Download or read book God Addiction and State Prison written by Angelo Wright and published by Thomas Parisi. This book was released on 2015-05-03 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An open and honest first hand account of living through addiction. “God, Addiction, and State Prison” is a must read for anyone who has dealt with the affliction of addiction. Whether you or someone you know is suffering, this book will reveal the insights of a man who has found his way home. The pattern of thoughts and behaviors that an addict exhibits can be difficult to understand for those outside looking in, and this book gives us a rare glimpse from the inside looking out.
Download or read book The Man I Was Destined to Be written by Michael Tandoi and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael was twenty-seven years old, his lengthy battle with drug addiction resulted in a seven-year prison sentence. It would take three years and the death of his father before he realized that his former life prevented him from becoming the man his father hoped he would be. Walking the road to recovery enabled him to change his life and become the man he was destined to be.
Download or read book Gangster to God written by Timothy Rau and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangster to God is an incredible true life story and testimony of Love and Grace, filled with incredible miracles only God could have set in motion. After enduring years of tragedy, drug addiction and finally a life sentence in prison, suicide seemed the only option for this man when God intervened and through overwhelming odds, his life was turned around and completely changed forever by The Love Of Jesus Christ.
Download or read book We re All in Prison written by Patricia A. Jones and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones demonstrates how parental upbringing and other unresolved issues imprison people with addictions. She details God's plan to set believers free. (Christian)
Download or read book The Only Real Cure for Drug Addiction is God written by Larry Singleton and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry grew up in a small southern town called Minden, shielded from all life's negative influences by his mother and siblings. Growing up in a very Christian home, knowing God, he always longed for the big-city life. But was he ready for it? Was he ready to take on the challenges that came with big-city life? Marrying his high school sweetheart right after school, he dreamed of the glorious life they could have if only he could find a way for them to leave Minden behind. He wanted more out of life, for he knew that one day, with God's blessings, he would become a great man, husband, and father. When he was introduced to an idea about joining the Air Force, he quickly decided that was their ticket out of Minden and a chance to be that great man that he always dreamed of. Shortly after joining the Air Force, he began meeting men from all over. Although he wasn't street-smart and knew very little about what went on outside his little hometown, he was intrigued by their behavior and knowledge of worldly life. He sought to emulate them from their dress, talk, and often bad habits. He slowly began conforming to this world while setting aside all he was taught in church and his upbringing. Unknown to him, the devil began slowly gaining control of his thoughts, thus starting a spiritual warfare in his mind that would last for almost two decades. This spiritual warfare took him and his family through unimaginable times where no man wants to go. Big-city life was exciting, but without God, it came with a price.
Download or read book The Addiction Handbook by Jesus written by Timothy Klink and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addiction is ANYTHING that controls you Physically, Mentally, or Spiritually. THE ADDICTION HANDBOOK BY JESUS looks at the account of the demoniac of Gedara in Mark 5, who was controlled greatly by demons, and what Jesus did to deliver him from them. The same voice of Satan and his demons invades our thoughts today, tempting us to go against God's Word by tempting us to sin. Our sin nature gives us the ability to sin, but the voice of Satan and his demons "pushes the right buttons" to get us to consider what he is presenting. The temptations are never-ending, but can be controlled and defeated through God's Word. THE ADDICTION HANDBOOK BY JESUS will help guide you through biblical principles to victory, knowing the true source of temptations. All scripture is King James Version.
Download or read book Finding God Within written by Ray Leonardini and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a decade, Ray Leonardini has been visiting the incarcerated in Folsom State Prison and other correctional facilities, where he has been teaching and facilitating contemplative prayer—the contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian meditative tradition. In Finding God Within, Leonardini demonstrates the extraordinary power of contemplative (or centering) prayer in transforming the lives of prisoners, and offers insightful analyses of biblical passages that show the power of prayer, faith, and surrender to ease addiction, stress, and despair. Filled with testimonies of prisoners who have been helped by centering prayer, Finding God Within is an essential introduction to contemplative prayer for people of all faiths engaged in prison ministry.
Download or read book Addicts at the Cross written by Larry Skrant and published by Aneko Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addicts at the Cross takes a bold, unabashed stance in stating that the Bible is true: If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). The 9 steps will walk students to the cross where Christ sets the captives free. These steps aren’t magic, but a willing and determined pursuit of freedom through them will guide the student to a place where overcoming addiction is assured. Society tells us poverty, lack of education, and unemployment are the underlying causes of addiction. Though strong families and education are vital supports for a stable society as they help a person discover how to act and what to do, the roots of addiction develop and grow from “who” the person is. This 9 step study is designed to dredge up the soil of the addict's heart and uproot the underlying causes of addiction, thereby genuinely setting the addict free.
