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Print: $23.92 For a decade after the founding of A.A. on June 10, 1935, A.A.'s founders, pioneers, literature, and reporters said over and over again that there was a cure for alcoholism, that A.A. had found the cure, and that hundreds had been cured. This title documents the facts, the cures, the reliance on the Creator that was essential, and exactly what the early A.A. roots, program, practices, and successes were. Particular attention is paid to the three segments of the Bible considered "absolutely essential" - James, the sermon on the mount, and 1 Corinthians 13. Contains an enormous bibliography on the healing and cure - yes, cure - of alcoholism and other maladies by God's power from Old Testament times to the present.
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Print: $20.92 As his eleven years of research and writing on the subject of early A.A.’s spiritual roots was drawing to a close, author Dick B. was asked to deliver another annual seminar at The Wilson House in Vermont. By that time, he had substantially documented six major biblical roots of early A.A.’s spiritual program of recovery.
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Print: $21.92 The Twelve Step tools most requested by clergy, sponsors, counselors, therapists, facilitators, and those wanting accurate, helpful guidance from the Bible, A.A.'s founders, and the Big Book. If you want to know exactly how to "take" and "practice" the Steps with the historical sources, the basic Bible ideas, the founders' remarks, and the Big Book instructions at your side, this concise, specific guide is one you need to own.
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Print: $23.92 The first complete, detailed study of what the early A.A. pioneers in Akron read in, borrowed from, and applied with the Bible’s Book of James, Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matthew Chapters 5, 6, and 7), and 1 Corinthians 13. The pioneers explicitly stated that they believed the answer to their problems was in the Good Book. The foregoing three parts of the Bible were considered by them to be “absolutely essential” to their spiritual recovery program. To the extent, in fact, that many AAs wanted to call their fellowship “The James Club.” Included also in this title are five invaluable appendices showing where the original program came from, how it was practiced, how it different from Bill W.’s Big Book program, and where Yahweh the Creator fitted into the picture.
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Print: $23.92 The first detailed guide to “train the trainers” in the full and concise presentation of an early A.A. history segment as a part of any recovery program. Details all aspects of the original Akron Christian Fellowship Program as reported by Frank Amos to AAs and to Rockefeller. Illustrates the distinct difference between that original program and the later program fashioned by Bill Wilson from the teachings of Rev. Sam Shoemaker and for A.A.’s basic text (the Big Book). Shows how much the program changed during the 1940’s in the period of Bill ’s deep depression when others stepped up to the plate with their own versions of how to “work” the program.
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Print: $24.92 For eleven years, author Dick. B. has been receiving, analyzing, utilizing, and writing about the real evidence that documents the biblical history and roots of Alcoholics Anonymous. His research materials have come from a wide variety of sources including the following: (1) Books, correspondence, and papers supplied to him by actual participants in early A.A., such as Dr. Bob’s children, the children of Henrietta Seiberling, the daughter of T. Henry Williams, the children and wife of Rev. Sam Shoemaker, and many of the Oxford Group team that assisted Dr. Frank Buchman. (2) A.A. authors, historians, and archivists, as well as others who have written about A.A. and its roots.
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Print: $22.92 Dick B. has long awaited the opportunity to provide a written introduction to the history of Alcoholics Anonymous that could be used by individual Twelve Step people, sponsors, facilitators, therapists, writers, historians, treatment centers, and interested agencies to include a correct 12 Step history in their own programs. And this is the title for just that!
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Print: $20.92 The Story of Akron’s Pioneer A.A. Christian Fellowship, Its Oxford Group Encounters, and a Non-Alcoholic Woman’s Role in Helping Found Early A.A.’s Unique Spiritual Program for Curing Alcoholics
Written for, and presented on, the occasion of the ribbon-cutting and opening of the Gate Lodge at the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron—the home of Henrietta B. Seiberling, and the place where she introduced A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson to A.A. co-founder Dr. Bob Smith, and where A.A. really began on Mother’s Day, 1939.
