Celebrate Recovery at Peters Creek Baptist Church

In this special promotional episode of Our True Identity, the Celebrate Recovery podcast from Peters Creek Baptist Church, we’re inviting you to something truly life-changing. On Sunday, August 24th, from 12:30–1:45 PM, join us in the Social Hall at Peters Creek Baptist Church, 6300 Library Road, South Park, PA, for a Celebrate Recovery Info Session—and yes, a full lunch will be provided!

Celebrate Recovery (CR) is a Christ-centered program designed to help us overcome life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Built on the 12 steps and 8 biblical principles from the Beatitudes, CR is more than a program—it’s a movement of worship, mental health, and authentic community where lives are transformed through the power of Jesus Christ.

During this episode, you’ll hear what to expect at the info session, including:

• Worship that transforms hearts with songs like Glorious Day and The King Is in the Room.

• Powerful testimonies, including State Representative Chuck Heimerle’s story of healing and redemption.

• An introduction to the three doors of CR: Large Group gatherings, Open Share groups, and Step Studies.

• How CR embraces mental health and holistic healing, offering a safe space for honesty, growth, and recovery.

• The 7 keys to a thriving CR ministry, showing how this program builds strong foundations for lasting change.

Whether you’re new to Celebrate Recovery or you’ve been considering it for a while, this is your chance to see how it works, meet the leaders, and find your place in this Christ-centered community.

We’ll close with the Serenity Prayer, a declaration of surrender, peace, and courage that has guided millions on their recovery journey.

📅 Mark your calendar: Sunday, August 24th, 12:30–1:45 PM
📍 Peters Creek Baptist Church, 6300 Library Road, South Park, PA
🍽️ Full lunch included

This is more than an event—it’s an open door to hope, healing, and freedom. Your seat at the table is waiting.

Episode: Reasonably Happy Now, Supremely Happy Forever

Pathway to Peace — Part 6 (Celebrate Recovery Series)

SummaryWe close our journey through the Serenity Prayer with its quiet, courageous finale: “That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with You forever in the next.” This episode unpacks a countercultural freedom—embracing portable, everyday joy now without demanding perfection, while anchoring our hope in the eternal joy promised in Christ.

What you’ll hear

• Why “reasonable happiness” is an honest, resilient, portable joy (not performative positivity)

• Practicing joy in progress: permission to notice small graces in imperfect days

• Holding sorrow and joy together without denial or despair

• How eternal hope (“supremely happy…forever”) steadies real life and real recovery

• Living the tension: fully present here, fully anchored to forever

Key ideas & takeaways

• Reasonable ≠ settling; it’s freedom from demanding this world deliver what only eternity can

• Surrender makes space for peace; control exhausts it

• Joy is practiced, not postponed—especially in recovery

• Supreme joy is not escapism; it’s the anchor that makes today precious and purposeful

• We live open-handed now because forever is secure

Scriptures to reflect onRevelation 21:4 • Isaiah 25:6–8 • John 14:1–3 • Hebrews 12:2Join us in community

• Celebrate Recovery @ Peters Creek Baptist Church
  Fridays, 7:00 PM • 6300 Library Rd, South Park, PA

• Find a CR near you: CRLocator.com

• Learn more about PCBC: pcbc.church

Support the ministry

If you’d like to give, go to pcbc.church/give and choose “Celebrate Recovery” from the dropdown. Your generosity helps us keep creating safe spaces for hope and healing.

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“Reasonable happiness doesn’t demand perfection; it practices joy in progress and anchors hope in forever.”

🎧 Episode: 6 B.C. – Palace Intrigue, Planets in Alignment, and the Quiet Hand of God
In the Fullness of Time | Our True Identity Podcast

Welcome back to In the Fullness of Time, a year-by-year journey toward the birth of Christ. This week, we step into 6 B.C.—a year without a single defining headline, yet one rich with converging events that quietly shaped the world for the arrival of the true King.

In this episode, we explore:

• A royal crisis in Judea – Herod the Great’s paranoia reaches new heights as he names Antipater heir, deepening instability in the palace.

• A rare celestial sign – Mars joins Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces, a sky pattern ancient observers would have seen as loaded with meaning for Israel’s future.

• Imperial fine-tuning in Rome – Augustus adjusts his eastern policies, ensuring stability in the provinces—including fragile Judea.

• The absence of Tiberius – Rome’s most seasoned general lives in self-imposed exile on Rhodes, leaving less experienced leaders to oversee a tense region.

Through politics, astronomy, and the personal choices of powerful men, God was aligning history so the world would be ready when His Son stepped into it.

🛑 Quote to Remember:

“God was at work not only in miracles, but in marble halls, personal decisions, palace intrigues, and the silent movements of the heavens.”

📍 Join us in person:
Celebrate Recovery at Peters Creek Baptist Church
🗓 Fridays, 7 PM | South Park, PA
Find a CR near you: CRLocator.com
Sister CR meets Mondays, 7 PM at Crossroads Ministries, Finleyville.

