Best HopeRecovery.us Podcasts (2025)

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Try Something New In Recovery 1:33

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18d ago1:33

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Try something new in recovery... trust God and follow God's direction in recovery and in life. This sounds almost too simple, but perhaps that is just what you need... to trust God and simply follow his direction. The Big Book of AA and the Bible are much the same in this way... trust God and follow his direction.…

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This One Thing Could Save Your Life 1:27

1M ago1:27

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If you are struggling with alcohol or drug addiction this one thing could save your life! AA and NA meetings have helped many people in recovery and there are 3 big reasons why, find out what is the most important reason.

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Who Will You Help Today? 20:23

2M ago20:23

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Helping others is key to being successful in recovery. Helping others is a major focus of AA, NA, and other 12 Step Fellowships. But, how about for your... how important is helping others for you? How do you answer this question... "Who will you help today?"

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There Is A Better Way - Recovery Insights from Anthony "D" 14:35

3M ago14:35

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Recovery is hard, but as Anthony "D" describes no one is too far gone for God and that "There is a better way" through faith in God through the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a look-back episode that pulls audio excerpts from the original interview of Anthony from 2022.

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Top Recovery Slogans: Recovery Is Simple But Not Easy 16:21

4M ago16:21

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The slogans and principles of recovery are simple, but they are not easy! Recovery is hard. Recovery from alcohol or drug addiction is hard, but God can help you to be "strong and courageous" in your recovery. This podcast presents 5 recovery slogans that are related to this theme that "recovery is simple, but not easy". These slogans and principle…

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The Big Decision: To Make Changes for Success in Recovery 16:18

5M ago16:18

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Changes are needed to be successful in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction. This episode reveals key insights as to just how important "The Big Decision: To Make Changes" is as it relates to recovery. The Bible passage of John 8:2-11 about the woman caught in adultery provides key principles for recovery and even for life in general.…

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Info About - The Hope Recovery Devotional 1:00

5M ago1:00

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Brief info about a faith-based resource for help in recovery or any struggle of life, The Hope Recovery Devotional: There is Always Hope with God.

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The Biggest Advocates of 'Faith-Based' Recovery 12:49

6M ago12:49

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Who are the biggest advocates of "Faith-Based" recovery? Well it might surprise you, that at least in my view, the books of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous and even the Twelve Steps are all the biggest advocates of "Faith-Based" recovery. They all speak very much about God and about a "spiritual experience" with God and in many ways th…

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The "Special Ingredient" for Recovery - Recovery Principles from Dr. Timothy Lease 18:02

7M ago18:02

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There is a "Special Ingredient" for Recovery and these 8 recovery principles reveal just what is needed for success in recovery. The late Dr. Timothy Lease shares these 8 principles for success in recovery as presented in an interview from 2022.

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Just Like The Apostle Paul 11:22

8M ago11:22

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What is your "thorn in the flesh"? The apostle Paul had his own struggle, which he referred to as his "thorn in the flesh". Perhaps your struggle is your addiction struggle or perhaps a medical struggle? The apostle Paul gives instruction of how to honor God in any struggle and how to have success over your struggle and even to point people to God …

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Because "The Just Shall Live By Faith" 4:10

8M ago4:10

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Do you ask God "Why?" Struggles of life come for all of us and often we ask the question of God "why?" This brief message shares how you can have true peace in any struggle or circumstance of life. (Quick 5-minute edition)

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When You Ask God - Why? 16:29

9M ago16:29

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Struggles of life and what God tells us when we ask "Why?" This episode shares "5 Principles of How to Respond to Struggles." Everyone has struggles and this episode shares what God tells us when we face struggles and challenges of life and it all starts with where we put our faith and trust.

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(Shortcast) "One Day at a Time" - Top Recovery Slogans #1 0:52

10M ago0:52

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(Shortcast) The #1 top recovery slogan is "One Day at a Time." Do not be overwhelmed and look ahead at 20 or 30 years of recovery, rather simply focus on today. Being clean and sober today, "One Day at a Time".The Hope Recovery Podcast is all about faith-based recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.…

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(Shortcast) "Keep Coming Back"- Top Recovery Slogans #2 0:54

10M ago0:54

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(Shortcast) The #2 top recovery slogan is "Keep Coming Back". Keep coming back to your recovery meeting or group and regardless of what may happen in your recovery just "Keep Coming Back".The Hope Recovery Podcast is all about faith-based recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.

