Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Being Consumed in Christ In the Ensign, July 1989, President Ezra Taft Benson, published a First Presidency Message entitled Born of God. We are told that First Presidency Messages should hold the weight of scripture to us....
Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Seeing Each Step as Testimony of My Need to Anchor My Life in Christ Not long after beginning to study the Book of Mormon to discover if the principles in the Twelve Steps were found there, I began to see that every step...
Addiction, Christ, Recovery, Twelve Steps
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Many years ago, I read for the very first time, the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith, [Latter-day Saints] should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up. (Teachings of the Prophet...
abstinence, Addiction, Change of Heart, Recovery
Doing abstinence with God—putting Him in charge of defining it, letting Him guide us in applying it, relying on His strength to live it—elevates abstinence to a holy sacrament. With God, the spirit of abstinence becomes one of joyful surrender, as our willingness to...
abstinence, Change of Heart, Led by Spirit, Recovery
And thus mercy . . . encircles them in the arms of safety. (Alma 34:16) Learning how to be abstinent is like learning how to walk on a balance beam. At first, you are very, very clumsy. You gain your balance for a moment, take a couple of shuffling steps, and then...
