Category: Articles

  • The Four Absolutes?

    My primary purpose is to keep my focus on God and Spiritual Principles. To begin every day, and every job, with asking myself, “What does God want me to do?” And to ask myself, “How can I be helpful and help this person?” “How can I help them to be free of their pain, and…

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  • Alcoholics Anonymous most effective path to alcohol abstinence

    Alcoholics Anonymous most effective path to alcohol abstinence. The largest, most rigorous independent study on Alcoholics Anonymous to date shows that AA can help people get sober, stay sober, drink less, and suffer fewer negative consequences of drinking, all while keeping health care costs down. A Stanford researcher and two collaborators conducted an extensive review…

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  • 12 Steps for Christians

    The 12 Steps are to produce the spiritual equivalent of the “conversion experience”. Is it possible to be “saved” or “born-again” without experiencing “conversion”?  The 12 Steps are outlined in the New Testament. The difference in “Taking the 12 Steps” and simply an “act of professing one’s faith” is: one has to do with “verifiable…

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  • Fourth Step Worksheets Guides and 12 Steps Study Work Sheets

    Edited on June 1, 2022 These are the original Fourth Step Guides and Work sheets used in the Dallas B., AA Big Book Study, the 4th Step Workshops, and the 12 Step Study Workshops. If you get these 4th Step Worksheets and Guides else — they are likely not the originals and may have been…

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  • Vision for you — A.A. Big Book

    Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order.…

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  • Promises — A.A. Big Book

    THE A.A. PROMISES If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity…

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  • The Twelve Traditions — Long Form

    1. Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward. 2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as…

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  • AA 12 Traditions — History

    The A.A. 12 Traditions are included below, in both the long form and the short form. The short form of the 12 Traditions is what is most often read at the beginning of A.A. meetings or events and the long form of the 12 Traditions is the actual text of the 12 Traditions that you…

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  • Official Medical Definition of Alcoholism and Alcoholic

    The first step to solving any problem is to define the problem.  To define the problem of alcoholic and/or alcoholism we need an operating definition. This sounds simple and easy enough, aye? Get on your favorite search engine and search for: ‘Official Medical Definition of Alcoholic and Alcoholism.’ On Google – I got 32,100,000 results.…

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  • Using the 12 Steps to Overcome ANY Addiction

    Yes.  You read that right.  I said ‘Using the 12 Steps to Overcome ANY Addiction‘.  You can use the 12 Steps to overcome ANY addiction. How do I know this?  1. I’ve personally used the 12 Steps to recover from my own addictions. 2. I began using the 12 Steps for recovery in 1986 –…

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  • Clancy’s Seven Questions

    For Sponsors, Sponsorship and Newcomer’s The original Clancy’s Seven Questions was something I wrote down, while I was talking with Clancy I., on the telephone during one of my weekly check-in calls with him. To keep the story short — I wrote down the questions WRONG! And, I had already posted them online in a…

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  • Twelve Traditions — Short Form

    1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity. 2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. 3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is…

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