Sunday Rewind for July 16: Addict, Part 2

  Addict, Part 2: SURRENDER Am I am addict?  We love power and control, thinking we can will ourselves towards health and well-being.  Yet with every addiction, the first step to healing always begins with “I can’t!”  But if I can’t, who really can?  The Good News states from beginning to end that God, through Jesus, can and eagerly wants to restore us and help us recover from our addiction to me!  Will we give God control? John 1:10-13 10 He came into the very world he created, but the world didn’t recognize him.11 He came to his own people, and even they rejected him. 12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.13 They are reborn—not with a[…]

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Sunday Rewind for July 9: Addict, Part 1

Addict, Part 1: INTERVENTION Why do we fall short?  However we define right, why do we do wrong?   The Bible calls it SIN.  But what is SIN, really?  And is there hope?  This first message in our six-week series “addict” is our INTERVENTION, identifying our powerlessness over our addiction to me.  Letting the  12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous be a guide, we can find real, lasting hope in Jesus when we admit our problem. Scripture: Romans 7:14-25 14 So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it.[…]

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