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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

What The Church Can Learn From The NFL

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Steve Simms

The NFL generates tremendous excitement and enthusiasm in America, while the church is mostly ignored. The NFL fills stadiums, while a great many churches have almost empty buildings. The NFL even gets people excited about their draft when they pick … Continue reading →

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America Needs Mysticism

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Steve Simms

What does America need? To “throw out the incumbents”? “Change”? “Economic recovery”? “Universal health care”? “To “keep the Bush tax cuts”? “Stimulus”? To stop the “obesity epidemic”? A balanced budget? To deal with illegal immigration? To win or stop its … Continue reading →

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