The Hope Recovery Podcast

Help and hope for success in recovery, or any struggle of life, regardless of how many years or even decades you have been in that struggle. The message of John 5:1-9 reveals that God cares for the sick and hurting and that everything changes with God in the picture. Recovery is possible, because there is always hope with God, even after thirty-eight years.

The recovery community does a great job of reaching out to support and encourage each other to be successful in recovery and one of the ways is through recovery slogans. This podcast episode presents what I suggest as "The Top 5 Recovery Slogans". In this episode I discuss some of the key recovery principles of each and also the biblical principles as well.

Recovery is full of choices! The choices and decisions you make will have a dramatic impact on your success in recovery. The AA Big Book and the Bible have much to say about choices. This episode today looks at two criminals that were with Jesus and the choices they each faced and how they each made dramatically different choices. As you listen to the podcast consider for yourself today "What...

We all have times when we don't understand God, whether in recovery or just in the struggles of life. This episode looks at biblical principles for how to respond when we don't understand God. The passage of Luke 5:1-11 shares five key insights of how to respond when failures and struggles come and it starts with remembering that we are not alone, God is always with us.

Are you lost and looking for direction in recovery? Are you looking for direction in life too? This podcast looks at three steps and biblical principles that can help provide the direction you need not only for recovery, but for a full and abundant life as well. God does not give up on you, no matter how lost you may feel or how difficult your recovery struggle might be. God is always there and he...

The powerful message of Step Twelve becomes quite clear when we look at what the founders of The Twelve Steps included for Step One and then what they end with in Step Twelve. The Twelve Steps of recovery and the message of the Bible do not leave us without hope or without a solution, and amazingly they both point to the same solution.

This powerful story of "The Lost Son" reveals that God cares for those that are lost and hurting and even those that have made many terrible decisions in the past. Do you feel as if you are lost and distant from God. This podcast reminds you that God cares for you and wants you to "be found" and to have a restored relationship with him.

Several "Pop-up Interviews" were taken during the "Recovery Day Lancaster" event and each individual answered this one very important question of "How to prevent relapse?" This podcast explores this question and provides the top 3 answers collected from the interviews, AA/NA quotes, and biblical insights as well. How do you answer this important question for yourself?

The struggle of addiction may very much feel like a "giant battle of addiction" and this Bible story of David versus the giant Goliath can give you many principles of recovery and even spiritual principles, that can help you to be successful in recovery and even over any struggle of life as well.

Hello and welcome to The Hope Recovery Podcast hosted by Greg Schmalhofer. The Hope Recovery Podcast provides faith-based recovery messages to help you to be successful in recovery and to grow in your faith as well. Regardless of where you are at in recovery, whether you are at one month or many months, I want to encourage you that recovery is absolutely possible with God in your life. The podcast...

The books and fellowships of AA and NA are full of true life stories of lives that were dramatically changed by the recovery principles and also by the spiritual principles of the Twelve Steps of Recovery. These stories are evidence of hope that recovery is absolutely possible. As you put your hope and trust in God your life can also be dramatically changed and your story can also be evidence of h...

The Twelve Steps of Recovery have helped many millions of people to not only be successful in recovery, but also to lead dramatically different lives. Find out why the Twelve Steps are so successful and why it works for so many people and why it might work for you as well.

As you look back on your past life in addiction, there may be many things you would like to forget; things you wish you could take back. But, while it is true you cannot change the past, it is also true that you can indeed change the future. With God in your life your future can be very different from your past.

If you are listening to this podcast right now, drugs and alcohol did not kill you. You are not dead and you have another chance! You have another chance to be successful in recovery and you have another chance at life. Listen to this podcast to learn how you can take full advantage of this second chance at life and see what God has for you!

In many ways Step Twelve summarizes all of the Twelve Steps of Recovery and also gives a final charge as well. It is interesting to note what AA and NA chose to include in this final step of the Twelve Steps of Recovery, which is to focus on a "spiritual awakening" as being key to recovery.

Step Eleven instructs us to be intentional to take time for prayer and meditation each and every day. Step Eleven is a big step forward that reflects a true change in our heart and in our personality, such that we are now doing things differently. Now we take time daily to seek God's will in our life through prayer and meditation.

Today's podcast is a message inspired by our brand new granddaughter, Maria Bea Schmalhofer, and is a message of four Bible truths of "What God Says About You". These four basic Bible truths present a perspective that is very different from the message of popular culture, but these four truths of "What God Says About You" can make a dramatic impact in your life and help you...

Step Ten instructs us to continue on growing in our recovery and in our faith by daily taking a personal inventory of our wrongs and to promptly and humbly admit them. But, while this is an important process in our recovery, to properly take a daily personal inventory, requires that we ask God to be the one directing the searching of our personal inventory.

Step Nine of Recovery is the beginning of a dramatic change in how we think and act; it is the beginning of a heart change. In Step Nine we take the dramatic step of making amends to those we had harmed in the past and this is a reflection of a spiritual change within.

Step Eight of Recovery is all about putting the needs of others before your own needs and this is done by making a list of the people we have harmed and then being willing to make amends to them. Listen to this podcast episode and see what you may have in common with the apostle Paul.

Here in Step Seven we humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings and the sin in our life, and even more to change us. In Step Seven we ask God to change our heart and mind so that we think and act differently. To be successful in recovery requires a fundamental change, an internal change. It is with Step Seven that we can go further than just being clean and sober, but we ultimately can become the...

Step Six of Recovery presents the question are you "entirely ready" and willing to have God remove all your defects? Step Six can be a dramatic step forward in your recovery and a dramatic step forward in your faith as well. Step Six is all about being ready and willing to have God remove your character defects! You do not do the removing, but rather God does and you need to be "ent...

Step Five of Recovery builds upon the "moral inventory" list of Step Four. Creating the moral inventory list of Step Four is an important step, but Step Five goes even further and requires action. It is not enough to simply make the moral inventory list, but rather Step Five requires us to take action based upon this moral inventory list. Step Five requires us to admit our wrongs to God,...

This episode today is all about how God can change our expectations. God may not change the actual circumstances of our life or of our recovery, but God can move in our life with dramatic events that will begin to show us what he is really doing in our life and this will lead us to dramatically change our expectations. The God of the Bible is indeed the true "Higher Power" and he is able...

The episode today is part two of a powerful interview with Anthony Acampora. Anthony is the national director of the Faith In Recovery program, which is one of the treatment programs available at the Banyan Treatment Centers. In part two today Anthony shares his heart for recovery ministry and the amazing success of the Faith In Recovery program. Anthony shares how this Faith In Recovery programs...