Download or read book Jesus and the Addict written by Pam Morrison and published by Eabooks Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We face a profound problem in this country and around the world, the plague of drug addiction. Lives are being lost and destroyed. Many people are affected by this issue in some way, via family members, friends, or co-workers. The question is, "How can people find true healing of the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs involved in their addiction?" The author proposes leading addicted people to faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus and the Addict: 12 Bible Studies for People Getting Free from Drugs is designed to help leaders in Christian faith-based recovery to guide those who come to their communities toward continuous freedom from drugs. The book contains twelve studies with biblical guidance on varying issues with which people in recovery struggle such as overcoming fear, learning to have hope, overcoming resentment, and dealing with forgiveness. Jesus Christ is the answer in all these things. Deepened relationship with Him and the transforming effect of His power and love bring redemption and new life. The book is intended for pastors, mentors, sponsors, and teachers - anyone working in jail, prison, transitional communities, or in churches to help recovering addicts. The studies are designed to be shared in large group settings, a speaker providing the teaching talk. Following that teaching time, the large group can then break out into small groups for discussion of the teaching. However, this material is workable within a single small group as well as a large one - the small group hearing the talk less formally and then discussing it. Each of the twelve lessons contains a verse or key verses from the Bible about a particular topic. Those Bible verses form the basis of the lesson. There is then a section with discussion about the background and state of mind of people seeking recovery for the speaker to consider about those who will be in the listening audience. The author's experience has largely been with people who are lower income or poor, but addiction affects all classes of society, and both urban and rural populations. The concepts discussed in the background and state of mind section are adaptable to varying recovery audiences. A prayer for the speaker is included next. Following the prayer, there is a sample talk section where some key points are given. This talk can be modified to fit the speaker's own experiences and their audience. And each chapter concludes with sample questions that can be used to stimulate conversation within your recovery group. The book also contains teaching and theology about the nature of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. An explanation of the cross event, resurrection, and the meaning of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers is explained such that people in recovery can understand God as being full of grace and as a source of great empowerment. The presentation of the present-day healing ministry of Christ gives hope to the addict that they can permanently be freed from drugs and feel the lifting of guilt and shame. They can also take their place as a useful and contributing part of the kingdom of God and in society. Dr. Pam Morrison, the author, is an ordained pastor from the Free Methodist Church. She has led or helped to lead six churches. She has volunteered with Prison Fellowship and has ministered with addicts in several settings. Her belief is that medical and secular means have been and are used to help addicts, but the greatest help anyone can receive to achieve permanent freedom is to find faith in Jesus Christ. So much more help is needed for addicts and families of addicts. We are short on places and those who will walk steadfastly with people seeking recovery. This is a ministry urgently needed in this hour.
Download or read book Finding God Within written by Ray Leonardini and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful and moving guide on the many benefits of contemplative prayer and meditation taught and guided in a prison setting. For over a decade, Ray Leonardini has been visiting the incarcerated in Folsom State Prison and other correctional facilities, where he has been teaching and facilitating contemplative prayer--the contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian meditative tradition. In Finding God Within: Contemplative Prayer for Prisoners, Leonardini demonstrates the extraordinary power of contemplative, or centering, prayer in transforming the lives of prisoners. Leonardini offers insightful analysis of biblical passages that show the power of prayer, faith, and surrender to ease addiction, stress, and despair. Finding God Within is an essential introduction to contemplative prayer for people of all faiths engaged in prison ministry and interested in exploring contemplative prayer mediation. This new edition includes a new chapter on The Welcoming Prayer, a new foreword and afterword, and a chapter on the documentary based on this book. It replaces the previous edition (9781590565513) published in 2016.
Download or read book God in Captivity written by Tanya Erzen and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening account of how and why evangelical Christian ministries are flourishing in prisons across the United States It is by now well known that the United States’ incarceration rate is the highest in the world. What is not broadly understood is how cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons are increasingly relying on religious organizations to provide educational and mental health services and to help maintain order. And these religious organizations are overwhelmingly run by nondenominational Protestant Christians who see prisoners as captive audiences. Some twenty thousand of these Evangelical Christian volunteers now run educational programs in over three hundred US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Prison seminary programs are flourishing in states as diverse as Texas and Tennessee, California and Illinois, and almost half of the federal prisons operate or are developing faith-based residential programs. Tanya Erzen gained inside access to many of these programs, spending time with prisoners, wardens, and members of faith-based ministries in six states, at both male and female penitentiaries, to better understand both the nature of these ministries and their effects. What she discovered raises questions about how these ministries and the people who live in prison grapple with the meaning of punishment and redemption, as well as what legal and ethical issues emerge when conservative Christians are the main and sometimes only outside forces in a prison system that no longer offers even the pretense of rehabilitation. Yet Erzen also shows how prison ministries make undeniably positive impacts on the lives of many prisoners: men and women who have no hope of ever leaving prison can achieve personal growth, a sense of community, and a degree of liberation within the confines of their cells. With both empathy and a critical eye, God in Captivity grapples with the questions of how faith-based programs serve the punitive regime of the prison, becoming a method of control behind bars even as prisoners use them as a lifeline for self-transformation and dignity.
