Recovery Ministry

Empowered by grace and anchored in Scripture, our Recovery Ministry resources offer compassionate guidance and Christ-centered support to help individuals and groups find healing, hope, and lasting freedom through God's redeeming love.

Everyone is Recovering from Something

Is there really any hope for a spiritual way of living that actually works?

Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we’re all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.

In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change but we can’t do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AAs 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for:

  • Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own lives
  • Distinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futile
  • Discovering how God can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, and
  • Living authentically, joyfully and in communion with God and other people.

Ortberg shows us how to discover:

  • Our spiritual attachment styles
  • Our core doubts
  • The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness
  • God’s sufficiency in our inadequacy

In Steps, find what’s needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship and a new happiness no matter our circumstances.

Celebrate Recover 35th Anniversary (2025)

More CR Resources

  1. NIV Celebrate Recovery Study Bible, 35th Anniversary Edition--paperbackThis product can be personalized
    John Baker
    Zondervan / 2025 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Celebrate Recovery Volumes 1-4 Participant's Guide Updated Edition, The Journey Begins 35th Anniversary Edition: A Program for Implementing a Christ-Centered
    John Baker
    HarperChristian Resources / 2025 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Your First Step to Celebrate Recovery: How God Can Heal Your Life
    John Baker
    Zondervan Reflective / 2021 / Mass Paperback
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  4. Celebrate Recovery Booklet
    John Baker
    Zondervan / 2021 / Trade Paperback
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Life Recovery Resources

  1. The Life Recovery Workbook: A Biblical Guide Through the 12 Steps
  2. The Life Recovery Journey: Inspiring Stories and Biblical Wisdom as You Work the Twelve Steps and Let Them Work You
  3. The Twelve Laws of Life Recovery
    Stephen Arterburn, David Stoop
    Tyndale House / 2015 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$12.98
  4. The Life Recovery Workbook for Eating Disorders: A Bible-Centered Approach for Taking Your Life Back

Daily Hope and Inspiration from the Bible for Recovery from Addictions, Compulsions, and Persistent Hang-Ups.

Life Recovery is not just a way of life; it's the path to the richest life possible. We are all fellow strugglers together as we battle addictions, dependencies, anxieties, depression, or difficult relationships that need healing. Each one of us faces our own unique battle. Be free from what imprisons you. Each day, this devotional will prompt you to look to God for strength when you are weak—for hope when everything appears hopeless. 352 pages, softcover.

Recent Books on Recovery

  1. God Doesn't Waste a Hurt: A Life of Abuse to a Story of Redemption
    Gyasmin E. Matos
    WestBow Press / 2023 / Hardcover
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  2. Downstairs Church: Finding Hope in the Grit of Addiction and Trauma Recovery
    Caroline Beidler
    Morgan James Faith / 2023 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Addiction & Recovery For Dummies
    Paul Ritvo
    For Dummies / 2023 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Hope Is the First Dose: A Treatment Plan for Recovering from Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things

Recovery Bibles

Booklets Addressing Addiction & Recovery

  1. When a Loved One is Addicted: How to  Offer Hope and Help
    Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
    Aspire Press / 2021 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Understanding and Loving a Person  with Alcohol or Drug Addiction
    Stephen Arterburn, David Stoop
    David C Cook / 2018 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Pornography: Slaying the Dragon
    David Powlison
    P & R Publishing / 1999 / Trade Paperback
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    3.5 out of 5 stars for Pornography: Slaying the Dragon. View reviews of this product. 2 Reviews
  4. Your First Step to Celebrate  Recovery: How God Can Heal Your Life
    John Baker
    Zondervan Reflective / 2021 / Mass Paperback
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  1. Getting Real: Pneumatological  Realism and the Spiritual, Moral, and Ministry Formation of Contemporary Christians
    Gary Tyra
    Cascade Books / 2018 / Trade Paperback
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  2. The Glory is in the Story: Memoirs  of a Chaplain: From Prison to Promotion
    Reverend Alberta McLaughlin
    Word & Spirit Publishing / 2020 / Trade Paperback
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  3. The Heart of Recovery
    Bill A. Gaspard
    Xulon Press / 2011 / Trade Paperback
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  4. How God Sanitized My Soul
    Jonathan Okinaga
    Innovo Publishing LLC / 2009 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$20.95

Recovery Ministry Curriculum Kits

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Abuse

  1. Real Recovery: What Eating Disorder Recovery Actually Looks Like
    Grace McCready
    Ambassador International / 2022 / Trade Paperback
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  2. A Life Regained: : Breaking Free from Anorexia Nervosa
    Sage Carper
    WestBow Press / 2021 / Trade Paperback
    Our Price$19.95
  3. The Wisdom of Your Body: Embodiment as the Road to Healing, Wholeness, and Connection
    Hillary L. McBride PhD
    Brazos Press / 2021 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Table for Two: Biblical Counsel for Eating Disorders
    David Dunham, Krista Dunham
    New Growth Press / 2020 / Trade Paperback
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Loving Someone Struggling with Addiction

  1. God Saved Me for a Reason: The Story of a Modern-Day Prodigal and His Journey Through Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption
    George Snodgrass
    WestBow Press / 2020 / Trade Paperback
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  2. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addition
    David Sheff
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / 2009 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Understanding and Loving a Person with Alcohol or Drug Addiction
    Stephen Arterburn, David Stoop
    David C Cook / 2018 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Understanding and Counseling Persons with Alcohol, Drug and Behavioral Addictions

Recovery Testimonies

  1. Changed Forever: My Life Altering  Prayer
    Alexis Lackey
    WestBow Press / 2024 / Hardcover
    Our Price$39.99
  2. Rise of the Fallen Man: Deliverance  from Bondage and Staying Free
    H.W. Chip Lapole
    Outskirts Press / 2008 / Trade Paperback
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  3. Overcoming Lust
    Jim Vander Spek
    Xulon Press / 2011 / Trade Paperback
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  4. Life Is Beautiful: How a Lost Girl  Became a True, Confident Child of God
    Sarah M. Johnson
    Morgan James Publishing / 2015 / Trade Paperback
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