Author Archives: soberinchurch

“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.” The list of my wrongs was very long for God, halve that for admitting to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs. Me admitting to me is another story, as I found myself to be always inContinue reading “Step 5”

Step 2 of the AA Big Book says…”We became aware that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” There are so many things I could write about here. The obvious being who is that power that’s greater than us, but as a Christian, for me it’s always been, and always will beContinue reading “Sober and Sane”

How many people have heard that we’d either be at ‘A chunk, A monk, A hunk OR A drunk’ When we came out of COVID? When I heard that sales of alcohol had gone through the roof, it didn’t surprise me and that a lot of people, including Christians, would come out as drunks. AddictsContinue reading “Sober In COVID”

Being involved with Overcomers Outreach has given me a great insight into what it’s like to facilitate a group within a church context. OO started 17 years ago in Sydney with Penny Wilkinson. It’s a 12 step group but with Jesus as our higher power. No apologies there. OO also caters for every addiction notContinue reading “Overcomers Outreach”

Recently, at the Overcomers Outreach group that I facilitate, we were going through step 4. Step 4 is where we have to be honest and make an inventory. Like a list of things we’ve done wrong, and be honest about it. We have to be fearless about it. Do you know how hard this isContinue reading “Still sober in church”

We learn from Acts 13 that we have to Spread The Word-God’s Word. Why? Because it is THE good, pure, infallible Word of God. What is the Word? It’s His message to us, all of us, because He loves us. How do we start to spread this message? First we have to believe this message.Continue reading “Acts 13-Step 12-Spread the Word”

New Year’s Eve…ahhh… the highlight for the addict is this day. It’s a day when we say that’s it…I’m done with drinking (drugging)…I promise tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my sober life. We are going to go out big. This is my last bender. My last blackout. I’ll throw up theContinue reading “2020 happy new decade”

Ahhhhh over at last. I’m laying in bed at the end of another white knuckle day. White knuckle days are those days that, as an addict you don’t think you’ll get through with your sanity intact. But alas, God has been faithful to me again. I’m sober and sane. I’ve survived. Praise Him. Nearly everyContinue reading “Christmas Day 2019”

One particular night in church most of the evening service congregation wasn’t present due to a church camp. The remnant were sitting down the back at the request of our minister. He had the idea to make it less formal. He wanted us all to share a bit about our journeys. I could sense fromContinue reading “Sober in church”