I know this...sometimes when I wake up in the morning and I am healthy and I am scheduled to go to a facility, I get in my car, arrive at the gate and if I get through security to at least one young man or group, I know there is going to be a battle. It has become the norm over the years because of where we go. It is a place of spiritual darkness and often the young minds do not even realize they are in the midst of “the pit.” Not the prison walls some talk about, but the spiritual bondage which has led them, possibly to the crime for which they are doing time. Most of the time I go in with no agenda, trusting God to speak something to somebody to open a door so they can have an awareness of God in their life.
GOD AS LOVER John Wesley was thirty-five when he experienced the now famous "warming" of his heart — not his mind — toward Christ, and knew in that moment he had become not merely a Christian, but something more — a lover of God. Shortly after, he penned the hymn "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," whose first verse goes like this: "Jesus, Lover of my soul/Let me to thy bosom fly."
Down through the years the hymn has left many a hymnologi...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution December 28, 2023 FROM THE INSIDE: CRIMINAL KINGPINS Public ‘getting nothing for its money’ from Georgia’s prison system failing at rehabilitation, expert says. One robbed a bank in Douglasville at the age of 16 and watched it turn into a comedy of errors when a dye pack mixed in with the cash exploded as soon as he reached the parking lot.
Another was just 14 when he joined two older teens in robbi...
IMMEDIATE NEEDS!
New opportunities for God’s people to serve and be part of the ministry of Full Circle Refuge
At-Risk Youth Prevention Team: Leaders/Mentors are needed to develop and oversee One Degree at a Time and other gang intervention programs. We are looking for volunteers with an interest in building relationships with partners in the community; ability to establish rapport and relate with sensitivity to multiracial and...
I pick this up from my morning readings.... My brothers, the revolution may start in the streets, but it will only end when it lights aflame the hearts of every man in this nation to turn back towards the LORD.
The laws will only be rewritten, the morality will only then prevail, true justice and peace will only reign when we as men realize that we don't need an Emperor King or new political figure to alter our course. -----------...
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