Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. On today's episode. I'm going to visit with

Warren mayor Warren's been a part of the crossing for a long time I consider him and

his wife Shelly good friends. He also happens to listen to Tim Minne a Bible talk so it's

kind of fun to have a listener on to share their story. Warren will share his

story of addiction and becoming a Christian sobriety and now turning around and helping others

who are in the condition he was for a number of years. I think you'll find it really

enlightening and maybe even helpful. We'll get to some

more practical stuff at the end of the episode but we'll dive right into Warren's

story. When did you first realize you were an addict?

I began to realize that I had a problem.

I would not have used that term.

In my sophomore year at college, I was directing a play which ironically is called

and Miss Reardon drinks a little and had a few celebratory drinks that afternoon with a friend and passed out.

Blacked out actually, I was still mobile, I was still walking around, but had more

than a few.

And so I missed the start of the show which is not okay and I had

several people come to talk to me about it later so that's when other people

began pointing it out to me.

That was when I was 20 years old.

And I've only been sober since I was 37,

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