Category Archives: addiction

There’s Another King Than Chocolate (Or Any Other Desire)

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Steve Simms

There is another King than chocolate or any other desire. There’s a king beyond your wildest dreams, who can set you free to enjoy life with inner peace and joyous liberty. Follow Him to victory. There’s another kingThan Ceasar.It’s Jesus.There’s … Continue reading →

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Adapting to Change by Putting First Things First

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Steve Simms

Put first things first. Desires can be changed. Desires are not a track that people are compelled to follow. It’s a fact that people can and do recover from captivity to various kinds of cravings. Life goes much better when … Continue reading →

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Unwanted compelling desires are bondage.

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Steve Simms

When you are being compelled by thoughts, feelings, desires, or habits that you don’t want, you are in bondage to something other than yourself that the Bible calls sin. If you are a slave to big sin or tiny sin, … Continue reading →

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Can the devil throw you with a stone?

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Steve Simms

Attune toChrist in you.Let Him guideFrom insideYour heart.Be Spirit-led,Not desire-led;Jesus-led,Not temptation-led. Beware of the devil’s stumbling stones! What you let Christ do in you is much more powerful than what you try to do for yourself. A plastic surgeon can’t … Continue reading →

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Insanity around me & incongruity within me

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Steve Simms

It’s easy to blame and be disgruntled with the insanity around me. It’s difficult not to constantly deny my discontent with the incongruity within me. We need to continually live in the community of Christ (not just “attend” it on … Continue reading →

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The best thing to do with a bad thought

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Steve Simms

A human mind, polluted with various forms of negativity, produces a life overflowing with the same pollutants. I think, therefore I am . . . not going to think negatively! One thing I’m positive about is that thinking negatively is never … Continue reading →

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An Army Is Not An Audience!

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Steve Simms

Meeting to wait on the Lord is different than meeting to follow a program. However, meeting that way is off the beaten path of religious Christianity. The body of Christ is called to assemble as an army actively obeying its … Continue reading →

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First century therapy groups . . .

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Steve Simms

A First Century Therapy Group . . . –The early Christ-followers formed therapy groups to help them heal from the dysfunction in their culture and in their personal lives. There is a description of how those therapy groups met to … Continue reading →

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Doping with performance enhancing words

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Steve Simms

Doping With Performance Enhancing Words If you dope with the wrong words You’ll be duped into darkness; But if you dope with the right words You will delight in bright light. If you shoot up downer words And they seep … Continue reading →

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An unmanaged mind is like

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Steve Simms

Unmanaged minds are everywhere, Swerving from side to side, Like a car being driven By a distracted driver, Only one close call Away from disaster. An unmanaged mind does to brain chemistry What an uncontrolled plane does to flying — … Continue reading →

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