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Print: $22.92 Specially prepared by historian Dick B. as a guide to study groups, recovery programs, sponsors, and individual AAs who want to use the strong points of the A.A. Fellowship, Big Book, and Twelve Steps in conjunction with those vital tools the early AAs took from the Bible and used to achieve their remarkable healings and cures. A practical “how to.” It begins with the newcomer’s beginnings and the appropriate interview, qualification, identification, hospitalization, and launching out with the “absolute essentials” from the Bible’s Book of James, Sermon on the Mount, and 1 Corinthians 13.
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Print: $20.92 This booklet is the second of a series containing the remarks of Dick B. at his annual seminars at The Wilson House. The booklet contains the sincere and surprising credit that Bill Wilson and Bill Dotson (A.A. #3) gave to God for curing them of the disease of alcoholism.
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Print: $22.92 For the first time in decades, a leading scholar on early A.A. history addressed a nationwide A.A. And Writer, Bible student, Retired attorney, and Historian Dick B. told it like it was. His seven lectures covered the theme and purpose of the conference; A.A., its founders, and belief in Almighty God; the spiritual beginnings of A.A.; the real program of early A.A.; the Bible roots of A.A. - particularly the sermon on the mount, Book of James, and 1 Corinthians 13; the special spiritual contributions of Rev. Sam Shoemaker - whom Bill W. called an A.A. "co-founder;" and remarks as to what the Creator did and can do for the A.A. fellowship today. An extensive, relevant, bibliography is included in the printed comments in this book.
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Print: $24.92 This title tells you about A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob’s “excellent training” in the “Good Book” as “a youngster.” It presents an in-depth exploration of the training Dr. Bob received during his boyhood years in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. You will see, from its documented details, that young Bob’s major Christian training—the training translated into the early A.A. spiritual recovery program in Akron—came from his parents, Walter P. and Susan H. Smith; North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury; the Christian Endeavor Society of that church; and the rigorous requirements and studies at the famous St. Johnsbury Academy. The authors traveled to St. Johnsbury; visited principal buildings existing during Bob’s youth; interviewed the North Church pastor, the St. Johnsbury Academy archivist and the librarian, people at his boyhood home, and others.
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Cured!Cured! (book)
Print: $23.92 Foreword by Robert P. Turner, M.D., Medical Director, Medical University of South Carolina Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina
Alcoholism and addiction can be cured by the power of God. Early AAs, and many before them, specifically assured us they had been cured by reliance on the Creator. They minced no words and pulled no punches. Then unbelievers and other revisionists urged that “once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic” And that there was no cure for alcoholism. Therapists, treatment centers, even the religious had a field day with this “forever in recovery” idea. But researcher Dick B. carefully shows that cure means cure, that alcoholism and addiction can be and have been cured, that early AAs were cured, and that Almighty God did the curing. And He still can! Here’s how.
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Print: $23.92 An astonishing study of the religious background and beliefs of A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson and from the particular perspective of the “conversion” which he said was the foundation for the Steps, was suggested by Dr. Jung, and which Bill himself experienced at the altar at Calvary Rescue Mission.
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Print: $19.92 A twist on the “New Way In.” Here author Dick B., in contrast to reaching in to the newcomer, emphasizes that walk-outs FROM A.A. are neither necessary, salutary, or helpful to those who still suffer. When the AA learns the full history of early A.A. and its Christian Fellowship, he should not be impelled to find a way out, to walk out, or simply to cut and run. He leaves behind the fellowship he loves, a fellowship that serves, a program he knows, and a history he has never learned or embraced at the hands of A.A. itself. The foe is intolerance. The way out of intolerance is tolerance. Stated in early A.A. and Biblical terms, the way out of alcoholism and the muck and mire of alcoholic conduct is to love God with all one’s heart, soul, mind, and strength, and one’s neighbor as himself. This is what the A.A. text and writings said very clearly.