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(Shortcast) "Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes" - Top Recovery Slogans #3 0:59

10M ago0:59

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(Shortcast) The #3 top recovery slogan is "Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes". If you want to be successful in recovery then something needs to change. You need to do something differently from before, because "nothing changes if nothing changes".

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(Shortcast) "Progress Not Perfection" - Top Recovery Slogan #4 0:59

10M ago0:59

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(Shortcast) The #4 top recovery slogan is "Progress Not Perfection". You do not need to be perfect in your recovery (or in life), but focus on making progress. Always moving forward. This includes spiritual progress as well. Continue to seek spiritual progress and moving forward in your spiritual life with God as well.…

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(Shortcast) "Let Go and Let God" - Top Recovery Slogan #5 0:57

10M ago0:57

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(Shortcast) The #5 top recovery slogan is simply to "Let Go and Let God". In some way it is important to bring God into your recovery and to "let God" be the one directing your recovery. God can do for you what you cannot do for yourself.

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(Quick Edition) Pop-Up Interviews: Why are The Twelve Steps so Successful? 5:55

10M ago5:55

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(Quick 5-Minute Edition) The Twelve Steps of Recovery have helped many millions of people be successful in recovery. But, the question is "Why?" Why are they so successful? This podcast asks this question in "pop-up" interviews at a Recovery Day event and provide their insights as to why they are so successful. Why do you think The Twelve Steps of …

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Pop-Up Interviews: Why are the Twelve Steps so Successful? 21:29

10M ago21:29

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The Twelve Steps of Recovery have helped many millions of people be successful in recovery. But, the question is "Why?" Why are they so successful? This podcast asks this question in "pop-up" interviews at a Recovery Day event and provide their insights as to why they are so successful. Why do you think The Twelve Steps of Recovery are so successfu…

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Quick 5-Minute Edition - "The Top 5 Recovery Slogans" 5:51

10M ago5:51

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(Quick 5-Minute Edition) The recovery community often uses recovery slogans to reach out to support and encourage each other to be successful in recovery. This podcast episode presents what I suggest as "The Top 5 Recovery Slogans". In this (quick 5-minute) episode I present some of the key recovery principles of each and also the some biblical ins…

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Quick 5-Minute Edition - Recovery Slogans: "The Importance of Community" 5:51

11M ago5:51

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Are you looking for help in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction? Perhaps, what you are missing is a "recovery community". This episode (quick 5-minute edition) today looks at the critical importance of a recovery community as it considers five top recovery slogans and the recovery principles and faith-based principles that make them so importan…

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Recovery Slogans: The Importance of Community 21:14

11M ago21:14

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Are you looking for help in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction? Perhaps, what you are missing is a "recovery community". This episode today looks at the critical importance of a recovery community as it considers five top recovery slogans and the recovery principles and faith-based principles that make them so important for success in recovery…

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Quick 5-Minute Edition - "Recovery Lessons from a Friend" 5:47

12M ago5:47

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(Quick 5-Minute Edition) This episode shares 4 powerful true life recovery lessons, that blend faith and recovery together, that are sure to help you in your recovery. This is sort of a tribute and thanks to my dear friend Russ as he leaves our "Grace and Hope" faith-based recovery group and moves away from Pennsylvania.…

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Recovery Lessons from a Friend 21:00

12M ago21:00

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This episode shares 4 powerful true life recovery lessons, that blend faith and recovery together, that are sure to help you in your recovery. This is sort of a tribute and thanks to my dear friend Russ as he leaves our "Grace and Hope" faith-based recovery group and moves away from Pennsylvania.

