Celebrate Recovery: A Recovery Program Based on Eight Principles from the Beatitudes

We were able to use this leader guide to start our full functioning CR in 2008. It has a well thought out, experienced, plan for preparing your leaders and equipping your group for a successful launch of Celebrate Recovery. I purchased 5 of these this time to give to another group wanting to start their own CR. Through this program we have been blessed to be a part of recovery in many people's lives as they leave their past behind and move forward into the light with Jesus Christ as their savior. The wonderful thing about this program is how it blends the best of the widely practiced 12-step programs with the truth of the bible.

This book was mailed and delivered in a timely manner. Only thing I need to do is have a word with my mailman, as he bent it all up cramming it into my mailbox!!! Thank you!

Celebrate Recovery works because it is a biblicaly backed tool that is written using Gods principles and guidelines for our lives. It is put in a format that is easy to understand and gets to the root of our issues. No matter what your background is drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse, adandoment, anger, over eating, over spending. If your life is out of control, your marriage a mess or you just want more God, Celebrate Recovery can show you how to heal, grow and teach others. It is not just for those that are beyond hope, it is for everyone.I have been a Christian for 15 years, but still had resentment and habits in my life from learned dsyfunctions that did not allow me the freedom Christ had for me. A little over two years ago I went through an experience that totally devastated me. I would not have tried to take my own life, but everynight for months I would come home and kneel by my bed and pray for Jesus to take me home. I was sick of being here where your heart was ripped out and everyone was always playing games it seemed at your expense. It was at that point that God truly humbled me and started turning my life around. Celebrate Recovery has started me at the begining and is step by step guiding me through what Gods word can and wants to do if we will just apply it to our lives. But most of us do not understand how to do this. I know it works because it has changed my life. And I see it doing miracles in peoples lives every week. I am now the Celebrate Recovery coordinator in my church. We are a small church of about 100 people, about 40 members, but on Fridays nights there are 12 faitful people that show up and say here we are God, change us. And he is taking this tool that has been given us and healing hurts that have been buried for 10, 20 or more years, he is changing thinking habits and lifestyles that have chained us to our past. It is healing and setting free. Since Sept. 12, 200, we have been meeting and at times I just stand in awe of what I see happening. ANd looke forward to the knowledge that when this class is over after the 52 weeks that there will be 12 ministys that will be laucnhed to touch people in all different needs. It is a tool that not only takes the broken, hurt, addicted and abused form their painful lifestyle, but it develops them so that they can show others.God had taken me form a life of drugs, abandonment and broken relationships, sexual abuse and things that I never understood that they were from bad choices, then he showed me that I must be set free from the chains that I had allowed to be placed around me.God took one broken, messed up woman and is gracious enough to use her to teach this to others, so that they too can be healed and touch others.This book is a must for everyone that wants a life of freedom found in Christ. If it is not in your church or home it should be.

The purpose of this book is to allow us to become free from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits. By working through the eight principles of recovery based on the Beatitudes, with Jesus Christ as our Higher Power, we can and will change! You will experience the true peace and Serenity that you have been seeking. You will no longer need to rely on dysfunctional, compulsive, and addictive behaviors as a temporary fix" for your pain.Time does not heal all wounds, but time only extends the pain if the problem isn't dealt with. This Book is based on the actual words of Jesus rather than a psychological theory.I can say this not only because I have the book, but I have been in the celebrate recovey program for the last five months and I am a living testimony, it works! You will be blessed with a deep peace and a lasting freedom as you walk your own road to recovery and receive a increased stronger relationship with God and others!God Bless You :)

After searching numerous places for a program that people can relate to and attract to, this one hits the spot. Its combining of topics and the way it identifies its principles allows for a real flexible program. It allows for people currently in 12 step secular programs to see the need for Christ in their lives. It also allows for suffering Christians to see where they need fellowship with others like themselves in order to overcome. We are adopting this program by year end 1998.