Accept Rejection Now (Part 2)
August 12, 2024 | Addiction, Freedom, Healing, Overcoming Rejection and Betrayal, Series, Sermons, TopicsWATCH
What is the biggest hurt impacting your life today?
Too often, we’re looking for freedom but stuck in our hurt. Some injuries are recent, others decades old yet still wreaking havoc our lives.
Emotional healing is one of the most visible needs of our day – and it was a primary focus of Jesus’ ministry. So bring the Lord those wounded places in your heart, mind and life that most need His touch.
Open to Matthew 11:28, and let’s find help, hope and healing…
Destroying the Strongholds in My Disposition
July 7, 2024 | Freedom, Overcoming Rejection and Betrayal, Repentance, Series, Sermons, Temptation, TopicsWATCH
- Resource in this teaching: Personality Temperament Test
Destroying the Strongholds in My Disposition | Overcoming Rejection and Betrayal
True brotherhood is ready to join you in warfare. A brother is with you in the trenches, even at your worst. And our war is not physical or fleshly, it’s spiritual.
God has given us the weapons and the ability to win the fight – and to destroy destructive patterns of thinking.
Brotherhood fights together, but we all have individual battles. We need to detect and destroy the strongholds in our disposition and with the Lord’s help and the strength of brothers (and sisters) bring them in conformity to Christ.
Lean in with us and learn the truth about ourselves and our spiritual battle…
If We Confess
October 29, 2023 | Finally Free, Freedom, Series, Sermons, Spiritual warfare, Topics, VictoryWATCH
If We Confess | 1 John 1:9 | Finally Free
Everyone who turns to addiction, does it to make their pain stop. Freedom from our bondage should not be about just escaping – we must deal with our pain and sin.
If you’re carrying a heavy weight, if you’re needing God’s forgiveness, don’t neglect the simple truth and amazing promise of I John 1:9… let’s find forgiveness and freedom from all of our sins.
To Know Him Is To Love Him (Part 1)
October 22, 2023 | Finally Free, Freedom, Jesus Christ, Savior, Series, Sermons, TopicsWATCH
To Know Him Is To Love Him (Part 1) | John 8 | Finally Free
Are you finding freedom yet? It all comes down to your love for Jesus Christ.
As you grow to know a spouse or a close friend more and more, your love for that person grows deeper. It’s the same with the Lord – the longer you walk with Jesus Christ, the more your love for Him will grow.
Do you love the Lord? Open your Bible to John 8…
Freedom From Guilt
October 15, 2023 | Failure, Finally Free, Freedom, Series, Sermons, Shame, TopicsWATCH
Freedom From Guilt | Psalms 51 | Finally Free
Do you ever fear you’re not good enough? Maybe you feel the shame of your mistakes or question God’s love because of your sins. Maybe you feel religious shame, because you haven’t followed all the ‘rules’.
What are we to do with guilt and shame?
Let’s learn from the pages of Scripture about the Holy Spirit’s work in our conscience – leading us not to more guilt, but to repentance, freedom and a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ.
Open your Bible to Psalm 51 and get ready to find Freedom from Guilt…
First Steps
September 9, 2023 | Addiction, Finally Free, Freedom, Savior, Series, Sermons, TopicsWATCH
Our ministry has been growing and serving men who are stuck in addictions. At the Act Like Men House, we’ve been guiding men at the rock bottom of addiction toward lasting freedom, through faith in Christ and community with brothers in Christ. This message was preached at our ministry center, Rock Bottom, and is for you and your loved ones who need victory and freedom from your shame and burdens.
Intellectual knowledge of Christ, rules, structure, and sheer will-power alone can never set people free. Only Jesus Christ can truly set people free. The God who made you wants to free you from sin, addiction and shame.
This new teaching series, Finally Free, will give you the truth you need to destroy the strongholds in your life. Join us in Acts 13 as we learn the First Steps of recovery!
Act Like Men Ministries
August 28, 2023 | Addiction, Freedom, JMM BlogAct Like Men | Sobriety Houses
Located in the greater Chicago area, our sobriety houses provide transitional housing, spiritual counsel, lifestyle support, and accountability for men getting free from incarceration and/or substance addiction. Dr. James MacDonald’s inspiration for Act Like Men Sobriety Houses is drawn from Matthew 25:40 and Jesus’ promise “in that you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”
Watch “Changing Lives from Rock Bottom” for more information and resident testimonies…
ROCK BOTTOM
…When There’s Nowhere to Look But Up | Our first ALM Sobriety House and the location of our headquarters is affectionately known as Rock Bottom. Additional ALM Houses are also located in greater Chicagoland – apply for residency here.
Act Like Men | Bible Studies
On Saturdays throughout the summer, Pastor James preaches at our Rock Bottom headquarters. In addition, he and our sobriety ministry leaders spend themselves building into the men who reside in our ALM Houses, and those who have graduated but still desire to be part of our ministry family.
A new season of in-person Bible study is underway! All adults are welcome.
Act Like Men | 40 Days to Biblical Manhood
To equip as many men as possible with this in depth, 40-day teaching, Pastor James is giving away his Act Like Men book for the cost of shipping + a nominal handling fee.
Freedom from People Pleasing
January 20, 2023 | Faith, Freedom, Religion, Series, Sermons, Single MessagesWATCH
Freedom from People Pleasing
1 Corinthians 4:3-5