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Hopeless to Healed
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Believe It or Not
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Do You Want God’s Best or Is Yours Best Enough?
- If God Didn’t Always Exist, What Did? (It takes even more faith to be an atheist!)
- The Empty Cross (40 hours no one talks about)
- This Happened! (An Extraordinary, Unforgettable Encounter)
- What Really is Baptism into Relationship with God?
- What Really Is Relationship with God? (Married into the Family)
- What Then Shall We Say In Response to These Things?
- Where is God when Evil Storms into My Life?
- Who Really Am I In Christ? (Unveiling the Marvelous Mystery)
Thoughts, Feelings & Behavior
- A Man After God's Own Heart: David's Story of Addiction, Repentance, Relapse, Redemption & Restoration
- Addicted to Me (Barack Obama: "I was so obsessed with me…")
- Are You Under the Influence?
- Caged by Shame (Redemptive Healing)
- Criminal Mind: Restored to Innocence
- Depression Obsession (Finding the Right Road to Freedom)
- Do the Math! (Measuring the Value of What You Want Most)
- DUI: Desire Under the Influence
- Guilt & Shame, Scabs & Scars (Recovery from Your Past)
- I Hate Myself… or Do I? (Restoring Self-Esteem)
- Mind Games (What Gives?)
- Mourning Sickness… From Resistant to Repentant
- Neurochemical Warfare: Moral Sabotage
- Overcome F.E.A.R. (Failed Expectations Affecting Reality)
- Recovering Lost Things (From Fear to Faith)
- Scratch the Itch
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Stuck in the Heartache of Deferred Hope
- Tastes Good, Does It? What's In It? (Stages of Repentance)
NewLIFE
- Baptized into the Harvest of New Life
- Because I’m Worth It! (Worthy of His Best & The Rest)
- BRAINWASHED into Something Beautiful… New Life!
- Dying Into New Life: The Reason We’re Born… Again
- Faithful and Just to Forgive (Completed in Love to Love Completely)
- Hopeless to Healed… Pain to Peace
- It’s Simply a Matter of Time
- Modeling Grace
- New Age Living (and oh by the way, your feet stink)
- One Thing You Lack: Finding the Joy in Giving (until it hurts a little)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- The Good, the Bad, and the… Hey! What's that Monkey on my Back?
- The Pursuit of Happiness: A Bipolar Experience
- Under My Skin (when the answer is “NO” in the Age of Grace)
- Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
- What About You? Will You Also Leave Me?
Applied Recovery
- And Justice for All… When Love Isn't Fair (Recovery from Entitlement)
- Come to Your Senses (Restorative Recovery)
- Do the Math! (Measuring the Value of What You Want Most)
- Do the Math! (The Application of Rational Principles)
- Freedom Fighters (Setting Families Free)
- If I was Granted Three Wishes
- Letting Go: The Isaac Principle
- Listen with LUV … It's Not About the Nail
- Pop Goes the Weasel… Managing Conflict, Anger, & Resentment
- Power of the Least Interested Party (Recovery from the "Need" to be Right & in Control)
- Root Dug Deep That Thorny Weed (Resentment Recovery)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Step by Step… One Day at a Time (A 12-Step Study)
- Surrender It All or Surrender At All? (What’s In Your Camel?)
- When the Levee Breaks (Restoring Trust)
Revolutionary Faith
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Doubt in the Madness of the Perfect Storm
- Heaven, Hell, 3-Foot Forks, and My Problem with Hank
- If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
- Justified… Just if I'd Never Needed a Root Canal
- Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)
- Mustard-Seed Faith: What’s so moving about that mountain, anyway?
- Open Sesame… The Way Out is the Way In
- Revolutionary Transformation (Evidence for Faith)
- Stock Exchange: Sound Investment Strategy
- Strike It Rich… Oil that Is!
- The Problem of Pain… A Study of the Father's Discipline
- Thirsty? (Never Thirst Again!)
