A Custom Home
by Dion Todd October 24th, 2018
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11 WEBI used to work with my Dad building custom homes. He was a lifelong carpenter. When he...
Can You Hear Me Now
by Dion Todd October 21st, 2018
RHM Devotional: Can You Hear Me Now from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end, while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.” For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? ...
Gone With The Wind
by Dion Todd October 18th, 2018
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken. Then took Haman the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king...
So Good To Me
by Dion Todd October 16th, 2018
Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. Psalms 37:4 ESVWhen the man tossed the cable on the desk, I started laughing. I could hardly believe it. I have always been drawn to technical things like a moth to a bug light and I like tinkering with them. I wanted to hook a computer up to my television and needed...
RHM Newsletter 32 and Video Devotional
by Dion Todd October 14th, 2018
RHM News and Devotional: Time to Shine from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Hurricane Michael blew past us this week. Here there was only a little rain, a little wind and things are returning to normal. We are still cut off from our town of Conway as the road is flooded out. My heart goes out to those in the Florida Panhandle who endured a category 4 hurricane coming onshore. May the Lord give...
Bible Study: Acts, Chapter Twenty-two
by Dion Todd October 7th, 2018
RHM Bible Study, Acts 22 from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Transcript: Today we are going to study Acts chapter 22 in depth. You can follow along in your own Bible if you like. I will be reading from the World English Bible because it is the only modern English translation that is copyright free, and I can read the entire Bible on video without any legal drama or breaking anyone’s...
The Faith Of A Child
by Dion Todd September 28th, 2018
Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Luke 18:15 ESVAt church one night, a visiting speaker called my six-year-old son up front and told him that the Lord had heard his prayer about the dog,...
Long Time Coming
by Dion Todd September 26th, 2018
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. He came into all the region around the Jordan,...
The God of Seventh Chances
by Dion Todd September 24th, 2018
for the righteous falls seven times and rises again Proverbs 24:16 ESVOnce again, I found that it was I standing in the need of prayer. I was the man who promised he would never do it again, and then went and did it again. I had slowly drifted away, one more time. I have found that it is easy to make God promises, but it is often difficult to keep them. While laying on the floor in tears, and asking...
RHM News Update, September 2018
by Dion Todd September 23rd, 2018
RHM News Update, September 2018 from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
RHM News: Since we have not had a RHM Live service for the last couple of weeks because of Hurricane Florence and other matters, we thought we would catch you up this week. Lord willing, we plan to carry on with the Bible Study next week.
Dental:
Here is some news that is happening at Refreshing Hope. Recently I had a dental...
RHM Music: Sonshine
by Dion Todd September 22nd, 2018
Sonshine from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
This is a song that I wrote based on john 8:12 (WEB) 'Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”' Perry Robertson is playing guitar with me on it, though we live 1,100 miles apart. Hope you enjoy. You can find more...
RHM Music: I Am Yours
by Dion Todd September 20th, 2018
I Am Yours from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
This is a song that I wrote based on Psalm 119:94. Save me, for I am yours. It is the cry of my heart. As the song goes, my life has been broken and I feel that I will never measure up or be good enough for *every day there is something new*. But what I do have, belongs to Him, and I hope that is enough. You can find more...
All or Nothing
by Dion Todd September 19th, 2018
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity. Proverbs 24:16 WEBI felt disgusted with myself because I had tried so hard but in a moment of weakness returned to my old habits. Now like an injured animal, I just wanted to be left alone. I felt that I could never live this life of being a true Christian, at least at the standard my mind had created....
The Appointed Time
by Dion Todd September 16th, 2018
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay. Habakkuk 2:3 WEBOver twenty years ago the Lord gave me a word that I would be a pioneer of new things in ministry and to prepare myself. I was excited and told some friends, but they just gave me a dumb look and asked if...
