Category Archives: Recovery Lessons

This Week in Recovery Lesson Step Into The Light (Faith is an ocean you can walk on) The light beaming in through the top of the cave is a metaphor for the light of God coming into the blinding darkness … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Evidence That Demands a Verdict FREEdom From MEdom Project is a venture in faith. Here’s a secret about faith: faith is an experience rooted in substance and evidence. Like gravity and oxygen, you may not … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Managing Anger & Resentment We all get angry. When we get angry our blood pressure goes up. Our heart rate increases. The rise of blood pressure and heart rate can be substantial. There is a significant surge … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson The Experience of Letting Go Abraham of the Old Testament had finally received the blessing of the promised son. He had toiled for years, agonizing over the unmet expectation he had that God would make … Continue reading →

This Week in Recovery Lesson That’s All I Need! We live in a social culture that promotes the “It’s all about me” ideal. The fact is that it has been all about me and all about you since Adam and … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson What and Who do I Worship? Ultimately, MEdom is my addiction to me. At the core of all addiction is worship. What exactly does the word ‘worship’ mean, and why is being used here? Mirriam-Webster defines … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Communication with God 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 … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Fool or Free? Dead or Alive? And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. In that case, all who have died believing in Christ … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Examine Anger and Resentment Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by … Continue reading →

This Week in Recovery Lesson Effective Problem-Solving & Conflict Resolution When troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. James 1:2 Please respond to the following questions: How do you manage anxiety and stress? What do you … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Relationship NOT Religion Whatever the truth is, truth is truth, and it is what it is. Whether we believe it or not, does not change what is absolutely true, and therefore real. May you pursue … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Walking on Water in Recovery Now immediately Jesus had His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side. And when He sent the multitudes away, He went up to the … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Overcoming Guilt and Shame Jesus Christ came to earth to identify with the human experience, to die as a sacrifice for our self-centered ‘me’dom problem. Nailed to the cross with Jesus was every mistake we ever … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Stages of Change in Recovery The changes in the lives of recovering people tend to occur in stages, from not being ready to acknowledge that a problem even exists, to actively doing whatever it takes … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Transformative Recovery: Outside In/Inside Out While God’s love for us is unconditional, the quality of relationship we have with God is conditional. This is evident throughout Scripture. Relationships always have a when-then quality to them. When … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Biochemical Warfare: Moral Sabotage Getting more specific about addictive thinking and behavior, it is necessary to examine how addiction hijacks the brain and mind under the control of the selfish sin nature. The GO system … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Do You Believe So You Can Receive? “It is better that a person believe in Jesus and Santa Claus than the person believe in neither.” —Dee Wilson That is the truth about child-like faith. Children … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Whoosh! Dean, a 135 pound man in his mid-thirties, has been dependent on alcohol for the better part of twenty years. Beer was his drug of choice and until recently, he was drinking 15-20 beers … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Don’t panic! Help is in the way! It is not enough to simply admit that our way of handling problems do not work. There is a component in most species where at some point in … Continue reading →

This Week In Recovery Lesson Perceptions of God The problem we have trusting God with all areas of our life is due to our perceptions of the character of God; particularly as they relate to places in our life (the … Continue reading →