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“Your liver's just so damaged. You drink anymore, you're going to die. And those who could not drink alcohol or couldn't stop now all of a sudden can stop. Now, to be honest with you, some can't even stop then. But but a lot can uh cigarettes smoking. I can't stop. Go to the doctor, you got lung cancer, you smoke again, you're going to die. And many are able to stop. Some again aren't able to, but many are able to stop. Now, let me tell”
Charles Lowery · Just Hit Send“When you get a diagnosis of stage four heart cancer, right? I don't even know if that's a thing or not, but if it is, your time is limited, right? You can change your diet. You can do any homeopathic thing you want to do. You can stop drinking, smoking, dieting. I mean, you can do all the right things, but you still have a death sentence written over your heart. And in the same way, spiritually speaking, this is true of our hearts as well.”
Stephen Newman · The Pursuit of Purity“Every time you repeat a behavior, whether it is good or bad, you strengthen the neural pathways that make it easier to do it again. That's why when someone begins to violate what should be protections in their lives, where they go in their thoughts, the dependence they have upon alcohol, the dependence they have upon drugs, the indulgence of pornography, the more those neurons fire, the more common”
David H. McKinley · Reflection: Finding Peace in God’s Presence“You see, the reality is, is that I think we all know what media, technology, and even social media are doing to our brains and our minds. Doctors would tell you today that the dopamine hit that you get from a like on social media is the very same dopamine type hit you get from taking substances and drugs. It's addictive in nature, and regardless of what level of addiction we all maybe have,”
Stephen Newman · Reflection: Finding Peace in God’s Presence“then it leaves us unsatisfied so we can get another hit. And this is where alcoholism, This is where drug addiction starts and comes from, porn addiction. I mean, you name it. They're all there because what they do give, what they do give is a temporary veil over the hardships of life that we don't have to think about for a moment. Do get released that help us feel good for a moment.”
Stephen Newman · Happy are the Hungry
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“Go to the doctor. Your liver's just so damaged. You drink any more, you're going to die. And those who could not drink alcohol or couldn't stop, now all of a sudden can stop. Now, to be honest with you, some can't even stop them. but a lot can. Cigarettes smoking. I can't stop. Go to the doctor, you've got lung cancer, you smoke again, you're going to die. And many are able to stop. Some again aren't able to, but many are able to stop. Well, let me tell you, the best people, the best churches,”
Charles Lowery · May 25, 2025“how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? And don't seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. In other words, God wants us to stop fixating on our abilities, on our wealth or our lack of wealth.”
Andrew Skelton · Learning to Pay It Forward“said, I want to wake up on purpose with intentionality and live in bondage. But the reality is that many of us live our lives in absolute bondage to our sinful tendencies, our bad habits, and our affections and our intentions and our thoughts that are apart from the thoughts of God. And so for freedom, Christ has set us free. Therefore, stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. I tell my boys all the time that freedom comes at a cost”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“are still in bondage. But still, through fasting, perhaps more than any other practice, the power of the Holy Spirit to break the chains of sin is released into our bodies themselves. So what happens when we fast is that we inflict our stomachs intentionally in order that our sinful, broken habits that come to the surface when we're hungry and when we're vulnerable are surfaced in such a way that we can pray in those moments and ask God in those moments of”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“and commonly cited triggers for relapse. Addiction thrives in isolation. Active addiction often leads to damaged relationship, burned bridges, a retreat from social connections. In early recovery, individuals might feel isolated even when physically around others, struggling to reconnect with healthy friends and family, are finding themselves alone with difficult emotions that they use substances and indulgences to avoid.”
David H. McKinley · Decisions“And what happens over time is that we've lived much of our life apart from Christ and before we knew Christ, and we pick up these bad habits that when I hear something or somebody treats me a certain way, I respond a certain way. And they're usually sinful and broken. And if we're not careful, we'll just live in these bad habits the rest of our lives. Because our minds have this weird way of mapping things. I remember I moved houses”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“but freedom, it must drag our sins into the light, not keeping them in solitary confinement. So many of us live our entire life with our brokenness and our sin covered up and we're walking constantly in the guilt and the shame and the bondage of our brokenness and our sinfulness. And what he's saying is what we need to do is get it out of solitary confinement and bring it to the light. A raw power and genuine freedom come when you name your sin”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“it's closer to empty than it is to full. I don't know what the deal with that is. But you're nervous, right? When you're driving and it's almost empty, you're nervous. Every single day, every single day of life, you wake up spiritually empty. Nothing to offer and nothing to give. And if I wake up rushed, let me tell you my habits. If I wake up just before my kids wake up, if I hit the alarm off multiple different times and I have to rush to hurry up, brush my teeth, get the coffee going, get the kids up, and kind of get them at the table, let me tell you what happens in those moments.”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“the flesh, because failure, defeat, leads to brokenness and bondage, to despair and to shame in so many of our lives. So let me start with what I would call a concept that we need to grasp, a concept for us to grasp, and that is the concept of what is the meaning of the word”
David H. McKinley · Growing in Dependance on Grace“It's the place where brokenness and bondage sink its teeth. And it's where despair and defeat attempt to take hold and enslave and to destroy us. If you've ever tangled with the flesh, which every one of you have, you know, you know the struggle. I love this definition of the flesh.”
