Category: 12 Steps
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Demo Daily Catch Article
Hi, welcome to the Daily Catch thing, and here are a lot of words. Over and over again. Blah blah blah. Live laugh love.
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LOVE
The end of all things is near. Therefore … above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:7-8 The end of all things is near, so put your energy and passion into the one thing we have now that’s eternal — the reason why we exist — the…
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Empathetic teacher
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30) Did you know you had an…
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Commending ourselves
Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.…
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Character, not conduct
For far too long, Christianity has been defined by behavior. We love keeping spirituality on the basis of what we do and don’t do, because then we are in control of it. We can demand certain codes of conduct for our families and our Christian institutions. It’s plain and simple: a Christian looks like this,…
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So what now?
So we’ve been through all twelve steps; what do we do now? Go through them again. Did you ever wonder why the steps are all in the past tense? (We admitted … Came to believe … Made a decision … Were entirely ready … etc.) I did. I wondered about it a lot until just…
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Friend or foe
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. The world is populated with friends. This is because we are all sinners, and most people, deep down in their spiritual sensibilities, know this. So if…
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Show and tell
I’m not one who’s got it all in place Telling you what you should do, no; I’m just one old hungry beggar Showing you where I found food. When I wrote this song, I don’t remember being aware of how I used the words “telling” and “showing,” but I can say now that it…
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One old hungry beggar
I’m not one who’s got it all in place Tellin’ you what you should do, no, I’m just one old hungry beggar Showin’ you where I found food. from the song, “Beggar” by John Fischer 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these…
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Addicted to the way we were
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. I took a personal inventory late last night and it was very revealing. Marti made me get up out of bed to write it down lest I forget it by morning which is my standard practice. I have a complicated system…
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Why being right can be so boring
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Today we’re going to take this right/wrong discussion to a whole new level. We’re going to give up the whole need to be right and conclude that the only “right” version of what we’re looking at together is what the other…
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Being right
Being right is way overrated. My wife, Marti, and I have an imaginary sign we pass back and forth to each other to hold up as needed. The sign simply says, “YOU’RE RIGHT; I’M WRONG.” That we frequently make use of this sign says that we argue a lot and that holding up this sign…
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Living in the ‘nevertheless’
Did you ever think that Jesus might have utilized the Twelve Steps of AA? It’s true. In the Garden of Gethsemane, the night Jesus was betrayed and arrested, He was well into Step Eleven. It’s just that the rest of His group was asleep, so He had to go it alone. But everything He was…
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Push and pull in the garden
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, what we remember and celebrate this weekend, is the only reason there can be steps…
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Conscious Contact
Step 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. I had a Catholic friend tell me recently that I was sounding more Catholic these days, especially in a recent Catch…
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Setting your watch
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near. Revelation 1:3 I think Revelation should be required reading for all believers at least once a year. It’s a little like setting your…
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Boot Camp, Entrepreneurship and the Book of Revelation
I’ve been to a week of boot camp in Colorado Springs. Now before you have me crawling through mud, scaling fences and running miles with a 50-pound pack on my back, it wasn’t military boot camp I attended, it was an Entrepreneurship Boot Camp led by Michael McCausland, one of four people authorized to use…
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Reflections on 12 Steps from the “Bones”
I hope you are taking advantage of our recent BlogTalkRadio podcasts related to the Twelve Steps that are listed and linked below. Our recent one with Robbie Goldman of Dry Bones Denver was particularly enlightening. Robbie works with homeless kids in downtown Denver and he talked about how when he first started thinking about going…
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Meeting sin head-on
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Has anybody noticed we’ve been stuck between Step 8 and Step 9 for a while now? Here’s…
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Those darn snakes are still here!
“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” John 3:14-15 I call this Christ’s version of John 3:16. It’s two verses earlier and it’s set in quotes because John records it as the words of Jesus. The…