O Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” But you are a shield around me, O Lord, you bestow glory on me and lift up my head. Psalm 3:1-3 We all know what it is like to feel judged by others. And what it is like when we judge ourselves. We know how painful it is to feel like we are defective. We know what it is like to … [Read more...] about Experiencing Glory as Prayer
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Feel What You Feel
Whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:4 After I was diagnosed with cancer I felt everything. I felt fear. I felt shock. I felt grief. I felt shame. I felt numbness. I felt resentment. I felt jealousy. I felt anger. I felt gratitude. I felt peace. These feelings seemed to come and go of their own volition. Sometimes the feelings were … [Read more...] about Feel What You Feel
Feel What You Feel
Whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:4 After I was diagnosed with cancer I felt everything. I felt fear. I felt shock. I felt grief. I felt shame. I felt numbness. I felt resentment. I felt jealousy. I felt anger. I felt gratitude. I felt peace. These feelings seemed to come and go of their own volition. Sometimes the feelings were … [Read more...] about Feel What You Feel
Make Room for Laughter
There is a time for everything, and a season for everything under heaven, a time to weep and a time to laugh. Ecclesiastes 3:1,4 Many years ago when I was first dating my husband, he made the comment that it might be good for me to learn to laugh more. At the time I was so serious about everything that I didn’t really know what he was talking about. I have learned to lighten up over the years. Of … [Read more...] about Make Room for Laughter
How Family Systems Become Dysfunctional
jjjjj Other videos in this series: Neediness: the Human ConditionWhen Shame Is the Name of the Game – Part 1When Shame Is the Name of the Game – Part 2 These presentations are part of a twelve part course available (in much higher video quality) on three DVD’s. The entire class can be purchased here. For additional information about Jeff VanVonderen visit his web site at … [Read more...] about How Family Systems Become Dysfunctional
Recovery Ministry in the Local Church
These videos are intended primarily for pastors and lay leaders of recovery ministries. … [Read more...] about Recovery Ministry in the Local Church
Becoming Willing
by Dale Ryan Making amends is not easy. It is certainly not instinctive for us. There is a reason why many of us need to spend so much time on Step 8 of the Twelve Steps, in which we become "willing to make amends." We need to prepare for actually making amends because there is often a deep unwillingness in us. Something in each of us resists taking this kind of very practical responsibility … [Read more...] about Becoming Willing
A Decade of Recovery Ministry in the Local Church
an interview with Tom Sharp The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in acceptance of recovery ministry in the local church. The most obvious sign of this change is that many congregations now have ‘recovery pastors' as part of their staff team—something few of us imagined was possible a decade ago. Tom Sharp is the Recovery Pastor at Capo Beach Calvary Chapel in Capistrano Beach, … [Read more...] about A Decade of Recovery Ministry in the Local Church
Recovery from Doubt: Experiencing God
by Barbara Milligan By the time I was 12 or so, I was a committed Christian. But despite my personal commitment to Jesus and my involvement in a church community, I began to have some basic doubts about God. I was haunted by questions like, Am I really saved? Does God really love me? Is there really a God, and did Jesus really die for me, or did somebody make all this up? I asked Jesus into my … [Read more...] about Recovery from Doubt: Experiencing God
Recovery Mutants from Zardoz
by Dale Ryan I have met people who think that recovery turns ordinary individuals into whining, self-absorbed, irresponsible, blaming, childish, incompetent, unbalanced, personality-disordered victims. (Why does that sound like the story line from a B-grade sci-fi thriller? The Recovery Mutants from Zardoz spread terror by seeding alien thoughts into the minds of helpless Americans!). Other … [Read more...] about Recovery Mutants from Zardoz