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Steps to the Spirit

Steps to the spirit is about my search for, discovery of, and use of the Spirit to live my life according to the wishes and plans of God. I also call them gifts from God because I believe He has given us these tools to enable us to find a closer relationship with Him. I invite you to join me in this quest that is at times both difficult and extremely fulfilling. I will try to explain how and why it became necessary to surrender, thus enabling me to begin to live according to God"s plan.I will post

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13:04

The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 2)

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2025/11/16

Send us a text We are now at the second of the six basic assumptions. That second assumption is, “Men can be changed.” As a reminder, we saw in the first assumption that men are sinners. And I think in our present day language, that that assumption means because of our humanity and our free will, not to mention our proclivity to gain pleasure and happiness for ourselves, we are always ready to sin. Hopefully, you can all get over this word “sin”, in the realization that we are all participant...

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The Oxford Group’s 6 Basic Assumptions (part 1)

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2025/11/09

Send us a text In this episode will begin the last of the Oxford Groups lists that we will be looking at in this podcast. This would just called: The Six Basic Assumptions. I am including this list (as it was written), below. The 6 Basic Assumptions: 1. Men are sinners. 2. Men can be changed. 3. Confession is prerequisite to change. 4. The changed soul has direct access to God. 5. The ‘Age of Miracles’ has returned. 6. Those who have been “changed” must “ch...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 6)

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2025/11/02

Send us a text In this episode I’ll be speaking about the fifth and last of the Oxford Group’s five procedures. As I have said many times before, the Oxford group was really the precursor to the 12- step program. Just about every one of their various lists can be matched up in some ways to the 12 step program. This current list that were working on, the five procedures, is no different, especially this last procedure. This procedure is: 5. Sharing — for witness and confession. It obviously co...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 5)

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2025/10/26

Send us a text In this episode I’ll be speaking about number four of the five procedures. The number four procedure is: restitution. Restitution, of course, at first blush, comprises two of the steps in the 12-step program. Those steps would be steps eight and nine where I make a list of everyone I have harmed in step eight, and then I proceed to go through that list, trying, as best I can, to make amends to those people I harmed. The fact is (I believe) there are three more steps that this w...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 4)

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2025/10/19

Send us a text In this episode of speaking about the third Procedure. The third procedure is: Check Guidance This procedur is very simply stated and implies a very simple action. However, I believe it is so much more important than it seems. If you are a frequent flyer to this podcast you are aware that my main objective as a person who has said “yes” to God, is to listen for the direction of my Spirit. There are inherent problems with this action, namely, ego and rationalization. There can b...

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13:54

The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 3)

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2025/10/12

Send us a text As a reminder, these are the five procedures: The Five Procedures 1. Give in toGod. 2. Listen to God’s direction. 3. Check guidance. 4. Restitution. 5. Sharing — for witness and confession. This is episode three, and I will be speaking about procedure number two, Listen to God’s direction. I see this procedure as being aligned with steps number three and eleven. As we take step three on as our own, and say that holy “yes”, I surrender to God, I am ...

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13:48

The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 2)

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2025/10/05

Send us a text Below is the list of the five procedures: The Five Procedures 1. Give in toGod. 2. Listen to God’s direction. 3. Check guidance. 4. Restitution. 5. Sharing — for witness and confession. As we have seen before, this list not only mirrors, but preempts a list of 12-steps. The first, and simply stated, procedure is, “Give in to God.” This procedure, simple in its wording, is what I believe to be the most important action we can take in any of the list...

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The Oxford Group’s Five Procedures (part 1)

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2025/09/28

Send us a text In this episode I will be going over yet another group of tenets, or reminders from the Oxford group. The five items in this list are referred to as the five procedures. I’m not sure when, why, or where these lists of things or develop, but they seem to help the members of the Oxford group to stay on their spiritual course and become what seems to have been the main goal, changed. You may ask, why it is that I find the snippets from the Oxford group to be important. Well, this ...

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11:48

The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 6)

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2025/09/21

Send us a text In this final episode about the list of the 5 C’s from the Oxford group, I will speak about the relationship to step number 12 and the last of the C’s, continuance. While the word continuance makes a definite, personal connection with steps number 10 and 11, it makes both the personal and “others” connection in the 12th step. On the one hand it speaks of our personal, spiritual experience and practicing this program in all our affairs. On the other hand, the step encourages us ...

