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Fleeting Pleasures of Sin or Pleasures Forevermore?

Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” This is becoming my favorite passage of Scripture to use in counseling, especially in working with men that are struggling with addictions or life-dominating sins. There are basically three questions we need to be asking ourselves or those we are counseling in light of this passage. #1 Where are…

Fall Banquet

Please join us for our first fall banquet. You will be blessed by our guest speaker Dr. Mark Shaw. He is a certified biblical counselor with ACBC, MLAP(Masters Level Addiction Professional) with the Alabama Association of Drug and Alcohol Addition. He has authored several books related to drug and alcohol addiction. Director, CJ McMurry and Assistant Director, Ben Funkhouser will share about The Refuge ministry, how God is using it now as well as the vision for the future. We…

May update! God is faithful!

Luke 10:2-3 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.” Please forgive me for the delay in keeping you all up to speed with our progress. We are still working hard in making The Refuge and our mission known to churches, our…

The heart of The Refuge

Isaiah 4:6 “There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.” The Refuge is so much more than a mere men’s ministry for drug and alcohol addiction issues. It is that, but it is also a place where discipleship will be the main method of bringing change into the lives of men struggling with various addictions. Our aim is to see men’s lives changed by…