Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Heart of Recovery

by Bill A. Gaspard, Author, Speaker, Recovery Coach


Preparing Your Heart for the Journey into Recovery

Possibly you and I have something in common—a personal and vicious struggle with addiction. Or maybe you’re new on the scene of compulsion and obsession. Maybe you’re obsessed with your job. Or your favorite sports team. Do you have a compulsion for drugs or alcohol? Gambling? The Internet? There are a myriad of possibilities hawking our attention, things that take us down a road that ultimately leads to a brick wall. Possibly you’ve already hit the wall. Maybe you’ve experienced the grip of the stronghold of addiction. Perhaps you’ve seen the impact your addiction has had not only on your life but also on the lives of the people that matter to you the most.

Many of us are like soldiers who went off to war and were captured by enemy forces. We became prisoners—lost and without hope. Forgotten. Some of us gave up.

God has not given up. We need to get this. The good news is that He invites us to RECOVER. We are His creation—we belong to Him. He has power and authority over the enemy forces, and He’s ready to rescue you if you’ll let Him. This book is intended to guide you back to the One who created you—the One who will RECOVER His child and regain what was lost. And it’s intended to restore you to what you were designed to be.

This book will challenge you. You will be required to take a hard and honest look at your past. Then you will be challenged to focus on the promise of today. You will find hope, and hope will open your heart to the reality of God’s love—love that blows through your addiction right to the heart of the matter. He wants you back.

RECOVER is an acronym that came to me late one night during my quiet time with the Lord. Each letter represents an action verb—a “call to action.” Recovery is not a spectator sport. Engaging in the battle is a prerequisite to becoming a whole person. My prayer is that you will find your way back to the Lord, and that you will break the chains of whatever has been holding you back. Most of all, I pray that you will rediscover the freedom to achieve your mission for God.

Repent from the Heart

Engage with the Word

Connect with Christ Our Cornerstone

Obey God’s Recovery Program

Volunteer to Serve

Equip for Battle
Repeat Daily
“For what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift.” (1 Corinthians 4:7)
This is the intro to my first book, The Heart of Recovery

If you would like more information about this book then click on the link

http://www.xulonpress.com/bookstore/bookdetail.php?PB_ISBN=9781613793268

Saturday, April 23, 2011

How do I Find a Sponsor/Accountability Partner?

By: Bill A. Gaspard, Life Recovery Coach

The recovery process will be as healthy as the health of our accountability partners, so surround yourself with healthy coaches and you will become healthy. Let the Word of God also be your accountability partner. Let David’s stories and the Psalms be a testimony of God’s love even when you don’t deserve it. How his repentant heart changed him and how he talked with God are great examples of how we should communicate. Let Solomon be one of your recovery coaches. Let the relationship between Paul and Timothy inspire you. They are a great example of coming alongside someone through faith, trust, and perseverance through good and bad times. This kind of partnership takes two people on a journey, and if God is the third strand it will be very difficult to break this bond.


“A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” (Ecclesiastes 4:12)

Timothy was an up-and-comer and Paul was his coach, and together they helped each other and encouraged each other throughout their journey together. If you have worked with another brother or sister in Christ, then you know what I’m talking about. We set out to coach someone and find ourselves being coached. Timothy didn’t only hang out with Paul during the good times; he stayed by his coach’s side during the beatings, the torture, and the imprisonment. This bond of accountability created a lifelong friendship and left a great example for us. Ask God for a Paul in your life, and when you are ready to coach ask God for a Timothy in your life. We need both in our life to grow.

“The effective mentor strives to help a man or woman discover what they can be in Christ and then holds them accountable to become that person.” —Howard Hendricks

We will never make the progress needed without accountability partners. Going it alone is risky. Get a recovery coach, get a mentor, and find an accountability partner. I have had very few people in my life that I have allowed to do this, but I have gotten better at it. When I first got sober I tried to do it on my own, then I had an old-timer with almost thirty years of sobriety help get me through my inventory and fifth step. I had another guy help me with my amends. I had someone else from my small group mentor me for a little while. And of course the small group itself is designed for this concept as well. When you share your junk with other people and then share your praises, something starts to happen. You start to TRUST other human beings.

