Celebrate Recovery Hickory Ridge

“Celebrate Recovery Hickory Ridge” is a faith-based, Christ-centered, 12 Step program that is combined with the 8 Recovery Principles that Jesus taught in the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount.

The purpose of "Celebrate Recovery Hickory Ridge" is to “celebrate” God’s healing power in our lives, to help people begin to grow spiritually and through the power of Jesus Christ be "set free” from their addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors which are real matters of life and death.

Every congregation and every community has people who are hurting and hiding, but not healing from things done to them or things they have done to others in the past.

The “Celebrate Recovery Hickory Ridge” program is designed to teach individuals how to handle and overcome and find healing for the hurts in their lives, the habits that are messing up their lives and the hang-ups that prevent them from growing spiritually!

Through the application of the 8 Recovery Principles which are based on the Beatitudes Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount, and a Christ-centered 12 step program, individuals can put the pieces of their lives back together by learning to move beyond their hurts, habits, and hang-ups!

Hurts – Hang-ups – Habits

Hurts: Pain, sometimes a great deal of it, comes into our lives because of things like divorce, neglect, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, diseases, death of a loved one, our own sin (usually our greatest source of pain), etc.

Hang-ups: Because of our hurts, we develop hang-ups, which is basically any personal or emotional difficulty that a person seems unable to deal with that prevents (holds back, hangs up) the person from growing spiritually:

Physical - physical appearance, vanity

Psychological - phobias, perfectionism, hypochondria, obsessions, compulsions

Social/relational - hurtful relationships, inability to trust anyone
Emotional - grief, depression

Spiritual - guilt, anger, rage, violent tempers, hatred, bitterness, resentment, fear, anxiety, worry, insecurity, selfishness, criticisms, jealousies, unforgiveness, racial prejudice, bigotry, materialism, pride, greed, a negative opinion of the church, blaming God for our problems, etc.

Habits: To help us (we think) deal with our hurts and hang-ups, we usually develop harmful and sinful habits such as:

Chemical addictions - drugs, alcohol, tobacco, anything you put in your body

Sexual addictions - uncontrolled lust, adulteries, fornications, pornography

Other addictions - gambling, profanity, codependency, lying, procrastination, the need to control, overworking, laziness, food (overeating/under-eating), overspending, video games, television, social media, etc.

The good news is this - regardless of the problem you need recovery from, the steps to recovery are always the same.

Jeremiah 17:14 – “O Lord, if you heal me, I will be truly healed; if you save me, I will be truly saved. My praises are for you alone!” NLT