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Blog entries by Allan McDougall

Allan McDougall
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STEP NINE Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others. 1 John 3:18-19 (N.I.V.) Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set...
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STEP TEN Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Romans 12:3 (N.I.V.) For the grace given me I say to everyone, of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the...
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STEP ELEVEN Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out. Psalm 50:14-15 (N.I.V.) “Sacrifice, thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, and...
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STEP TWELVE Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs. John 4:34-38 (N.I.V.) “My food,” said Jesus “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, four...
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THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (1) We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. (2)Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we...
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data McDougall, Allan, 1942- Twelve times twelve: steps with a conscious contact Rev edition. 1995 ISBN 0-9688630-0-0 Prayer-books and devotions–English. Twelve-step programs. BV4596.T88M34 2001 242'.4 C2001-900377-3 The...