Step 12: Living a Spiritual Life in the World
In Step 10, we put in place strategies for maintaining our interconnections with others; in Step 11, we did the same for our interconnection with God. Now, we need to […]
Category: Lent 2023
2023 Lenten Series
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Step 11: Keeping Conscious Contact
With Step 10, we put in place a number of strategies that—with the help of God—will allow us to maintain healthy and effective relationships with our fellow travelers on planet […]
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Step10: Keeping Your Side Clean
Step 10 keeps our relationship with others in good order. Here is Step 10: “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” The essence of […]
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Session 6 Review & Overview
Once more, we’re going to begin with a brief review of our sessions up until now. In our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that […]
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Step 9: Reconciliation
Here we begin what may be the most challenging aspect of the Twelve Steps for Spiritual Growth. We’ve completed all the steps leading up to our final reconciliation with the […]
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Step 8: Preparing for Amends
In this session, we’ll be completing the re-establishment of our interconnections with our fellow women and men and any organizations or institutions we’ve harmed by our old attitudes and behaviors. […]
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Session 5 Review & Overview
As usual, let’s begin with a brief review of our sessions up until now. Once again, in our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that […]
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Step 7: Treatment
At this point, we should be well on our way toward completing our reintegration with our better, higher selves. We’ve diagnosed the issues that are interfering with our spiritual growth, […]
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Step 6: Diagnosis
In this session, we’ll be looking closely at the behaviors we uncovered in steps four and five to see the unhealthy patterns that consciously or unconsciously sabotaged our spiritual progress. […]
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Session 4 Review & Overview
Let’s see where we are today. Once again, in our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that spirituality is a universal sense of interconnection with […]
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Step 5: Cleaning House
Recall that, when we completed Step 3, “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God,” we saw that we were on the […]
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Step 4: Taking Inventory
We’ll begin by looking at what Step 4 actually says, but, before we proceed to examine it, we’re going to need to get rid of some serious misunderstandings arising from […]
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Session 3 Review & Overview
Let’s see where we are today. In our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that spirituality is a universal sense of interconnection with the Transcendent—that […]
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Step 3: Creating Hope
In the second step, we’ve located the object of our faith: a personal Transcendent Power that is capable of restoring us to sanity. In this step, we’re going to find […]
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Step 2: Finding Faith
In this session, we’ll start by looking for ways that we can find the Power that we need outside of ourselves, especially in the Transcendent. Then, we’ll examine the differences […]
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Session 2 Overview
Let’s see where we are today. In our first session, we began by discussing spirituality in general. We said that spirituality is a universal sense of interconnection with the Transcendent—that […]
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Step 1: Powerlessness and Unmanageability
In this segment, we’ll be looking at some of the nagging problems that afflict us all, and show how the first step can initiate the process of spiritual recovery. Here’s […]
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Introduction to Spirituality and the Steps
In this first segment, we’re going to be examining spirituality and giving a brief introduction to the steps. First, we’ll develop a definition of spirituality that consists of four elements: […]
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Series Overview
Let’s begin by taking a bird’s eye view of what we’re going to be considering for the next six weeks. The title of this series is “Twelve Steps to Spiritual […]