- Trapped in a Life on Fire! (and still playing with matches)
- Walk on Water Lately? (“Faith is an ocean you can walk on”)
- What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes)
- Whoosh! (A Testimony of Divine Intervention)
Beware
- "Do I Know You?" (Beware of Dogs)
- Are You Numb to the Glory? (Beware of Complacency)
- I Can "Manage" Just Fine (Beware of Illusions)
- My Way or the High Way (Beware of the Idol)
- Romancing the Stone (Beware of What You Worship)
- To Believe or Not Believe? (Beware of Cynics Preying on Faith)
- Who is Born Again? – "Secret password, please…" (Beware of Self-righteousness)
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The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (1942)
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This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his … Continue reading
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Relapse and the Brain
by Michael Dye and Patricia Fancher for The National Association for Christian Recovery In very simplistic terms, we have two parts to our brains. The first part is the neocortex. It is located in the front of the head and … Continue reading
What Addiction and Recovery Taught Me about “Believing in God” by Mark Brouwer
by Mark Brouwer for sexualsanity.com The Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines belief as: “A state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing.” The experience of addiction messes this up for Christians, whether they want to … Continue reading
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Addiction Recovery: Short Term Fix or Long Term Life Change? … by Mark Brouwer
Written by Mark Brouwer for Sexual Sanity.com Everybody who struggles with addictive behavior wants fast results in recovery. It’s part of our bent as a society that we are used to getting things done quickly. We have no patience for … Continue reading
Receive the Gift of No Condemnation and Walk in Peace, by Joseph Prince
From Vol 2. Issue 4 on October 2009 Christians celebrate Christmas to commemorate the birth of our Lord Jesus, knowing that He came to give us eternal life. But how many realize that Jesus also came to give us the … Continue reading
The Passion of the Christ – Why? by Joseph Prince
From Vol 1. Issue 1 on January 2008 In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus made a decision that would forever change His destiny and ours. He chose not to abandon us and return to heaven, but to remain and be … Continue reading
The Root Cause of Your Problem is Condemnation, by Joseph Prince
From Vol 1. Issue 2 on April 2008 This message is a reminder to all of us who have been listening to the gospel of grace for some time now. The Lord is revealing to us the secret to living … Continue reading
What We Mean When We Talk About Addiction, by Mark Brouwer
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Letting Go of Anxiety
Letting go of anxiety One of the cornerstones of our approach to recovery is that sobriety is integrally related to emotional and spiritual well-being. It’s hard to be sober if you’re not in a good place emotionally and spiritually … … Continue reading
Commentary of Hebrews 11:1 by John W. Ritenbaugh
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV) A clear understanding of faith in Hebrews 11 largely depends on how we perceive the word “substance” in verse 1. In Greek, … Continue reading
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Let Go of Shame
by Juanita Ryan for The National Association for Christian Recovery from her book, Keep Breathing A part of the experience of shame is the fear of being found out and exposed. We want to run and hide and protect ourselves from … Continue reading
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Take a Load Off (M. Ross)
by Matthew Ross Some of the most frustrating moments of my life occurred when God gave me a passion and desire to do something, but I felt like I was a million miles away from being able to actually do … Continue reading
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Defending Your Sacrifice (Matthew Ross)
by Matthew Ross The dictionary has several definitions for the word “promise,” but the one that caught my attention was: “a reason to expect that something will happen in the future.” We are surrounded by promises of one degree or … Continue reading
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I Got This (Matthew Ross)
by Matthew Ross No matter what kind of life you have led, one aspect is the same for everyone: life is wildly unpredictable. That unpredictable nature will bring some incredible moments your way, but it will also bring some tragic … Continue reading
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God’s Laughter (Matthew Ross)
by Matthew Ross Aiden Wilson Tozer once preached a sermon called “Child of Two Worlds.” His basic point was that we are born into a fallen world and live among fallen people, but, when we are saved, we are called … Continue reading
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Forgiveness is a Gift You Give Yourself
Written by Tracy Bell, LCPC, NCC, Heritage Counseling Center, Plainfield, IL I once heard someone say that unforgiveness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. I will never forget that statement because I think it … Continue reading