Tag Archives: Support groups

ENDING THE YEAR

In the beginning of the year I was invited to go on several speaking opportunities, a few times down to Florida and also to Chicago. Every day I was given

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A LIFEiLEAD OUTREACH EVENT

Our Horsham PA LifeiLead Support Group attended an event in Bensalem PA. The event was Musicfest and it consisted of a couple of faith based programs that help the community in recovery. There was music, testimonies, and guest speakers like Steve Arterburn the writer of the study notes in the Life Recovery Bible. We had

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A WORD FROM OUR FLORIDA SUPPORT GROUP LEADERS

Florida Support Group Leaders Our Wednesday LiL meeting was really good, I thought. The topic was “Wisdom,” our last in the list of 16. Exciting! We had 15 men throughout the meeting. There has been a change for the better, it seems to me. I see it strongly in the men’s journals we read before the

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NEW GROUPS

Misleadings in Doctrine and Living Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, whois our hope. To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather

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A 17 Year Old Boy Abusing Cocaine

Summer of ‘86 was over but I had gotten a taste of Chicago’s clubs. I had just turned 17 and everything was so new, House Music was at its best, Techno was rare and right around the corner from going mainstream and there was more cocaine on the streets than ever before. It was SO

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Warning Signs For Relapse

“ ..the definition of relapse is expanded to include not only the use of psychoactive chemicals by the identified by patient but also the return to dysfunctional behaviors by the individual behaviors by the individual family members” (Margolis & Zweben 1998). We will live life on a daily bases working through our curriculum T.A.C.E. and applying God’s Truth.

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Where is God?

I admired one of the rules made by the Church basketball league while I was in high school, “if you don’t go to church you can’t play in the game on Sunday.” So I went to church, but I always wondered what were priests chanting? What language was that? How old was it? As a teenager

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January 8, 2001. “One Prayer Offered up in Faith can Change the World.”

It is no secret that fourteen years ago on December 16, 2000 I ended up at a Christian facility for men with life controlling issues, primarily drugs and alcohol called Transformation Life Center (TLC911.org). But what happen to me on this date, January 8, 2001 is an experience that surpasses any kind of drug. The

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Where Is All This Going?

Getting kicked out of high school was so rough but at the same time I have to be honest, I was so relieved, I hated being at an all boy Catholic school, like that was the REAL problem right? I was the problem, it did not matter where I would go, my problem was ME

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