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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 →

Posted in alcoholism, alternative lifestyle, bad habits, culture wars, drug addiction, drug culture, drug rehab, overcoming addiction, Philippians 4:8, regulation, self-discipline, self-help, self-medicating, side effects include | Tagged addiction, brain washing, drug commercials, drugs, positive thinking, recovery, Western culture | Leave a comment

Your stream of consciousness is a faucet with 2 flows — H & C.

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Steve Simms

Your stream of consciousness is a faucet with 2 flows: H & C — hell & Christ. In most of us they flow together in a mix. The Bible calls the H-flow (hell-flow) “the acts of the flesh.” It calls … Continue reading →

Posted in a river runs through it, flowing in the Spirit, Galatians 5, preference, recovery groups, repentance, self-help, spiritual growth, spiritual maturity, support groups | Tagged addiction, fruit of the Spirit, recovery, spiritual formation, spirituality, stream of consciousnesws, works of the flesh | 4 Comments

I Loved 1,400 Men At A Salvation Army ARC

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Steve Simms

When I was hired as the counselor/chaplain of The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) in Nashville in October of 2002, I had no idea that I would be working with about 1,400 men over the next 5 1/2 years … Continue reading →

Posted in cost of addiction, depression, drug abuse, freedom, heart, heart care, love, Love one another, loving men, recreational drugs, self-destruction, self-worth, selfish desires, selfishness, sex, sexual addiction | Tagged addiction, Adult Rehabilitation Center, Nashville, recovery, recovery programs, rehabilitation, Salvation Army | 2 Comments

If you please and appease your wrongful desires they will seize you like a life-threatening disease and put you in a squeeze. “Flee those men who follow their whims.” –Pachomius (born in 292 in Luxor, Egypt)

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Steve Simms

If you please and appease your wrongful desires they will seize you like a life-threatening disease and put you in a squeeze. “Flee those men who follow their whims.” –Pachomius (born in 292 in Luxor, Egypt)

Posted in Christianity, complacency, compliance, compromise, compulsion, cravings, depression, desires, destructive actions, orientation, reformer, whims, wrongful behavior | Tagged addiction, disease, Egypt, faith, quotes, religion, Saint Pachomius, sin, unholy desire | 1 Comment

A Society That Flaunts Casual Sex Creates Continuous Problems

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Steve Simms

A society that flaunts casual sex creates continuous problems: An epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases. Increase in health care costs to treat those diseases. Increase in sexual addiction. Fatherless children. Deadbeat dads. Increase in adultery. Widespread and popular promiscuity. Broken … Continue reading →

Posted in abortion, addictions, adultery, brainwashing, broken homes, broken marriages, casual sex, choice, contemporary, contemporary society, controversy, cultural taboos, current events, deadbeat dads, depravity, destruction of the family, destructive actions, disease, epidemic, epidemics, fatherless children, guilt, habit, health, health care costs, life, marriage, meaninglessness, media, media circus, misery, moral principles, moral restraints, morality, morals, philosophy, political correctness, popular culture, pornography, pre-natal, pro choice, pro life, problems, prochoice, promiscuity, prostitutes, prostitution, reaping what you sow, resentment, seduction, self, self-control, self-respect, selfish desires, sexual addiction, sexual fulfillment, sexual problems, sexually transmitted diseases, single moms, tolerance, values, vulgarity, welfare, Western world | Tagged addiction, casual sex, health care, human trafficking, poverty, sex, sexuality, society | 5 Comments

Cravings Can Capture & Control Your Life

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Steve Simms

Unrestrained desire can dominate and defeat you. Cravings can capture and control your life. Yet our society teaches us to surrender to desires, cravings, compulsions, and whims: “If you feel like doing something, go for it, and don’t listen to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alcoholics Anonymous, alternative lifestyle, casual sex, challenges, Christian, Christianity, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, complacency, conscience, conviction of sin, country music, cravings, feelings, free will, freedom, guidance, guilt, habit, harmful habit, inward change, John Piper, John Ruskin, lifestyles, morality, morals, peacetime, Quotations, quote, Quotes, recovery, reformation, repent, repentance, self-will, shame, sin, sobriety, society, spiritual formation, thoughts, tolerance, true Christian life, violent streak, war, White Eagle, Why be a Christian? | Tagged addiction, advice, If it feels good do it, quotations, recovery, same-sex marriage, self-control | 11 Comments