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Quick 5-Minute edition - "Recovery Slogans: For Help Today" 4:40

1y ago4:40

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Quick 5-Minute edition of "Recovery Slogans: For Help Today".Are you struggling in recovery today? This episode looks at the top recovery slogans "for help today" and includes a faith-based perspective for each. These slogans and principles are often shared in meetings, and they just might help you with a fresh new perspective to continue in your r…

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Top Recovery Slogans: "For Help Today" 22:43

1y ago22:43

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Are you struggling in recovery today? This episode looks at the top recovery slogans "for help today" and includes a faith-based perspective for each. These slogans and principles are often shared in meetings, and they just might help you with a fresh new perspective to continue in your recovery. Consider how these principles and biblical insights …

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WJTL Radio Interview of Greg Schmalhofer of Hope Recovery 9:55

1y ago9:55

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Many THANKS to everyone at WJTL 90.3 radio for the fun interview to highlight the ministry of Hope Recovery and the Grace and Hope faith-based recovery meeting of Calvary Church of Lancaster Pennsylvania. This brief interview message offers hope and help for those in recovery and guidance for churches as well.…

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Thirty-Eight Years 14:57

1y ago14:57

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Help and hope for success in recovery, or any struggle of life, regardless of how many years or even decades you have been in that struggle. The message of John 5:1-9 reveals that God cares for the sick and hurting and that everything changes with God in the picture. Recovery is possible, because there is always hope with God, even after thirty-eig…

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The Top 5 Recovery Slogans 23:23

1y ago23:23

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The recovery community does a great job of reaching out to support and encourage each other to be successful in recovery and one of the ways is through recovery slogans. This podcast episode presents what I suggest as "The Top 5 Recovery Slogans". In this episode I discuss some of the key recovery principles of each and also the biblical principles…

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What Will Your Choice Be? 19:27

1+ y ago19:27

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Recovery is full of choices! The choices and decisions you make will have a dramatic impact on your success in recovery. The AA Big Book and the Bible have much to say about choices. This episode today looks at two criminals that were with Jesus and the choices they each faced and how they each made dramatically different choices. As you listen to …

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When You Don't Understand God 20:00

1+ y ago20:00

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We all have times when we don't understand God, whether in recovery or just in the struggles of life. This episode looks at biblical principles for how to respond when we don't understand God. The passage of Luke 5:1-11 shares five key insights of how to respond when failures and struggles come and it starts with remembering that we are not alone, …

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Lost and Looking for Direction? 18:36

1+ y ago18:36

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Are you lost and looking for direction in recovery? Are you looking for direction in life too? This podcast looks at three steps and biblical principles that can help provide the direction you need not only for recovery, but for a full and abundant life as well. God does not give up on you, no matter how lost you may feel or how difficult your reco…

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The Message of Step Twelve 18:50

1+ y ago18:50

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The powerful message of Step Twelve becomes quite clear when we look at what the founders of The Twelve Steps included for Step One and then what they end with in Step Twelve. The Twelve Steps of recovery and the message of the Bible do not leave us without hope or without a solution, and amazingly they both point to the same solution.…

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God Cares for the Lost and Hurting 28:08

1+ y ago28:08

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This powerful story of "The Lost Son" reveals that God cares for those that are lost and hurting and even those that have made many terrible decisions in the past. Do you feel as if you are lost and distant from God. This podcast reminds you that God cares for you and wants you to "be found" and to have a restored relationship with him.…

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Pop-up Interviews: "How to Prevent Relapse" 20:28

1+ y ago20:28

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Several "Pop-up Interviews" were taken during the "Recovery Day Lancaster" event and each individual answered this one very important question of "How to prevent relapse?" This podcast explores this question and provides the top 3 answers collected from the interviews, AA/NA quotes, and biblical insights as well. How do you answer this important qu…

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Success Over Your "Giant Battle of Addiction" 23:11

2y ago23:11

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The struggle of addiction may very much feel like a "giant battle of addiction" and this Bible story of David versus the giant Goliath can give you many principles of recovery and even spiritual principles, that can help you to be successful in recovery and even over any struggle of life as well.

