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Recovery Under the Cross
by Tim Gray
Recovery Under the Cross
Episodes
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Call on the Lord in Humble Faith
Recognizing our lives have become unmanageable because of our addiction is humbling. That's the point of the first step. It's to humble us, making us ready for step two. As Christians, we call on the Lord in humble faith to restore us to sanity. In our Scripture lesson today, we see a Roman...
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God's Way is the Only Way
All too often we think we can make our unmanageable lives manageable again on our own. How wrong we are! In our Scripture reading for today from 2 Kings 5, we find Na'aman, a commander in the king's army, seeking Elisha's help to be cured of leprosy. Na'aman quickly dismissed Elisha's…
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Midweek Meditation: Reputation Protection
God protects a person's name and reputation in the 8th Commandment. Addicts have all too often sought to destroy someone else's reputation by lying about the person/people who confront the addict out of love about his/her addiction. Instead of taking the person's word's in the kindest possible…
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Midweek Meditation: Waste and Abuse
A pastor once told his catechism students, "The 7th Commandment is about protecting 'stuff'." Yes, he said "stuff". The "stuff" the pastor was alluding to were the many spiritual and physical blessings God bestows on all of us. God has blessed us with so many spiritual and physical blessings....
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Midweek Meditation: Adulterous Hearts
The Recovery Under the Cross Midweek Meditation series on the 10 Commandments continues with the 6th Commandment: You shall not commit adultery. The two most obvious ways in which the 6th Commandment is broken are spouses cheating on each other, or unmarried people fornicating. The 6th…
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Midweek Meditation: The Attitude that Kills
Recovery Under the Cross moves forward with the weekly Midweek Meditation series on the 10 Commandments. This week's meditation focuses on the 5th Commandment. Exodus 20:13: You shall not commit murder. (EHV) Naturally, murder is the main thing covered in the 5th Commandment. The 5th Commandment...
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Midweek Meditation: Honor God's Representatives
In the larger context of Scripture, the 4th Commandment covers more than obeying our parents. The 4th Commandment includes obeying all of God's representatives - in the home, in the church, in civil government. The last group seems to be the most difficult to honor and obey. It's hard for us to...
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Midweek Meditation: Keep Gathering for Worship
One consequence of addiction is neglecting God's Word whether it's in our daily lives by letting our devotional life slide or giving up gathering with other Christians to worship God in church. Today's Midweek Meditation turns our attention to the 3rd Commandment. Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath...
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Midweek Meditation: No Need to Swear
The Recovery Under the Cross Midweek Meditation series on the 10 Commandments continues with the 2nd Commandment. Exodus 20:7 You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. (English Heritage Version) One way we misuse God's name is by using His name to swear needlessly that something we say…
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Midweek Meditation: God Over Self
Recovery Under the Cross kicks off a new Midweek Meditation series on the 10 Commandments. For the next 9 weeks, the Midweek Meditation will focus on a commandment per week. The 9th and 10th Commandments will be combined because they both talk about coveting. 1st Commandment: Exodus 20:3, "You...
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Midweek Meditation: Fill the Void
Quitting an addiction often leaves a void in what we do to occupy our time. Some people trade one addiction for another. Others find a hobby. Sadly, there are some who don't know how to fill the time void and end up relapsing. Fill the time void with the Holy Spirit coming to you as you read and...
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Midweek Meditation: Christ's Resurrection Proves Salvation
Had Christ not risen again from the dead, we would have reason to cling to the guilt and shame we feel about the hurt we caused with our addiction. Thanks be to God Christ did rise again from the dead! We are not dead in our sins. Christ's resurrection from the dead proves our salvation from sin,...
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Christ's Resurrection Drives Away Hopelessness
Do you remember your rock-bottom? Have you watched someone else hit rock-bottom because of addiction? Did you feel hopelessness and despair? After watching their teacher suffer and die on the cross, it isn't hard to imagine Jesus' disciples possibly having feelings of hopelessness and despair…
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Midweek Meditation: Jesus Rested
It's no accident Jesus lay in the tomb over the Sabbath after suffering and dying on the cross to pay for all of our sins. The word Hebrew word Sabbath (Shabbat) is used in Genesis chapter two where it says God rested on the 7th day. The word Sabbath means rest. It also means to cease. God ceased...