Show And Tell — A Powerful Tool For Improving Your Life

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Steve Simms

Show and tell — it’s not just for kindergarten and early elementary school. It is a powerful tool for improving your life that works wonders for people of all ages. For instance, when people are stressed out, caught up in … Continue reading →

Posted in AA, addiction, Berry Street, Berry Street Worship Center, change, China, Chinese, Christian history, Christianity, church, church history, church structure, disciple making, early church, East Nashville, elementary school, freedom, guidance, harmful habit, hearing God, hearing Jesus, history, house church, I Corinthians 14:26, kindergarten, lifestyles, Methodist class meeting, Music City, Narcotics Anonymous, New Testament, organic church, Overeaters Anonymous, praise and worship, Quakers, religion, Scriptures, sermons, show and tell, simple church, spiritual formation, Supreme Court, the way we do church, Uncategorized, values, What is church? | Tagged AA, addiction, improving your life, Narcotics Anonymous, organic church, Overeaters Anonymous, show and tell, The Salvation Army | 21 Comments

Modern Myth # 3 — Life Is All About Stuff

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Steve Simms

How much is stuff is enough? Our closets, basements, and garages are overflowing with stuff, but still we can’t get enough. So we call a charity to bring a truck and pick up our “old” stuff so that we will … Continue reading →

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Modern Myth #2 — Casual Sex

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Steve Simms

Like the ancients, we moderns have our myths and our gods. Modern Myth #2 is the “casual” sex myth. It says: Random sex with various partners is a meaningless recreational activity with no significant consequences and should be encouraged and approved … Continue reading →

Posted in American, boundaries, casual sex, gods, life, lifestyles, morality, morals, myths, popular culture, self-image, sex, sin, television, Uncategorized | Tagged abandoned children, act, activity, Acts, addiction, alcohol, altar, ancients, anything, approved, betrayed, bill boards, blindly, bondage, bought into, breaks the heart, call, captured, casual sex, cheapo, college professors, coming out of the closet, commitment, compulsions, consequences, cravings, create, culture, deep, desires, drug use, dying, emotional bond, encouraged, experience, experiences, following, get set free, God's, government, guilt, habitual, harped, health, health care costs, health clubs, health departments, human, human being, hurting, increases, intense, intimitate, killing, life, like the, lives, magazines, meaningless, medical doctors, moderns, movies, music, myths, newspapers, no, parental example, partners, person, pervasive, playing, pleasure, poverty, power, profound, promoted, public health problems, random, recreational, regard, Russian roulette, scientists, self-destructive behaviros, Senate, sexually transmitted disease, shackin' up, significant, sikovision, slaver, slavery, society, suffer, surrender, toy, using, various, White House, worship | 10 Comments

The Alternative Lifestyle

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Steve Simms

A true alternative lifestyle does not just change the object of one’s lust from one gender to another; it overcomes the power, control, and addiction of lust. We hear much about alternative lifestyles nowadays. Yet the greatest alternative lifestyle is … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: addiction

Why is Western culture consumed with drugs and drug commercials?

Your stream of consciousness is a faucet with 2 flows — H & C.

I Loved 1,400 Men At A Salvation Army ARC

If you please and appease your wrongful desires they will seize you like a life-threatening disease and put you in a squeeze. “Flee those men who follow their whims.” –Pachomius (born in 292 in Luxor, Egypt)

A Society That Flaunts Casual Sex Creates Continuous Problems

Cravings Can Capture & Control Your Life

Show And Tell — A Powerful Tool For Improving Your Life

Modern Myth # 3 — Life Is All About Stuff

Modern Myth #2 — Casual Sex

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