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Hopeless to Healed
Sympathetic Savior
Believe It or Not
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Do You Want God’s Best or Is Yours Best Enough?
- If God Didn’t Always Exist, What Did? (It takes even more faith to be an atheist!)
- The Empty Cross (40 hours no one talks about)
- This Happened! (An Extraordinary, Unforgettable Encounter)
- What Really is Baptism into Relationship with God?
- What Really Is Relationship with God? (Married into the Family)
- What Then Shall We Say In Response to These Things?
- Where is God when Evil Storms into My Life?
- Who Really Am I In Christ? (Unveiling the Marvelous Mystery)
Thoughts, Feelings & Behavior
- A Man After God's Own Heart: David's Story of Addiction, Repentance, Relapse, Redemption & Restoration
- Addicted to Me (Barack Obama: "I was so obsessed with me…")
- Are You Under the Influence?
- Caged by Shame (Redemptive Healing)
- Criminal Mind: Restored to Innocence
- Depression Obsession (Finding the Right Road to Freedom)
- Do the Math! (Measuring the Value of What You Want Most)
- DUI: Desire Under the Influence
- Guilt & Shame, Scabs & Scars (Recovery from Your Past)
- I Hate Myself… or Do I? (Restoring Self-Esteem)
- Mind Games (What Gives?)
- Mourning Sickness… From Resistant to Repentant
- Neurochemical Warfare: Moral Sabotage
- Overcome F.E.A.R. (Failed Expectations Affecting Reality)
- Recovering Lost Things (From Fear to Faith)
- Scratch the Itch
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Stuck in the Heartache of Deferred Hope
- Tastes Good, Does It? What's In It? (Stages of Repentance)
NewLIFE
- Baptized into the Harvest of New Life
- Because I’m Worth It! (Worthy of His Best & The Rest)
- BRAINWASHED into Something Beautiful… New Life!
- Dying Into New Life: The Reason We’re Born… Again
- Faithful and Just to Forgive (Made Complete in Love to Love Completely)
- Hopeless to Healed… Pain to Peace
- It’s Simply a Matter of Time
- Modeling Grace
- New Age Living (and oh by the way, your feet stink)
- One Thing You Lack: Finding the Joy in Giving (until it hurts a little)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- The Good, the Bad, and the… Hey! What's that Monkey on my Back?
- The Pursuit of Happiness: A Bipolar Experience
- Under My Skin (when the answer is “NO” in the Age of Grace)
- Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
- What About You? Will You Also Leave Me?
Applied Recovery
- And Justice for All… When Love Isn't Fair (Recovery from Entitlement)
- Come to Your Senses (Restorative Recovery)
- Do the Math! (Measuring the Value of What You Want Most)
- Do the Math! (The Application of Rational Principles)
- Freedom Fighters (Setting Families Free)
- If I was Granted Three Wishes
- Letting Go: The Isaac Principle
- Listen with LUV … It's Not About the Nail
- Pop Goes the Weasel… Managing Conflict, Anger, & Resentment
- Power of the Least Interested Party (Recovery from the "Need" to be Right & in Control)
- Root Dug Deep That Thorny Weed (Resentment Recovery)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Step by Step… One Day at a Time (A 12-Step Study)
- Surrender It All or Surrender At All? (What’s In Your Camel?)
- When the Levee Breaks (Restoring Trust)
Revolutionary Faith
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Doubt in the Madness of the Perfect Storm
- Heaven, Hell, 3-Foot Forks, and My Problem with Hank
- If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
- Justified… Just if I'd Never Needed a Root Canal
- Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)
- Mustard-Seed Faith: What’s so moving about that mountain, anyway?
- Open Sesame… The Way Out is the Way In
- Revolutionary Transformation (Evidence for Faith)
- Stock Exchange: Sound Investment Strategy
- Strike It Rich… Oil that Is!
- The Problem of Pain… A Study of the Father's Discipline
- Thirsty? (Never Thirst Again!)