💙 Support the ministry:
pcbc.church/give → Select “Celebrate Recovery” from the dropdown

🔔 Next week: 5 B.C. – The world edges closer to Bethlehem.

🕊️ History has no random moments. Only God’s perfect timing.

🎧 Episode 5: Trusting That You Will Make All Things Right
Pathway to Peace | Our True Identity Podcast

There’s a unique ache that settles in when we’ve done everything “right”… and still feel like peace hasn’t come. We’ve worked, obeyed, let go of control—and yet healing delays, relationships strain, and answers don’t arrive. It’s here that the next line of the Serenity Prayer finds us:
“Trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will.”

In this episode, we explore what real trust and radical surrender look like—not as passive resignation, but as the boldest kind of faith. We talk about:

• The exhaustion of clinging to control

• Why surrender isn’t giving up—it’s giving over

• What it means to trust God before the resolution

• And how peace lives not in certainty, but in presence

This is for anyone who’s tired of striving, managing, performing—and who is ready to trade the weight of control for the rest of trust.

💬 Quote to Remember:
“Peace begins where control ends.”📍 Join us in person:🕖 Friday nights at 7 PM📍 Peters Creek Baptist Church – South Park, PAFind a Celebrate Recovery group near you: CRLocator.com
Or visit PCBC.church/give to support this ministry.🔔 Next Episode:
“That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with You forever in the next.”
A conversation on contentment, eternity, and how to live faithfully in the in-between.

🎧 Episode 9: The Year That Whispered
In the Fullness of Time | Our True Identity Podcast

In 7 B.C., nothing collapsed—but everything shifted.

Rome stood strong. Herod still ruled. The stars still wheeled in silence overhead. But beneath the empire’s marble surface, something deeper stirred: uncertainty.

In this sweeping, layered episode, we explore a year often forgotten by history—but essential to the story of redemption. No trumpet sounded, no battles broke out, and no cradle yet rocked in Bethlehem. But those with eyes to see, and hearts attuned to divine timing, would one day look back and recognize: the stage was being set.

💬 In this episode:

• Tiberius, Rome’s quiet exile, walks away from power and becomes a living question mark.

• Herod, twisted by paranoia and sickness, executes his own sons—and the people begin to lose hope.

• Ovid, Rome’s great poet, begins threading ancient myths into what would become Metamorphoses.

• Jupiter and Saturn dance three times across the winter sky—a triple conjunction in Pisces.

• Far away, in quiet, in secret, a young woman carries a promise no one else yet sees.

🛑 Quote to Remember:

“History remembers the loud years. But sometimes, the years that whisper change everything.”

This was 7 B.C.

• A year of restraint, not collapse.

• Of silences with weight.

• Of movements in the heavens that would echo in hearts long after.
  It did not announce the Christ. But it cleared the way.

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🔔 Next episode:
The silence begins to break. One star will shine brighter. One woman will feel her child move. And the wait—for joy, for judgment, for Jesus—will narrow to a breath.

🕊️ In the fullness of time… all things come to light.

🎧 Episode 4: Taking, As Jesus Did, This Sinful World As It Is
Pathway to Peace | Our True Identity Podcast

Welcome to Our True Identity, where we replace the lies we believe about ourselves with the truth of God’s Word. I’m a grateful believer in Jesus Christ, I struggle with alcoholism and approval seeking, and my name is Craig, and in this fourth episode of the Pathway to Peace series, we reflect on one of the most challenging yet transformative lines in the Serenity Prayer:

“Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.”

This episode is an invitation to surrender—not to despair, but to peace. It’s a conversation for the weary, the perfectionists, the controllers, and the hopeful ones still trying to make sense of their stories. Together, we explore what it looks like to live with open hands in a broken world, not by escaping what is, but by entering it like Jesus—with presence, with compassion, and with trust.

💬 In this episode:

• Why peace isn’t found in control, but in surrender

• How perfectionism quietly robs us of joy and connection

• What Jesus teaches us about presence in an imperfect world

• How to stop holding your peace hostage to ideal circumstances

• The power of showing up without needing everything to be “fixed”

🛑 Quote to Remember:

“Jesus didn’t flinch at the world’s dysfunction. He entered it. And that makes it holy ground.”

📍 Local to Pittsburgh?
Join us for Celebrate Recovery
🗓️ Fridays at 7 PM
📍 Peters Creek Baptist Church
6300 Library Road, South Park, PA

We also gather at Crossroads Ministries (Finleyville)
🗓️ Mondays at 7 PM

🌎 Not nearby? Find a CR group near you: crlocator.com

🙏 Partner With Us:
If this ministry has blessed you, consider giving.
Visit: pcbc.church/give
👉 Choose "Celebrate Recovery" in the dropdown menu.

Your generosity helps us keep creating safe, healing spaces rooted in truth and grace.🕊️ Peace isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. And the world needs yours.
We’ll see you in the next episode:
“Reasonably Happy in This Life, Supremely Happy with You in the Next.”

