Download or read book The Bible and the Addiction Experience written by Christopher Gaskin and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addicts are often referred to as fiends, and although we use the word fiend ever so casually, the average person is clueless as to what the word actually means. The dictionary defines the word fiend as a devil, a demon or evil spirit, which raises the question as to how exactly are devils, demons and evil spirits synonymous with the addict. Believe it or not these definitions arose from the idea that the addict is actually an incarnate demon, helplessly possessed by his own evil spirit called the fiend, who tempts him from within to postpone his resolve for recovery, and proceed to feed his insatiable appetite for drugs against his better judgment. Hence, the reason why the relapse rate for addiction is so high, is because as demonically possessed souls, addicts are in need of an exorcism, rather than the ineffective methods of conventional treatment that fails to address the real issue. In a serendipitous turn of events, the addict can now reference The Addiction Experience, where he is instructed by the master exorcist, from whom he receives the authority to cast out his inner demon, and get clean once and for all.
Download or read book Addictive Habits written by David R. Dunham and published by 31-Day Devotionals for Life. This book was released on 2018 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Addictions begin with a choice--but come to trap and define you. These daily devotionals refocus us on the God who can restructure lives and disentangle sinners from enslavement"--
Download or read book Take Back Your Temple Member Guide written by Kimberly Y. Taylor and published by Wellspring Omnimedia. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to start a Christian weight loss program at your church? The Take Back Your Temple Member Guide gives your support group the wisdom they need to reach their ideal weight and maintain it for life. Includes Christian health scriptures for motivation, delicious recipes, and a survival plan for handling common weight loss barriers like emotional eating, bottomless food pits, and more.
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 God S Addiction Recovery Plan written by Michael Wrenn and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Wrenn lost his military career, marriage, and other blessings because of his addiction to alcohol and drugs. When three rehabilitation facilities failed to provide him with the help he needed, he reached out to God for help and deliverance. God answered Wrenns call for help and freed him from bondage. He now enjoys a life free of addiction, and in this inspirational account he shares ten steps that helped him beat addiction. Learn how to find the plan that God has for you; recognize the people that God has sent to help you; overcome the guilt and shame that comes with addiction; make God your ally in your fight against addiction. Wrenn is familiar with the pain, misery, and loneliness of addiction, and he shares a message of hope for addicts, recovering addicts, and the family members and pastors who want to help them. By following Gods Addiction Recovery Plan, you can trade your addiction for a life of abundance, victory, purpose, peace, and joy.
Download or read book The Heart of Addiction written by Mark E. Shaw and published by Focus Publishing (MN). This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substance abusers, addicts with a physical dependency, and those who cannot stop some type of pleasurable activity can gain insights and practical help from the hopeful message from the Bible regarding addictive thoughts and behavior.
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 Milestones written by Cynthia Almaraz and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Almaraz is an ordained minister, anointed Bible teacher, author, wife, mother and grandmother. Her years of practical experience as a public educator, creating drug outreaches for several churches and even for a maximum security prison in Oklahoma have contributed insight into the addictive mindset.She relates in sharing her...
Download or read book Let My People Go a Theology of Addiction written by Albert Stuart Reece and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let My People Go: A Theology of Addiction is an earthly resonance and reverberation of the ageless ache in the heart of the living God to set captives free across the world from the chains of addiction to the many idols of our hearts. After sixteen years of experience working with thousands of drug-addicted patients in the state of Queensland, Australia, Dr. Reece has placed into the hands of the church the wisdom of the scriptures which he has used with countless patients over years of clinical work. The book picks up what God is saying in the Spirit, breaks these concepts down into manageable parts, and makes them accessible to lay believers who are either concerned for individuals caught up in the destructive maelstrom of the addictive holocaust or passionate about making policies to address the manner in which society copes with the myriad challenges addiction presents.
Download or read book Addiction written by Lacy Deane Enderson and published by Bennett Deane Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 260 journal entries describing recovery from alcoholism and other addictive behaviors. This Christian recovery journal blends scripture with life experience to aid in the recovery of those who suffer.
Download or read book Amazing Grace Addiction Bible Study written by Michael K. Mason and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current success rate for addiction treatment is less than 30 percent, which means that 7 out of 10 recovering addicts are not being cured of the so-called “disease of addiction.” Why doesn’t treatment work? The answer is simple - addiction is not a disease. In fact, the mainstream mythology of “Once and addict, always and addict” falls apart upon close inspection. Therefore addictive behaviors must be evaluated within the context of not sickness but sin. Through the study of the Bible, so-called “addicts” can learn how to achieve forgiveness of their sins and deliverance from their addictions by offering their hearts, minds, and bodies to Jesus Christ. They can then be taught how to take advantage of the powerful indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit to wage war against their persistent addictive thoughts. Ultimately, this study has been designed to help substance abusers to focus their minds on God (instead of chemicals) in order to subdue their stubborn cravings for the seductive forbidden fruit of intoxication.