If you don’t have someone in your life that you allow to hold you accountable, I encourage you to get one. I have a couple of helpful questions you can ask yourself, and then allow God to show you the truth:

1. What do I need to work on in my life?

2. Is there anyone I respect enough to ask to be my accountability coach?

3. Is there anything holding me back from starting an accountability relationship today?

God, give me the wisdom to know what I need to be held accountable for in my life, and give me the courage to invite _____________ into my life to come alongside of me and hold me accountable to Your standards.

John C. Maxwell is without a doubt one of the best in the world at leadership, and if you are thinking about having an accountability partner or recovery coach someday, I highly recommend you start reading his books. If you have found someone to mentor you, I recommend you use the following guidelines for mentoring relationships. They come from Maxwell’s book Developing the Leaders Around You.

Ask the right questions. Give thought to questions you will ask before you meet with your mentor. Make them strategic for your own growth.

Clarify your level of expectations. Generally, the goal of mentoring is improvement, not perfection. Perhaps only a few people can be truly excellent – but all of us can become better.

Accept a subordinate, learning position. Don’t let ego get in the way of learning. Trying to impress the mentor with your knowledge or ability will set up a mental barrier between you. It will prevent you from receiving what he is giving.

Respect the mentor but don’t idolize him or her. Respect allows us to accept what the mentor is teaching. But making the mentor an idol removes the ability to be objective and critical – faculties we need for adapting a mentor’s knowledge and experience to ourselves.

Immediately put into effect what you are learning. In the best mentoring relationships, what is learned comes quickly into focus. Learn, practice, and assimilate.

Be disciplined in relating to the mentor. Arrange for ample and consistent time, select the subject matter in advance, and do your homework to make the sessions profitable.

Reward your mentor with your own progress. If you show appreciation but make no progress, the mentor experience[s?] failure. Your progress is the highest reward. Strive for growth, and then communicate your progress.

Don’t threaten to give up. Let your mentor know you have made a decision for progress and that you are a persistent person – a determined person – a determined winner. Then he or she will know that they are not wasting their time.

“There is no substitute for your own personal growth. If you are not receiving and growing, you will not be able to give to the people you nurture and develop.”—John C. Maxwell

About the author: Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the Founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com  



Sunday, February 13, 2011

The Battle is in Your Mind

By: Bill A. Gaspard, Recovery Coach

Paul seriously wrote some amazing letters while sitting in a jail cell under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The way he broke down and explained the enemy and the gospel armor in Ephesians six is truly one of the best chapters in being equipped in recovery. He of course used what was right in front of him during that moment, a Roman soldier. When it came to enemy tactics he also used an analogy of the time, fiery arrows. Fiery arrows were a great strategy to conquer your enemy quickly; you were able to get them twice, once by penetration and twice by fire. Any enemy that Rome had would not stand a chance against this form of attack but you send fiery arrows towards prepared Romans and they could withstand these arrows by kneeling down together locking shields and stopping the arrows. Paul explains to us that this is not a battle of flesh and blood so we are not talking about literal arrows. The spiritual aspect of these attacks is the foundation of spiritual warfare and if you are in recovery you will need to learn what these attacks are and how to stop them. Let’s call these arrows ‘thoughts’, the enemy fires arrow after arrow, thought after thought into our camp. Cravings, impulses, and temptations. While in recovery these thoughts may seem like constant bombardment into our camp and if we are alone it will be hard to stop them. The enemy does not send the same thought to everyone he has special arrows for each of us and he knows which ones to send. He loves to shoot; jealousy, anger, loneliness, unforgiveness, doubt, anxiety, stress, worry, guilt, rejection or any other arrow with your name on it.

