Category Archives: TWRAC

TWRAC 049: Managing Depression

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength… Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31 … Continue reading

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TWRAC 048: When Love Isn’t Fair (Relationship Control)

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge I love me and I love you for what you do for me. We love from a sense of entitlement of reciprocation and gratification. Love is naturally corrupted by selfishness. So we need the love … Continue reading

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TWRAC 047: Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)

Please click TWIRL 047 before proceeding if you have not done the recovery lesson. “Why call Me Lord when you don’t mean it?” Honestly, what keeps you chained in your recovery journey and Christ-centered life from fully receiving the miracle … Continue reading

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TWRAC 46: Control Problem? I Can “Manage” Just Fine

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please complete TWIRL 46 prior to proceeding with this application challenge… Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. … Continue reading

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TWRAC 045: Addicted to Me

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge If you arrived here and have not completed this week’s TWIRL activity, click here. In western society we tend to applaud and reward ambition.  However, James, a disciple of Jesus Christ, writes in the New … Continue reading

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TWRAC 044: Study of James 1

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Study of James Chapter One Please click TWIRL 044 to complete the recovery lesson before continuing. Having answered the Lesson questions to better understand and appreciate the teaching of James to those professing to be … Continue reading

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TWRAC 043: Communicating with God

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Be sure to have completed TWIRL 043 before continuing this Application Challenge How to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer When there seems to be so many roadblocks to an effective prayer life hindering recovery it is … Continue reading

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TWRAC 042 (12/5/11): Brainwashed into New Life

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please complete TWIRL 042 if you haven’t already done so. Brainwashed into New Life… Transformed through Relationship The WHEN in relationships is what you do that elicits the THEN response. Submission is the WHEN that must to be committed—the … Continue reading

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TWRAC 041 (11/24/11): Why Submit?

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 041 before continuing with TWRAC 041 Insanity is generally described as doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. What this means is that we tend to … Continue reading

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TWRAC 040 (11/10/11): Understanding Personal God

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 040 before continuing TWRAC 040…  The next four questions do not have right or wrong answers but are meant to challenge your perceptions of God as they relate to perceptions you … Continue reading

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TWRAC 039 (10/22/11): Overcoming Thinking Problems

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Be sure to have completed TWIRL 039 before proceeding with this exercise. Overcoming Thinking Problems As you do the work of understanding thinking problems, seeing the truth through lies that you tend to believe due … Continue reading

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TWRAC 038 (10/3/11): Brainwashed from the Inside Out

This Week’s Recovery Application Plan Please refer to TWIRL 038 before continuing with this application challenge. Brainwashed from the Inside Out Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living … Continue reading

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TWRAC 037 (7/30/11): Ambivalence—Measuring Risk (Pain) & Reward (Pleasure)

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 037 if have not yet completed the recovery lesson. Ambivalence—Measuring Risk (Pain) & Reward (Pleasure) Please take a moment to pray before thoughtfully engaging in this exercise… Well then, am I … Continue reading

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TWRAC 036 (6/12/11): Strangulation by Triangulation vs. Healthy Confrontation

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please refer to TWIRL 036 prior to proceeding with TWRAC 036. Strangulation by Triangulation vs. Healthy Confrontation Empathy is Communicating Understanding The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, … Continue reading

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TWRAC 035 (5/31/11): Better to Give? Better How? Better for Who?

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 035 before proceeding to this application challenge. Better to Give? Better How? Better for Who? When emphasizing “more blessed” in the Acts 20:35 passage, it helps to define the word ‘blessed’ … Continue reading

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TWRAC 034 (5/18/11): Between The Rock and a Hard Place

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click TWIRL 034 for this week’s lesson prior to proceeding with this application challenge. Between The Rock and a Hard Place Please pay attention to the liberating transformative truth as you read this critically … Continue reading

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TWRAC 033 (5/8/11): Dying into New Life—Crucified with Christ

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please click on TWIRL 033 for this week’s lesson before continuing with this application challenge. Dying into New Life—Crucified with Christ To be crucified with Christ is not to hang on a cross. You will … Continue reading

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TWRAC 032 (4/25/11): When God Says “No” or “Wait”

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Prior to proceeding to this week’s application challenge, please complete this week’s lesson by clicking TWIRL 032. When God Says “No” or “Wait” Having established in TWIRL 032 that God does respond to prayer with … Continue reading

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TWRAC 031 (4/20/11): Empowered by the Sympathetic Savior

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please complete TWIRL 031 prior to participating in this application challenge. Empowered by the Sympathetic Savior Below are the key Scripture verses for this week’s application challenge. Three versions of the Bible are each descriptive … Continue reading

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TWRAC 030 (4/8/11): Pilgrimage of Faith-Driven Recovery

This Week’s Recovery Application Challenge Please complete TWIRL 030 prior to proceeding with this week’s application. Pilgrimage of Faith-Driven Recovery It is paramount to your faith pilgrimage into recovery that you accept the truths of Psalm 84 and then apply … Continue reading

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