Healing Streams

What Causes Addiction? (It’s Not a Chemical Hook!)

May 3, 2016

What? Substance abuse isn’t due to a chemical hook? You may have heard this all your life, but it isn’t true. There are four excellent reasons why it’s not and the first three of them are already known to most of us. Somehow, the facts don’t register like they should. Even the men in our yearlong recovery program typically come to us programmed (by culture) to believe that the substance itself was all-powerful. They should know better, they need to…

How Our Worst Things Become the Best (Thanks to God’s Promise of Redemption)

April 8, 2016

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BELIEVING THE TRUTH, KNOWING GOD

Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead our Father displayed a power which goes beyond forgiving our sins and getting us safely to heaven. I have no desire to diminish these well-known works of the cross—they are stupendous sources of joy impossible to reduce. I do, however, want to draw your attention to an all-too-often overlooked and unclaimed power always available, ever at work…

The ABCs of Emotional Intelligence (How to Live Free of Negative Emotions)

March 11, 2016

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HEALING (PHYSICAL-EMOTIONAL), INNER PEACE AND FREEDOM

Everyone has emotions. The question is: Do they have you? Are you the head, or have you mostly been the tail? Do your emotions feel like a pack of wild dogs that require a lot of effort just keeping them under control, or are they like a herd of reindeer moving as one? If they’re like wild dogs, your first need is for recovery. If they’re like the reindeer, you have already passed into mastery. Learning how to get free…

How to Forgive the Unforgivable (And Set Your Spirit Free!)

February 27, 2016

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FORGIVING (OTHERS/SELF), STRONGHOLDS TO OVERCOME

This world is a dangerous place. Every one of us knows what it is like to be hurt by someone else. Some things are easier to recover from than others. Many things we can readily excuse. But, when we can’t just let it go, when the damage was too great, when the wound seems incurable, what can we do to set our spirit free? Our God has one outstanding answer: Forgive! It is the path He chose for Himself when humanity’s incessant sins against Him were wrecking His own Great Heart..