Life Recovery Devotional: Thirty Meditations from Scripture for Each Step in Recovery

By David Stoop and Stephen Arterburn

Book Overview

Find daily words of encouragement and freedom for your journey to addiction recovery.

Inspired by The Life Recovery Bible, The Life Recovery Devotional takes readers on a devotional journey through the Twelve Steps, with thirty inspiring and encouraging meditations from Scripture for each step along the road to recovery. These easy-to-read, down-to-earth meditations are designed to help you discover the recovery, rest, and peace that Jesus promised. They will help you understand the struggles we face in recovery, in overcoming temptation, and in recuperating after a relapse.

The Bible is a book about broken people with broken relationships being healed and freed from bondage by God's loving hand. That's why each day's reading in The Life Recovery Devotional is rooted in spiritual principles from God's Word and designed to lead you to freedom from your addictions and compulsions. God wants to bring you good news, heal your broken heart and body, comfort you when you mourn, free you from the bondage of your past, and give you hope for the future.

This Christian devotional offers: A flexible reading plan to meet you wherever you are on your healing journeyQuick readings that can fit into busy schedulesBiblical principles to nourish your soul on hard daysThis daily devotional opens with a complete listing of the Twelve Steps and features helpful and encouraging Bible verses from the New Living Translation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1414330049
• ISBN13: 9781414330044
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publ
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Refreshing 12-step Devotional

This book is a great devotional for anyone with hurts, hangups, or habits. It is refreshing and helps me to refocus when I forget to take one day at a time.

I wore my copy out

I am not sure what the previous reviewer (Mona Lisa) was reviewing this book or 12 step programs in general. I have to agree with one facet of what she said, namely that there is really no such thing as a secular 12 step program. AA started out by unabashedly Christian; the steps reflect the Biblical model of repentance, confession, forgivenss and service. For this reason, the premise of the first 3 steps is that recovery depends on creating and maintaining a close relationship to God. Attempts to use the steps together with a non-Christian philosophy start by renaming God as "my Higher Power." After that the syncretism starts in earnest: the steps are blended with classical Buddhism, New Age, agnosticism and a huge dose of pop psychology ("healing your inner child"). I don't think the resulting collage of ideas can really heal anyone. It would be much more honest and probably more therapeutic if the originators of the many, many 12 step spinoff groups (SLAA, LA, NA, OA etc.) and AA itself would be honest to themselves and their group members and speak the truth in love: the 12 steps are religious by their nature. Since I am a committed evangelical Christian the inescapably religious nature of the 12 steps doesn't bother me at all--for me, the more religious (really Christian) content the better. I believe that the Holy Spirit heals in response to genuine faith as expressed in humility, trust in God and genuine love for others. For that reason, this book was (literally) a godsend for me. It meant that I could couple solid Biblical doctrine with practical tools and rebuild my life "one day at a time." If you are not a Christian, this isn't the meditation book for you. I suggest you shop carefully a choose one that matches your mindset. If you are a Christian struggling with habitual sin or caught in an addiction cycle it is invaluable--like sitting down for an hour every day for a therapy session with the Apostle Paul.