Lazarus Recovery Podcast

Good Stuff/ Bad Stuff

The highest priority for content creation is to put out happy stuff for obvious reasons.  But in faith and recovery, the real stuff is much more critical than pleasant for pleasant sake.

Weeds and Crops

Both faith and Recovery are like gardens.  Both grow crops of fruits.  In AA the crops are sober people and sober healthy lives.  In faith, the crop is people who are free in faith and lead a life of liberty and service.  But like a garden, these groups have to tend their patch of land.  The tending depends on protecting by weeding the invasive plants.  This podcast is what this tending means in both groups.

Episode 24 Good Recovery/Bad Recovery

What makes a good meeting or program?  And what makes a recovery program ineffective?
These are some hard-won observations

Common Denominator 2

Are there irreconcilable differences between Faith and Recovery?  Or is there a common denominator acting in both arenas? Is there some fundamental process at work in both?

Common Denominator

What is common between Faith and Recovery.  The people are the common thread.  But what is common.  Our flawed nature is common.  We call it by different names.  We all carry a flawed code that trips us up.

Consumer Reports Episode 21

What is essential when you shop for a good recovery group and a good church?

Program vs Walk/Good and Bad

Faith folks talk about their walk, and Recovery folks talk about their program.  What does that mean?

Episode 19 Good vs Bad

The dirty words for both Faith and Recovery are Good and Bad.  No one wants good or Bad defined for them,
We all want the freedom to define them for ourselves.  One thing faith and recovery agree is the right to define these words themselves.  What could go wrong?

Episode 18 Have boundaries will travel!

One of the most critical ingredients of successful recovery or faith is excellent boundaries!  Good boundary markers tell us where good ends and bad begins.  Often we lose credibility if don't get these boundaries right.  And we are the last to know when we get it wrong. The people we depend on to guide us in these decisions of where good ends and bad begins are found in the groups of recovery or faith.

Life Second to None

In both Faith and Recovery, the common denominator is a whole spectrum of human issues which require professional help.  The challenge for both areas is to accept and encourage people with issues to seek professional help.  Not the easiest reach for both areas.