Champions for the Addicted with Ron Brown and Nick Vujicic

In "Champions for the Addicted with Ron Brown" Nick Vujicic interviews Ron Brown about breaking the chains of sin. Ron is the Executive Director of Adult and Teen Challenge Southern California. They share hope and transformational strategies to overcome addictions. There are practical resources and solutions for family members to break addictive patterns of thoughts and behaviors, relying on the power of Christ Jesus living within. Structured help makes a difference because we do not grow in isolation.

Learn more:
- Champions for the Addicted: https://nickvministries.org/champions/the-addicted/
- Adult and Teen Challenge: https://www.teenchallenge.org/
- Prayer Hotline: 1+ (888) 520-0620

0:00 Introduction
2:40 We all have some kind of addiction.
3:50 How he came to know Jesus
5:00 Alcoholic family dynamics
5:40 Cocaine friend's behavior
6:00 Feeding the homeless and addicts
7:00 Miraculous transformations
7:58 Opiod epidemic and overdose public health emergency
9:34 Fentanyl - what drives it?
10:00 Drugs bring temporary relief but long-term bondage and hopelessness.
11:00 There is another way to cope with pressure and stresses.
12:30 Distractions and escape of the pain and fear lead to addictions.
13:00 Addicted to your phone? Addicted to money?
14:30 COVID isolation and dramatic rise in substance abuse
15:40 We are all addicted to sin.
16:00 Make choices to serve God and become who He created you to be.
17:00 Addiction means that you are out of control--unable to stop those impulses.
18: 15 The Holy Spirit is greater to free us from what has held us down for so long.
21:20 Sy Rogers and sexual immorality overcomers
23:00 Addiction is a symptom or a rooted problem. It is not the problem.
24:00 Only one place brings us into alignment and gives us peace. Shalom
25:00 Have a safe community so that you can share and not isolate yourself.
26:00 Break the strongholds of the mind that captivates you from your true purpose, true identity. Were you born that way?
28:00 Despire all our falures, God still pursues you.
29:00 He formed us out of the dust of the ground, and He remembers that we're just dust.
32:00 How Teen Challenge started in New York City with David Wilkerson
35:00 Hope for a life of purpose, destiny, and dignity for which God created you
36:00 A systematic discipleship program where you learn who you are in Christ
40:00 Teen Challenge is not a medical or social model. It is a transformational model.
42:00 You continue to be discipled by the Holy Spirit for the rest of your life.
43:00 Why Teen Challenge works and recidivism
50:00 This is not the end of your story. It ends with release and victory!
51:00 He wants us to thrive and be fully involved in every way with our lives.
52:00 Reach out. Just say, "Lord, help me!" God is everywhere.
54:00 Call the 24-hour prayer line to reach a live person at 888-520-0620.

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Links
Champions for the Brokenhearted: https://nickvministries.org/champions/the-unborn/

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