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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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Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. So they … Continue reading
Posted in ADMIT: Accept and admit that my life is out of control, BELIEVE: Accept and believe that God is in Control, COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged ambivalence, ambivalent, discontentment, emotional distrust. supernatural, failed expectations, intellectual faith, power struggle, resistance, two dogs, two wolves
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Do You Want God’s Best or Is Yours Best Enough?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “To live with desire is to choose vulnerability over self-protection; to admit our desire and seek help beyond ourselves is even more vulnerable. It is an act of trust. In other words, … Continue reading
Posted in COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged ambivalence, ambivalence in recovery, ambivalent, ambivalent about recovery, better than it was, do you want to be made well, do you want to get well, good is the enemy of great, Jesus heals the paralytic, Jesus is a role model, slave to sin, stop sinning or something worse may happen, the truth will set you free, transformed by the renewing of your mind
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Mourning Sickness… From Resistant to Repentant
“I especially liked the way you tackled the difficult topic of ambivalence and how our addictive behavior runs counter to the intellectual truth of the matter (common sense). There is a sorrow that the soul must go through in letting … Continue reading