NIV, Celebrate Recovery Study Bible, Large Print, Paperback - Softcover

Freedom from life's
hurts, hang-ups, and habits
If you long to break free from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits, the Celebrate Recovery Bible is a powerful, positive ally. This Bible is based on eight recovery principles found in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and on the underlying Christ-centered twelve steps of the proven Celebrate Recovery® program. The Celebrate Recovery Bible lifts you up and shows you how to walk, step by attainable step, on a path of healing and liberty.

”I'm excited you're beginning the journey to recovery. Your life will change. You'll experience freedom from your sinful habits, hang-ups, and hurts as you give up control and allow Jesus to be Lord in every area of your life.”
?From the foreword by Dr. Rick Warren, senior pastor, Saddleback Church
“Throughout the pages of Scripture, we see God's heart for celebrating recovery! This collection will help you experience and celebrate that journey, one step at a time. Jump in and see how recovery and spiritual growth are one and the same.”
?Dr. Henry Cloud, Christian psychologist, author, and speaker
”Celebrate Recovery is the most life-transforming ministry I've experienced in thirty years of ministry. How wonderful to now have such an effective tool as the Celebrate Recovery Bible. It will be a powerful encouragement and an intensely focused, insightful help in anyone's personal recovery journey.”
?Hess Hester, senior pastor, Tulsa, Oklahoma

FEATURES
• Articles explain eight recovery principles and accompanying Christ-centered twelve steps
• Over 110 lessons unpack eight recovery principles in practical terms
• Recovery stories offer encouragement and hope
• Thirty days of devotional readings
• Over fifty full-page biblical character studies illustrate recovery principles
• Book introductions
• Side-column reference system keyed to the eight recovery principles
• Topical index

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Front Cover includes:
FREEDOM from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits
• Special foreword note written by Rick Warren
• Based on eight recovery principles and Christ-centered twelve steps
• Personal stories and a thirty-day devotional track offer hope, healing, and encouragement
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GOD'S WORD OFFERS A WAY OUT
For people who struggle with the circumstances of their lives or with addictive, dysfunctional, or compulsive behaviors. Reinforcing that the gospel and life in Jesus Christ truly are about redemption, not condemnation, the Celebrate Recovery Bible gives you the insights you need, a proven path to follow, and the encouragement and inspiration to do so.
From relevant and instantly applicable lessons to see-yourself biblical character studies and recovery stories that deal honestly with today's grittiest issues, this Bible will help you bring God's Word directly to bear on all kinds of hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Anger problems, sexual addiction, alcohol and drug abuse, gambling, divorce, eating disorders--whatever you're dealing with--if you long for a way out … if your broken heart needs hope … this Bible is your wise and empowering ally on the path to recovery.
Unlike any other recovery Bible, this one is designed to walk you step by step through the recovery process mapped out in the proven
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Celebrate Recovery® program, a part of Purpose Driven® Ministries. Use it with the program or apart from it. Either way, the Celebrate Recovery Bible offers you help and hope for every stage of recovery.

“The reason the Celebrate Recovery ministry is so powerful is that it is biblically based. That's why I am very excited about the new Celebrate Recovery Bible. It brings together the Word of God and the healing path of Celebrate Recovery. I'm confident this new tool will help people by the tens of thousands to be rescued and redeemed by Jesus.”
?Jorge Acevedo, lead pastor
Cape Coral, Florida

Celebrate Recovery is a biblically based program helping those struggling with hurts, hang-ups, and habits by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through the recovery process. The Celebrate Recovery program is offered in thousands of churches worldwide.

The New International Version (NIV) is today's most read, most trusted English Bible translation. Since its release in 1973, the NIV has sold over 215 million copies. The goal of the NIV translation team was to produce a contemporary translation whose accuracy, clarity, and literary quality would make it ideal for public and private reading, teaching, preaching, memorizing, and liturgical use. Today the NIV is accepted by more denominations than any other translation and is supported by a library of reference resources unmatched by any other translation.

John Baker is the founder of Celebrate Recovery®, a ministry started at Saddleback Church. It is estimated that over the last 25 years more than 3.5 million people have gone through this Christ-centered recovery program. There are currently over 27,000 churches that have weekly Celebrate Recovery meetings.

John has been on staff since Celebrate Recovery started. He has served as the Pastor of Membership, the Pastor of Ministries, and is currently the Pastor of Saddleback Church’s Signature Ministries. He is also serving as one of the nine Elder Pastors at Saddleback. John is a nationally known speaker and trainer in helping churches start Celebrate Recovery ministries.

John’s writing accomplishments include Celebrate Recovery’s The Journey Begins Curriculum, Life’s Healing Choices, the Celebrate Recovery Study Bible (general editor), and The Landing and Celebration Place (coauthor). John’s newest books are Your First Step to Celebrate Recovery and The Celebrate Recovery Devotional (coauthor).

John and his wife Cheryl, the cofounder of Celebrate Recovery, have been married for more than four decades and have served together in Celebrate Recovery since the beginning. They have two adult children, Laura and Johnny, and five grandchildren.