The Way He Rolls
by Dion Todd September 12th, 2018
While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke 2:6 WEBWith his wife giving birth in a stable and the strong smell of farm animals permeating the air around them, Joseph had to contemplate his situation. I grew up on a farm and...
The Road Ahead
by Dion Todd September 9th, 2018
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, 'Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things...
Hooked On A Feeling
by Dion Todd September 8th, 2018
He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry. He said to me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?' I answered, 'Lord Yahweh, you know.' Again he said to me, 'Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, 'You dry bones, hear Yahweh's word. The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and...
Dust In The Wind
by Dion Todd September 6th, 2018
These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good. You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust. Psalms 104:27 WEBIf you are reading this, then you are still breathing and God has not called His gift back to Him yet. To each of us there is a day...
Bible Study: Acts, Chapter Twenty-One
by Dion Todd September 2nd, 2018
RHM Bible Study, Acts 21 from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Transcript: Today we are going to study Acts chapter 21 in depth. You can follow along in your own Bible if you like. I will be reading from the World English Bible because it is the only modern English translation that is copyright free, and I can read the entire Bible on video without any legal drama or breaking anyone’s...
When The Brook Dries Up
by Dion Todd August 29th, 2018
So he went and did according to Yahweh's word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. Yahweh's word came to him, saying, 'Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay...
Bible Study: Acts, Chapter Twenty
by Dion Todd August 26th, 2018
RHM Bible Study, Acts Chapter 20 from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Transcript: Today we are going to study Acts chapter 20 in depth. You can follow along in your own Bible if you like. I will be reading from the World English Bible because it is the only modern English translation that is copyright free, and I can read the entire Bible on video without any legal drama or breaking anyone’s...
The End Of The Line
by Dion Todd August 25th, 2018
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt? And they said to one another, 'Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.' Numbers 14:2 ESVThe Israelites were standing on the border of the land that God had promised to give them. God had done incredible signs and wonders in their...
Swimming Upstream
by Dion Todd August 23rd, 2018
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest....
The Remote Control
by Dion Todd August 22nd, 2018
The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, 'God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?' Acts 23:2 WEBPaul did not appreciate being slapped in the face. Jesus had faced crucifixion without complaining or opening His mouth, but when Paul was...
How To Swallow A Camel
by Dion Todd August 21st, 2018
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also. Matthew 23:24 WEBAs the chubby preacher sprinted for the elevator...
Bible Study: Acts, Chapter Nineteen
by Dion Todd August 19th, 2018
RHM Bible Study, Acts 19 from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Transcript: Today we are going to study Acts chapter 19 in depth. You can follow along in your own Bible if you like. I will be reading from the World English Bible because it is the only modern English translation that is copyright free, and I can read the entire Bible on video without any legal drama or breaking anyone’s...
Go To Nineveh
by Dion Todd August 17th, 2018
Yahweh's word came to Jonah the second time, saying, 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.' So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh's word. Jonah 3:1 WEBWhen God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, he immediately went down to Joppa and then took a ship to Tarshish. Now Nineveh (in modern-day Iraq) was about five hundred miles east of his home...
The Lord Heard
by Dion Todd August 13th, 2018
For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them,...
Bible Study: Acts, Chapter Eighteen
by Dion Todd August 12th, 2018
Bible Study, Acts Eighteen from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Transcript: Today we are going to study Acts chapter 18 in depth. You can follow along in your own Bible if you like. I will be reading from the World English Bible because it is the only modern English translation that is copyright free, and I can read the entire Bible on video without any legal drama, or breaking anyone’s...
Bible Study: Acts, Chapter Seventeen
by Dion Todd August 5th, 2018
RHM Bible Study, Acts Chapter 17 from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.
Transcript: Today we are going to study Acts chapter 17 in depth. You can follow along in your own Bible if you like. I will be reading from the World English Bible because it is the only modern English translation that is copyright free, and I can read the entire Bible on video without any legal drama or breaking anyone’s...