It would be extremely gauche of me to share since this involves other people, so let’s turn that mirror around into your life and just trust me that I have one too.
What was the family secret that everyone tried to protect?
Every family does this to some level. Nobody wants the world to know [...]

Thought we’d keep it light today. I’m thankful for the safe atmosphere of Celebrate Recovery in which to share our struggles

We’re talking about question #4 in Lesson 1 of the Celebrate Recovery 12-step program
More specifically, how did you get attention or protect yourself?

Anger - I grew up watching that that if things did not go my way (justified or not), that it was okay to fly completely off the handle. I have used anger to [...]

We’re on question #3 of step 1 in Celebrate Recovery and taking our time working through the exploration of denial as it pertains to our situations in life.

Relieves the burden off myself - trying to hide the truth either about our past, present, or future challenges takes a monstrous amount of energy and time. [...]

I’m a stubborn, do-it-myself guy. I’ve always been reluctant to admit I need help - mostly because of pride which I masked as being “independent” or “resourceful”. Many of my fellow brothers and sisters go at the problems of life the same way.
We establish these elaborate systems of how to manage “X” issue in our [...]

Check out “The Afters”. The Lord is really raising up some great musicians and bands and even getting a little cross-over status. That is how you REALLY reach folks with musical gifts. Hearing music in church is great and inspiring, but most of the people who could be most inspired to understand God more through [...]

Just ran across an ad for a new documentary from Ben Stein (Bueller… Bueller…), Win Ben Stein’s Money, and some type of other random stuff like being a speech writer for relative unknowns like President Nixon and Ford Okay, so it’s not that new, but I must live in a cave because I hadn’t [...]

This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he [...]

The first step in any 12-step program and Celebrate Recovery is to overcome denial by admitting our problem. God says in Jeramiah 6:14
“You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there.”
When I read that step on my first day of Celebrate Recovery, I thought, “One down, 11 to go.” I knew full well that [...]

Hi all,
I watched the Alexa ranking on the blog drop like a lead balloon and I can’t blame you. I had been somewhat unfocused the last few months, wrestling with what God wanted me to do with the blog, and with laziness in my walk w/ the Lord. For those of you who kept checking [...]