Author Archives: Steve Gledhill

TWIRL 049: Managing Depression

This Week In Recovery Lesson “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength… Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31 … Continue reading

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TWRAC 049: Managing Depression

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength… Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31 … Continue reading

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TWIRL 048: When Love Isn’t Fair (Relationship Injustice)

This Week In Recovery Lesson I love me and I love you for what you do for me. We love from a sense of entitlement of reciprocation and gratification. Love is naturally corrupted by selfishness. So we need the love … Continue reading

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TWRAC 048: When Love Isn’t Fair (Relationship Control)

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge I love me and I love you for what you do for me. We love from a sense of entitlement of reciprocation and gratification. Love is naturally corrupted by selfishness. So we need the love … Continue reading

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TWIRL 047: Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)

The second of the twelve steps declares that we came to believe in a power greater than ourselves who can restore us to… fill in the blank. The third step boldly declares that we have turned our will and life … Continue reading

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TWRAC 047: Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)

Please click TWIRL 047 before proceeding if you have not done the recovery lesson. “Why call Me Lord when you don’t mean it?” Honestly, what keeps you chained in your recovery journey and Christ-centered life from fully receiving the miracle … Continue reading

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TWIRL 46: Control Problem? I Can “Manage” Just Fine

This Week In Recovery Lesson What we like to believe is within our control to “manage” is too often an illusion that feeds into the delusion that we are in control of our life. So it’s a surprise when things, … Continue reading

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TWRAC 46: Control Problem? I Can “Manage” Just Fine

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please complete TWIRL 46 prior to proceeding with this application challenge… Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. … Continue reading

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TWIRL 045: Addicted to Me

This Week In Recovery Lesson The focus of this week’s lesson centers on the fundamental MEdom problem: my addiction to me. Please read the FFMP Series article “Addicted to Me“. “For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you … Continue reading

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TWRAC 045: Addicted to Me

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge If you arrived here and have not completed this week’s TWIRL activity, click here. In western society we tend to applaud and reward ambition.  However, James, a disciple of Jesus Christ, writes in the New … Continue reading

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TWIRL 044: Study of James Ch. 1

This Week In Recovery Lesson Study of James Chapter 1 Before beginning this study of James 1, it would be helpful to gain proper perspective by clicking on “New Age Living (and oh by the way, your feet smell)“ to … Continue reading

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TWRAC 044: Study of James 1

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Study of James Chapter One Please click TWIRL 044 to complete the recovery lesson before continuing. Having answered the Lesson questions to better understand and appreciate the teaching of James to those professing to be … Continue reading

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TWIRL 043: Communication with God

This Week In Recovery Lesson You may access the power of God through prayer, the vehicle given to you by God to have open access to Him in relationship with Jesus Christ. When you pray, each and every time, God … Continue reading

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TWRAC 043: Communicating with God

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Be sure to have completed TWIRL 043 before continuing this Application Challenge How to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer When there seems to be so many roadblocks to an effective prayer life hindering recovery it is … Continue reading

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TWIRL 042 (12/5/11): Brainwashed into New Life

This Week In Recovery Lesson Brainwashed into New Life… Relationship Not Religion Step 3 of the twelve steps says: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood Him.” The … Continue reading

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TWRAC 042 (12/5/11): Brainwashed into New Life

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please complete TWIRL 042 if you haven’t already done so. Brainwashed into New Life… Transformed through Relationship The WHEN in relationships is what you do that elicits the THEN response. Submission is the WHEN that must to be committed—the … Continue reading

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TWIRL 041 (11/24/11): Why Submit?

This Week In Recovery Lesson For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13 (NIV) It is not enough to simply admit that our way of handling problems do not … Continue reading

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TWRAC 041 (11/24/11): Why Submit?

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 041 before continuing with TWRAC 041 Insanity is generally described as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. What this means is that we tend to … Continue reading

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TWIRL 040 (11/10/11): Understanding Personal God

God is three people: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Together they make up the person of God. The focus here will be on the characteristics of the person of God that will empower you to a lifestyle of confident effective … Continue reading

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TWRAC 040 (11/10/11): Understanding Personal God

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 040 before continuing TWRAC 040…  The next four questions do not have right or wrong answers but are meant to challenge your perceptions of God as they relate to perceptions you … Continue reading

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