Download or read book The James Club and the Original A A Programs Absolute Essentials written by Dick B and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Akron AAs wanted "The James Club" to be the name of their fellowship. The Bible's Book of James was their favorite; they also studied it, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13. These three Bible segments were considered "absolutely essential" to their program. This book takes each verse in James, the Sermon, and 1 Cor 13, and shows the influence of such verses on A.A. language.
Download or read book The James Club and the Original A A Program s Absolute Essentials written by Dick B. and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Five Appendices of The James Club move out from the verse by verse presentation and analysis of the Book of James, the Sermon on the Mount, and Corinthians. The first appendix explains exactly what the early A.A. program is like and builds on the precise report of Frank Amos to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in 1938 on what this seemingly miraculous program led by Dr. Bob actually did. And there were 7 simple principles--not principles of the much discussed Oxford Group, but rather principles closely resembling those of United Christian Endevor. The second appendix treats the reader to an extensive view of United Christian Endeavor and how it grew from a tiny church circle in Williston, Maine, to a world-wide young people's movement with more than 3.5 million members. The third appendix contrasts the Akron program with the later A.A. program which Bill Wilson fashioned in his Big Book, learned primarily from Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., and based on the life-changing practices of the Oxford Group which Shoemaker promoted as a chief lieutenant of Frank Buchmn in America. The fourth appendix gives the reader a look at the Book of James itself--the estimated date, the probable author, the descriptions of James as the Lord's brother, and the canonical status of James. The final appendix turns to Yahweh our Creator. It shows that Yahweh is His personal name, that the name is used over 7000 times in the Old Testament, and that an understanding of Yahweh as the Creator and as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would quickly dispel the "any god" and "not-god" myths that dominate recovery writings, meetings, and programs today.
Download or read book Stick with the Winners How to Conduct More Effective 12 Step Recovery Meetings Using Conference Approved Literature written by Ken B. and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever heard, You can't talk about Jesus or the Bible at an A.A. meeting? Want to establish or modify an A.A. meeting or a Christian Recovery meeting so that it can include information on the roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in early A.A.'s astonishing successes? Stick with the Winners! by Dick B. and Ken B. may be just what you need to carry the message more effectively.
Download or read book The Good Book Big Book Guide Book written by Dick B and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Dick B.'s most popular book, The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible. This guidebook shows you how and where to study the Bible as the highly-successful early AAs did.
Download or read book Henrietta B Seiberling written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick B. is an active, recovered member of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. He is a writer, historian, Bible student, Retired attorney, and Recovered AA who has sponsored more than 100 men in their recovery. The author has devoted 16 years of his life to researching the Biblical history and roots of Alcoholics Anonymous and has published 26 titles, 120 articles, and over 20 audio talks on the subject. He is the leading A.A. history scholar and historian.
Download or read book Twelve Steps for You written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-awaited work of A.A. Historian Dick B. on the origins of each of the Twelve Steps. First and foremost a history of each step. How each of A.A.'s co-founders contributed to each of the Steps. It looks at the original Akron A.A. program which had no "Steps" and took its basic ideas from the Bible and its principles and practices primarily from the United Christian Endeavor Movement of Dr. Bob's youth. Then--source by source--it looks at each Step as it was impacted upon by a particular contributor. The Bible, Oxford Group, Rev. Sam Shoemaker, Dr. Bob's wife Anne Smith, the so-called "Six Steps, then the other sources. This book is an historical study of the roots of each Step; and it can be used for individual and group study of the Steps in a very meaningful way.It is also a guide. A guide to understanding, and a guide to taking each Step. It also shows you how to take the Steps exactly as directed in A.A.'s Big Book. It suggests how you might look at each Step in terms of the contributions to that Step's lanugage and meaning by each of its sources. Finally, it provides Christians and other students with a means of considering, learning, and "taking" each of the Steps in light of that Step's biblical and historical roots--with the Big Book, Bible, and history at hand.When you are through, you will have a perspective of the real spiritual utility of the Twelve Steps in a believer's world, despite the secularization and universalism that are diluting all Twelve Step programs and the language used in connection with the Steps. For example, "God as we understood Him" historically and biblically means Almighty God, the Creator, as He is understood by the newcomer at the time of taking Steps 3 and 11. So too "powerless" in Step 1 is presented in its historical context ("I was licked") rather than in some puzzling linquistic context, seldom understood or unraveled.You'll know and guide the taking of the Twelve Steps as they were intended to be understood and as you never did before.
Download or read book A New Way Out written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There ?s a new way out of addictions, alcoholism, and life-controlling problems. Disappointed and discouraged, many today would abandon A.A., 12 Step programs, treatment, and therapy because of low success rates. But there is a far better way: look to the history, principles, and practices of early A.A. with its documented 75% to 93% success rate among medically incurable alcoholics who really tried. That?s when A.A. did work.Also, look to the history, principles, and practices of the world-wide societies which spawned A.A. ideas and were highly effective?the Salvation Army, the Rescue and Gospel Missions, United Christian Endeavor Society, Young Men?s Christian Association. You will see a common thread. You?ll see it in early A.A. too. And this book will tell you about it. Then, look to the history, principles, and practices of churches, clergy, para-church, Christ-centered, and Christian recovery programs. Look to the histories of healing by religious means. It dates from the Old Testament and follows through to today. When people relied upon the Creator, accepted Christ, called upon God in Jesus? name for cure, and believed, they received. A New Way Out leads to the power of God, the name of Jesus Christ, the love of God and neighbor, and serving others. It applauds the good things in A.A. and 12 Step programs. It respects the good things in religion. It grounds you in the historical elements of recovery by the power of God and then points you to support groups and church armed as you will be with those elements of each that worked in the earliest days, and those that don?t work today.