Any thought or impulse that entices a person to fall victim to the “lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” is a fiery arrow! Charles Stanley

Paul had some great recovery coaching advice for our thought life when he said,

“We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5


What does it look like to take every rebellious thought captive?

I was sitting in a Christian Counselors conference in Branson Missouri and Dr. Mark Laaser brought up the concept of taking your thoughts captive. My mind took a detour for a little while, not that Mark was boring, he is actually an awesome speaker. But the Marine in me came out and I went off a little bit and started writing in the middle of this lecture. I had an idea but then I remembered a Sgt. Hayfield that I had just had the privilege to meet a few weeks earlier in our anger management group at our church. Sgt. Hayfield had done three tours in Iraq and was struggling with anger and emotions, one of the Pastors sent him my way but he has helped me more than I have helped him. I sent him a text and asked him to breakdown for me exactly what he would do if he captured an enemy in Iraq. Within a few minutes he sent me a detailed e-mail that explained military procedure for the capture of an enemy. It was all right there, everything from this point on was going to be about these five bullet points. Remember we are talking about taking our thoughts captive. He told me that, when we capture an enemy we do the following;

1.    Disarm, search, secure and watch. Do not torture, kill, mutilate or degrade.

2.    Evacuate to a place of safety and interrogation by commander.

3.    Do not mistreat. Fair treatment of captives encourages the enemy to surrender.

4.    The soldier who ignores the sick and wounded degrades the uniform.

5.    Leave punishment to the courts and judges

So if we are in a spiritual battle and one of the enemies favorite attack is fiery arrows (thoughts) then our job as soldiers is to take those thoughts captive. Disarm them, get them to a place of safety (Our Lord) and give those captive thoughts to our commander Jesus, all punishment of those thought s are for the courts and Judges (God alone is Judge.) Then we go back out capture another thought and bring it back to our commander until the job is done, until the enemies are all captured. That is our mission. Will you accept this mission? How do we do this? It takes training, it takes discipline and it takes perseverance. Let me try and explain how it works. I get a lustful thought, I used to try and fight it or pray for it to go away, the more I fight it the more I get in trouble the more I try and deny it the more I want it. Now I simply say, Lord I captured another thought, you know this one Lord, please take it from here, and do the interrogation. After you capture the same thought a few times and do this the commander locks him up and you will go out and find new thoughts to take captive. Do not be afraid to take even the most horrible thought to your commander. Do not try and hide the enemy, torture the enemy or kill the enemy, which would degrade the uniform.

Disarm


Get to safety


Give captive to commander


Get back on the battlefield

Recovery Coaching is one of the most effective ways to prevent relapse and get results in your life. A Christian Life Recovery Coach will come along side you to help you find your purpose and passion in life. We as Recovery Coaches partner with our clients to unlock their God given strengths, and help to motivate them toward Christian leadership. For the person who is in recovery, either yourself or someone you know, who has a good foundation, and is ready to accelerate the process, then working alongside a Recovery Coach could be the next step in his or her journey.

About the author: Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the Founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com/






Saturday, January 15, 2011

Our Defense

by: Bill A. Gaspard, Life Recovery Coach, Biblical Counselor
I’m sure you have heard it said, “Defense wins games!” Why? Well, if the other team can’t score, then they can’t win. The same is true with our enemy. I remember when I was separated from my wife for a while, and I needed something to hold onto, I had my bible which I held every night, in fact I clutched it until I fell asleep each night. I also went down to the local Christian bookstore and found a military coin with the Armor of God on it and I carry that coin around in my pocket every day since. Each day as I grab it and place it in my pocket, I remember that only God can protect me and that all but one piece of this armor is meant for defense. I ask Christ and the Holy Spirit to be my defense daily and to completely shield me from the enemy. On one side of the coin it gives the six pieces of armor needed to get up and suit up each day, and on the other side it says, “Put on the whole armor of God, and pray always.” I keep it with me to remind me where I was, how far God has taken me, and where I am today. The Armor of God is one of my favorite scriptures and was written to the Ephesians by Paul while in a jail cell, we find it starting in Ephesians 6:10. This armor means so much to those of us in recovery and if we forget to put it on, we will be vulnerable to all attacks. When put on daily we have a fighting chance to let the defense take over and prevent the enemy from scoring.

