Chemical Dependency – The Six Big Truths Faith-Based Leader’s Guide Series by Ron Brooks
The Chemical Dependency set offers a structured, biblical path to recovery from addiction. Based on six core truths—Choose, Surrender, Know, Love, Guard, and Renew—this series equips leaders and participants with scripture, testimonies, and practical tools. Created with the New Heart Foundation, it’s built to support lasting change through Christ-centered growth.
A Six-Part Curriculum for Faith-Based Recovery
This series is for pastors, ministry leaders, families, and facilitators helping others overcome addiction. Each guide offers faith-based lessons and insights for both group and personal use. Focused on clarity, healing, and renewal, the Chemical Dependency set is a reliable tool for walking with others through recovery. Use it to lead with confidence, support with compassion, and guide others toward lasting freedom through Christ.
This book is part of the Six Big Truths series, a faith-based recovery curriculum designed to help individuals struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. It is a resource from the New Heart Foundation, which focuses on healing through faith and scripture. The book outlines key choices that those battling addiction must make, such as acknowledging their struggles, seeking God’s help, and committing to a transformed life. Using biblical teachings, personal testimonies, and structured recovery guidance, the book serves as both a personal guide and a group study tool for those seeking spiritual and practical steps toward freedom from addiction.
Building on the principles introduced in the first book, Choose, this second installment, Surrender, explores the essential step of letting go of control and fully trusting God in the recovery journey. The book outlines key surrender points that those battling addiction must navigate, including releasing denial, surrendering harmful thought patterns, and embracing accountability. Through biblical teachings, personal testimonies, and structured recovery guidance, the book serves as both a personal guide and a group study tool for those seeking spiritual and practical steps toward lasting freedom.
As the Leader’s Guide for Big Truth 3: Know, this book equips ministry leaders and facilitators with the tools to guide recovery groups effectively. It provides structured lessons, discussion prompts, and biblical teachings to help participants understand critical truths about addiction, faith, and personal transformation. The book emphasizes the importance of knowledge-knowing one’s struggles, knowing God’s truth, and knowing the path to freedom.
Using scripture, real-life testimonies, and group facilitation techniques, this guide serves as both a teaching resource and a discipleship tool for those committed to leading others toward spiritual and practical steps for lasting recovery.
In Big Truth 4: Love, this book explores the critical role of love in the recovery process-love for God, love for oneself, and love for others. It addresses the impact of unhealthy relationships, self-worth struggles, and the ways addiction can distort our understanding of love. Through biblical teachings, real-life testimonies, and structured recovery exercises, the book serves as both a personal guide and a group study tool for those seeking spiritual and practical steps toward lasting freedom.
In Big Truth 6: Renew, this book emphasizes the importance of renewing the mind and spirit as a key step toward lasting freedom from addiction. It explores the process of transformation through biblical teachings, personal testimonies, and structured recovery exercises. Readers are guided in developing a new way of thinking, strengthening their faith, and making lifestyle changes that support their recovery.