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🎧 Episode 3: Accepting Hardship as a Pathway to Peace
Pathway to Peace | Our True Identity Podcast

Welcome to Our True Identity, the podcast where we replace the lies we believe about ourselves with the truth of God’s Word. In this third episode of our six-part Pathway to Peace series, we turn toward one of the most difficult but transformational lines of the full Serenity Prayer:

✨ “Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.”

What if peace doesn’t come in spite of our pain—but through it?
What if the hardest things in your life aren’t detours, but doorways?

This episode is an invitation to release resistance and open your heart to the refining, healing work of God—even in the middle of the ache.

💬 In this episode:

• Why hardship is not a sign of failure

• How pain and peace can live in the same story

• What it looks like to stop fighting your circumstances and start receiving grace

• Where to find God when the road is heavy and the healing is slow

• Why peace isn’t a feeling—it’s a presence

🛑 Quote to Hold Onto:
“Hardship is not the end of your story. It’s the place where peace begins to take root.”

📍 Join us in person:
Celebrate Recovery at Peters Creek Baptist Church
🕖 Fridays at 7:00 PM | 6300 Library Rd, South Park, PA
A safe space for honesty, healing, and hope.

🌍 Not local? Find a CR group near you: CRLocator.com
📍 Sister group also meets Mondays @ 7 PM at Crossroads Ministries, Finleyville.

❤️ Want to support the work of Celebrate Recovery?
You can give at: pcbc.church/give
Click the drop-down menu and select Celebrate Recovery to designate your donation.

Your generosity helps us continue to create safe spaces for healing and transformation—for you, for your neighbor, for everyone who walks through our doors.

🔔 Next episode:
“Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.”
An invitation to release idealism, let go of control, and trust a God who holds it all.

🕊️ Peace is possible. Healing starts here.

🎧 Episode Title: The Fullness of Time
Our True Identity Podcast

In 8 B.C., Rome renamed a month.
The poet Horace died.
The empire celebrated peace.
And the calendar bowed to a man named Augustus.

But beneath the order was an ache.
An exhaustion that no statue or scroll could silence.
A hunger for something more than conquest—more than survival.

In this episode, we explore the death of Horace, the rise of Augustus, and the quiet tension humming beneath Rome’s golden façade. It was a world full—not with chaos, but with control. And into that fullness, God was preparing to speak.

🕊️ What if peace isn’t the absence of war, but the end of pretending?
What if grace doesn’t arrive in crisis, but in the moment right before—when everything holds, just barely?

📍 In this episode:

• The death of a poet who gave voice to an empire

• The renaming of Sextilis to August

• Tiberius’s silent march into Germania

• Why “fullness of time” isn’t about perfection—but saturation

• And how all of it sets the stage for a grace that doesn’t wait for collapse

✝️ You’ll also hear a fresh invitation to Celebrate Recovery—not just for the broken, but for the exhausted achiever, the quiet struggler, the believer who wonders why the ache remains.

📍 If you’re near Pittsburgh:
Celebrate Recovery meets every Friday at 7:00 PM
📍 Peters Creek Baptist Church
6300 Library Rd, South Park, PA
No sign-up. Just show up.

🌍 Not local? Find a CR near you: CRLocator.com

About the Audio:This episode was shaped with the help of NotebookLM’s AI Audio Overview feature—a tool that distills the key themes from long-form content like our companion book. The structure may be AI-assisted, but the storytelling, insight, and prayer behind every word remain deeply human.

🎧 Episode 2: One Day at a Time, One Moment at a Time
Pathway to Peace | Our True Identity Podcast

Welcome back to Our True Identity, the podcast where we replace the lies we believe about ourselves with the truth of God’s Word. In this second episode of our Pathway to Peace series, we move deeper into the Serenity Prayer—exploring the quiet but courageous invitation to:

🕊️ “Live one day at a time, enjoy one moment at a time.”

This episode is a guided reflection on what it really means to stay present when everything in us wants to run ahead or look back. Whether you’re in recovery from addiction, carrying grief, wrestling with shame, or simply weary from the pace of life, this message offers a fresh invitation: stay here—in the sacred ground of now.

💬 In this episode:

• The difference between surviving the day and living it

• Why presence is hard—but healing

• What it means to enjoy one moment at a time, even when life is far from perfect

• How trust and gratitude shape the practice of spiritual presence

• Practical, grace-filled encouragement for walking through today without fear of tomorrow

🛑 Quote to Remember:

“The soul doesn’t heal at the speed of hustle. It heals in stillness. It heals in presence.”

📍 If you’re local to the South Hills of Pittsburgh:Join us for Celebrate Recovery every Friday night at 7:00 PM📍 Peters Creek Baptist Church | 6300 Library Rd, South Park, PA

🎧 Learn more: pcbc.church📍 Find a CR group near you: CRLocator.com

🔔 Next episode:“Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.”It doesn’t sound easy—but it’s where transformation begins.

🕊️ Peace is possible. Healing starts here.