Think about your defensive line for a moment, we have the Belt of Truth, one of the first things we put on spiritually. Just like putting on pants in the morning and holding them up with a belt, hard to start your day without it. The Breastplate of Righteousness, and the Gospel of Peace on your feet, you’ve got to protect your heart with something and better put something on those sensitive tootsies. These three are non-negotiable, they must be on at all times spiritually, when you walk in the house from work, when your hanging out with the boys watching football or out with the ladies at a spa. Always on! This is ready mode, ready set hike! The defense is in place and ready to stop that ball, stop that player, stop that thought, at any moment. All three of these pieces of armor are Christ himself, we are putting on Christ and when we take Him off the enemy can and will score. Truth, Righteousness and Peace, that is your D-Line, allow them, or Him to defend you.

In addition Paul states, take up The Shield of Faith. Where is your faith? It needs to be strong, strong enough to stop the fiery arrows. Put on the Helmet of Salvation. There is only one who can give us salvation and this helmet guards more than the mass that sits on our shoulders, it guards our mind, our thoughts and must be on when there is an attack. Christ is our defensive line in our mind and this analogy takes on a whole new meaning when we think of taking our thoughts captive. When we put this helmet on and keep it on while in recovery we are saying, “Not today, you are not scoring today, I am protected by the defensive line which is Christ.”

How can the enemy score on a defense like that?

Paul was trying to teach us that Christ is the way, the only way, put Him on and let Him protect us.

About the author: Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the Founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com/

Recovery Coaching is one of the most effective ways to prevent relapse and get results in your life. A Christian Life Recovery Coach will come along side you to help you find your purpose and passion in life. We partner with our clients to unlock their God given talents and motivate them towards Christian leadership.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Worry Warden

by: Bill A. Gaspard, Christian Life Coach~


I was introduced to him a few months back and playfully nick named him the Worry Warden. Each day he gets up and begrudgingly goes to work. He believes he is in charge of his life and until recently he found out that he was not only the Warden of his own life, but a prisoner as well. He has an important job as a Warden; he has so many prisoners to take care of. He has to get them up, feed and exercise them each day. These prisoners were his worries, his daily worries that he watched over and his job was to be the Warden of this ‘prison of worries’. There were times when he could think of nothing else but these prisoners, they affected his productivity, his sleep and his family life. In fact, these prisoners blocked him from God.

“Worry is an attempt to control the future.” Ron Blue

Worry is defined by Webster, “mental distress or agitation resulting from concern usually for something impending or anticipated.” In other words, worry is about something that has not occurred yet. It is not an emotion, but more like an exercise in your mind.

I tried to talk with the Warden about his problem with worry and shared with him what God’s word says about this. He proclaimed to be a Christian and was working a solid recovery program; I suggested that he work his worry through the same steps that have helped him with his addiction. I asked him if he trusted God, and he replied, “Of course I do.” “Not when you worry the way you do, that is a complete lack of trust in God. These worries consume you and block you from God,” I replied. He agreed and admitted that he had a problem with worry. Once he was able to admit his problem, he made a commitment to change. He began to give his worries over to God each day and he gave the prison keys over and resigned as the Warden. He inventoried his worries and discussed each one with God and his Recovery Coach. He made the decision to change his thoughts and not exercise his mind this way anymore. He decided to stop feeding these prisoners, but to pray for the prisoners when he began to worry. The following verse was beginning to make much more sense, it used to sound like a cliché, but now this passage in Philippians hit home.

“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7

Charles Stanley writes this about worry, “Our natural reaction is either too hastily solve our own problems or to sit around and worry about them. And yet, from a Roman prison, the Apostle Paul instructs us to face our worries with prayer.”

Do you have a prison system in place?

