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Church of the Highlands - Sunday Messages - Audio

Summer Comfort

Church of the Highlands - Sunday Messages - Audio

Church of the Highlands

Church Of The Highlands, Christian, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Chris Hodges, Birmingham, Heaven, Alabama, Life-giving, God, Jesus

4.7738 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Part 1 of Summer at Highlands

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0:00.0

I found my first love in drugs.

0:07.0

Everything that I felt that was bad and heavy disappeared.

0:11.0

I overdosed 12 times on heroin and fentanyl.

0:19.0

That didn't stop me. And I spent 30 years in addiction.

0:24.6

I'm in this hotel room.

0:30.6

There's a number that you call.

0:33.6

And after you inject whatever drugs you're doing, if you don't respond,

0:39.5

they'll call the paramedics, so you don't have to die. Because I'm calling this number,

0:45.0

I realize something inside of me wants to live. I said the most honest prayer I've ever said in my

0:53.6

life. I was like, whoever you are, I can't do this anymore.

0:59.0

I start going to these 12-step meetings, and my sponsor started inviting me to Church of the Highlands.

1:08.0

I was like, okay, I'm gonna go.

1:11.6

And he met me there.

1:15.6

It didn't feel like I had to perform or look a certain way.

1:20.6

It just felt like love in that church.

1:31.3

So Pastor Chris was like, can you just commit to one year?

1:33.1

Just one year.

1:36.8

And I thought, man, I can do that.

1:47.0

And so on February the 4th I got baptized, I joined a freedom group and I went to the freedom Conference this past weekend and oh my gosh, whoa.

1:49.0

Freedom too showed me more masks that I've been wearing.

1:53.0

They just created this space where I felt safe enough to be honest.

1:58.0

Those women that I love on and all that them being honest about where they've

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