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The wreckage of addiction lies scattered around too many people--from the one who is or was addicted to those in relationship with that person. Age-old culprits of drugs, alcohol, and gambling are joined by newer addictions, such as food, prescription medication, shopping, pornography, and technology. Left unaddressed, addiction devastates lives now and makes it difficult to see a positive way forward. For anyone struggling with an addiction, attempting...
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By the time Keith was 17 years old, his rap sheet included DUI, possession of narcotics, and intent to distribute (that's drug dealing). He was emaciated from drug use, dirty and rumpled, and under house arrest awaiting trial. That's when a stranger paid him a visit, sitting down in his filthy room to touch his gaunt shoulder and pray. Maybe you are facing circumstances even worse than Keith's. Maybe you've made choices that have hurt you and the...
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Your Life Can Be Different. Do you feel ambushed by your obsessions? Addictions come in all forms: overindulging, overspending, overworking, and more. But no matter how they show up in your life, your addictions trap you and edge out the full freedom you can enjoy in Christ.
What if, in the next month, you could break the hold a bad habit has on you?
Join Dr. Tony Evans on a 30-day journey filled with powerful biblical insights and practical tips...
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You woke up today. You chose to read this and now you have to choose what you will do with the rest of your day. Will you give in to the temptations of overindulgence that we all face each day?
Whether it is is food, alcohol, drugs, shopping, gambling, social media or some other self-harming behavior, will you choose to do what you were created to do? It's hard to change. We all need HOPE. Fortunately, because God created us for His purposes He will...
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This is a story of a historian turning his craft to the story about which he is most afraid: his own. This is a book about fighting the monsters of addiction, severe anxiety, depression, and crippling self-doubt. But, more than this, it is about a fight against hope.
And, how the author fought for thirty-years against hope. He fought that dreadful proposition that there might be something else out there that offered some kind of reprieve. He fought,...
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From dope dealer to Hope Dealer...
Author and noted recovery speaker, David Stoecker, tells his gripping true-life story of the trauma and tragedy that lead him on a destructive path of addiction before finding a better life in recovery.
Enduring a childhood ravaged by abandonment, abuse, molestation, brutal beatings, rape, rejection, and neglect, David spent decades drowning in addiction in an attempt to escape his turbulent past. Full of self-hatred...
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Have you ever wondered why staying positive was so hard to maintain? Or, whether it would ever be possible to shake those defeated thoughts about your worth and potential? You will find the answer to these and many other quality of life questions in Why Not Joy? Change Your Mind and Everything Else Along With It. More importantly, you will learn what it takes to rewrite your life story from a dreary, burdensome trek into a marvelous adventure undertaken...
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Between alcohol, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, pornography, gambling, and eating disorders, fully 25% of the population of the United States is addicted to something. Those addictions are taking a massive physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial toll on individuals, families, and communities. The problem can feel insurmountable. But there is a solution, at once ancient and supported by the latest in neuroscientific research.
With an honest...
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Brennan Manning roves back through his past, honoring the lives of the people closest to him, family and friends who've known the saint and the sinner, the boy and the man. Far from some chronological timeline, these memories are witness to the truth of life by one who has lived it.
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The Twelve Keys of Faith-Based Recovery presents the key biblical truths to help you be successful in recovery. These twelve key biblical truths share the critical faith-based messages that are so important for those in recovery. This book will guide you through the biblical principles that build one upon the other that ultimately lead you to the loving God of the Bible, the true "Higher Power", success in recovery, and a brand new life with God.
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The Hope Recovery Devotional is a 100 day devotional to help you be successful in recovery and to help you grow in your faith. Regardless of where you are in your recovery, whether you are at one day, one year, or many years, this devotional shares the powerful message that there is always hope with God and that you can indeed be successful in recovery. Each day includes a Scripture passage, inspirational message, brief prayer, and space to make journal...
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Are You Ready For A New Life?
Substance abuse can be an overwhelming problem. Most struggling with addiction have a hard time knowing where to start.
7 SIMPLE STEPS TO RECOVERY breaks down a simple (not easy) 7-step process to begin your journey to recovery:
Step 1: I Am Ready to Admit That I Am the Problem, and I Can't Do It Alone
Step 2: I Am Ready for Change in My Life
Step 3: I Am Ready to Learn Who I Really Am
Step 4: I Am Ready to Be Different
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Each one of us has hurts, hang-ups, and habits that need healing. "The Road to Freedom" is the path to hope for all of us who are in pain or simply stuck. With practical application and inspiration, Johnny Baker shares his story of recovering from alcoholism and offers the truths he has learned from his 25 years with Celebrate Recovery. Baker's father, John, founded "Celebrate Recovery" when Baker was 15 years old. Later, Baker would become involved...
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The Practical School of the Holy Spirit-Part 7 of 8, Help self on others on Adultery, Anger, Anxiety, Worry, Addiction to Drug, Alcohol, Gambling and Sex + Counsel Businesses in Troubling Times
What is my motivation for writing this book and why would you want to read it?
As we engage the marketplace as ambassadors of Christ-2 Corinthians 5:21, never before has there been a need to be led by the Spirit of God than it is now.
As we race towards...
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Every church is filled with people who are struggling-often secretly-with addictions of all kinds. Porn, pills, food, money, alcohol, social media, body image, status, sex, anxiety-the list goes on and on. John Elmore is no stranger to addiction. Fifteen years ago, he put a loaded shotgun to his head and later had three doctors tell him he was going to die of alcoholism. More than 15 sober years later, he leads the world's largest weekly recovery...
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Welcome to Junkbox Diaries.
What is a junkbox?
A person who is just so all consumed by addiction and drugs that they do not care about what goes into their body. They don't shower, they barely eat, and the only sleep they get is a result from a high dose shot of some "high quality" heroin.
Herb Stepherson was born in Jonesboro, Georgia. He is the middle child of three boys. He is thirty-one years old and spent his youth like most young boys in...
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“How to Build a Rehab”, offers a detailed insight into the steps he took to create a self-funded, holistic rehabilitation centre from the ground up. Utilizing 26-years of experience as a criminal, ward of the state and prisoner, Peter intimately explores the mechanics of rehabilitating a person that suffers from addiction and faces a community and institutions that rely on an earnest, but outdated approach to a problem that is only getting worse.
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Do Christians need recovery? Or is recovery something needed by the church itself?
Addiction-whether to a substance or to a behavior-is a problem within faith communities, just like it is everywhere else. But because churches are rarely experienced as safe places for dealing with addiction, co-addiction, or the legacy of family dysfunction, Christians tend to seek recovery from these conditions in Twelve-Step fellowships. Once they become accustomed...
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The United States is the most medicated country in the world. More than 1.7 million Americans are struggling with addiction to prescription painkillers, fueling the opioid crisis that claims more than 140 lives every day. The trouble isn't just the drugs--it's that we don't know what to do with the people addicted to them. Not as a country, not as the church. Is tough love called for? Or would Christ have us take a different approach to addiction...
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Discover how facing your underlying pain will allow you to overcome it and move forward. With practical insights and biblical teaching about what it takes to break the cycle of addiction and shame, Reframe Your Shame will set you on the path to freedom.
Irene Rollins knows what it means to walk through shame, especially as a leader. She enjoyed a seemingly perfect life as a wife, mom, and leader of a megachurch while she hid a secret addiction to...
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