Are you ready to hand over the keys to this prison?

It’s as easy as ABC

Admit- that you have captives and that you are tired of feeding and supporting them. You can’t continue this way and grow spiritually. Give a proper inventory of all your prisoners so that the new Warden will know what he is dealing with. Also share this with your coach or mentor. “Don’t worry about anything, instead pray about everything”

Believe- that the keys must be turned over to God. He is in charge now and when we worry we do not trust Him. Don’t take the keys back. “Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done”

Commit- to this new system and discipline your thought life. To break the habit of worry we must develop the habit of prayer and meditation. “Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus”

About the author: Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the Founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com/

Recovery Coaching is one of the most effective ways to prevent relapse and get results in your life. A Christian Life Recovery Coach will come along side you to help you find your purpose and passion in life. We partner with our clients to unlock their God given talents and motivate them towards Christian leadership.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Anger Awareness

by: Bill A. Gaspard, Life Recovery Coach~



"And don't sin by letting anger control you. Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives foothold to the devil." Ephesians 4:26-27


Did you know that anger is mentioned in the bible over five hundred times? The first time we see anger is in Genesis, when we see a brother kill his own brother over jealousy, which turned to anger and finally to sin. The emotion of anger has been running rampant ever since. We pick it up in Genesis 4:6, God says, "Why are you so angry? The Lord asked Cain, why do you look so dejected? You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master."


I have personally struggled with an explosive temper most of my life and usually this God-given emotion was hidden deep by the power of alcohol. It was during moments of intoxication when it was most likely to rear its ugly head. It was during these moments when I would allow my anger to turn to sin not really caring about the damage I was causing my loved ones. I have been clean for a while now, yet the emotions, especially anger, still get the best of me. Alcohol became such a part of who I was, almost like an extra appendage that I relied on in order to function. The only emotion I felt was towards alcohol, angry desperation if I didn't have it and overwhelming depression when I woke up the next morning in a somewhat inebriated fog knowing I had to face work and life that day. The cycle continued daily and the fog never lifted. I was emotionally unavailable to my family and I lacked in leadership at work. I hung on by the thread that was holding my life together, barely. Anger is definitely a God-given emotion that if taken too far will hurt everyone in its path. You probably have heard someone say, ‘anger is not the problem it's how you react to it.' If you have ever been in a recovery meeting then you may also have heard, ‘resentment is the number one offender of relapse.' Resentment is anger that has turned sour by something or someone. We have allowed it to rot in our mind and it has spoiled an emotion that was meant to protect us.


I remember one night in a small group bible study when the subject of anger came up and I explained that I was a hot head sometimes. This guy started talking about anger, and was looking right at me. No, he was preaching at me, and I didn't like it. He was babbling on about some guys in the bible, but my anger and pride in that moment was blocking me from hearing the message that God may possibly have been trying to share with me. I had emotionally shut down and went home ticked off at this guy. Who was this guy anyway and what gives him the right to preach at me? I came home and complained to my wife about the night. I said, "What the heck is he talking about, Sons of Thunder, sailors, and Jesus?" She said, "I'm not sure, but it was meant for your ears."


A few days later I began an in-depth study on anger, I dived into Gods Word, reading as many scripture verses I could find. I also bought the Anger Workbook and started going through that as well. I came to a profile page in the Life Recovery Bible and read this;


James & John


"Sons of Thunder: Why would Jesus use such a powerful description for two Galilean fisherman, James & John? We are given a glimpse of their fiery personalities when, after they were rejected by the people of a Samaritan village, James & John asked Jesus if they should call down fire from heaven to consume the village. Jesus rebuked them for their impulse to retaliate. Jesus worked in these brothers' lives so that they became men known for their love and forgiveness, not their anger and revenge. These brothers had discovered the important truth that when we understand and experience God's love, we are free to live and grow. And as we grow and share our discovery with others, God can use us to touch the lives of many in need of His help and healing." Stephen Arterburn & David Stoop




