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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 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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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
Design Demands a Designer – Part Six – A.A. and its 12-Step Program Read More »
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is Gods way of blessing His creation with the means to achieve His design for humanity to – be fruitful and multiply. DNA’s unique design and complex information system allows God’s creation of life to contain all of the genetic instruction that causes all of the functions and development of all known
Design Demands a Designer – Part Five – The Human Experience Read More »
In the previous three articles we identified the important need for truth in the search for the God of our own understanding. The bedrock for this search is found in a realistic observation of the abundance of truthful evidence for an intelligent designer of the cosmos (universe) with its infinite incompressible size, the perfect clockwork
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The idea of design implies order and logic and nowhere can this be seen more than our tiny little spot in a universe that is so enormous, it is beyond our comprehension. On a smaller scale we do understand where the Earth fits into the solar system. Over the centuries we eventually figured out that
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We begin our search for an intelligent designer behind our conscious reality by considering the most obvious and logical proof that exists – the cosmos. Cosmos describes our universe in total, comprised of all of time and space and its contents. It includes the planets, moons, stars, solar systems, galaxies, contents of intergalactic space, and
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Step Two in the AA program states: “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” There are many powers that this can define. For example, the collective group of people in the fellowship of AA, with their common recovery experience, can represent a power greater than ourselves. However, when
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It helps our spiritual growth in recovery, to understand and apply the spiritual principles found in Alcoholics Anonymous. They were not invented by Bill Wilson or Doctor Bob. They were borrowed from biblical sources. These principles were embraced by members of The Oxford group, a movement often linked with early A.A. beginnings. The movement contributed
Principles in A.A., The Will of God, and Serenity Read More »