Joseph Humphreys · Growing in Dependence on Grace“with these pathways of negative intention and the sinful habits for so long. And so what do we have to do? We have to renew our minds. We have to rewire our thinking in order that we would rewire and alter our thought life because our thought life determines our actions which become who we are. And so how do we do this? Let's go back to 2 Corinthians chapter 12 and he describes it in verses nine and 10. We know he's been given a thorn in the flesh”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“Jesus Christ died the penalty that you deserve on the cross and he came to life after three days later to unleash resurrection power into your mind and in your heart that you don't live to the old self anymore but you live as a free individual that breaks the bondage of sin and brokenness and lives open to God's spirit and the freedom to love him, enjoy him, and love and serve other people around you. Would you pray with me? Jesus, I pray that just reality of lives in this room.”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“and my friends and close community. This is a completely forgotten habit in our day in the West that I would encourage you to sit down, maybe if you have a spouse, kids, whatever, and begin to write out what does it look like for you to take this commandment seriously because this is one of the primary means that we reignite one day a week our hearts to God and people and the things that matter the most.”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“room and I'm filled with God's spirit, it's a lot different than when I'm operating out of my flesh on empty. And so we must get into the presence of God. Number four habit that I want to give you today or discipline is Sabbath delight. Sabbath delight. Why did I say delight? Because the Sabbath is the best day of the week. Sabbath day is the day that's meant to be a blessing and a gift for”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“encouragements, habits, and spiritual disciplines to form us into the image of Christ. It's through fasting. You realize our old church fathers, they would fast every single Wednesday and Friday because they realized the importance of literally afflicting our stomach and not eating to force us and push us to rely on something outside of ourselves and mainly the spirit of God to draw near to us”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“jealousy. Let me just highlight that one for a second. That's just looking at people around us going, they don't have to struggle with what I have to struggle with. That's looking at people around you going, why do they get that and I don't get that? It's an ungrateful heart. Fits of anger, just frustrated all the time. Rivalries and dissensions and divisions. Envying what someone else has. Drunkenness or giving into substances to try to kind of salve or try to calm whatever”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“in young kids' hearts to welcome people with hospitality at doors and you will take your eyes off of yourself and you'll place them on other people and you'll experience his freedom and his spirit in a new and a profound and a fresh way. And so I would just end the message this way today. Christ didn't die on a cross. and come back to life three days later so you would remain in the bondage that you're in.”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“He said, very few practices have the capacity to humble us as does fasting. When you begin fasting, it's common to feel sad and even anxious or just plain hangry. With regular practice, these feelings mostly go away and are replaced by joy and contentment and a sense of intimacy with God and spiritual power. but it takes a while to wean your soul off its addiction to the Western gods of pleasure, instant gratification, and sensory appetites. The first thing it normally does is reveal where you”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“So let me tell you what this is not, the way that we battle. We don't battle by pulling up our bootstraps, trying harder, doing more, performing more. Let me tell you where that gets you. As I think back of so many bad habits that I had in my own life and I tried to conquer them in my own strength, I ended up on my face over and over and over again until finally God brings me to a place of going, Stephen, this battle isn't yours. Like you were never meant to fight this battle in your own strength. You're meant to tap into a resurrection power and the resurrection power is poured out by”
Stephen Newman · Growing in Dependence on Grace“and through the power of the Spirit living in you, you can live a new life and indeed live with hope for the future. Father, thank You today for the victory that Jesus has provided. But even as I thank You for that victory that we see and that we hear in Scripture, I pray that today, Lord, there would be someone here who would see and know that the battles and the brokenness and the bondage that have so often defined their life”
David H. McKinley · Growing in Dependance on Grace