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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Recovery Christian Center is tabling today at Philadelphia FIGHT's Behind the Walls: 11th Annual Prison Healthcare and Reentry Summit today at the Pennsylvania Convention Center - Philadelphia, PA (Philly) at 12th & Arch as a part of AIDS Education Month. It's not too late to register on site! Starts at 8am and breakfast and lunch are included. Lots of great information on reentry ministry and prison health issues and mass incarceration. Come check it and us out!
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/25/13 - Expect Some Resistance
"The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand." Jeremiah 18:1-6 NLT
One of the awesome truths to coming to Christ and into recovery is how much we change. If we look back on where we came from to where we are today it's almost as if we were two completely different people. The person we were is almost unrecognizable and we are grateful for the change. However if we are honest about the change we didn't just up and decided to change. It took most of us to get to a point of utter despair and desperation to become open to change. In short we had to become beaten in order to become willing.
As painful as those experiences were God used them to bring us to a point to accept change. As the text tells us we were broken down and remolded. Sometimes as we grow in our relationship with God and in our recovery we will encounter resistance to keep us from getting there just as we encountered resistance to us designed to keep us in our original bondage. We must trust God that just as He used our prior pain to change us that He will take what is meant to hold us back, even if we placed those chains on ourselves, to drive us into the next level. While He may not change our circumstances, He will use those circumstances to change us.
****These meditations are a ministry of the Recovery Christian Centers (RCC) of Philadelphia, PA. Join us every Friday at 7pm at RCC Kensington, 2418 Kensington Ave, Philly, PA 19134 or on Saturday at 5pm at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave, West Philly, PA 19104*****
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"The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, “Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.” So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. Then the Lord gave me this message: “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand." Jeremiah 18:1-6 NLT
One of the awesome truths to coming to Christ and into recovery is how much we change. If we look back on where we came from to where we are today it's almost as if we were two completely different people. The person we were is almost unrecognizable and we are grateful for the change. However if we are honest about the change we didn't just up and decided to change. It took most of us to get to a point of utter despair and desperation to become open to change. In short we had to become beaten in order to become willing.
As painful as those experiences were God used them to bring us to a point to accept change. As the text tells us we were broken down and remolded. Sometimes as we grow in our relationship with God and in our recovery we will encounter resistance to keep us from getting there just as we encountered resistance to us designed to keep us in our original bondage. We must trust God that just as He used our prior pain to change us that He will take what is meant to hold us back, even if we placed those chains on ourselves, to drive us into the next level. While He may not change our circumstances, He will use those circumstances to change us.
****These meditations are a ministry of the Recovery Christian Centers (RCC) of Philadelphia, PA. Join us every Friday at 7pm at RCC Kensington, 2418 Kensington Ave, Philly, PA 19134 or on Saturday at 5pm at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave, West Philly, PA 19104*****
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We would like to invite all of you to Recovery Christian Center West this Saturday as we celebrate the Licensing of Minister In Training Ranee Ledbetter. We will have dinner at 4pm and service will begin at 5pm. 4110 Haverford Avenue in West Philly! See you there!
Thursday, June 20, 2013
****So excited about what God is doing this week at Recovery Christian Centers. First on Friday at RCC Kensington Open Mic Nite at SKA 2418 Kensington Ave in Philly, we are continuing our series "Transforming Relationships Transforming Lives".
Then on Saturday at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly we are having our 2nd Annual Health and Community Information Day with food, and lots of great information and free health screenings, HIV/Hep C testing, acupuncture and a chiropractor! Don't miss it!!****
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/20/13 - Loving You is Killing Me
"Some time later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the valley of Sorek. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, 'Entice Samson to tell you what makes him so strong and how he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.'" Judges 16:4-5 NLT
One of the realities of living this new way of life is that we want someone to share it with. The problem is that too many of us get into relationships before we a healed enough to handle them and end up in either the wrong one or sadly enough the right one just at the wrong time. We end up either being victims or victimizing all over again or we just end up obsessed with someone in such a way that we take our eyes off God and our relationship with Him and end up attempting to replace our reliance on Jesus with this other person.
In our text we find the story of Samson who was a judge over Israel in the days before it was ruled by a king. One of his many talents is his superhuman strength, but he appears weak when it comes to the woman he falls in love with. He is unfortunately in love with someone who manipulates him and attempts to destroy him for her own selfish greed. He is a man chosen by God to lead that lets a bad relationship destroy him.
Unfortunately many of us make the same choice. Rather than wait on God for the right one at the right time, we compromise and settle for folk who are not good for us or for our relationship with God or our recovery OR we mess up potentially good relationships by turning them into hostageships and neglecting our spirituality that way. Either way this new "love" is killing us spiritually. It's time to let it and them go and allow God to work on us until we are mature enough to be in a relationship and still maintain a healthy balance in our lives.
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Then on Saturday at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly we are having our 2nd Annual Health and Community Information Day with food, and lots of great information and free health screenings, HIV/Hep C testing, acupuncture and a chiropractor! Don't miss it!!****
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/20/13 - Loving You is Killing Me
"Some time later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the valley of Sorek. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, 'Entice Samson to tell you what makes him so strong and how he can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.'" Judges 16:4-5 NLT
One of the realities of living this new way of life is that we want someone to share it with. The problem is that too many of us get into relationships before we a healed enough to handle them and end up in either the wrong one or sadly enough the right one just at the wrong time. We end up either being victims or victimizing all over again or we just end up obsessed with someone in such a way that we take our eyes off God and our relationship with Him and end up attempting to replace our reliance on Jesus with this other person.
