SFT Awareness

Is Addiction a Disease or Sin PART 3

What about responsibility for individual behaviors and actions? There is no point at which an individual is not responsible for his or her own actions. However, when behaviors go past the point of being altered by choice, and they not only can but often do, not only is the person ...

Is Addiction a Disease or Sin PART 2

Could it be possible that both the secular and religious worlds’ views of addiction have value? Could it be that alcoholism, for example, does reach the point where it qualifies as a disease but is brought about by sinful choices as the religious world claims? What’s really happening when a ...

Belief and its Consequences

One participant told a story he remembered from childhood. He was around four years old at the time and was playing with toys in his room while his parents were arguing downstairs. When his father was not at work, he was usually hanging out with friends, spending little time with ...

Is Addiction a Disease or Sin PART 1

The religious and secular worlds seem to have different views of addictive behavior. The religious world sees destructive behavior as sinful being a result of sinful choices. The secular world sees destructive behavior as a disease. To see destructive behavior as sin due to sinful choices places responsibility on the ...

SFT Awareness Fundraising Dinner

On Saturday, March 27th, SFT Awareness will be hosting a fundraising dinner at Crieve Hall Church of Christ in Nashville, TN. We have a lot of exciting news to share with our supporters! Steven Guy, minister at Woodson Chapel Church of Christ, will be speaking on the topic of HOPE. ...

Surviving is Overrated

With the economy in a slump, many people are becoming worried about finances and how they will make ends meet. When a person worries about money, he does not have much motivation or time to think about or do anything else. In the mid 1900s, psychologist Abraham Maslow theorized that ...

Broken Cisterns

God used his prophet, Jeremiah, as a means of expressing His problems with the Israelites. Jeremiah 2:13 identifies God’s problem with the Israelites. His people had left Him, the living water, and gone after broken cisterns which could hold no water. A cistern is a man-made container, usually hewn out ...

Happiness or Holiness?

Is happiness your god? For most of us, if we were to stop and really examine this question, the answer could very well be yes. Most people are in pursuit of happiness, whether knowingly or unknowingly. Does God want us to be happy? It really all depends on how happiness is defined.

Check Out the Materials Page

We have updated a few of our materials on the materials page. First, we updated the thinking error list. Second, we have an updated version of the processing sheets. Our goal with the new process sheets is to reword certain questions so that the sheet will be more understandable. We ...

Clear Signs of a Pain Carrier

SFT Awareness participants will get an introduction to the program during the first session. Part of that introduction is learning common characteristics that pain carriers have. Answer the following questions to see if you are an emotional pain carrier.