The COVID-19 virus erupted in 2020 and has brought major awareness to our generation of how frail and powerless we are as a human race. Most of the social interactions and freedoms we had previously known essentially shut down in 2020, as the virus spread throughout the world. Lockdowns, shortages, and mask-wearing have become the […]
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Careful consideration on the right answer to this question is vitally important to your spiritual growth while in sobriety and matters greatly as to where an individual will spend eternity. To help provide the right answer, we must explore the fundamental spiritual beliefs and principles that Alcoholics Anonymous was founded on. Alcoholism, in history, is
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As Christians, we are in a constant struggle with temptation from the moment we are saved until the moment we die. Previous articles in this series discussed building good moral character and habits and making godly choices. Good moral character means godly character. Developing godly character diminishes our struggling difficulties we have in life and
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Studies show that at least 40 percent of our daily activity occurs through the process of habits – which are behavioral routines that occur without our awareness of conscious decisions being made. We all have many habits, some good and some bad, they have formed over our lifetime, and new ones are forming all the
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This article deals with the inner struggle that we, as recovering folks, often deal with, as we trudge the road of happy destiny. It is a struggle of wanting to return to our old ways – even knowing the dangers and consequences that a reversal of direction from sobriety would bring. How wonderful would it
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Note: The reader should review the article “Building Character – As God Sees it – Self-Discipline – The Spiritual Solution” for best understanding of this article. In the previous article, we stated that when the desire to not drink is stronger than the desire to drink, we will stay sober. That attitude needs to remain
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Note: The reader should review the article “Building Character – As God Sees it – Self-Discipline – The Problem” for best understanding of this article. This article deals with how the spirit of God provides the recovering person the power needed to overcome alcoholism and character defects, when their own attempts seem to fail. This
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There are many useful principles discussed in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings that provide help with the process of building our character. Honesty and humility are top contenders, and many of us learn the value these principles bring when we practice them in our daily activities. Willingness is an essential ingredient to the practice of these foundational
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In Bill’s story, found in the book of Alcoholics Anonymous, we find the statement “For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.” In the Foreword of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions book, it
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Our purpose in these articles has been to help you, the recovering alcoholic, to gain a better understanding of the biblical God. It is well believed that the God of the Judeo-Christian bible inspired the Alcoholics Anonymous program. The character building processes that we find in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-Step program is founded on the
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