- Trapped in a Life on Fire! (and still playing with matches)
- Walk on Water Lately? (“Faith is an ocean you can walk on”)
- What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes)
- Whoosh! (A Testimony of Divine Intervention)
Beware
- "Do I Know You?" (Beware of Dogs)
- Are You Numb to the Glory? (Beware of Complacency)
- I Can "Manage" Just Fine (Beware of Illusions)
- My Way or the High Way (Beware of the Idol)
- Romancing the Stone (Beware of What You Worship)
- To Believe or Not Believe? (Beware of Cynics Preying on Faith)
- Who is Born Again? – "Secret password, please…" (Beware of Self-righteousness)
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Category Archives: COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Pop Goes the Weasel… Managing Conflict, Anger, & Resentment
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “We will sacrifice anything on the altar of our anger, the rage that is slowly building from a lifetime of thwarted desire—our marriages, our child’s self-esteem, someone’s very life. —John Eldredge, author, The … Continue reading
Root Dug Deep That Thorny Weed (Resentment Recovery)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project We tend to be the most vulnerable with the ones we love the most. With vulnerability comes risk. With risk comes suspect expectation. With failed expectations comes disappointment. With disappointment comes pain. … Continue reading
What About You? Will You Also Leave Me?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project At this point many of his disciples turned away and deserted him. John 6:66 (NLT) Much of the world these days lives in perilous times; a sign that we are likely in … Continue reading
Do You Want God’s Best or Is Yours Best Enough?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “To live with desire is to choose vulnerability over self-protection; to admit our desire and seek help beyond ourselves is even more vulnerable. It is an act of trust. In other words, … Continue reading
Posted in COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged ambivalence, ambivalence in recovery, ambivalent, ambivalent about recovery, better than it was, do you want to be made well, do you want to get well, good is the enemy of great, Jesus heals the paralytic, Jesus is a role model, slave to sin, stop sinning or something worse may happen, the truth will set you free, transformed by the renewing of your mind
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The Joy-Integrity Connection
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project If we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 1 John 1:5-9 (NLT) In a seminar I … Continue reading
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Tagged integrity, joy, obedience, obey
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Surrender It All or Surrender At All? (What’s In Your Camel?)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project If you have mostly turned your will and your life over to the will of God in your life, mostly surrendered to His plan for you, have you truly surrendered? If you … Continue reading
Are You Numb to the Glory? (Beware of Complacency)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project In church this morning, we were asked this question: “Are you numb to the glory?” Why would Pastor Fran Leeman* ask such a question? What does it mean? Pastor Leeman’s sermon text was … Continue reading
Sympathetic Savior: The Sacrifice of Jesus
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project If you are looking for Jesus on the cross, you’ll not find Him there. Your sin has been removed from your past, present, and future. The stone that has kept you in … Continue reading
Heaven, Hell, Three-foot Forks, and My Problem with Hank
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people. Be joyful always, pray at … Continue reading
Romancing the Stone (Beware of What You Worship)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Romancing the Stone is the worship of idols we have erected from our entitlement-driven obsessions that direct us in our worship of self (worship is, “extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion … Continue reading
Trapped in a Life on Fire! (and still playing with matches)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom for MEdom Project There are many among us not fully comprehending their need of God. There may be days when you or I do not fully realize our need for God. The following message was … Continue reading
Posted in ADMIT: Accept and admit that my life is out of control, BELIEVE: Accept and believe that God is in Control, COMMIT: Surrender and commit to God since God is in control
Tagged 12-step approach, AA 12 steps, came to his senses, fireman, house on fire, my life is a house, prodigal son, rescued, rescued from addiction, Romans 7, ruined life, saved, saved from addiction, step one, step three, step two, surrender, surrender to win, twelve steps
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Dying Into New Life: The Reason We’re Born… Again
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Series Three times Jesus pleaded to our Lord for grace Three times he was denied grace by the plan Three times he was denied grace by a man Three days he was denied … Continue reading
Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him. “You have so little faith,” Jesus said. “Why did you doubt me?” Matthew 14:31 (NLT) Jesus asked: “Why do you have so little faith? So don’t … Continue reading
Step by Step… One Day at a Time (A 12-Step Study)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Jesus said, “Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day … Continue reading
A Call to Consistency
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project I want to thank each and every one of you that have spent some time in FREEdom from MEdom Project. I hope from the bottom of my heart that you were and … Continue reading
All In?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Years ago, I worked with a man named Stacy. Stacy is an African-American gentleman who sang in the choir at a baptist church in the inner city of Chicago. He informed me … Continue reading
Mourning Sickness… From Resistant to Repentant
“I especially liked the way you tackled the difficult topic of ambivalence and how our addictive behavior runs counter to the intellectual truth of the matter (common sense). There is a sorrow that the soul must go through in letting … Continue reading
BRAINWASHED into Something Beautiful… New Life!
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project The first two steps of the Twelve Step model state the following: 1. We admitted we were powerless over addiction* – that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that … Continue reading
Bird Whisperer (A True Story)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Remember that it is not enough to simply admit that our way of handling problems does not work. There is a component in most species where at some point in the course … Continue reading
Walk on Water Lately? (“Faith is an ocean you can walk on”)
by Steven Gledhill for the FREEdom from MEdom Project Why don’t we trust God? We trust God when things are at least tolerable. But, you know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about really—fully—trusting God; especially when the going gets … Continue reading
