Addiction Recovery 2017 [sex] Mode! Attitudes Of Sexual Integrity! The Journey From Sexual Compulsion To Sexual Integrity.

Cognitive Dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.Addiction is that dissonance in the soul. I don’t want to do the things I keep doing! HELP! Truth Be Told… Can we take a good hard honest look at how we solve the dissonance of unwanted behavior?

Faith and theology meet the real life world of woundedness, Recovery and addictions.My interview with Mike Wilkerson, one of the leaders and founders of Redemption groups at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, about his new book, Redemption: Freed by Jesus from the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry.

Exposing the lies of the beautiful people is really revealing our own "dogmatic assumptions".

Addiction... My Own Worst Enemy? What about other people in the world? Should we celebrate the death of another humen being who is our enemy?

Change behavior first and the heart will eventually do what it wants to, over being forced to do what it begrudgingly has to do. CS Lewis - "You don't get 2nd things by putting 2nd things 1st! You get 2nd things by putting first things first." St. Augustine - "Put God on the throne of your heart and do exactly what you want to do"

Hebrews 11 (New King James Version) By Faith We Understand 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

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Quotes from the film “Inception” Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere. The seed that we planted in this man's mind may change everything. You're asking me for Inception. I hope you do understand the gravity of that request. Cobb: She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget.

How do we stop stealing when/if stealing is all we know? And how do we live in the truth when that truth may knock down like dominos the security of who we believe we actually are? The Truth is in reviled realities!

I thought I had gotten over the abuses in my past, but I hadn’t dealt with the scars preventing me from getting close to other people and, worst of all... Theft and Disgrace, Guest author of Rid of my Disgrace, Justin Holcomb

#10Commandments

Valentine's Day can be fraught with danger of identity theft. Breaking up is a hard thing to do is it some thing you should be considering?

Jesus is the shepherd! Not Me, not you, not religious people! Revelation 7:17 for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

My faith is not in the hackers ability to crack my encryption attempts.My faith is in the One who has redeamed me and my knolage of that keeps me safe. Therefore my own efforts at protecting myself are minimal at best. Either He is our Keeper, or He isn’t. Yes, we should not be presumptuous and should use Common Sense, but we have lost sight of what true common sense is. How do we define LOVE? And as a result, how will we demonstrate LOVE in response? If we are driven by dark anxious fear, it is not of God.

Why do people steal? And what doses robbing for survival have to do with sexual integrity? Are we prolonging our recovery with short term trigger removal? Are we hopeless with all the triggers in the world? Russ addresses some secrets of long term sexual integrity. John 10:10 The thief comes only to kill steal and destroy, I come that they may have life and have it more abundantly. - Jesus

Exodus 20:15 (King James Version) Thou shalt not steal.Change and/or theft. Growth in to full life or short term theft for needs met today! Do we take what has not been worked for to seal in a sense of short term comfort and escape from that we fear?Deeper social norms, breaking the habit of “its out there”Proverbs 22:3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself,but the simple go on and suffer for it.4 The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

The John Frame notes on the 7th and 8th commandment in the scope of sexual ethics. Why would we what to stealing what’s free?

"I know you cheated on me!" Of course, he/she quickly denied it, using every excuse in the book. As I went to bed that night, the case kept haunting me... there was just something very similar about it. That's when it hit me; I could never cheat on my fiancee, but I was cheating on God. Instead of trying to please God in everything, I often please myself;

With the startling increase in emotional affairs, let me reveal some of the motives of the heart under the surface and expose the fule tank of our desires for such “affairs” and why it is actually breaking the 7th commandment and on a real intimate heart level it is one of the most painful forms of adultery. Recommitting our Hearts to a "till death do us part" attitude.A shout out to rememberingourvows.com and kenbirks.com

What is Adultery? And what is spiritual debt? Adultery is one of the bloodiest of sins. A sin that literally breaks the heart of the offended party.