Category Archives: Step 3: Breaking Free
The Choice for Recovery
No matter where you are in your recovery journey, you have a choice to make each morning. Which path will you choose for the next 24 hours? Will you move toward taking the risks and enduring the discomfort that ultimately leads to an abundant life, or will you choose to entertain the shame and isolation…
Recovery is a Lifestyle
True recovery isn’t an event or an episode, it’s a lifestyle. When we become Christians we are saved from the eternal consequences of our sin. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we find new life, new direction, and new hope. This salvation can’t be earned. It is a gift from God. It is free to all…
Why Can’t I Stop Acting Out?
Most of us have heard about someone that just decided to stop drinking, masturbating or some other compulsive behavior—and then succeeded to do so without ever looking back! It seemed so easy for them. And yet we keep struggling. We’ve promised. We’ve prayed. We’ve tried all manner of programs and techniques. And yet, in spite…
A Bigger Problem than Sin
A few years before his death, David Wilkerson, the founder of Teen Challenge wrote something in his newsletter that has stuck with me: “In Gods eye’s our problem isn’t sin” it is trust. Jesus settled our sin problem once and for all at Calvary. He doesn’t constantly harp on us, “this time you’ve crossed the…
Do you think it’s true?
I’ve been pondering a quote I ran across yesterday: “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. “ What do YOU think? Is it true? Too simplistic? Partially true? Dead wrong? Or…
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