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The Hope Recovery Podcast - Trailer 09-21-2023 1:47

2y ago1:47

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Hello and welcome to The Hope Recovery Podcast hosted by Greg Schmalhofer. The Hope Recovery Podcast provides faith-based recovery messages to help you to be successful in recovery and to grow in your faith as well. Regardless of where you are at in recovery, whether you are at one month or many months, I want to encourage you that recovery is abso…

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Evidence of Hope 20:55

2y ago20:55

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The books and fellowships of AA and NA are full of true life stories of lives that were dramatically changed by the recovery principles and also by the spiritual principles of the Twelve Steps of Recovery. These stories are evidence of hope that recovery is absolutely possible. As you put your hope and trust in God your life can also be dramaticall…

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The Twelve Steps: Final Thoughts and Why It Works 16:07

2y ago16:07

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The Twelve Steps of Recovery have helped many millions of people to not only be successful in recovery, but also to lead dramatically different lives. Find out why the Twelve Steps are so successful and why it works for so many people and why it might work for you as well.

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You Can Change The Future 15:07

2y ago15:07

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As you look back on your past life in addiction, there may be many things you would like to forget; things you wish you could take back. But, while it is true you cannot change the past, it is also true that you can indeed change the future. With God in your life your future can be very different from your past.…

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You Have Another Chance 8:38

2y ago8:38

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If you are listening to this podcast right now, drugs and alcohol did not kill you. You are not dead and you have another chance! You have another chance to be successful in recovery and you have another chance at life. Listen to this podcast to learn how you can take full advantage of this second chance at life and see what God has for you!…

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Step Twelve of Recovery: Had a Spiritual Awakening 15:38

2y ago15:38

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In many ways Step Twelve summarizes all of the Twelve Steps of Recovery and also gives a final charge as well. It is interesting to note what AA and NA chose to include in this final step of the Twelve Steps of Recovery, which is to focus on a "spiritual awakening" as being key to recovery.

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Step Eleven of Recovery: Through Prayer and Meditation 14:45

2y ago14:45

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Step Eleven instructs us to be intentional to take time for prayer and meditation each and every day. Step Eleven is a big step forward that reflects a true change in our heart and in our personality, such that we are now doing things differently. Now we take time daily to seek God's will in our life through prayer and meditation.…

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Mini-Devotional: What God Says About You 14:30

2y ago14:30

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Today's podcast is a message inspired by our brand new granddaughter, Maria Bea Schmalhofer, and is a message of four Bible truths of "What God Says About You". These four basic Bible truths present a perspective that is very different from the message of popular culture, but these four truths of "What God Says About You" can make a dramatic impact…

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Step Ten of Recovery: Continued to Take Personal Inventory 16:37

2y ago16:37

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Step Ten instructs us to continue on growing in our recovery and in our faith by daily taking a personal inventory of our wrongs and to promptly and humbly admit them. But, while this is an important process in our recovery, to properly take a daily personal inventory, requires that we ask God to be the one directing the searching of our personal i…

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Step Nine of Recovery: Made Amends Wherever Possible 18:40

2y ago18:40

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Step Nine of Recovery is the beginning of a dramatic change in how we think and act; it is the beginning of a heart change. In Step Nine we take the dramatic step of making amends to those we had harmed in the past and this is a reflection of a spiritual change within.

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Step Eight of Recovery: Became Willing to Make Amends 14:36

2y ago14:36

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Step Eight of Recovery is all about putting the needs of others before your own needs and this is done by making a list of the people we have harmed and then being willing to make amends to them. Listen to this podcast episode and see what you may have in common with the apostle Paul.

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Step Seven of Recovery: Humbly Ask God 13:36

2y ago13:36

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Here in Step Seven we humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings and the sin in our life, and even more to change us. In Step Seven we ask God to change our heart and mind so that we think and act differently. To be successful in recovery requires a fundamental change, an internal change. It is with Step Seven that we can go further than just being …

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Step Six of Recovery: Ready for God to Remove Our Defects 14:17

2y ago14:17

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Step Six of Recovery presents the question are you "entirely ready" and willing to have God remove all your defects? Step Six can be a dramatic step forward in your recovery and a dramatic step forward in your faith as well. Step Six is all about being ready and willing to have God remove your character defects! You do not do the removing, but rath…

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Step Five of Recovery: We Admitted to God Our Wrongs 17:06

2y ago17:06

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Step Five of Recovery builds upon the "moral inventory" list of Step Four. Creating the moral inventory list of Step Four is an important step, but Step Five goes even further and requires action. It is not enough to simply make the moral inventory list, but rather Step Five requires us to take action based upon this moral inventory list. Step Five…