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The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 5)

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2025/09/14

Send us a text The fifth item in this list of five C’s is Continuance. The placing of this word continuance makes a lot of sense, only compare the list to the 12 steps. The word continuance holds so much meaning as a pointer to the 12-step program that I have decided to use two episodes to discuss it. In this episode, I would like to use this word continuance as a pointer to the 10th, 11th step. As a reminder the 10th step is I continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong, promptly...

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The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 4)

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2025/09/07

Send us a text The subject for this episode is the word for (or idea of) a change in our spiritual attitude. This is the fourth in the current group of episodes having to do with the five C’s, as they were called in the Oxford Group. This word is: Conversion As I have said before, these lists from the Oxford Group, and the order in which they are presented do not necessarily match the order of the 12 steps. This is, of course, because we do not have a comparison of the two program...

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12:42

The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 3)

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2025/08/31

Send us a text In this episode I am going to share my thoughts on the third of the five C’s list from the Oxford group the third in the list of the five C’s is: Contrition So, in the Oxford dictionary, contrition is listed as a noun and it means to be in the state of remorseful and penitent. This definition reminds me somehow, of the old “mea culpa”, hair shirts and self flagellation! This is certainly not my interpretation of the word contrition. In the first place, my God never ...

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13:49

The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 2)

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2025/08/24

Send us a text In this episode I’ll be speaking about the second see in this list of five C’s from the Oxford Group, which is: Confession of course, because we didn’t take the 12 steps directly from the Oxford Group, the order in which we do things sometimes different. The actions, however, are always the same as well as the intent. We find the correlation to this act of confession in step number five of the 12 steps. Step number five says, “we admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another hu...

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The Oxford Group’s 5 C’s (part 1)

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2025/08/17

Send us a text I’m sure you realize by now that the Oxford Group had many lists with which they remembered those things that were important to their spiritual growth. Today we will be starting to look at one of their lists which they called the 5 C’s. I hope you have noticed that, as promised, I am naming these episodes according to the name of the list that I will discuss. This will make it easier for folks we’ll need to search this podcast for a particular subject. Here is the list of the 5...

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13:27

The Oxford Group’s Influence (part 10)

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2025/08/10

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The Oxford Group’s Influence (part 9)

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2025/08/03

Send us a text This episode is about the third of four practices from the Oxford Group the third practice is 3. Restitution to all whom we have wronged directly or indirectly Obviously, this practice is directly related to the eighth and ninth step in the 12 step program. Again, at the risk of repeating myself, it is undeniable that the 12 step program, or I should say, the 12 steps, directly originated from the Oxford Group. One of the errors that I made one approaching the eighth or n...

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The Oxford Group’s Influence (part 8)

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2025/07/27

Send us a text So, my friends, I don’t really have a lot to say in this description of episode number 30, which is a continuation of 29, the second of the four practices of the Oxford Group. It is just that the third step in the12-step program is so important to me that I would just like to say a little bit more about both of these important things. I also believe this is a really good example of the influence of the Oxford Group on the 12 step program. Almost all of these ideas can be direct...

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The Oxford Group’s Influence (part 7)

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2025/07/20

Send us a text This week I’ll be speaking about the second of the four spiritual practices that are proposed by the Oxford Group. This second practice is: 2. Surrender our life past, present and future, into God's keeping and direction. Well, my friends, as soon as I saw that word surrender, I knew that this was going to be one of my favorites of any of the Oxford Groups writings. This particular practice, that of surrender to God, is a corners of my faith And spiritual practices....

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The Oxford Group’s Influence (part 6)

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2025/07/13

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The Oxford Group’s Influence (part 5)

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2025/07/06

Send us a text This episode is about the last two “steps” in the list that Abby Thatcher left for Bill Wilson on that crumpled piece of paper. Little did he know at that time, the impact that that little piece of paper would have on both addiction and the lives of thousands of others with just plain living problems. Below are the fifth and sixth items on that list: 5. Restitution. 6. Continued work with others in need. Once again, I am sure that those of you who are familiar with the 12...

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