now!”...

From the start of our study, of this letter from Paul to the Philippians, we have characterized it as a letter between friends. Philippi was the first-place Paul went after the Lord opened the door for him to go to Asia and gave him the dream of a man from Macedonia asking for Paul to...

Veronica Y. Brayboy is part of our City of Refuge Fellowship family and each month she will be sharing her heart on our website blog. Below is her blog post titled “Giving Honor” ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that...

In the first half of this chapter, Philippians 3, Paul attacked the Judaizers, calling them dogs, evil workers and the mutilation. He attributed their requirements for worship to the flesh, revealing it as a “manmade righteousness”, a holiness that is defined by man, done for man and never enough to be accepted by God. Paul...