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.
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 Wrenn’s 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 God’s Addiction Recovery Plan, you can trade your addiction for a life of abundance, victory, purpose, peace, and joy.
When addiction hits a family, it's damage can be severe. Just as a hurricane-force storm devastates a physical home, the storm of addiction can bring destruction to everyone involved. Christian Families in Recovery will help you take a deeper look at the nature of addiction and recovery from a Christ-centered perspective. By learning the tools of intervention, you can love the addict, but establish an enviornment that will not support the addiction. If the addict is entering recovery, you can develop a step-by-by family recovery plan that will affirm and respect the needs of all members. Someone else's addiction doesn't have to control you. Instead, you can learn to live in the empowerment of God's method of redemption.
Staying Sober Without God is a guide for non-believers who want to get sober without an act of faith. Traditional 12-step programs push for a belief in God or a higher power. The practical 12 steps outlined in this book provide a path to lasting recovery that requires no belief in the supernatural.
Winner of a 2018 Catholic Press Association Award: Sacraments. (Second Place). In the first book to directly integrate the Twelve Steps with the practice of Catholicism, Scott Weeman, founder and director of Catholic in Recovery, pairs his personal story with compassionate straight talk to show Catholics how to bridge the commonly felt gap between the Higher Power of twelve-step programs and the merciful God that he rediscovered in the heart of the sacraments. Weeman entered sobriety from alcohol and drugs on October 10, 2011, and he's made it his full-time ministry to help others who struggle with various types of addiction to find spiritual wholeness through Catholic in Recovery, an organization he founded and directs. In The Twelve Steps and the Sacraments, Weeman candidly tackles the struggle he and other addicts have with getting to know intimately the unnamed Higher Power of recovery. He shares stories of his compulsion to find a personal relationship with God and how his tentative steps back to the Catholic Church opened new doors of healing and brought him surprising joy as he came to know Christ in the sacraments. Catholics in recovery and those moving toward it, as well as the people who love them will recognize Weeman's story and his spiritual struggle to personally encounter God. He tells us how: Baptism helps you admit powerlessness over an unmanageable problem, face your desperate need for God, and choose to believe in and submit to God’s mercy. Reconciliation affirms and strengthens the hard work of examining your life, admitting wrongs, and making amends. The Eucharist provides ongoing sustenance and draws you to the healing power of Christ. The graces of Confirmation strengthen each person to keep moving forward and to share the good news of recovery and new life in Christ. Weeman's words are boldly challenging and brimming with compassion and through them you will discover inspiration, hope, sage advice, and refreshingly practical help.
Finding out what God has to say about our particular needs is what the TouchPoints series is all about. TouchPoints for Recovery puts God's words of encouragement and affirmation at the fingertips of those recovering from loss or addiction. Each section starts with a question, which is answered through the Scriptures, and ends with a promise from God's Word.
If your addiction to alcohol or drugs has not wrecked your life yet, it will. It will destroy your relationships, reduce you to poverty, introduce you to the criminal justice system, rob you of your self-respect, and, for some of you, put you in an early grave. In your fight to regain your life, stalemates are rare. In this war, there is only one victor-you or addiction. You are not engaged in a play battle. It is a life-and-death struggle. You must win this war. If you are defeated, it will be the end of you-your dreams, hopes, and plans. If you are tired of seeing your life wrecked by alcohol or drug addiction, this book can have a dramatic impact on your future. Be honest. Do you have a strong desire to change and gain your freedom from the curse of addiction? In moments of sincere soul-searching, are you able to see clearly how your present lifestyle has frustrated your attempts to live a significant life? Have your problems and failures worn you down? Have you learned to settle for a life of limitations, lies, and manipulation? The battle plan for freedom from addiction is rooted in personal change brought about by your relationship with God. Only the power of God can permanently eliminate addiction from your life. Without the help of God, you will have no choice but to fight this battle using your strength and willpower. You cannot win your battle with addiction using your strength. Willpower, gritty determination, or effort will not change you. Only the actions of God in your life can produce lasting change. In this book, you will learn: How addiction ruins your life How personal habits, attitudes, and behaviors can prevent recovery A step-by-step plan to beat addiction A plan to help you get your life back Remember this: When you find yourself surrounded by hopelessness, discouraged by your circumstances, and skeptical about ever getting your life back, you should not be afraid. Help is on the way. God knows you better than you know yourself. He sees your trouble, feels your heartache, and hears your cries for help. Do not give up on your life. God has not given up on you."
This book was written to provide the person struggling with addiction, a Bible-based and God-focused program of recovery. This is a collection of 42 daily devotionals based on Biblical concepts and teachings. The book is broken down into six sections with seven devotionals in each section. Each section deals with one aspect of faith that will help the person struggling with addiction to achieve and maintain sobriety. The six areas of faith covered in this book include: reconciliation, repentance, faith, God’s armor, seeking shelter, and running the race. Once the reader completes the 42 daily devotionals, the reader will have compiled 42 verses that form the beginning of a recovery toolbox. These verses are the verses that I have found to be most useful in my recovery journey. These verses are just the beginning. The toolbox will grow over time, but these verses are the verses I have found the most useful during my recovery.
This inspirational memoir shares one man's journey through addiction, recovery, and the eventual realization that God is his savior. Mitchell Green has been to hell and back. For more than thirty years, demonic forces intertwined within him, tearing his life apart, testing his sanity, and destroying every good thing he ever found, created, or was given. In his moving testimony, Green shares his inspiring life story of addiction and of the glorious heights to which a soul has the potential to rise even after its descent into darkness. In his candid portrayal of life before, during, and after addiction, Green recalls sitting in drug dens, his face sunken, skin ashen, eyes wild, and pumping cocaine into his system all while wondering where he would find the money for his next hit. Most of all, Green remembers running. But when he was charged with assault during a robbery, the running stopped at least for the next eleven years. As Green shares the challenging journey of his recovery, he describes the joyless process that it became until the voice of a loving God spoke to his suffering soul and revealed his true identity. The Gods of Addiction is an inspirational story about the power of the gods of addiction to destroy lives and the power of God to save them.
Is your life falling apart because of addictions? Are you desperate to be free? Are you ready for a new life that has value and purpose? Can you believe that God cares about you and that He is ready to give you a new beginning? This recovery manual, and the support groups that use it, could very well be your answer. By committing yourself to this unique and powerful approach, you will find strength to overcome the past and be filled with hope for a better tomorrow. Each of the twelve steps is written from both a practical and Biblical perspective. Through this easy-to-follow presentation, you will discover: -The true nature of God -Your true spiritual identity -How to overcome addictions and experience complete and permanent recovery -Biblical ways to heal and restore broken relationships -How to develop a "Relapse Prevention Plan" This approach celebrates and teaches the most powerful "chain-breaker" that exists: the everlasting Word of God. You can base your future on every promise it contains, including the following: The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives (Psalm 37:23).
