The Mosaic Group

06/22/2026

No one can sustain significant change in their life on a deep level without divine empowerment. I can change small habits and behaviors on my own willpower; but deeply ingrained things that are produced by my character and personality traits? I am helpless to overcome these things on my own, no matter how badly I hate my own poor choices. They are reflexive and come from the brokenness and sinfulness of my own heart.
How then can I find hope? The Bible makes clear the same thing that Step 6 points to- that God (and only God) is able to change my heart if I surrender it to Him. He can remove my defects and sins, and fill me with Himself. He can make in me a heart that desires Him and is becoming more like Him!

Join us Monday evening at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.
Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland

06/17/2026

06/15/2026

In order for us to find true freedom as God intends for us to have through Jesus, we have to face the fact that much of our misery is self-imposed as a result of our own character flaws and their resulting poor choices. When we approach God begging for help, He will often confront us with this tension: are we ready to let go of the pattern of thinking, the habit, the emotional rut that causes the behavior? Are we willing to be taught how to live in a healthy way according to His word?
Jesus is not willing to waste time putting band-aids on spiritual injuries that demand a deep surgery. But we must decide if we are willing to allow Him to work in our hearts that deeply; we cannot fix our hearts alone, and He will not do so alone. We must choose to partner with Him in this healing journey.

Join us Monday evening at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.
Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland

06/08/2026

Forgiveness feels amazing when we truly receive it from someone we have wronged; the weight of shame and guilt being removed is a feeling without comparison. When God is the one who forgives us, we are on the top of the mountain, it seems.
That is, until we learn how to give forgiveness to others who have harmed us! When we realize the value of what Jesus has freely given to us and begin to give it to others, we become EVEN MORE FREE than we were before. It is hard to explain how crippling the twin bondages of guilt and resentment are to someone who is still living in it. All we can do is invite others to find the freedom we have experienced.

Join us Monday evening at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.
Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland

06/01/2026

Responding in anger or taking liberties in our behavior when we are hurt is a pattern that anyone can easily fall into. It becomes a cycle that grows and becomes harder to extract ourselves from- which is why Paul warns us in Ephesians, "be angry, and do not sin." When we act out of our anger and pain, all we are doing is making the mess messier. Eventually we will have to begin to clean up the mess or it will consume and destroy our lives and our relationships.

Join us Monday evening at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.

Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland

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05/18/2026

Walking the process of life change as we pursue faith and recovery isn't easy...but it isn't complicated, either. One main ingredient throughout this process is honesty; without it, we will never come to know the truth which will set us free. If I am willing to continue being honest by admitting to God and a trusted person the wrongs I found in myself by taking inventory, I am boldly stepping towards the freedom Jesus intends for me to have.
Such an admission on my part is clearly implied in the meaning of the word Jesus used often: repent. Repent means to acknowledge I am in a bad place and to turn from that life towards the one God offers to me. Step 5 is the admission, Steps 6-12 are the turning to a new life. But Step 5 is crucial for us to admit our wrongs so we can be freed from it!

Join us Monday evening at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.
Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland

05/13/2026

The Mosaic Group will be meeting each Monday at 7pm beginning May 18th. There will not be a meeting this Thursday as we move to our new schedule. Hope to see you there!

Meeting location is:
True Life Church
202 W. Byrd
UC,TX 78148

05/07/2026

I once heard a wise man say, "If you do not know the purpose for which something was made, you are sure to abuse it." Dr. Monroe was surely correct in his assessment. Many of us have (eventually) discovered that when we live for our own desire, pleasure, or comfort, we are actually abusing ourselves. In trying to avoid surrendering our desire to God's will, we are actually disconnecting ourselves from our one true source of life and fulfillment.
Recovery, then, is a faith journey of discovering our true identity and purpose in God once we reject the lie of pursuing comfort as an ultimate aim. The Bible makes clear that we were created with a purpose, to represent God...and since we were unable to do that in our fallen condition, He has redeemed us and called us back to that same purpose as we are made new in Jesus!
"And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them." Romans 8.28

Join us Thursday night at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.
Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland

04/30/2026

As we often say here, recovery is more than sobriety- more than simple abstinence from drugs and alcohol. But the flip side of that is, recovery cannot progress far (if at all) in the life of someone who is not decided about their sobriety. AA describes alcohol as an entity which is malicious..."cunning, baffling, powerful", and any addict can attest that drugs fit that description just as well.
So what do we do when we are being pulled aside by these "sins which so easily ensnare us"? Prayer is the key which opens many doors- including this one. The answer is not found in willpower, nor in making excuses for wallowing in our addictions and feeling like a failure. The key is to pray for the grace of God to overcome our weakness and temptation moment by moment and day by day. He promised a way of escape, so we pray for Him to reveal it to us!

Join us Thursday night at 7pm, 202 W. Byrd. St., Universal City TX 78148, as we discuss this topic.
Blessings!
Scott and Renee Garland