We talked on Friday about how necessary forgiveness of others was to open up our heats to the Love of Jesus. Before we can really feel safe in forgiving ti is necessary in many cases to deal with two other issues that stand in the way of our feeling safe enough to deal with the hurt of the past. Today we will discuss one of these. We will discuss t…

We canotinue to discuss sexual purity, one of the 4 absolutes.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We had a technical glicth. We will restart the show at 2:30 The four absolutes which first appeared in Robert Spears "The Principles of Jeus," as 1 Purity 2 Honesty 3 Unselfishenss and 4 Love. Frank Buchman put Honesty first as he used the 4 'stabdards' as a way of self examination. When he frist adopted the 'standards' purity was at the top. Frank…

Frank Buchman called his minitry 'World Changer." Bill Wilson believed that AA could also change the world. From the 23rd chapter of the book 'Absolutlely Sober,' we will discuss this idea of world changing.Bởi Creating a Sober World

The idea of letting go absolutely did not enter into the speech of most Christians until the late 1800's with the publication of Hannah Whital-Smith's "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life." we ill talk about this idea of complete surrender on today's show.Bởi Creating a Sober World

On Wednesday we discussed the power of pupose. Today we discuss the power of position. The Keswick Conferences, which started in 1875 taught us about the power of taking our position in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The AA talks on pg63 fo their text, of the what happens when we take a position. We were reborn.…

Having a clearly defined purpose in life is an extremely powerful thing. We will talk about purpose and, more specifically, the primary purpose of Creating a Sober World on today's show.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We have Eric Donaldson back with us today as we discuss living as the body of Christ. I will be asking Eric to discuss how this might relate to the sense of community that has been traditionally been a source or strenght to the African Amrican Church.Bởi Creating a Sober World

The concept that God chooses us is a great comfort to Christians, but there are many who question the teaching of the doctrine of 'election'. They ask why would God choose some but reject others. We discuss these and other aspects of God's saving grace on today's show. Call in 646-652-2234Bởi Creating a Sober World

The issue of free will has been hotly debated for the past 500 years. In our recovery model, we turn our will over to God. So we can say that we now no longer live by our own will. Many people scoff at this idea, but it is a living reality to us who are love slaves to Jesus.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Our Guest today is Eric Donaldson, Unity Minister from Memphis TN. We worked together in the One Chruch One Addict project in the late 1990's. I haved invited him to engage in our conversation for Creating a Sober World.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We had a great discussion yesterday. We return to the same topic today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

The Church is the chosen people of God, the body of Christ. This is the focus of our conversation today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We see that a ruling elite, right and left have taken over the country. The solution sober up and become 'self governed'. Join us ast 2 PM today. Call in 646-652-2234.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Thereis a alot of understanding and plain confusion concerning the idea of the 'Disease Concept of Addiction." Today, Jay and I will have a conversation that gets to the bottom of this sometimes controversal topic.Bởi Creating a Sober World

The one great problem with Philosophy, from Socrates to the present is that it is disembodied and places man as not fully engaged with his world,. Thus we now see the collapse of western ideas as they are not based on anyting except doubt - as Descartes said, I doubt, therefore I am. We talk today about this disembodiement and how Jesus returns us …

We have as a guest Mark Culligan from New Hearts Outreach. Mark's ministry is to those with unwanted same sex attractions and their families. His web site says; That the perpose of New Heaerts Outreach is to bring the relationally and sexually broken into intimate relationship with Christ.To train, educate and inform the church, local businesses an…

This is the last part of the 4th section of The Century of Self. We conclude our discussion of how we have been manipulated by business and politicians.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Dick Morris was called in to save the Clinton Campaign in 1995. He set out to do "small bore" politics. To do life style focus group testing and to model Clinton's campaign on the desires of the people and not on creating a good government. Robert Reich refers tot the as the end of the progressive idea of makng people better and more responsible ci…

Whisical title, the song by the Stones captured the sprit of the eara. Artists are alway the first to catch the new ethos. In this episode Regan and Thatcher are painted as placing the satisfaction of desires at the center of society. The program accuses Regan of making a lack of compassion as being respectable. The program will later accuse the le…

By the 1990, it came to be believed that the satisfaction of desires and feeling was our highest priority. Then politics took over the techiniques from the advertisers. The only problem was that these techniques were not designed to set people free but to enslave them to their unconscious desires, and even fantasies.…

In our show on Tuesday, our talk turned to the desire and what happens when God removes the desire to do something that could be harmful in our lives. Jay and I will be discussing this on our show today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We finish up with this third hour of the Centuray of Self today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We continue our discussion of the developments in the psychologies of self expression which developed in the 1960's - the 1980's. We will be listening to part 3C of the Century of Self.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We listen to part two of the 3rd hours of the BBC documentary on the Century of Self. From Fruedian suppression and control of dangerous emtions, there was a rebellion which led to the idea of letting out emotions. We will listen and discuss the audio.Bởi Creating a Sober World

