Category: Recovery

Recovery

On Forgiveness

This is a Celebrate Recovery lesson I taught at Church of the City Spring Hill on October 27th, 2020. It’s a teaching about the role forgiveness plays in our recovery and it covers Principle 6 (of Celebrate Recovery’s 8 Principles) and Step 9 (of Celebrate Recovery’s 12 Steps): Principle 6: Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Recovery

On Jeremiah 17:7-8

I was asked to share some thoughts on Jeremiah 17:7-8 at the Celebrate Recovery ministry at my home church. They asked me to talk about what that passage teaches, what it means to me, and how it applies to our recovery journey. I thought I’d share my thoughts here on my blog, as well. “But […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Recovery

Powerless

This is a recovery lesson about admitting that we’re powerless on our own to make the changes we need to make in our lives. This idea, which at first glance seems counterintuitive, is part of the first step of recovery. And here’s what I find pretty amazing. As soon as we take this step and […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Recovery

How Not To Be A Gorilla

This is a recovery lesson that focuses on confessing the dark secrets of our past out loud to another person. What could be more fun than that?  Actually, it’s not as scary as it sounds when we approach it within the context of the 5th step of recovery. And this step is almost always accompanied […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Recovery

A Spiritual Inventory

Spirituality is the aspect of recovery that I think most often gets overlooked. Some of us are very comfortable embracing spirituality, but for others, it feels weird or uncomfortable. A series of articles on recovery. I’m on a team of leaders who do the teaching at the Celebrate Recovery ministry at Church of the City. I’ve edited […]

R. L. Solberg 
Culture Faith Recovery

A Moral Inventory

I’ll be honest, things are going to get a little uncomfortable. This is the step in the recovery process where things start to get very real.  It’s a good time to recall the line in the serenity prayer that says “hardship is a pathway to peace”. A series of articles on recovery. I’m on a team of […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Recovery

On Turning Over Our Lives

When a regular Joe like me teaches a recovery lesson I think it’s most likely to be useful—or at least interesting—to start from exactly where I am myself.  I’m not so much presuming to instruct as just comparing notes. A series of articles on recovery. I’m on a team of leaders who do the teaching at […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Recovery

On The Serenity Prayer

We have a “wildcard” lesson built into our teaching rotation at my Celebrate Recovery meeting where we focus on the Serenity Prayer rather than one of the steps of recovery. This time around that wildcard lesson was assigned to me and as I dove into the prayer I started getting a little intimidated. There is […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Philosophy Recovery

On Relapse

Today we’re going to tackle Principle 7, which says: Principle 7: Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will. Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact […]

R. L. Solberg 
Faith Philosophy Recovery

On Amends

This lessons covers Principe 6 (of the 8 Principles) and Step 8 (of the 12 Steps), which are: Principle 6: Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. “Happy are the merciful” and “Happy […]

R. L. Solberg 
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