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Castimonia Purity Podcast Episode 37: The Importance of Rest – Addiction Recovery talk with Nick Fouts of Cedar Rock Ministries

Nick Fouts is the co-founder of Cedar Rock Ministries that strives to teach people about how to incorporate rest into their lives. He has experience as a presenter, counselor, and he has served on the mission field in Africa.

Nick and Doug discuss the importance of learning the discipline of rest. They discuss the dangers of living distracted and busy.  Nick offers practical suggestions for helping set aside our own pride to learn to live “from rest” not “to rest”

If you need more information or to find help, please email us at puritypodcast@castimonia.org.

Cedar Rock Ministries offers seminars and retreats for couples in healing, restoring, and bettering marriages. Their website is https://www.cedarrockministries.com

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Patience

One Day at a Time

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Rock Bottom – VIDEO (Corrected Video Link)

(Sorry the video was not available on the previous post.  Below is a shorter version of the video posted.)

If this doesn’t scare you straight, I don’t know what else will!

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Survey from Fight The New Drug (FTND)

Do You Have 10 Minutes?

Hey Fighters,

As you know, at Fight the New Drug, our mission is to raise awareness on the harmful effects of pornography.

We are working with a researcher who would like to better understand the “why” behind certain sexual behaviors. He has developed an anonymous survey to help all of us better understand what this fight for love entails. For this, we need your help!

Have you ever struggled with pornography or another type of unwanted sexual behavior? If so, please help us with this survey! (If not, we will not need you to take this survey.)

Here’s some more information about the survey:

  • It’s going to ask some pretty specific questions, so be ready for that.
  • It will take you about 10 minutes to complete. You can stop and come back if you need to take a break.
  • The survey is completely anonymous.
  • Please complete the survey by January 20th.

Click on this link to begin (for best user experience, use a tablet, laptop, or desktop).

https://www.consergroup.com/USB/default.asp?r=FightTheNewDrug – Copy and paste this link if the link above does not work.

Thank you for your contribution.

Sincerely,

Clay Olsen
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Fight the New Drug

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You Are In Control of Your Choices

Romans 8:13 – ““For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.””

A common boundary problem is disowning our choices and trying to lay the responsibility for them on someone else. Think for a moment how often we use the phrases, “I had to” or “She (he) made me” when explaining why we did or did not do something. These phrases betray our basic illusion that we are not active agents in many of our dealings. We think someone else is in control, thus relieving us of our basic responsibility.

We need to realize that we are in control of our choices, no matter how we feel. This keeps us from making choices to give “reluctantly or under compulsion,” as 2 Corinthians 9:7 says. Paul would not even accept a gift that he felt was given because the giver felt he “had to” give it. He once sent a gift back so “that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced” (Philemon 1:14).

Jesus said a similar thing to the worker who was angry about the wage for which he had agreed to work: “Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius?” (Matthew 20:13). The man had made a free choice to work for a certain amount and was angry because someone who had worked fewer hours had gotten the same wage.

Throughout the Scriptures, people are reminded of their choices and asked to take responsibility for them. Like Paul says, if we choose to live by the Spirit, we will live; if we choose to follow our sinful nature, we will die (Romans 8:13). Making decisions based on others’ approval or on guilt breeds resentment, a product of our sinful nature. We have been so trained by others on what we “should” do that we think we are being loving when we do things out of compulsion.
Setting boundaries inevitably involves taking responsibility for your choices. You are the one who makes them. You are the one who must live with their consequences. And you are the one who may be keeping yourself from making the choices you could be happy with.

Today’s content is drawn from Boundaries DVD Study by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. Copyright 2014 by Zondervan; all rights reserved. Visit BoundariesBooks.com for more information