Welcome to Recovery, Light, and Life... I'm Chris Epson... If you are new here, you might be thinking "I really don't have an addiction. Why would I be interested in reading this?" That's a great question, and the answer is...you probably do. Everyone has something they go to when life gets too hard, when the stress and pain is too much, when they just don't feel good enough, or when they are just living unconsciously. It might only be diet Coke, romance novels, gaming, or food. Maybe it's anger. Maybe it's shopping. I believe that we are in recovery from mortality and all the challenges that come with it. Life is hard and it's intended to be. But...life is also full of joy and love and peace and progress and Grace and growth and deep relationship with God and other broken people just like us. So how do we experience more of that? If we are, in fact, all living in recovery, th...
"Love Does" Bob Goff "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling symbol. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Paul writing to the Ephesians "...Scripture is clear that God desires to produce in us a passionate pursuit and love for everyone around us. We demonstrate the depth of our love for Him through the depth of our love for others. Christianity is not a religion of cliques, comfort zones, or isolation. Rather, it is a personal relationship with a God who loves people and longs to fill us with His love for others....