Category Archives: Recovery Lessons

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Understanding Thinking Problems  President Barack Obama, in 2008, said the following: “I was so obsessed with me and the reasons I might be dissatisfied that I couldn’t focus on other people… Whenever I take wrong … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Brainwashed from the Inside Out Step Three says, “Made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood (came to believe in…) Him.” This decision is predicated … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Ambivalence—Measuring Risk (pain) & Reward (pleasure) What is ambivalence? Ambivalence is having similar intensity of desire and motivation for more than one thing, but the things are opposite from each other. In other words, to … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Strangulation by Triangulation vs. Healthy Confrontation The teachings of Scripture plainly unveil the truth of invasive infectious self-centered thinking and behavior hastening the procurement of ‘me’dom values as the destructive dysfunction of families. What causes … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Better to Give? Better How? Better for Who? We have likely all heard it. Possibly first from a parent, or a grandparent, or a teacher, or someone. “It is better to give than receive.” The question … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Between The Rock and a Hard Place For most, the commitment to recovery is not so easily settled. The title to this week’s recovery lesson is a play on the expression, “between a rock and … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Dying into New Life—Crucified with Christ For some, this concept of dying to your old self (or ways) in order to experience new life is new and mysterious. For others, the concept is familiar and … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson When God Says “No” or “Wait” It is our nature to want what we want when we want it, and to want to get all that we want. This is the primary function of the … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Pilgrimage of Faith-Driven Recovery Pastor Fran Leeman at LifeSpring Community Church in Plainfield, IL has been speaking recently about the Secrets of the Victorious Life. FREEdom from MEdom at its core is about the secret … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson The Lord’s Prayer for Life Please begin this week’s lesson by reading Matthew chapter 6. There are definitely times when I find it difficult to pray. Sometimes I am so overwhelmed I cannot talk about … Continue reading →