Category Archives: overcoming addiction

Alcohol can’t offer an overhaul

Posted on September 4, 2022 by Steve Simms

If you needAn overhaulIt won’t comeFrom alcoholBut it can comeFrom Jesus. No brewCan ever doWhat JesusWill doIf youLet HimEver brewIn your heart. The reason people aren’t more excited about Jesus is that they mix lots of self-focus into their life … Continue reading →

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Making lovely places in your life

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Steve Simms

I can’t make human society a lovely place; but with Jesus’ help I can make my own mind and heart lovely places. Let Jesus’ presence & power open like a flower in your life. A flower flows with inner life. … 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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Be kind — unbind your mind!

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Steve Simms
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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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Taste test the Lord in a Christ-led support group

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Steve Simms

Without a strong connection with your Creator, the suffering is real. Nothing can offer ongoing relief for your inner angst, but reconciliation with God. Taste tests are popular ways of promoting food or drink products. In a taste test, a … Continue reading →

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The support group that sets you free!

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Steve Simms

A support group is an informal, interactive, participatory gathering of everyday people who openly and spontaneously share their concerns, issues, insights and experiences with one another so that they may encourage, comfort, and help each other to overcome problems, discouragements, frustrations, … Continue reading →

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Pain — Drain, Strain, or Gain?

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Steve Simms

Pain can be a drain — emptying you of good things. Pain can be a strain — loading you with unbearable burdens. Or pain can be a gain — warning you to turn away from your destructive choices and behaviors; … 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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Why is Western culture consumed with drugs and drug commercials?

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Steve Simms

Why is Western culture consumed with drugs and drug commercials? If you don’t self-regulate your life, you will eventually want to medicate the pain that your disruptive thinking and behavior causes to your emotions and body. (Philippians 4:8). People in our … Continue reading →

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