Am I Really Addicted?

Many people have trouble with the word “addiction.” It conjures up all kinds of ugly images. The very thought of it is so negative that many strugglers balk at accepting the label of addict. Nobody intentionally sets out to become addicted. The process is slow and subtle. Little by little substances or activities that were…

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Why Can’t I Stop?

Do you ever feel like you’re on auto-pilot? Somehow the flight plan has been filed and it feels like you’re almost powerless to change your course? Actually, that may not be far from the truth . . . but it doesn’t have to stay that way. There is a part deep within our brain called…

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Finding Truth

No matter how cautious or analytical we’ve been, we have ALL believed lies. In fact, without knowing it, much of our life has been ruled, at least in part, by untruths. Although Satan is the initial author of all lies, most of them are relayed to us via one of two sources: either from the…

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A Sure-fire Strategy

As a rule, humans are creatures of habit. Most of us sit in the same pew each week, we go to the same restaurants, we stick with what we know and are comfortable with—even if it no longer meets our needs. But . . . “If you always do what you’ve always done, you always…

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Is it Love or Just Lust?

Most of us hold to a basic premise that love is “good,” lust is “bad.” But sexual addiction and society’s views about sex have a way of blurring the two and making it difficult to discern one from the other. How can you tell if what you’re feeling is love or just lust? First, let’s…

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