Mountainview Celebrate Recovery

In “The Gift of Being Yourself”, David G. Benner challenges us to find ourselves, our ‘true’ selves. His challenge is that we will never truly find ourselves until we find ourselves in Jesus Christ. Our ‘identity’ is in how God made us to be. But we (at a very early age) create our identity around [...]

Quite often on Facebook, I post song lyrics from my favorite bands; and quite often, they are misinterpreted. Friends will post things like: “Are you ok?” or “Wow…I’ll pray for you.” Switchfoot probably makes it on my posts the most often. I have always been deeply moved by their music and lyrics. They speak of [...]

Last year, I played Judas in a Good Friday play. I tried to find out as much as I could about this man. There was very little written about him in the Bible. I wanted to find some shred of goodness in him; something to redeem him. But the fact is, while Judas walked with [...]

My name is Rick, and I am a cocaine addict and alcoholic. For the better part of 8 years I have announced myself this way, and it’s a good thing I have; because I can never forget that I am always going to be addicted to drugs and alcohol. But more importantly I must ALWAYS [...]

Testimonies are a huge part of Celebrate Recovery. They are a very clear way to tell our “small story,” in order to glorify the greatest story ever told. We are currently wrapping up a series of three testimonies this Friday, October 8, with Rick Bowers’ testimony. Rick’s story is one of humble faithfulness to Jesus [...]

We are about to begin a journey together on the road to recovery. Principle 1 states: “Realize I’m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.” Before we can even begin to take this first step in our recovery, we [...]

There have been so many instances in my life where I think I’ve crossed a line with God: a line that I can’t cross back over to be in His arms. I have finally done just enough that even God won’t want to have anything to do with me. I couldn’t be more wrong. God [...]

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Jesus Christ to do good works, which God prepared for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 I would like to share a video with you that describes wonderfully what Celebrate Recovery is about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhfUzodLRvk Open your heart and let God speak to you. May God bless you today! Until [...]

Welcome to Celebrate Recovery @ Mountainview. My name is Rick Deal and I am honored and humbled to be serving you as Ministry Leader for Celebrate Recovery here at Mountainview! I invite you to join us tomorrow evening, August 27th at 6:30pm for our final “preview” night before we kick-off on September 10th. We will [...]