Wow! God works in amazing ways. I wanted God to work in me like Christ worked in these two sailors. I was a former Marine and I could relate to some salty dogs like James and John. Maybe the Holy Spirit could change me too. I too had been known to want to bring fire down on entire cities with my rage. I realized that God had used the guy from my small group to make me aware of my anger. My wife was right, it was meant for my ears. Now that I was aware, I began to slowly change and I allowed the Holy Spirit to start working in my heart. As I became more aware of my anger, I started journaling my thoughts about it. I talked about it more in small group and have come to love that guy who really wasn't preaching at me, he was really loving me and holding me accountable. But, I still struggled with the whole ‘angry with sin.' What did that really mean anyways? Then it hit me, ‘don't let anger control you.' That was the sin! When I drank alcohol I sinned against everyone, especially God, because I allowed it to control me. Drinking an alcoholic beverage is not a sin, just like the emotion of anger is not a sin. It is how we use, or my case, abuse it that it can become a sin.


Today I get to share my experience with others and work one-on-one with people in this area of Recovery Coaching. I share my experience, my struggles and together we try and understand how to tame the beast through awareness, honesty, renewing of the heart and mind, and by using the QSS method.



"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry." James 1:19



When do you let anger get control of you?




How long does it take to cool off?



Are you being completely honest about what really makes you lose control of my anger?



Do you have someone you can share with about this God-given emotion that you struggle with?



How can you use the QSS method next time you feel this emotion start to come your way?


About the author: Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com/


Recovery Coaching is one of the most effective ways to prevent relapse and get results in your life. A Christian Life Recovery Coach will come along side you to help you find your purpose and passion in life. We partner with our clients to unlock their God given talents and motivate them towards Christian leadership.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Know Your Enemy (The Wolf)

by: Bill A. Gaspard, Recovery Coach

In John 10 Jesus gives us another analogy of the enemy. He discusses the sheep, the shepherd, the gate, and of course the enemy; a wolf who wants to steal kill and destroy. The wolves’ method of operation is to attack and “Scatter the flock.” John 10:12

That is precisely what the enemy wants to do with us, get us separated from the rest of the flock, isolated and alone, so he can have his way with us. He wants to steal our hope, kill our faith and destroy any healthy relationship we may be in the process of starting. He does not want anyone in recovery to join the team, to join the flock, or to have a sponsor or accountability partner. Of course, the wolf wants us as far away from the shepherd as humanly possible, and the wolf is not about to go head to head with the shepherd, because he has already lost that battle. He is after the flock, Gods children and he just wants us off by ourselves when we are vulnerable, tired and weak. Do not go it alone, get into the flock and let the shepherd, God, fight for you. Just like in the movie Gladiator, when Maximus is in the coliseum, he looked to the others and said, “Have any of you been in the military?” Then he said, “We will have a better chance fighting whatever comes out of those gates if we stay together.” Again, DO NOT go it alone and don’t let anyone who walks in the doors of recovery ever believe that they can. The wolf is an expert at separating us from the flock and robbing us of everything we have accomplished in our recovery.


“Stay close to the shepherd, the shepherd’s purpose is to give his sheep a rich and satisfying life.” John 10:10


“The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep” 10:11


If you feel like the enemy is isolating you from your family and if you’ve been backing away from the groups or meetings that have helped you stay on track throughout your recovery, then hit your knees right now and pray to the shepherd that He protect you and that He help you safely back to the flock!


Here are some questions for us to find out if we are slowly being scattered.


1. When was the last time you were together with your brothers and sisters in recovery?

2. When was the last time you asked the shepherd to protect you?

3. When was the last time you talked to your sponsor/accountability partner?

4. When was the last time you helped a lost sheep in isolation?



About the author: Chaplain Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the Founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com/

Recovery Coaching is one of the most effective ways to prevent relapse and get results in your life. A Christian Life Recovery Coach will come along side you to help you find your purpose and passion in life. We partner with our clients to unlock their God given talents and motivate them towards Christian leadership.