By the 1960's people were getting angry over the way that the theories of Sigmund Freud had been used by business and government to control and manipulate the masses. We then saw a shift from trying to control unwanted emotions to 'letting it all hang ourt." We today talk about this next phase of creating the all consuming, all desiring self.…

The first word in the firstr step of the AA program is "we." We admitted we were powerless and that our live had become unmanagable. It is ofen difficult from people to come into the body of recovery or the body of Christ because of our need to be a sovreign self. Even after we supposedly surrender to Christ, our 'struggle' with sin is directy resu…

Today we hear and discuss attepmts to program the human mind using brainwashing techniques, LSD, and electroshock therapy. Psychoannalysis comes into disrepute when Marilyn Monroe commits suicide.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Today we hear how and discuss how the teaching of Anna Frued and Edward Bernays are used by the CIA. Rather getting rid of fear, They would manipulate the fears of the people to manipulate public opinion in the Cold World.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Today we talk about continuting developments of psychology in managing the subconscious mind.Bởi Creating a Sober World

With the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, American PR people in partnership with the CIA began to shape public opinion using polls and advertising techniques to disimform the American people. This was another step along the path of shaping the American 'Selft.'Bởi Creating a Sober World

This is the 4th section of a PBS Special on the history of the development of public relations and the manipulation of the masses.Bởi Creating a Sober World

We contintue to discuss the manipulation of the masses by modern public relations.Bởi Creating a Sober World

On Dec 21 we replayed a session we did several months ago on Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew and the development of public relations and later advertising. It was based on the idea of manipulating people's uncoucious drives and casuing them to do things that are irrational because they can be made to feel good though manipulation.…

This is a encore presentation as we are on the road today. We replay the first protion of a BBC presentation on the Century of Self, the story of how Sigmund Frued's Brother started the Public Relations industry in the US and began creating dissatisfation by tapping into peoples "subconscious needs.' We see in the breakdown of our culture the resul…

Jesus said that he came to do the will of his Father and of his own will He did nothing. We were to pray He told us, 'Thy will be done...' We are to be obedient to Him. When a person gets into a recovery program where he makes a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God... So how is it that we commonly hear Christians say, 'I…

At the core of all recovery, and all healing for that matter is the need for the afflicted indivual to admit that they have not power inside themselves to do the correct thing - to make corrected choices.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Jesus said that we should love our enemies, and turn the other cheek. That we should consider it a blessing when people cursed and reviled us and spoke all manor of evil against us falsely. In Matthew chapter 18 he says that if we do not forgive our neighbor his trespasses, we will be turned over to the tormentor. In Matt 6:15 he says .. if you do …

The Apostle Paul said that he was crucified to the world and the world crucified to him. (Galatians 6:14). John said; 1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the …

Yesterday, we made our way to the 1500's and began to talk about the confusion brought about by the renaissance philosophers. This is where we will continue today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

From the beginning of the Church age, there have been apostate or heretical church bodies. The Apostle Paul had to deal with these heresies in his own day: Gal 1:6-9 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would perver…

From the pages of the 'Twelve Steps and Twelve Tradtions' we read "Who cares to admit complete defeat...?' We only quit struggling with sin and our addicitons when we let go absolutely, give up and trust God. We can then lead a life, no of our own choosing, but one 'Guided by God."Bởi Creating a Sober World

In the book Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson declared that in order to live a God-guided life there was a price to be paid. He said: Simple but not easy; a price had to be paid. It meant destruction fo self-centeredness. This is our topic of our discussion today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Our culture is addicted to durgs, sex and rock and roll as well as power, fame, fortune and control just to name a few. Society is melting down due to its own immorality. Each of us can make a difference and create a sober world if we will practice the four absolutes daily and ask God to tell us what to do to create a sober world.…

We are applying to be considered for sellection Glenn Beck's project, Pursuit of the Truth. We will share this with our listeners today.Bởi Creating a Sober World

Paul says in 1 Cor 4:9: For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, last as men condemed to death; for we ahve been made a spectacle to the world, both to anges and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake.... We will talk about his and other passages which speak to this apect of living the authenic life of a disciple of Christ. This at the he…

We finish our discussion of the gifts as we talk about the 5-fold ministry gifts and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.Bởi Creating a Sober World

There was an article in the British press regarding the increase in sex addiction. We will discuss this on today's show. Call in. You do not have to give you name. There is help for sex addiction. For personal contact email soberwordl@soberworld.comBởi Creating a Sober World

We continue our discussion of the gifts of the Father listed in Romans 12:6.Bởi Creating a Sober World

The individual Christian and the Body of Christ has been given gifts. Today we will talk about the gifts from the Father.Bởi Creating a Sober World