Lazarus Recovery Blog
Life in the Spirit 1
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xcmj-12c60a6 Life in the Holy Spirit describes the Biblical experience of operating in the Holy Spirit as described in ACTS. These are my experiences getting sober in AA. I encountered the Catholic Charismatic renewal in my...
The What? 2 Ground Rules.
This is the story of my journey into the Holy Spirit. When I chased the redhead into the Prayer Meeting in Brighton my faith was a higher power as I chose to define Him. And it was working I was sober and I was chasing a girl. This was miraculous and I was not in...
The What?
In 1976 I chased a ditsy red-headed AA girl into a prayer meeting. I stayed. Something got a hold of me beyond the girl. I was like a dog chasing a new scent. I did not know what it was, but it was different. I was newly spiritually sensitive. I was asking God as I...
Seasons hearing the seasons
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kdzn8-12b501a I talk about the concept of seasons and how to hear the voice of scripture from Ecclesiastes 3. And once hearing the voice of scripture and how that impacts people from Recovery and Faith backgrounds,
Seasons in Recovery and Faith
This blog/ podcast is going to be different. Life has its stuff. in some versions of the bible, they are called seasons. In the NIV version, I am going to use it called time. Here is the portion of text I am going to use: Ecclesiastes 3 1- 8 1 There is a time for...
Bag of Worms 1
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xn9g4-12a2130 In spiritual things Not everything which sounds good is good. Like in software there is malware. The treasure is defended. The Lord guards His treasure. Episode 29 Bag of Worms.
Victory 2 in the The Holy Ghost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vtmw3-129a7ef Victory is all about change! In faith and specifically in Pentecostal circles the agent of change is the presence of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, This is my story.
Victory 2
The victory lesson evolved. As these things happen The Lord intervened. From a class on the features of change, the teaching morphed into looking at the place of the Holy Spirit in the whole change process. Change can't be faked. The use of the step process can be a...
Victory
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p4j6j-1289f11 Victory is not overcoming your stuff, but rather enjoying your life in the presence of your stuff.
What is the goal?
Where are we going? How do we know we are on track? In my experience, we start out with simple goals. For me getting sober I did not want to go where it looked like I was headed. As I cleared up and got some normalcy in sobriety my hopes turned from grabbing a...
Chuck Beck
Founder of Lazarus Recovery Services LLC
Recovery History started in 1974.
Chuck got sober in AA in Brookline, Ma
With stops in the Catholic Charmatic renewal.
The Assembly of God.
Straight evangelical Churches.
Recovery groups ran from small recovery groups in churches to
Large groups like Celebrate Recovery.