A Year of Growth and Blessings: Reflecting on 2023 and Looking Forward to 2024
Join us as we reflect on a year of growth and blessings at Brookside Church. Get a sneak peek into our exciting plans for 2024 and learn how you can support our mission to make a deeper impact in the communities we serve.
Triumphing in Truth: Overcoming PTSD and Addictions
Discover the incredible story of Ace Aspiras, a respiratory therapist, and author, as he shares his journey from addiction to recovery. Learn about his coping mechanisms, tools for healing, and the power of resilience and forgiveness. Find inspiration in Ace’s story of transformation and self-healing.
The Church and Politics: Separation or Engagement?
Christianity and politics intersect way more than many people realize.
Finding the Right Anchor
When your loved one is battling addiction, you feel every up, down, you celebrate every victory, and you mourn every defeat.
Getting Clean – It’s more than just quitting.
The story of Naaman is a very interesting story in the scripture. When we dig into this story, it gives us a really good perceptive on Getting Clean. In 2 Kings 5:1-14, we read the story of a great and powerful man that had an issue that he tried to conceal well from everyone around […]
Letting Go of the Bike
Just this week I took my oldest daughter to the park to learn how to ride a bike without training wheels for the first time. This is an exciting, yet nerve racking moment. Chloe is so excited to graduate to her big girl bike. She is ready to conquer the world on one hand. But […]
To Lead Change We Must Lead People
The challenge is that this entire thing isn’t even about trees. It’s about leading people. Every organization is made up of living, breathing people who carry with them emotions, passion, and a vested interest in what you are trying to change
Breaking Generational Curses: A Testament of Transformation”
If you ever thought that people can’t change, prepare to have your world turned upside down. I recently had the pleasure of conversing with Katie from Teen Challenge Pacific Northwest Alaska Women and Children’s Center. Battles of Addiction and Loss Fifteen ladies, ten kids, one campus – that’s Katie’s world now. But her path […]
Showing Empathy to an Addict
We say empathy is a bridge, a bridge that can connect us at some of our greatest moments of hurt and disappointments. It’s certainly been useful in my life in relating to people. Through the course of my life and in helping those bound with drugs and alcohol I’ve had to cross the bridge of […]
How Do I Really Help the Addict?
This is the all-encompassing question. The truth that every loved one is searching to answer. So often these topics of codependency and enabling come up when folks begin making attempts to help their loved one that is an addict. They are not just topics or ideas, but quickly and easily become realities when the family […]