Hope & Encouragement

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

John 8:36

Suggested Reading

Addict in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope and Recovery
by Beverly Conyers

Everything Changes:  Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts
by Beverly Conyers

Jesus Calling: Daily Devotional for finding Peace in His Presence
by Sarah Young

The Red Sea Rules: 10 God Given Strategies for Difficult Times
by Robert Morgan

Prayers for Prodigals: 90 Days of Prayer for Your Child
by James Banks

Becoming Resilient
Donna Gibbs

Codependent No More
Melody Beattie and Spiegel & Grau

Families in Crisis
David A. Haapala

Hope & Encouragement from First Contact

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT FIRST CONTACT

MEET MATT

MEET BROOKS

MEET JESS

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.

…and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.

Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.

And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.