The devonharris’s Podcast
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.
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Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Truth or Lies...Heads and tailsThere is always two sides to a story/conversations.Can I do a little preaching tonight? Hands up - thanks. here we go...
Pro_3:3 Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.Pro_8:7 My mouth expresses the truth, and wickedness is disgusting to my lips.Pro_12:19 The word of truth lasts forever, but lies last only a moment.Pro_20:28 Mercy and truth protect a king, and with mercy he maintains his throne.Pro_22:21 in order to teach you the words of truth so that you can give an accurate report to those who send you?Pro_23:23 Buy truth (and do not sell it), that is, buy wisdom, discipline, and understanding.Ecc_12:10 The spokesman tried to find just the right words. He wrote the words of truth very carefully.Isa_33:15 The person who does what is right and speaks the truth will live. He rejects getting rich by extortion and refuses to take bribes. He refuses to listen to those who are plotting murders. He doesn't look for evil things to do.
Deu_28:44 They will be able to make loans to you, but you won't be able to make loans to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail.
The Truth Will Set You FreeJoh 8:31 So Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, "If you live by what I say, you are truly my disciples. Joh 8:32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Joh 8:33 They replied to Jesus, "We are Abraham's descendants, and we've never been anyone's slaves. So how can you say that we will be set free?" Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, "I can guarantee this truth: Whoever lives a sinful life is a slave to sin. Joh 8:35 A slave doesn't live in the home forever, but a son does. Joh 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be absolutely free. Joh 8:37 I know that you're Abraham's descendants. However, you want to kill me because you don't like what I'm saying. Joh 8:38 What I'm saying is what I have seen in my Father's presence. But you do what you've heard from your father." You Are of Your Father the DevilJoh 8:39 The Jews replied to Jesus, "Abraham is our father." Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do what Abraham did. Joh 8:40 I am a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. But now you want to kill me. Abraham wouldn't have done that. Joh 8:41 You're doing what your father does." The Jews said to Jesus, "We're not illegitimate children. God is our only Father." Joh 8:42 Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would love me. After all, I'm here, and I came from God. I didn't come on my own. Instead, God sent me. Joh 8:43 Why don't you understand the language I use? Is it because you can't understand the words I use? Joh 8:44 You come from your father, the devil, and you desire to do what your father wants you to do. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He has never been truthful. He doesn't know what the truth is. Whenever he tells a lie, he's doing what comes naturally to him. He's a liar and the father of lies. Joh 8:45 So you don't believe me because I tell the truth. Joh 8:46 Can any of you convict me of committing a sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me? Joh 8:47 The person who belongs to God understands what God says. You don't understand because you don't belong to God."
my desire to be both dangerous and good.Righteous in the eyes of GOD and man
St. Augustine said, “God gives where He finds empty hands.”
Confidence is from the Latin words con and fide, which mean “with faith.” Our confidence rests in the strength and goodness of God.
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NOW. GO SERVE YOUR KING JESUS! I'm OUT
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Who AM I - Identity Crisis of Youth Today! - GOATS, Chickens, and Gangs
Churches Need to Call a “Gang Truce” in Order to Reach Youth
March 4, 2014 by Guest Contributor 0 CommentsBy Romal TuneWhy are young people uninterested in attending church, specifically young people with no recent family history of attending church? In many urban centers similar to where I grew up, churches are dealing with one or possibly two generations of un-churched teens and young adults. Their grandparents went to church, their parents went occasionally, and now this generation hardly goes, if at all.
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens
Welcome to the WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today!
Mike Shelton intro song - ALL OF YOU! Back in the day! Thanks MIKE!Blog couple of years - comments, article, idea - read change of our youth today!Maybe some that happen in our interaction with a youth somewhere in our journeyYes, this is Devon Harris - director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge -Juvenile Justice Ministry that seeks to "See Jesus transforms the lives of juvenile offenders and at-risk youth.....PERIOD! That has been serving the SE US for almost 30 years now.
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NOW. GO SERVE YOUR KING JESUS! I'm OUT
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Welcome to the WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today!Mike Shelton intro song - ALL OF YOU! Back in the day! Thanks MIKE!Blog couple of years - comments, article, idea - read change of our youth today!Maybe some that happen in our interaction with a youth somewhere in our journeyYes, this is Devon Harris - director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge -Juvenile Justice Ministry that seeks to "See Jesus transforms the lives of juvenile offenders and at-risk youth.....PERIOD! That has been serving the SE US for almost 30 years now.
