At War Against a Common Enemy (Part 1)

Addiction, From Heartache to Healing, Recovery

Part 1  |  Part 2  |  Part 3  |  Part 4  |  Part 5 [This post is excerpted from Chapter 3 of From Heartache to Healing: Finding Power in Christ to Deal with a Loved One’s Sexual Addiction by Colleen C. & Philip A. Harrison.] When a home has been invaded by...

Accepting Grace

Addiction, Christ, Recovery

Then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God. . . Then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the...

Becoming One with Christ

Christ, Recovery

When you become one with Jesus Christ, you become the highest and most Christ-like version of yourself that you could ever imagine. How do we become one with Christ? By trying to be like Him? No. We’re not talking about “trying to be like.” By trying to emulate Him?...

Addiction or Atonement—There Are Only Two Choices

Addiction, Christ, Mortality, Recovery

When you boil life down to the basics, you only have two choices for dealing with the discomforts of mortality. Either you choose addiction to dull the pain or you choose the peace of God and live (Alma 37:47). You can choose to become and/or remain an addict to...

Keeping the Twelve Steps of Recovery Focused on Christ (Part 5)

Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5   An Open Letter to My Fellow Mortals, Caught in Addiction or not: May I conclude by sharing with you the text of a letter originally composed and shared with a fellow mortal concerning your true nature—what you were...

Keeping the Twelve Steps of Recovery Focused on Christ (Part 4)

Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5   Looking to Jesus to Live = Miraculously Doing Right On days that I humble myself in these twelve ways, and do my best to look to Jesus to live, I find myself miraculously doing right, doing well, without striving to do...