From Rick Warren's
Ministry Toolbox

Read an insightful article by Dr. Eckman entitled A Strategy for Spiritual Renewal, as published in Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox.

 

Sermon Helps

Paul and the Cycle of Addiction

Paul's teaching in Colossians 3 is directly applicable to the modern addiction problem.  To read the article, click here.

The 12-Step Recovery Movement and BWGI Ministries

There are a number of interesting parallels between the 12-Step movement and BWGI Ministries approach to addiction.  To read the article, click here.
 

Book Chapter Excerpt

An excerpt from the book Becoming Who God Intended, by Dr. David Eckman, is available for reading here.
 

Addiction-Proofing Seminar

Information about our seminar Addiction-Proofing Your Life is available here.
 

More Resources...

BWGI Ministries also maintains a large website at WhatGodIntended.com, also accessible via the URL bwgi.org, which includes details on seminars, books, tapes, and other materials available from BWGI Ministries.  Also included is a Content Library with many articles on various subjects of interest, plus an extensive set of testimonies from staff, seminar attendees, and ministry leaders and pastors.  We invite you to take a look - there is something there for everyone!

For Immediate Release

Addiction:  The Issue
for the Church in the Coming Decade

The effective strategy for addiction-proofing
 families and individuals

Pleasanton, California - "Addictions at their heart, are God's gifts misused," says Dr. David Eckman of Becoming What God Intended (BWGI) Ministries, "and they are propelling individuals toward inward pain, guilt, and shame that drive the addictive cycle."

The latest seminar from BWGI Ministries - Addiction Proofing Your Family and Life - addresses the painful moods that start the addictive cycle and that lead to the many addictions present in our culture.  For too long the church has used avoidance and rules to deal with temptation, compulsion and addiction.  In contrast, this seminar empowers individuals to manage the inner life, and therefore, manage the gifts of God, such as food, sex and chemicals.  The seminar equips family members to become allies in the fight against temptation, compulsion, and addiction.

Peninsula Bible Church in Cupertino, California recently hosted the seminar.  Pastor Brian Morgan, one of the church's pastors, said, "I expected maybe 25 people to show up, but when over 500 came I discovered this incredible need waiting to be exposed.  And when the same people returned each Monday night for five weeks straight, I couldn't have been more grateful.  The teaching was excellent."  ...read the entire letter from Brian Morgan.

The seminar addresses the strongly tempted individuals who find themselves enslaved to food, sex, drugs or alcohol.  "Merely overcoming addiction is not what we want," says Kevin Osborn, the director of seminars at BWGI Ministries, "but overcoming addictions through a rich spiritual life is the goal."

The five-session Addiction Proofing seminar strategically helps churches, husbands, wives and parents to be allies in addiction proofing their homes.  At the seminar event, BWGI Ministries also provides follow-up with free on-site counseling and supervised small groups with available study materials.

Multnomah School of the Bible, Campus Crusade, and many churches have effectively used this seminar to illustrate how the Bible addresses addiction.  Many believe that addiction is the major issue for the church in the coming decade and that BWGI Ministries has the effective strategy for addiction-proofing families and individuals.