Download or read book Chained to Be Free Finding God in Prison written by Dwight Keefer and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DWIGHT KEEFER is an ex-convict who has reformed his life while totally recovering from the addictions of drugs and alcohol. His book is a testimony to his deliverance that began to take place behind the walls of the West Virginia Prison System. In 2005 he was arrested for methamphetamines and in 2006 sentenced to 14 years in prison. He completed 6 years of his sentence and was then released back into society. In prison he began a relationship with God in his born-again experiences through His Son Jesus Christ that have totally changed his life. In this book Dwight shares some of his stories and his trying experiences that he went through in the prison system. The main focus of this book is to bring to light the power of God's Word and how with faith when spoken of consistently it can change anyone who is willing to believe it and who wants to receive it. Take heart in the many powerful scriptural readings contained herein! For many years Dwight was a cross-addict and he never believed that he would ever be able to totally stop drinking. Behind the walls of prison he became a different man and is now a cross addict for the Cross of Jesus Christ! His hope is that with the sharing of this book he'll show others that you don't have to be in a prison facility to be imprisoned today! There are so many souls in prisons of their own devices today but with the power of God and His Word even the vilest and most addicted person can be set free! This is a book of hope & faith for all who will read & practice it today...
Download or read book From Dope to Hope written by Tim Ryan (Businessman) and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the addict's journey: how it happens, how it progresses, and how it ends. Fortunately, this is also the journey of recovery: how it happens, and how it blossoms. There is always hope." --"Dr. Drew" Pinsky, M.D.Heroin addiction didn't make Tim a better person. It stole more than half of his life. But he's dedicated every waking minute since walking out of prison to dealing hope to addicts and their families. By his own account, Tim Ryan shouldn't be here. But as he states, "Where there is life, there is hope." Known as The Hope Dealer, Tim is a successful entrepreneur, grateful recovering heroin addict and alcoholic, nationally ranked barefoot water skier--and truth-talking, convicted felon.*As a business leader in a high-tech industry, Tim made and lost millions. *As a father and husband, Tim introduced his own son to deadly drugs. *As a heroin addict, Tim is a walking miracle. He's overdosed eight times, was pronounced clinically dead three, and suffered two minor heart attacks. He's been arrested more than ten times and served prison time alongside known gang leaders--many of whom became his closest confidants in recovery.*As the founder of A Man in Recovery Foundation and motivational speaker, Tim's mission is to help one addict at a time transform their lives from dope to hope.Tim has been a featured thought leader in numerous national media, including USA Today, Newsweek, and "The Steve Harvey Show with Dr. Drew," and dozens of nationally syndicated radio shows. He was an invited guest by the U.S. President to the 2016 State of the Union Address. This story chronicles Tim's grueling journey into addiction, loss, and recovery. Sit with Tim in his prison cell. Walk with him as loved ones are torn from his reach. Rejoice with him as lives are miraculously recovered.
Download or read book Twelve Steps Without God written by David Vartabedian and published by Encompass Editions. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musician David Vartabedian's personal journey from criminal and convict to a mentor and inspiration for thousands provides the background to this guide written for those suffering from addiction but who are often reluctant to embark on a recovery couched in terms of religion. "Twelve Steps Without God is a great alternative for accessing the source of power necessary for a psychic change necessary to overcome the disease of addiction. David's personal story and history of living the life of an active addict and his miraculous transformation will open the door for so many who are desperately seeking freedom from addiction. His many years of experience working in the field of recovery provide a powerful, effective, and long-lasting solution for longterm recovery." Samantha Matern Addictions Specialist and Counselor Unityholisticlifecoach.com
Download or read book Grace Overcomers Addiction Ministry written by Dan Lightsey and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its biblical approach to recovery, the Grace Overcomers Addiction Ministry provides deep insight and understanding to the ministry of addiction. It is written by and for the victorious in Jesus Christ, a testimony to their real life experiences and how they overcame addiction through the grace of God. It has been said, 'Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.' Pastor Dan Lightsey, in writing Grace Overcomers Addiction Ministry, qualifies both in his Christlike compassion as well as his understanding and keen insight for those that struggle with addiction. For all those that wrestle in the valley of trouble, this book will open a door of hope. Jesus said he came to deliver and set free the captives; Pastor Dan Lightsey's book will help to do just that. —Pastor John Love, chaplain to the NBA's New York Knicks Dan Lightsey's book reveals to each addict, no matter what persuasion or tendency, the ability to acknowledge God's forgiveness, which in turn allows us to forgive ourselves. Further, he has provided a support framework which allows the addict compassion and insight to progress in the real world. A wonderful approach to recovery! —Donald L. Henderson, R.Ph.
Download or read book From Dope to Hope written by Clifford Humphrey and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book entails my battle with drug sales and my addiction to drugs and how it took the power of my Savior Jesus Christ to set me free.
Download or read book Breaking Into Prison written by David Howell and published by David Howell. This book was released on 2021-10-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Howell found out what his purpose in life was at age 65. He found that God had been training, equipping and teaching him throughout his lifetime to prepare for the mission of his life. He found that even when he was drunk, or in jail or destroying lives everywhere he went, God continued to give him instructions needed to help expand the kingdom of God. This book tells how God used all events before and after salvation to gather the tools and forge the education that would be used in the ministry and mission He had in mind.