Download or read book 40 Days in the Wilderness Addiction Recovery Devotionals and Bible Studies written by Don Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40 Days in the Wilderness is an addiction recovery Devotional and Bible Study program designed to be used by Churches, counselors, Church home groups, existing addiction recovery programs and groups, homeless shelters, jail and prison ministries and chaplains, as well as by individuals seeking God's direction, through scripture, in defeating satan's bondage of addictions to drugs and alcohol. Each day's devotional message and accompanying scripture readings can be carried over into additional Bible studies on that day's topics depending on how much time someone wants to allocate or devote to the program. It is recommended that the program be finished in 40 days to better benefit from each previous day's message. However, it will be better to finish the devotionals rather than give up because you can't get it done in forty days. If extending it to a 20 or 40 week program better fits your schedule, there may be a bigger benefit in having a full week to reflect on the day's reading topic and scripture, and practicing what you're learning could be a powerfully transforming experience as well. 40 Days in the Wilderness offers you an opportunity to be mentored by someone who has been SAVED and SOBER for 32 years, has facilitated hundreds of addiction recovery meetings in and out of many Churches, has written several books on the subject, and maintains several websites on the subject of addiction recovery in the Church. However, my experience will be futile if you don't take my suggestions to Jesus in prayer for His confirmation. I suggest that you be as the Bereans did in Acts 17:11 in all that you do in life, to protect yourself from all the deception in the world! The fundamental message in this program is found in Matthew 6:33 (KJV) "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." God won't mislead you, man most assuredly will whenever you let your guard down! Man has been misleading millions of alcoholics and addicts around the world for decades in and out of addiction recovery programs because of the absence of Jesus Christ in those programs! 40 Days in the Wilderness puts Jesus Christ at the forefront of each day's devotional!
Download or read book None of These Diseases written by Sim I. McMillen and published by Revell. This book was released on 1963 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show how stupidity, ignorance, self-indulgence and other human foibles can destroy well-being, and sometimes lead to a lifetime of sickness, or to death.
Download or read book Addictions a Banquet in the Grave written by Edward T. Welch and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the basic point of this book? Theology makes a difference. The basic theology for addictions is that the root problem goes deeper than our genetic makeup. Addictions are ultimately a disorder of worship. Will we worship ourselves and our own desires or will we worship the true God?
Download or read book Clean and Free written by Ronald Morse and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a crisis in the world today, and that is the crisis of addiction. It is not new nor even extraordinary, but common and universal in the history of mankind. The world is always looking for answers-for reasons and solutions to all of our problems. There is a new remedy out there for everything it seems and they all claim to have the sure thing. The problem is that too many of them don't work at all and too many more simply miss the mark. They don't really understand what the root of the problem is, and therefore, cannot find the solution. This is evident in the war on addiction: what it is and whom it affects. Where can we find the truth of what it is, and its root cause, and how to defeat it? The Bible is the most amazing book in the history of the world. It not only tells us what our problem is, but also how it came to be, what its consequences are, and even how it can be corrected. The answers are all there if we are careful to look. This work is a biblical understanding of addictive behaviors and how, in just a few steps, we can identify them and overcome them. God loves you and wants you to be free and for your life and family to be restored. He came to this fallen world in the person of Jesus Christ to make us clean and free.
Download or read book Addiction and Grace written by Gerald G. May and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addiction and Grace offers an inspiring and hope–filled vision for those who desire to explore the mystery of who and what they really are. May examines the "processes of attachment" that lead to addiction and describes the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. He also details the various addictions from which we can suffer, not only to substances like alcohol and drugs, but to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert complete control over our lives. Addiction and Grace is a compassionate and wise treatment of a topic of major concern in these most addictive of times, one that can provide a critical yet hopeful guide to a place of freedom based on contemplative spirituality.
Download or read book The Peaceful Wife written by April Cassidy and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book walks each of us through the reality checks we need in order to have the marriage we want!” —Shaunti Feldhahn, social researcher and best-selling author of For Women Only In today’s workplace, women are often rewarded for having type A personalities: driven, demanding, ambitious, and strong. Yet when it comes to their marriages, those same traits can backfire. After all, no one goes into marriage hoping for a promotion. What is a wife to do? April Cassidy knows this struggle firsthand. She thought she was a great Christian wife and begged God to make her passive husband into a more loving, involved, godly leader. Instead, God opened her eyes to changes that she needed to make, such as laying down her desire for control and offering genuine, unconditional respect—not just love—to her husband. Cassidy’s conclusions may be as startling to readers as they were to her, but The Peaceful Wife shares how she and many others have learned to reorient their lives to biblical commands—resulting in healthier, happier marriages. In the end, you’ll find The Peaceful Wife a powerful path to God’s design for women to live in full submission to Christ as Lord.
