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Celebrate Recovery Program

Submitted by Victoria on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:21pm

To most of us, Celebrate Recovery is a foreign term… However, for many of us, it is the God-sent answer we've been looking for! Celebrate Recovery is a biblical and balanced program that helps us overcome our unresolved or unmet hurts, hang-ups and habits. It is based on the actual words of Jesus rather than psychological theory.

The program was launched twenty years ago at Saddleback Church, and was designed to help people struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through a recovery process. Starting with a headcount of 43 people attending the original meetings, the program has expanded to more than 19,000 churches, worldwide.

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A New Year's Plan

Submitted by Victoria on Fri, 01/04/2013 - 3:08pm

As many of you know, I do not submit or adhere to New Year’s resolutions. Instead, I create annual axioms (catchy slogans that are easy to remember) to follow throughout the year, on a daily basis, to work on being a better person. This year was rather difficult to come up with an actual slogan, because 2013 (thirteen, in particular) is hard to rhyme with. Thus, I do not have a typical catchy New Year’s motto...

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December is Full of Blessings

Submitted by Victoria on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 5:07pm

The past few weeks I have seen a gamut of actions, done by strangers and loved ones alike, which have literally brought tears to my eyes (both happy and sad). From the most recent school massacre in Sandy Hook, CT, to a St. Paul, MN, coffee house administering a “pay it forward” gift card program to random passers-by in honor of the twenty-six Sandy Hook shooting victims, to several Midwest neighbors exhibiting random acts of kindness after the recent winter storm (i.e. cleaning up driveways for those unable to battle the heavy snow in addition to checking in on the elderly).

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