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Midweek Meditation: Saved in the Dark
It's easy for our sinful minds to justify our addictive behavior after the sun goes down for the night. The chances of getting caught diminish when we are by ourselves sitting in a dark, dimly lit room. For today's meditation, we go back to Good Friday when darkness covered all the earth. While…
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Midweek Meditation: Betrayal
Anyone who has read or listened to the Passion History during Lent know who Judas Iscariot is. Even kids in Sunday School know who Judas is and what he did to betray Jesus the night before he died on the cross. We're no different than Judas. Granted, we didn't betray Jesus for 30 pieces of…
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Midweek Meditation: Lukewarm to Lent?
This Midweek Meditation was recorded on Ash Wedesday. That means Lent is upon us. Have you ever become bored with Lent? Does it seem to get old that we hear the Gospel account of Jesus making his way from the upper room where he celebrated the passover with his disciples and eventually to the...
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Heroes Have Warts: Abraham and Sarah (Part 2)
This episode is a continuation of the previous episode. We take a look at Abraham and Sarah, who were lauded for their faith in Hebrews 11, and how they are sinful people just like the rest of us. God chose Abraham and Sarah to be the ancestors of the coming Savior. Things looked bleak for…
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Heroes Have Warts: Abraham and Sarah (Part 1)
Heroes Have Warts is a new series for Recovery Under the Cross. The series examines select individuals named in Hebrews chapter 11 which is often referred to as the "Heroes of Faith" chapter. The writer of the book of Hebrews highlights many examples of familiar names from the Old Testament who...
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Midweek Meditation: Fragile Vessel with Priceless Treasure
God demonstrates His almighty power by taking broken, sinful people like us to carry a priceless treasure - the message of Christ crucified and risen again from the dead to take away the sins of the world. What an awesome privilege our God bestows on us!
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Reflections
Host Tim Gray offers his reflections on Recovery Under the Cross and announces what's coming up in future episodes.
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Midweek Meditation: Self-Control
Self-Control and Addiction are completely opposite of each other. How can I, as a recovering alcoholic, have any sense of self-control? It's only by the grace of God and with the help of God that we can even begin to exercise self-control. Because of what God's own Son, Jesus Christ our Savior…
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Jesus: In Real Life
Merry Christmas! In this Christmas Episode, we marvel at the Word Incarnate, Jesus Christ, becoming flesh and dwelling among us. Jesus, as true God and true man all at the same time, is the perfect Savior we needed to take away our sins. Jesus was tempted in every way we are tempted, but never...
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Midweek Meditation: Gentleness
Confronting someone about open sin isn't easy. You might have butterflies in your stomach because you don't know how the person might react, or you're nervous because you don't know how you'll react to the person's reaction. God calls on us to speak with someone caught up in sin with a spirit of...
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Midweek Meditation: Faithfulness
The next Fruit of the Spirit a believer in Jesus has that's listed in Galatians 5:22,23 is faithfulness. Faithfulness involves commitment, staying true to someone or something. Our reading from Joshua encourages us to be faithful to God and to serve him. We serve God by loving and serving one...
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Enduring Comfort
God commands the prophet Isaiah to preach the message of the Gospel to comfort the people of Israel who will be taken away to Babylonian captivity a few generations after warning them of their idolatry. God does not abandon His people. He stands by his promise for a Savior from sin. So too with…
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Midweek Meditation: Goodness
Goodness. What does that mean? Ask 100 different people and you might get 100 different answers which all lead to the same basic concept - that which is virtuous or commendable. How does God define goodness? What does the Bible say? On our own, we are anything but good. However, because of Jesus,...
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Stay Spiritually Sober
Periodically, Recovery Under the Cross will use a Bible reading that fits with the current time of the Church Year. This episode was written and recorded during the season of Advent. During Advent, we focus our attention on the coming of the Savior - both his first and second coming. With…
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Midweek Meditation: Kindness
What does it mean to be kind, or to have kindness? It's more than being nice to one another. Being kind means to be selfless and contribute to the needs of others. This is something we do out of love for Christ because he loved us first.
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Build One Another Up with Your Words
The words we use have impact. We can use our words to tear down. We can use our words to build one another up. Paul encourages the Ephesians and us to build one another up with our words.
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Thank the LORD for Past, Present, and Future Blessings
Moses reminded the Children of Israel not to forget from where all of their blessings came. Their blessings came from the LORD who led them out of slavery in Egypt, who provided for them in the desert for 40 years, and who will provide all of their future blessings. Moses' reminder for the…
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Midweek Meditation: Patience
Patience. Sometimes it seems so difficult to have or find patience as a recovering addict, or as someone who was hurt by another person's addiction. It is because of what Christ has done to take away all of our sins that we have the desire to bear with one another in patience and love, forgiving...
