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“You were running well. Who hindered you?” — Galatians 5:7www.free-recovery.org/blog/You've been doing so well. Days, we...
12/10/2026

“You were running well. Who hindered you?” — Galatians 5:7

www.free-recovery.org/blog/

You've been doing so well. Days, weeks, perhaps months of progress.

And then it happens again.

Relapse.

For someone struggling with addiction, that return to an old behaviour can bring overwhelming shame, disappointment and hopelessness.

For someone looking on, it can be difficult to understand.

Why can't they simply stop?

But addiction is rarely that simple.

In our latest Free! Recovery blog, we explore why relapse happens, how small compromises can grow into deeply ingrained habits, and why God's grace and the support of others matter so much.

Galatians 6:2 tells us to “Bear one another's burdens.”

It doesn't tell us that carrying those burdens will always be quick or easy.

Perhaps the question isn't simply, “Why have they fallen again?”

Perhaps we should also be asking, “How can I help them get back up?”

Read the latest blog: www.free-recovery.org/blog/

Freedom is usually a journey, not a moment.And sometimes hope begins with one simple admission:I cannot keep doing this ...
07/10/2026

Freedom is usually a journey, not a moment.

And sometimes hope begins with one simple admission:

I cannot keep doing this alone.

Read our latest blog: Out of Control

Sometimes the hardest step in recovery is simply admitting:Life is out of control, and I need help.Addiction and other l...
06/10/2026

Sometimes the hardest step in recovery is simply admitting:

Life is out of control, and I need help.

Addiction and other life-controlling struggles can leave us caught between loving and hating the very behaviour that is harming us.

Romans 7:15 describes that battle so honestly:

“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.”

For many people joining Free! Recovery, even clicking the JOIN button for the first session takes enormous courage.

But that first step matters.

Coming into the light.
Speaking honestly.
Discovering that you are not the only one struggling.
Beginning to see that the Bible understands the battle within us.

Freedom is usually a journey, not a moment.

And sometimes hope begins with one simple admission:

I cannot keep doing this alone.

Read our latest blog: Out of Control

www.free-recovery.org/blog/

Sometimes the door into another person’s heart does not begin with an answer.It begins with a question.On a recent trip ...
22/09/2026

Sometimes the door into another person’s heart does not begin with an answer.

It begins with a question.

On a recent trip to Hamburg, we shared a meal with old friends and their now-grown children. As we talked, something struck me: how important it is to ask questions rather than simply tell people what we think.

Their father later said, “Thank you for asking them questions. So many people just say what they think without actually engaging with them.”

That comment stayed with me.

Perhaps this matters particularly when we are talking with younger generations. We may have much we want to say — and much biblical truth worth sharing — but have we first asked:

“What is life actually like for you?”

“What pressures do you experience?”

“What do you wish older Christians understood?”

James reminds us to be “quick to hear, slow to speak” (James 1:19).

Perhaps before we give our opinion, we need to ask one more question.

Read our latest Free! Recovery blog:
Perhaps We Need to Ask More Questions
www.free-recovery.org/blog/

The Free! team is looking for volunteers to join our facilitator team. For more information:info@free-recovery.org
18/09/2026

The Free! team is looking for volunteers to join our facilitator team. For more information:

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King Manasseh’s story is disturbing, sobering—and wonderfully hopeful.He rebuilt idols. He ignored God’s warnings. His c...
16/09/2026

King Manasseh’s story is disturbing, sobering—and wonderfully hopeful.

He rebuilt idols. He ignored God’s warnings. His choices affected an entire nation. Eventually, the man who thought he was in control found himself literally in chains.

There are striking parallels with addiction.

What begins by promising comfort, escape, pleasure or control can slowly become something that rules us. The idol that once seemed to serve us begins demanding more and more.

But Manasseh’s story does not end in chains.

“When he was in distress, he entreated the favour of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly…” — 2 Chronicles 33:12

And God heard him.

This is the extraordinary hope at the heart of recovery: no addiction is too entrenched, no past too dark and no person too far away for the mercy of God.

Manasseh’s story reminds us that repentance is more than regretting the consequences. It is turning from the idols we have trusted and learning again that the Lord is God.

Read our latest blog: When Idols Become Chains: What King Manasseh Teaches Us About Addiction, Repentance and the Mercy of God

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