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Serenity Prayer

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The Serenity Prayer is the common name for an originally untitled prayer written by the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1930s or early 1940s.

 

Adult Children of Alcoholics

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Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACAs) refers to individuals who have grown up in a dysfunctional household as a result of their caretakers's alcoholism. ACAs find they often have common characteristics into adulthood as the result of their childhood and upbringing, often including alcohol abuse themselves. Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) can also refer to the Twelve Step program that assists ACAs with their common problems.[1]

Housing First in Washington DC

400 of Washington DC's "most vulnerable" homeless individuals will be given housing by Oct 1. A recent Washington Post article describes the District's first step in a major effort to provide housing to over 2,500 individuals by 2014.

The Effects of Lust

by Mike Genung

Our culture says that pornography, promiscuity and adultery are harmless fun. 

Some psychologists say lust is healthy.

Many use pornography thinking they’re not hurting anyone because “it’s just me and pictures.” 

THE TIME IS NOW! CALLING ALL SAINTS!

I was speaking with a gentleman at one of the shelters in Newark, NJ that I ministered at a couple of days ago and he shared with me that he had just gotten out of the hospital from attempting to kill himself for the 8th time.  I submitted to him that he had so many reasons to live. He responded with ‘I have even more reasons not to live.’ Another young lady that I recently spoke with approached me with tears in her eyes as she described how she feels that there is no hope for her. She has been struggling with drug addiction for years and although she is tired of living with this disease, she recognizes the grip that it has on her and she is in despair and afraid for her life. While ministering in the prisons

Michael Liimatta's Testimony - Audio

Michael Liimatta's Testimony  is told in a 1992 UNSHACKLED radio drama - courtesy of Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago, IL.

Growing up in an alcoholic family,  Michael struggled with drug addiction himself until he came to Christ in 1974. 


28:50 minutes (26.4 MB)

Michael Liimatta's Spiritual Journey

I grew up in an alcoholic family. Both my father and my mother came from alcoholic homes, too. Because I grew up in such a very chaotic home, I was running the streets from an early age.

My first drinking experience was when I was just twelve years old. I was "turned on" to pot at age fourteen, and went to jail twice for selling marijuana, hashish, and LSD, before I was eighteen years old.