Addictions

Paying the Price

Someone has to pay.  That is a cardinal rule of psycho-emotional development. In order for us to grow as healthy individuals, someone has to make an investment in us.  When that investment is short changed, we ourselves are asked to take up the payment.  It seems that the psychological makeup of each of us requires that we learn to deal with...

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Sink or Swim in the Pool Building Industry
Sink or Swim in the Pool Building Industry

[flv:http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.flv http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.jpg 300 234]Profile on: Ed "Skip" Ast, President and CEO of Shasta Pools and Spas “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart…” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). Being a driven, results oriented individual is good when harnessed by an...

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The Christian Hosoi story
The Christian Hosoi story

Profile of: Christian Hosoi, the “Michael Jordan of skateboarding” At a time in the 1980’s when skateboarding was exploding, two young athletes led the pack – Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi. As the sport of “vert” skating was evolving, Hawk and Hosoi were pushing the limits, soaring higher, farther and faster. Competitions generally...

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It’s All About Trust
It’s All About Trust

Profile of: Ron and Cristy Varela, owners of Ron E. Varela Company Inc.,  an excavating and grading company. "Originally we were doing two or three million dollars a year, and it grew up to five and seven or ten million dollars." "We ended up growing that company into eventually a 30 million dollar a year company, had up to 150 employees." Two...

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Stephen Baldwin, Actor
Stephen Baldwin, Actor

Proflie on: Stephen Baldwin, actor As a former Hollywood bad boy now on fire for Jesus, Stephen Baldwin personifies the “unusual suspect” – the last person in the room you’d suspect of being a sold-out, hard-core Christian. The youngest of the renowned Baldwin brothers acting family, Stephen has appeared in over 65 films and dozens...

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Victory Over Prescription Addiction
Victory Over Prescription Addiction

"Ann, you have everything anyone could ever want!" a friend of hers exclaimed one day. "Oh, yes," she answered, "I have a beautiful home, all kinds of material things and a good husband. But what good are all these things if I feel like a walking zombie? I'm sick of taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills. This is no way to live!" Ann had been...

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Lost and Wandering – No More
Lost and Wandering – No More

It was an intense moment. Saying “yes” to Jesus seemed so appropriate after the pressures and stresses we had been through over the last few months as a family. There I was, attending the second evening of an Alpha Course sponsored by some local churches in our community. Alpha, originating in Britain, is an 11 week course that investigates...

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From Victim to Victory
From Victim to Victory

[flv:http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.flv http://media.truthmedianetwork.com/media/ast.jpg 300 234] With a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other, Sharon Ast knelt beside her bed and asked God’s permission to take her own life. It wasn’t the first time her fate was about to be decided at gunpoint. Growing up, her alcoholic father...

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