Things are hard before they become easy. Moving on with life after a disappointment doesn’t mean healing has happened- it simply means enough time has passed that we have learned to mask the pain. We often go on with our lives as if nothing had ever happened- as if our…
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Keeping a Balanced Inventory
Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. An important part of the recovery process is taking a good, hard look at ourselves. In Celebrate Recovery, we do this by completing an “inventory” of our lives. An inventory is simply an assessment of five key elements,…
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Applying Piper’s A.P.T.A.T. Model to the 12 Steps
My church is currently going through a sermon series entitled, “The Church- Complete in Christ.” Every week we have been addressing what it means to be a part of God’s church, becoming complete in Christ and producing disciples that are complete in Him. Our most recent topic was, “Measures- Being…