In our text we find the story of Samson who was a judge over Israel in the days before it was ruled by a king. One of his many talents is his superhuman strength, but he appears weak when it comes to the woman he falls in love with. He is unfortunately in love with someone who manipulates him and attempts to destroy him for her own selfish greed. He is a man chosen by God to lead that lets a bad relationship destroy him.
Unfortunately many of us make the same choice. Rather than wait on God for the right one at the right time, we compromise and settle for folk who are not good for us or for our relationship with God or our recovery OR we mess up potentially good relationships by turning them into hostageships and neglecting our spirituality that way. Either way this new "love" is killing us spiritually. It's time to let it and them go and allow God to work on us until we are mature enough to be in a relationship and still maintain a healthy balance in our lives.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/18/13 - Just What Are You Afraid Of?
"We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first." I John 4:16-19 NLT
Most of us when we first came into recovery and into a relationship with God, readily admitted that fear ran our lives. Fear of intimacy, fear of others, fear of ourselves, fear of our circumstances, fear of the unknown, even fear of getting caught many times had us paralyzed or in a state of overcompensation to prove we weren't afraid.
What's sad is how many folk that have been in Christ and in recovery for many years are still allowing fear to run their life. The text tells us we have nothing to fear because of God's love. There is nothing that we will encounter in life that His love can't overcome. The more we immerse ourselves in His love the less we have need to be afraid. No matter what comes down the pike, His love will provide us the courage to face it. Through the power of His love we are able to face everything and recover.
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"We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first." I John 4:16-19 NLT
Most of us when we first came into recovery and into a relationship with God, readily admitted that fear ran our lives. Fear of intimacy, fear of others, fear of ourselves, fear of our circumstances, fear of the unknown, even fear of getting caught many times had us paralyzed or in a state of overcompensation to prove we weren't afraid.
What's sad is how many folk that have been in Christ and in recovery for many years are still allowing fear to run their life. The text tells us we have nothing to fear because of God's love. There is nothing that we will encounter in life that His love can't overcome. The more we immerse ourselves in His love the less we have need to be afraid. No matter what comes down the pike, His love will provide us the courage to face it. Through the power of His love we are able to face everything and recover.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
****Join us for this powerful and LIFE CHANGING series, "Transforming Relationships Transforming Lives" at Recovery Christian Centers. We're at RCC Kensington SKA 2418 Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19134 every Friday at 7pm and at RCC West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly every Saturday at 5pm****
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/14/13 - Letting Go of the Past
"So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" 2 Cor 5:16-17 NLT
One of the awesome truths about being in recovery and having a personal relationship with God is that we are literally new people. The problem is that many of us are still holding this new person hostage to our past. Whether it's us holding ourselves or allowing others to hold us hostage or even us holding someone else hostage we are still in a state of bondage to the past. We cannot say the past is behind of if it is still dictating our present. Too many of us have taken the text to mean that we should simply forget about it and "move on" but if it is still shaping our choices, relationships and circumstances today then have we really forgotten about it? Have we really moved on? Have we really let it go?
The answer to embracing the "new" us is to confront the "old" us because we can't begin to live the new life until we deal with the old one. The purpose of inventorying ourselves is to confront the past so we can find freedom in the present, and while God will do most of the heavy lifting in helping us get through it we have a part to play in becoming this new person. Finally we must also understand that the we're not just confronting what we did, but why we did it and how it affected us. In reality the why and how are much more important than the what because our freedom lies in the why and how. God is trying to help us understand and accept our past. Once we understand our past and how it has shaped us only than can we truly accept it, let it go and find our freedom. Then we can finally embrace this new person we are becoming.
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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 6/14/13 - Letting Go of the Past
"So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" 2 Cor 5:16-17 NLT
One of the awesome truths about being in recovery and having a personal relationship with God is that we are literally new people. The problem is that many of us are still holding this new person hostage to our past. Whether it's us holding ourselves or allowing others to hold us hostage or even us holding someone else hostage we are still in a state of bondage to the past. We cannot say the past is behind of if it is still dictating our present. Too many of us have taken the text to mean that we should simply forget about it and "move on" but if it is still shaping our choices, relationships and circumstances today then have we really forgotten about it? Have we really moved on? Have we really let it go?
The answer to embracing the "new" us is to confront the "old" us because we can't begin to live the new life until we deal with the old one. The purpose of inventorying ourselves is to confront the past so we can find freedom in the present, and while God will do most of the heavy lifting in helping us get through it we have a part to play in becoming this new person. Finally we must also understand that the we're not just confronting what we did, but why we did it and how it affected us. In reality the why and how are much more important than the what because our freedom lies in the why and how. God is trying to help us understand and accept our past. Once we understand our past and how it has shaped us only than can we truly accept it, let it go and find our freedom. Then we can finally embrace this new person we are becoming.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Getting ready for an exciting weekend of
worship at Recovery Christian Centers! This series Transforming Lives
Transforming Relationships has been LIFE CHANGING! You don't want to
miss anymore of it! Join us at RCC Kensington on Fridays at SKA
2418 Kensington Ave, Philly, PA at 7pm or on Saturdays at 7pm at RCC
West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly! We are Radical Ministry for
Radical Brokenness!
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Saturday, June 8, 2013
Join us today at Recovery Christian Center
West for Week 2 of our Powerful Life Changing series "Transforming Lives
Transforming Relationships". This week focuses on our relationship with
self! Be there! 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly at 5pm!
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