Lazarus Recovery Podcast

Balls and Strikes the final Call

There is the term Codependency.  In this situation, our best compassion turns into a mess.
In the podcast, I talk about the role of sloppy compassion in recovery and theology.

Balls and Strikes

At the junction of faith and Recovery, the hardest thing is the act of choosing your Truth and dealing with the consequences of that choice.  Everything at this nexus of faith and recovery is consequential.  But these choices and the consequences of these choices are the whole stories of this Junction.  With 'Balls and Strikes', a series of podcasts I will try to draw out the elemental points of faith and belief. 

Fellowship in a tribal world

This discusses the concepts of Fellowship and tribalism in faith and recovery.
First, we look at what fellowship means in recovery groups and in faith groups.
Then we look at what tribalism looks like in both areas.

Landmines 1

If you live at the junction of Faith and Recovery there is one elephant in the room.  The elephant is God as I understand Him.  The secular argument is about what difference it makes.  Does God have a complex?  If we take a liberal attitude to God then maybe some suffering person will feel free to come and get sober.  This is reasonable on the surface.  Recovery folk thinks a hard line on this is bigoted and harsh.  I try to explain where this difference leads in this podcast.  This is the junction between conservative and liberal theology.  Listen I hope this explains a lot.  But it will underline some important points to think about. 

Life in the Spirit 3

This podcast continues my experience years ago receiving what they called the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  It was during the Catholic phase of my recovery.  During the sessions, they explained what I now know were the ingredients they found were necessary to bring a person to Life in the Holy Spirit. In this podcast, I take on the most difficult portion of the series.  This is the prayerful renunciation of spiritual practices that hindered this new life in the Spirit.  In like manner I know I am confronting accepted associations with spiritual concepts which have worked their way into the hearts of even pentecostal churches.  Many of the influences are in the very teaching material of some churches.  Many affections of families are based on practices that are rooted in material that we did renunciate forty-plus years before,

Life in the Spirit 1

Life in the Holy Spirit describes the Biblical experience of operating in the Holy Spirit as described in ACTS.
These are my experiences getting sober in AA.  I encountered the Catholic Charismatic renewal in my early sobriety and was baptized in the Holy Ghost in my second year of sobriety,  This series of podcasts tells the story and shares lessons I have learned in over 46 years in Pentecost.

Seasons hearing the seasons

I talk about the concept of seasons and how to hear the voice of scripture from Ecclesiastes 3.  And once hearing the voice of scripture and how that impacts people from Recovery and Faith backgrounds,

Bag of Worms 1

In spiritual things Not everything which sounds good is good.  Like in software there is malware.  The treasure is defended.  The Lord guards His treasure.  Episode 29  Bag of Worms.

Victory 2 in the The Holy Ghost

Victory is all about change! In faith and specifically in Pentecostal circles the agent of change is the presence of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform,  This is my story.

Victory

Victory is not overcoming your stuff, but rather enjoying your life in the presence of your stuff.