Category Archives: Addictions
How a local church can use a cohesive curriculum in helping drug and alcohol addicts. Continue reading
The prevailing thought in today’s world is that “addiction” is compulsive and the struggling person has lost control, but biblically I believe that the “addict” is responsible for his or her choices and therefore becomes habitually enslaved to the pleasure of choice. It is a decision rather than a disease or a demon. Continue reading
God has a perspective on sex addicts. We see in Scripture that He gets the problem. He knows we are all sexually broken. He has seen the generations of perversity. He is jealous for the purity and healing of His people. The cross does not lose its power and the blood of Christ its efficacy in the face of sexual sin. Continue reading
BCC Staff Note: This resource is part of a Biblical Counseling Coalition series of testimonies by and about people who have received biblical counseling. Though anonymous, each testimony is from a real person who is excited to share how biblical … Continue reading
With so much recent attention on addiction due to the death of Whitney Houston on February 11, 2012, one thing is clear: the world’s message regarding addiction issues opposes biblical truth. Disease The world proclaims the theory that addiction and … Continue reading
Cruciform Press has done the church a service by publishing a very unusual little e-book, The Book of Mary: Diary of an Addict. The sequence of events by which the diaries of a single mother of one, aborter of at … Continue reading
A Counselor Reflects on Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis “The Christian attitude does not mean that there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating. It means that you must not isolate that … Continue reading
In March and April, Knowledge Networks asked 535 pairs of parents and their teens a number of questions about Internet use. The results were interesting: 28% of teens believe their parents are not checking their Web browsing history. But of … Continue reading
If you’re a cutter, you know what it’s like to feel the pain welling up inside you. It feels like any second you’re going to explode. In the past you may have cried, gotten angry, accused, complied, or blamed yourself, … Continue reading
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