Tag: recovery

• Beginnings…the Birth of an Addiction to Self-Reliance

  Tuesday Re-mix – But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at.  People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.” I Samuel 16:7 I am using these Tuesday Re-mixes for […]

  Blake

  April 24, 2012

  Anonymity Anonymous, Christian Accountability, Genuine Community, Spiritual Formation

  12-step, addiction, appearance, checklist, church, community, David, enable, healing, I Samuel, independence, outward, privacy, recovery, self-reliance, Sunday School

• Anonymity Anonymous: Recovery from My Addiction to Self-reliance

  Tuesday Re-mix – I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do…For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil […]

  Blake

  April 17, 2012

  Anonymity Anonymous, conflict, Genuine Community

  12-step, addict, addiction, anonymity, church, healing, recovery, Romans 7, support group

• Finding Focus in a Church’s Grief

  Tuesday Re-mix –  “Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.” Hebrews 3:1 I have been blessed with only a limited amount of genuine grieving in my life.  Frankly, I’ve done a whole lot more consoling of others than I have needed […]

  Blake

  January 10, 2012

  5 Principles of Unity, conflict, H2H, leadership

  Christ, church, corporate, cross, death, grief, grieving, healing, Hebrews 3, ministry, orientation, process, recovery, safe harbor, truth