City of Refuge Fellowship: Recent Episodes
Abie Kulynych
City of Refuge Fellowship is a community of people in Burlington City New Jersey seeking to be agents of change, vessels of God's glory, and ministers of unity in our community. We desire to be led by the Holy Spirit, devoted to the Body of Christ, and servants to our community. Through prayer, obedience to the Word of God, worship and servanthood we believe that we can fulfill the calling to be Ambassadors of Christ and ministers of reconciliation. Join us in our weekly podcast for messages from our pastor, Abie Kulynych and various guest speakers. www.cityofrefugefellowship.org
In today’s sermon, pastor Abie Kulynych continues the series, Life in the Spirit, and makes a point that God’s heart from the beginning of time was always to make His home in us and reminds us that in Christ, “You Are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.”
In today’s sermon, Noah Kulynych continues on the trend of what we’ve been talking about over the past year and a half focusing on God’s character, but with a more unorthodox approach as he looks at “The Authenticity of God.” He argues that the reason we value authenticity so much is because our Creator is authentic.
In today’s sermon, our Youth Pastor Amanda Mackie looks at Psalms 18 to remind us that high moments and experiences of our lives should never be our foundation. Only Christ can be our foundation because He never changes.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at Leviticus 10 to show that sin is an enormous deal but God’s compassion makes a way for his people and invites us to be “Holy Like Him.”
In today’s sermon, our Worship Pastor Melissa Kulynych encourages us through her story to “Abide in Jesus,” just as He abides in us.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at three passages of Scripture, Exodus 34, Leviticus 5 and Hebrews 10, as he builds on last week’s sermon to show us that “God’s Holiness Made a Way for Us” and challenges us with this question, will we trust Him?
In the Old Testament as well as in the New, the people of God are called to be “holy as the Lord is holy.” In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at the Scriptures to answer this question, what does God’s holiness look like? In this first sermon in this series, he discusses “God’s Holiness: His Compassion.”
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych focuses on one verse of Psalms 96 to answer this question, Are we living in obedience to what God has asked of us?
In today’s sermon, our Discipleship Pastor Joanne DiLeo teaches us in the most practical ways how we can truly “Delight Yourself in the Word of God.”
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych encourages us to live a life always “Yielding to God” for the transformation of our hearts and the salvation of those around us.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at the last few verses of Romans 8 to redirect our perspective to “God’s Perspective.”
In today’s sermon, our CORF Discipleship Pastor Joanne DiLeo reminds us of the invitation we always have to know “More of God.”
In today’s sermon, “Fearing God in Our Limitations,” our CORF speaker David Mengi invites us to look at all the limitations God imposed on the whole creation and humankind as a reason to tremble and revere before God.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych continues in chapter 2 of Colossians to encourage us to unite and come to the understanding that “God’s Character Is Made Known in Our Struggles.”
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about struggling in a way we’re not accustomed to. From Paul’s struggles for the church, he leads us to get a much better understanding of “God’s Struggles for Us.”
It is always our temptation to clean the outside of a cup and let the inside stay filthy. In today’s sermon, our Discipleship Pastor Joanne DiLeo invites us to share our hearts, to share Jesus, to share our lives in deeper ways. She challenges us and gives us permission to lay down any temptation to make ourselves look better than we are.
In this first chapter of Colossians, Paul has prayed for the Colossians to have the knowledge of the will of God, he had sung about the sovereignty of the Son of God and now he had begun preaching a sermon about God’s power to reconcile us so that we can become the children of God. In this last passage, Paul expounds upon the reconciliation we have in Jesus. He talks specifically about three words, suffering, hope and perfection. In today’s sermon, “Jesus Lives in Us,” Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about the biblical connection that exists between these three words.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about the “Greater Hope” we have in Jesus Christ because of his work of reconciliation.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about the Sovereignty and preeminence of Jesus Christ, the image of the invisible God, over “All Things.”
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych continues to discuss Colossians 1 to help us see that the God of the promise is the God of salvation. As He is glorified, many are being saved.
God has a will and He invites us to do His will. So, “What Is God’s Will?” In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych digs through Colossians 1 to help us understand that the Bible declares about the will of God.
“The God Who Loves Us,” Psalm 139:17-18 In today’s sermon, “The God Who Loves Us,” Pastor Abie Kulynych continues in Psalm 139 to remind us of the fact that God is trustworthy because He loves us and demonstrated it already by the death of His Son Jesus Christ.
In today’s sermon, “The God Who Forms Us,” Pastor Abie Kulynych continues in Psalm 139 to remind us of the fact that God continues to make everything beautiful.
