Category: Addiction
Series
Making a Detailed Relapse Prevention Plan
Develop an action plan to help your recovery.
Knowing and Avoiding Triggers
People in recovery need to be careful about handling triggers.
Warning Signs of a Relapse
This is the first topic in our Relapse Prevention Series. Getting free from addiction is one thing, but we have to be diligent to stay free.
Step 12 To Recovery | Stay Awake By Helping Others
One of the best things you can do in your recovery is to walk with someone else in their recovery.
Step 11 To Recovery | Pray For Power
Prayer is our way of communicating with God and an opportunity to ask him for help.
Step 10 Toward Recovery | Continue to Take an Inventory
Taking an inventory is so important that it’s included in two different steps. As you gain clarity in your sobriety, you should continue to take an inventory so to avoid any triggers.
Step 9 Toward Recovery | Spiritual Maturity and Emotional Intelligence
We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 8 Toward Recovery | Making Amends
We come to a point in our recovery where we must face the wrong that we have done and ask forgiveness from the people we have harmed.
Step 7 Toward Recovery | A Humble Heart
In order for any change to happen in us, we have to change our outlook on life. We can only change us, like the serenity prayer says. But even that is something we can’t do alone.
Step 6 Toward Recovery | The Right Path Forward
We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
The 3 R’s to Overcoming Regret
It’s easy to let a closet full of regrets keep you from finding your way back to God. But Peter didn’t let it stop him.
When Your Kids Have an Addiction (Part 2)
When your kids are struggling with an addiction, it can be overwhelming and can upend the entire family. Learn some practical tips that can help your family to navigate through this.
When Your Kids Have an Addiction (Part 1)
When your kids are struggling with an addiction, it can be overwhelming and can upend the entire family. Learn some practical tips that can help your family to navigate this difficult issue.
Is My Addiction a Sign that I’m Not a Christian?
Addicts often feel buried under the weight of guilt and shame. Can you struggle actively with addiction and still be accepted by God?
Is It OK for Christians to Smoke Marijuana?
Are there biblical guidelines that may help Christians decide whether or not recreational marijuana usage should be practiced by followers of Jesus?
Relapse Prevention (Series)
Successful recovery happens with a detailed prevention plan.
The Path of Addiction
How does a person actually become addicted to pornography? There is a path or a process by which this happens.
How to Become an Addict | Bad Advice #1
We are all vulnerable to addictions, but God has the power to set us free.
Help Others or Die in Your Addiction | Don’t Die in Your Addiction #3
Eric shares the third key to overcoming his addiction – helping others.
Be Real or Die in Your Addiction | Don’t Die in Your Addiction #1
Eric shares the first key to overcoming his addiction – being honest about your problem in the first place.
Surrender or Die in Your Addiction | Don’t Die in Your Addiction #2
Does a substance or behavior have a firm grip on you? Don’t lose hope. Addiction isn’t the end but a fork in the road.
Krystal’s Story: Set Free from Addiction
Krystal shares her story of freedom from addiction. After trying medication, AA groups and more, there was only one thing that could set her free.
A Lesson from the Serenity Prayer
There are many uses of this prayer today as a way of reminding ourselves to find peace in self-help and self-examination.
Emotional Sobriety
As crazy as it sounds we can get actually get “drunk” emotionally when we become over involved in another persons toxic behavior.
Step 5 Toward Recovery | Sharing You
We take those things that we dug up and learned about ourselves and share them.
For the Guys Who Really Screwed Up
It’s not over for men who have made major mistakes in their marriages, if they’re willing to answer two questions.
Step 1 Toward Recovery | Admit You’re Powerless
The first step to recovery from addiction is all about moving out of denial and into reality.
Eric’s Story: Freedom from Addiction
Eric shares about his journey from drug addiction to freedom in Christ.
Is It A Sin For A Christian To Smoke Marijuana?
Recreational use of pot is on the rise, legal now in several states. But does it honor God?
Step 4 Toward Recovery | Getting Real
In recovery, you need to get real with who you are and who you were.
5 Weapons for Breaking an Addiction
Addictions are hard – whether drugs, alcohol, porn, or sex. There are five things you’ll need to use if you want to get over your addiction.
Step 3 Toward Recovery | Make a Decision
We make the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.
Step 2 Toward Recovery | Believe in a Greater Power
The second step of Alcoholics Anonymous states, “We come to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.”