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Midweek Meditation: Peace
This week's Midweek Meditation is the third installment of the Fruits of the Spirit Series (Galatians 5:22,23). While we live in a world full of conflict, discord, and strife - to which we often contribute - God calls us to live our lives peaceably with those around us. We can do that because of...
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You're Not Alone
Sometimes we fall into self-pity and despair when we feel like we are alone with the problems we face in this world including our addiction. The prophet Elijah felt like he was all alone as the last prophet of Israel. He was wallowing in his self-pity, doubt, and despair. The LORD told Elijah he...
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Midweek Meditation: Joy!
Finding joy during the difficult times in our life can be next to impossible. However, we can find joy in suffering because God uses these difficult times in our lives to bring us closer to Him.
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Wisdom Seeks Help
There's wisdom in seeking help and advice. It is with a humble heart and mind we ask for help. Conversely, our sinful pride refuses to ask for help. That only leads us to pain and strife with those around us. There's no shame in asking for help when recovering from an addiction. God put people…
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Midweek Meditation: Love
This week's Midweek Meditation begins a series on the Fruits of the Spirit listed for us in Galatians 5:22-23. The first of the fruits listed in those verses is love. The kind of love discussed in this week's Midweek Meditation is the selfless, self-sacrificing, unconditional love God has shown…
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Uncovering the Truth
King David uncovers the truth about his sin in Psalm 51. He also uncovers the truth about God's great mercy, love, and forgiveness and how God does not hold his sin against him. As recovering addicts, we have the same assurance of God's forgiveness for us in Christ.
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Midweek Meditation: Be Still
How easy would it be to relapse when life stresses you out and you're about to hit the panic button? The Children of Israel were about to hit the panic button when they saw the Egyptians pursuing them out of Egypt. Listen to what Moses says to them and us when life stresses us out.
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Don't Keep Quiet
Speaking to others about our faith in Jesus is a natural result of our faith in Jesus. Likewise, speaking about the blessings of sobriety to another addict suffering in addiction is a natural result of achieving sobriety with God's help. As Christians who are also recovering addicts, let's take…
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Midweek Meditation: Weary Faith
It doesn't matter if we're an addict or not. Life can be exhausting. Life is certainly physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting, but it's also spiritually exhausting. Where do we find spiritual rest for our weak and weary faith? Jesus tells us in Matthew 11:28-30.
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Pray!
The 11th Step encourages people in recovery from addiction to pray to improve conscious contact with God. What does that mean in the context of Scripture? Prayer by itself won't strengthen our faith in God because prayer is us talking to God. We get far more benefit from prayer as the natural...
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Midweek Meditation: Temptation
Resisting temptation is difficult at best, and often times impossible. Our sinful nature gives into temptation so easily, and so naturally. This week we see how a young man who was sold into slavery in Egypt resisted temptation and called what his master's wife wanted him to do as a great sin...
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Bear Your Cross Daily
Step 10 gets into the maintenance steps. While Step 10 advises taking continued personal inventory and admitting when we're wrong, Christians do that through repentance as part of denying ourselves, taking up our cross daily, and following Jesus. Taking up our cross on a daily basis and following...
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Midweek Meditation: Finding Encouragement
It was a foregone conclusion that Saul (Paul) was not going to find any encouragement from his fellow Pharisees and Chief Priests regarding his conversion on the road to Damascus. They wanted to silence followers of Christ. Since Saul was now proclaiming Christ crucified, this moved the Jews in...
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Moving Forward
Making amends is about moving forward with producing fruits of repentance and forgiveness. On the one side of the amends making process, the addict seeks the forgiveness of those whom he or she has sinned against by his or her addiction. The other side involves the person on the receiving side of...
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Midweek Meditation: Rejoice, Pray, Give Thanks
It's not easy to find joy, or find the time to pray, or be thankful early on in sobriety. God gives us the reason to do all three of those things even though times are difficult. We rejoice in the salvation we have because of Christ. We pray and give thanks for anything and everything God gives…
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Fruits of Repentance Blossoming
The first seven steps focus on repentance. The eighth step is the first step that alludes to producing the fruits of repentance. Making a list of whom we hurt with our addiction and how we hurt them isn't a pleasant experience. It forces us to relive the sins we committed against our family, our...
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Midweek Meditation: Self-Worth
Sometimes we go overboard applying God's law to ourselves, leaving little to no room for the comfort of the Gospel. Feelings of worthlessness overcome us because we know we've sinned against God and others with our addiction. The Apostle Paul referred to himself as the chief of sinners - the…
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Lord, Shape Me
God is the one who helps us remove our character defects which are rooted in our sinful nature. God molds us and shapes us to be the people he has called us to be in Christ.
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