In today’s sermon, “The God Who Is With Us,” Pastor Abie Kulynych picks up where he left off in Psalm 139 and expounds on the reality that God is always with us.
In today’s sermon, Melissa Kulynych, CORF Worship Pastor, continues with our focus on the character of God to help us see the beauty of “The God Who Shows Us Kindness,” in the hope that we can change the way we think about God.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych dives in the Scriptures to help us, not to find ourselves in them, not to better our lives, not to understand His plan, not find our purpose, but to see with our whole self who God actually says that He is, “The God Who Searched Us.”
In today’s sermon, “The God Who Makes A Way for Us,”Jonathan Cornelius talks about the heart of God in always taking the initiative in order to make a way for His people to be with Him.
In today’s sermon, our CORF Discipleship pastor, Joanne DiLeo talks about the heart of God, which remains the same from the beginning until now, always being close to His people. Even with our sins, our failures and shortcomings, “God Comes Close.”
In today’s sermon, CORF Speaker David Mengi talks about “God The Maker” to remind us of this paramount truth that God is at the source of everything and reigns supreme over it all.
In today’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about “God The Redeemer,” and helps us see this truth in the understanding that our God is the same and does not change. This sermon is also the start of something new that will be carried out throughout the rest of the year. We are not going to do anything preaching series. Rather, for the rest of the year, we will bear purposefully and carefully to talk about God.
In today’s sermon, “The Power that Uses Us to Give God What He Wants,” Pastor Abie Kulynych concludes the mini series on “The Baptism of the Holy Spirit.”
In today’s sermon, “Filled to Be Poured Out,” Pastor Abie Kulynych at God’s work in the first disciples for a greater work of saving souls.
In today’s sermon, “Nothing Better than Knowing God,” our very newly ordained Discipleship Pastor Joanne DiLeo reminds us of the most precious thing we as Christians should always long for, the knowledge of God.
Acts chapter 1 says that for 40 days Jesus showed himself to his disciples and he gave many convincing proofs that he was alive and he spoke to them about the kingdom of God. So we spent the last 6 weeks talking about those 40 days. Through scriptures we see that Jesus rose to give us and show us what newness of life looks like. In today’s sermon, “The Ascension,” Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at the last act of Jesus before He was gathered to His Father.
In this week’s sermon, “Take the Cup,” our Youth Pastor Amanda Mackie takes us back to the time before the resurrection and before the cross to revisit Jesus’ prayer in the garden of Gethsemane as he faces the divine plan of the cross for the salvation of mankind.
“The Resurrected Life: Unresolved Places,” John 21:1-22 In today’s sermon, “Unresolved Places,” third to our mini-series, “The Resurrected Life,” Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at how the Resurrected Jesus comes to Peter after his catastrophic failure.
Last week we saw that Resurrection Power is going power. The first thing that Jesus did after His resurrection from the dead was to go and comfort the broken hearted Mary Magdalene and go and walk with two of His disappointed disciples. The resurrected Jesus opened Scripture and sat down at their tables and He ministered to their hearts. In today’s sermon, “Breaking through Difficult Places,” second to our mini-series, “The Resurrected Life,” Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at how the Resurrected Jesus deals with the fearful and the doubting.
Easter is behind us, now what? Do we revert to our old ways of doing things or do we simply take a break? We sometimes talk about what we would do if we only had a year or a month or even a day left to live. Who would we talk to? What would we say? How would we spend that time knowing it was limited and precious? But have you ever wondered what you would do if you rose from the dead?In our new mini-series, “The Resurrected Life,” Pastor Abie Kulynych looks at the Resurrected Jesus and His words and actions before He returned to the Father.
In this fifth sermon of our mini-series, “Jesus Said,” Pastor Abie Kulynych and Mike Williams team up to Luke to look closely to the Last Supper as the ultimate Passover feast.
“Jesus Said: This Is The Lord’s Doing,” Luke 22:7-16In this fourth sermon of our mini-series, “Jesus Said,” Pastor Abie Kulynych turns to Luke to start talking about the Last Supper and how it is related to Passover feasts past and future.
In this continuation of our mini-series, “Jesus Said,” Pastor Abie Kulynych turns to Mark 13 to look at how Jesus talks about the destruction of the temple and his return. He reminds us that Jesus Christ is “Always In Control.”