What is on tap for tonight's Podcast?
quote from "The Heart of a Warrior: Before You Can Become the Warrior, You Must Become the Beloved Son" by Michael Thompson
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Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today! - WORDS from a Man
Who am I? They often tell meI stepped from my cells confinementCalmly, cheerfully, firmly,Like a Squire from his country house.
Who am I? They often tell meI used to speak to my wardersFreely and friendly and clearly,As thought it were mine to command.
Who am I? They also tell meI bore the days of misfortuneEquably, smilingly, proudly,like one accustomed to win.
Am I then really that which other men tell of?Or am I only what I myself know of myself?Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,Struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat,Yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds,Thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness,Tossing in expectations of great events,Powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,Weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,Faint, and ready to say farewell to it all.
Who am I? This or the Other?Am I one person today and tomorrow another?Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,And before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?Or is something within me still like a beaten armyFleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!Who Am I? by Deitrich Bonhoeffer
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Welcome to the WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today!
Blog couple of years - comments, article, idea - read change of our youth today! Maybe some that happen in our interaction with a youth somewhere in our journey
Yes, this is Devon Harris - director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge -Juvenile Justice Ministry that seeks to "See Jesus transforms the lives of juvenile offenders and at-risk youth.....PERIOD! That has been serving the SE US for almost 30 years now.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Galatians 5:1
The book of Galatians addresses one of the toughest issues the early communities of believers in Jesus faced: how to understand and relate to the requirements of Mosaic law, especially for gentile believers. Should gentile believers be required to be circumcised and to follow other aspects of Mosaic law? Some were teaching this very thing. Paul’s encounter with the risen Jesus, however, convinced him that the law should be interpreted differently—as leading to and finding fulfillment in Christ (Galatians 2:19–21). To require believers to follow the law when Christ had already made them right with God and won their freedom (5:1, 4–6) would be “a different gospel . . . no gospel at all” (1:6–7).
At least 1 juvenile killed and 9 others injured in an overnight shooting in St. Louis
Public safety incident - United States - 2 killed in shooting at Beyond Wonderland festival in Washington state
Public safety incident - United States - 8 injured, including teens, in shooting in Los Angeles County neighborhood, authorities say
Public safety incident - United States - At least 15 people shot at street takeover in Willowbrook, Illinois
Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs
Are we really free?
Christ has freed us so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. Therefore, be firm ⌞in this freedom⌟, and don’t become slaves again. You were indeed called to be free, brothers and sisters. Don’t turn this freedom into an excuse for your corrupt nature to express itself. Rather, serve each other through love. All of Moses’ Teachings are summarized in a single statement, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” But if you criticize and attack each other, be careful that you don’t destroy each other. Let me explain further. Live your life as your spiritual nature directs you. Then you will never follow through on what your corrupt nature wants. What your corrupt nature wants is contrary to what your spiritual nature wants, and what your spiritual nature wants is contrary to what your corrupt nature wants. They are opposed to each other. As a result, you don’t always do what you intend to do. If your spiritual nature is your guide, you are not subject to Moses’ laws.
Galatians 5:1, 13-18 GW
https://bible.com/bible/70/gal.5.1-18.GW
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NOW. GO SERVE YOUR KING JESUS! I'm OUT
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Devon Harris Director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge!
nostalgia - the suffering desire to return to one's place of origin
$83.5M to local law enforcement around Georgia | Where and how much around Atlanta
Churches Need to Call a “Gang Truce” in Order to Reach Youth – Red Letter Christians
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Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of Youth Today! - Gangs, Dropout and the Internet - Jan 2013. Summer is unofficially here at THE REFUGE! Early mornings of task and late evenings of task...
Hope to be back with some deep stuff about the Summer and the Culture!
Peace, Devon
Tuesday May 23, 2023
Tuesday May 23, 2023
From Devon Harris - Director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge - Juvenile Justice Ministry.
CALL of Duty! The NEED is GREAT! American Men are in Crisis Mode! The System is pack!
Monday May 15, 2023