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Print: $19.95 A unique emphasis on tuning the Christian newcomer in toward those roots, principles, and practices which were part and parcel of the original A. A. Christian Fellowship Program in Akron . This to the end that the newcomer and even the old timer Christians will feel comfortable and challenged staying IN the A.A. fellowship, remaining solid in their own religious convictions, buttressed by the knowledge of what the pioneers did with such great success, and simply refusing to be intimidated or persuaded by the idolatry, spirituality, and weird “higher power” chatter abounding in today’s recovery movement. The old-time evangelists like Bill y Sunday and Dwight Moody contended: “The saved should say so.” Similarly, the saved in today’s A.A. Fellowship should stand unfettered by those who intolerantly reject this or that religious belief and argue for a godless unbelieving fellowship.
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Print: $21.95 The most exhaustive bibliography (with brief summaries) of all the books known to have been read and recommended for spiritual growth by early AAs in Akron and on the East Coast.
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Print: $23.95 This guide details how the early AAs conducted their recovery program and placed their reliance upon our Creator. It then answers questions as to how and in what form similar meetings can be held today. It shows such meetings are consistent with A.A.'s Traditions.
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Print: $24.95 A comprehensive history and analysis of the all-but-forgotten specific contributions to A.A. spiritual principles and practices by New York's famous Episcopal preacher, the Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr. --dubbed by Bill W. as a "co-founder" of A.A. and credited by Bill as the well-spring of A.A.'s spiritual recovery ideas.
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Print: $21.95 Dick B.'s 11 years of historical research have jump-started this compelling new theme: Take a specific look at Pioneer A.A.'s God-centered program in Akron. Then, at why they had to rely on the Creator. Then at what A.A. really spawned in the 20th Century, at the "nonsense gods" that have diverted this society from its primary purpose, and at the even greater need for help from God Almighty on the recovery scene today to restore success and assure a return to sound, faith-based, non-profit recovery.
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Print: $23.95 The long-awaited guide for Bible study by AAs and other 12-Steppers who want to recover and receive deliverance by using the same spiritual tools A.A.'s founders and pioneers used. The title precisely details what A.A.'s founders said about the importance of the Bible and Bible study, including Dr. Bob's statement that A.A.’s basic ideas came from the Bible. It examines the role of the Bible in A.A. today. It then suggests, with specific Bible verses, the approach to the following, critical Bible subjects: (1) God--the Creator of the heavens and the earth–and what the Bible says about Him. (2) What the Bible is, where it came from, what it holds for you, and the importance of asking God for guidance as to how to study it. (3) Jesus Christ’s role in God’s plan and in our lives. (4) The importance of sin, love, choice, and obedience to God in the early A.A. picture. (5) How to gain release from your prisons--all of them. (6) Prayer, the renewed mind, believing, and Bible study. . . .
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Print: $22.95 A study of the immense spiritual reading of the Bible, Christian literature, and Oxford Group books done and recommended by A.A. co-founder, Dr. Robert H. Smith.
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Print: $22.95 Where did Quiet Time come from? Where did the Morning Watch fit into the picture? What did meditation in God's Word and communion with Him involve? How does this differ from today's one-page "meditations" and "reflections?" What can knowledge of this early history do for alcoholics and other addicts, treatment and recovery programs, clergy and churches? Dick B. has spent eight years digging out the facts and presents them here so others may benefit.
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Print: $23.95 An astounding seventy-five to ninety-three percent of the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous recovered from their seemingly hopeless diseases of alcoholism. They did it by relying on God and by basing their relationship with Him on the principles of the Bible. This comprehensive history discusses the biblical sources from which A.A.'s founders said they obtained their recovery ideas—focusing particularly on the Sermon on the Mount, 1 Corinthians 13, and the Book of James. For many A.A.s, the Bible was a standard of truth upon which they could depend for the power and guidance that they needed in their lives. Author Dick B.—an active, recovered member of A.A., a bible student, and a sponsor of over seventy men in their recovery—here shows how a knowledge of A.A.'s Good Book roots can be used effectively to produce a high recovery rate in today's Twelve Step programs.
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