This Lenten season we’re concentrating specifically on the things that Jesus said that are recorded in all three of the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke. One of the events that all three of the gospels tell us about is the cleansing of the temple. After the triumphant entry, Jesus went into the temple and he drove out the money changers, those who where buying and selling and then he quoted from the book of Isaiah saying, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.’” In this second sermon of our mini-series, “Jesus Said,” Pastor Abie Kulynych focuses on the tension between Jesus and the religious leaders and God’s provision in the midst of it all, “Yet they could not find any way to do it because all the people hung on His word.” Luke 19:48
There are two things that become clear when we are in the presence of God, His character and our conditions. By God’s presence, we don’t mean when all is well with our human senses and are able to feel His presence or think that we’re in His presence. Without dismissing moments like that, we need to realize that we’re in God’s presence far more than we realize. If you are in Christ, the Spirit of God is in you and so you are in His presence. As a kick off to our new mini-series, “Jesus Said,” Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about God’s work and His patience towards His people.
In the body of Christ, we are not immune to suffering like some people might think we might be. We are not exempt from the trials we might face in this life, from the pain we might encounter. There will be loss and there will be disappointment, but too often when we read passages like Psalm 30 and we focus too much on the rejoicing that comes in the morning.
In this week’s sermon, our CORF speaker Noah Kulynych looks at Psalm 30 to remind us of a truth we often forget that our God is “Present through the Weeping, Present through the Morning.”
How many of us feel like you can use a rest? Do you remember when you were children and being upset when you were told to take a nap? Some of you still have kids who would do that, we would fight, argue, cry and complain and almost will ourselves to stay awake just to prove that the last thing we need was a rest. And now, is there anything more satisfying than a nap? It is not just sleep we feel like we’re lacking. We have a tendency to run from rest to sleep. We can use a rest from many things…
In this week’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych talks about what God offers us in His generosity, rest for our souls, rest for heart because He is “The God of Rest.”
In this continuation of our theme “Him,” Pastor Abie Kulynych turns to one of the most familiar passages of the New Testament, John 15, to turn our attention to what Jesus was teaching His disciple then and is still teaching us today namely the deeper understanding of His love for His people. Jesus wants to take us to a place where we’re not just hopeful, but we’re confident and understand what His love looks like and what His love means. He invites us to learn “The Heart of the One Who Loves Us.”
Our theme for this year 2022 has shifted from “We” last year to “Him” this year; working to see ourselves as one body with many members to seeing God as God, to seeing Him for who He is and not just what He does, what He has done and what we are still hoping that He will do.
In this week’s sermon, pastor Abie Kulynych talks about what this truth means, “The Lord Is One.”
“Him: Generosity,” Exodus 16:4-12
In this week’s sermon, pastor Abie Kulynych starts with a question, what does God want? This the same question that Job asked God, “What do you want from me?” The answer to this fundamental question is the main point of today’s message, God wants us.
“Him: Gentleness and Generosity,” Exodus 16:1-4
This is a passage of Scripture that we have talked about many times. But in this sermon, I am hoping and I am asking that we would talk about it a little bit differently. I am hoping, rather than seeing ourselves in the Israelites, that we would see how God worked in them and for them and that it’s the exact same way that He continues to work in us and for us.
In this week’s sermon, our speaker Joanne DiLeo looks at the life of Paul and his writing to remind us that we are “Invited to Know HIM.”
Our theme for 2021 was simply the pronoun “WE”. It was our goal to learn what it truly means to be one body with many members. We passed ourselves and into each other to examine and change our mindset from being consumed with our own lives to learning how to be connected to the hearts and lives of those that God has surrounded us with.
In this week’s sermon, Pastor Abie Kulynych looks back at our theme of “WE” the change God brought about in the midst of us and introduces our new theme “HIM.”
This week we finish our December series, “The We of Christmas,” and Joanne DiLeo talks about the star of every show, Jesus Christ.
This week we continue our December series, “The We of Christmas,” and Jonathan Cornelius talks about the life of Joseph. For whatever reason, Joseph is left out a lot. Maybe because he wasn’t written about after a few chapters, but he is left out a lot when there is so much to learn about how much God did in him and through him.
This week we continue our December series, “The We of Christmas.” Over the course of these few weeks, you will be able to hear from some of the preachers we have among us. Last week David started us beautifully talking about Zacharias and Elizabeth. One point that he brought up, among many, is that righteous people join God in what He is doing. God fulfilled all the promises as Zacharias just stayed obedient to the mundane consistent things that God called him to do. In this sermon, our Worship Pastor Melissa Kulynych talks about Mary, the next character in our series. The whole point of this series is to see how God used His people to accomplish His purposes.