Download or read book When Early AAs Were Cured and why written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick B.'s latest exploration of, and report on the solid evidence that early AAs were cured of alcoholism and said so for the first decade after their founding. This title tells HOW. It explains the many reports of religious healings through the ages, the many in or observers of A.A. who proved that they were cured, the myths about God, alcoholism, and "no cure," and the key origins, roots, and elements of the early Akron Christian Fellowship where the cures occurred. A book for believers who know God's power and want to know how it was applied in the healing of alcoholism by A.A. pioneers
Download or read book Introduction to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for use by recovery newcomers, educational and religious alcoholism programs, recovery groups and treatment centers, and substance abuse agencies. Here, for the first time, is a simple, accurate, concise statement of the origins, trends, changes, and detours leading up to, involved in, and evolving from A.A.'s Big Book and Twelve Step spiritual program of recovery. A must for introducing the A.A./12 Step subject usefully
Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome hardcover reprint of original edition, featuring all 29 stories of the program's pioneers and the key to the solution claimed by founder Bill Wilson, a vital spiritual experience that allows followers to rediscover God.
Download or read book Dr Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.A. Co-founder Dr. Bob stated he had had "excellent training" in the Bible as a youngster in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. This title is a guide to that training and to the multi-volume resource compendium that describes the major influences on his training. They include the Town of St. Johnsbury, the Congregational Churches, his own church--the North Congregational Church, Sunday School, Christian Endeavor Society, the enormous impact of the Fairbanks family on the community and church and educational system, Dr. Bob's own deep family involvement in the church and town activities, the St. Johnsbury Academy, the town library (Athenaeum) and Fairbanks Museum, the YMCA, and the Great Awakening of 1875 that brought revivals, Gospel meetings, conversions, prayer, and Bible study to the fore.
Download or read book The Conversion Of Bill W written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book unlike any of the many recent biographies of A.A. co-founder William Griffith Wilson (known as Bill W.). It is filled with information about Bill's religious education, experiences, and beliefs from childhood forward. Thus Bill's knowledge of his grandfather Willie's conversion on Mount Aeolus and deliverance from alcoholism, the involvement of Bill's grandparents--the Wilsons and the Griffiths--in the life of the little East Congregational Church on the lawn between the two families' houses, the reading of the Bible by Bill's grandfather Fayette Griffith and by Bill and his boyhood friend Mark, Bill's attendance at the Congregational Sunday School and his attendance at Temperance of revival meetings, his five (yes, five) self-described spiritual experiences including his decision for Christ at Calvary Rescue Mission and his "hot flash" conversion experience at Towns Hospital, his conversations with his famous doctor William D. Silkworth about the Great Physician Jesus Christ and cure of alcoholism through Christ, Bill's extensive involvement with the Oxford Group and particularly Rev. Sam Shoemaker, and Bill's intensive involvement in prayer, Bible study, the use of devotionals, and seeking of guidance with Dr. Bob and Anne Smith at the Smith Home in Akron, particularly in the summer of 1935. All these, and more, are told in this exciting and little-known story about Wilson and God. Was Bill converted to Christ? Did Bill believe in the Creator? Did the Creator have an impact on Alcoholics Anonymous through Bill Wilson? Did the Hand of the Creator touch the lives of Wilson and of the A.A. Fellowship? Your most detailed questions and the answers about these subject have never been addressed by A.A. historians in any depth. But A.A. historian and writer, Bible student, retired attorney, and recovered AA Dick B. presents this--his thirtieth published title--as a crowning historical piece on A.A., church, religion, God, Jesus Christ, and the Bible as they really existed at and before the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous on June 10, 1935
Download or read book Anonymous Christians written by Herbert E. Hudson IV and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship of clergy to Twelve Step programs. Field research of pastors in the Florida Keys found that they are unsure if addiction is a disease or a sin, and whether the Twelve Steps are based on Christianity. Lessons learned include the validity of both traditional Twelve Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Christ-centered programs such as Celebrate Recovery, the coherence of sin and disease explanations of addiction, and the significance of modern addiction theory. The specific outcome of this study is the development of a course syllabus for clergy on addiction recovery through Twelve Step philosophy.
Download or read book Pioneer Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous written by Dick B. and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous: God's Role in Recovery Confirmed! by Dick B. and Ken B. presents many quotations from the 29 personal stories included in the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Those stories by many of A.A.'s pioneers testify to roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in early A.A.'s astonishing successes with "medically-incurable" alcoholics.
Download or read book Why Early A A Succeeded written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early AAs founded their pioneer program on basic ideas from the Bible. What did they study? What did they learn? How did they approach the possible biblical subjects? There are historical answers, and this book provides them. More important, how can someone in A.A. or a 12 Step program study the Bible in the way the pioneers did and achieve the same 75% to 93% documented success rates among seemingly hopeless medically incurable alcoholics who went to any lengths to establish their relationship and fellowship with God. This book shows you how to do it today!
Download or read book The First Nationwide Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and recovered AA. He is active in the fellowship and has sponsored more than 100 men in their recovery. He has devoted 18 years to investigating, researching, analyzing, and disseminating the facts about early A.A. origins, roots, history, principles, and practices. He has published 33 titles and more than 170 articles on the subject and frequently speaks within and outside the fellowship. He is the leading A.A. early history scholar.
Download or read book Utilizing Early A A s Spiritual Roots for Recovery Today written by Dick B. and published by Good Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, retired attorney, and recovered AA who has sponsored more than 100 men in their recovery and is actively involved in the fellowship. He has devoted 18 years to researching, reporting, publishing and disseminating materials on the spiritual roots of Alcoholics Anonymous. He is regarded as the leading historian on A.A. history today and has published 33 titles on the subject.
