Come This Far with Chris Taylor

17-year-old international pop superstar JoJo Siwa made headlines globally this week after coming out and revealing she had a "perfect girlfriend” who encouraged her to come out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Should I continue to allow my 5-year-old Daughter to be a JoJo fan and see her as a role model?

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New Special Series- 12 Steps to Complete Healing; my personal journey through each of the steps in recovery.

Step 6- Become entirely ready to have God remove all your character weaknesses.  Not some of your weaknesses, all of them. When you rigorously work steps 4 and 5 an emotional and spiritual cleansing has taken place and if you continue to be fully committed to this recovery program, when you reach step 6 you will have an overwhelming desire to give away all of your sins, all of your defects, all of your pains to the Savior Jesus Christ who freely suffered for your sake. In this episode, I recount an emotional journey that began on the battlefield and continued through today.

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New Special Series 12 Steps to Complete Healing; My personal journey through each step of recovery.    Step 5- Admit to yourself, to your Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ, to proper priesthood authority, and to another person the exact nature of your wrongs.   Step 5 goes hand in hand with step 4. It really should be explained as one step 4/5. In this episode, I tell my personal story of working steps 4 and 5. 

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New Special Series: 12 Steps to Complete Healing; My personal journey through each step of recovery.   Step 4- Make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.  This is the most difficult step for most people. This is the step so many people decide to jump off the “wagon”. They don’t fall off the wagon, they jump off. Step 4, when done correctly, is without a doubt one of the hardest things one can ever do.   I’ve been around 12 step groups and people in Recovery since I was 18 years old. When attempting to work the steps forward myself, I would always skip step 4.

 I would go through the motions, I would pretend to do it. But in reality, I had never done a real step 4 ever before.   Finally, after my relapse and near-fatal overdose, I was able to do a rigorous searching and fearless inventory of each phase of my life. Working with a therapist, I was able to discover some things from my childhood and teenage years that I had absolutely no idea were affecting me so much. Without doing an honest and fearless inventory of those stages of life, I would have never processed those things that I had suppressed deep down in my soul. 

The discoveries were shocking, difficult to revisit. But in the end, they were the watershed moment that I needed to heal and move forward on a solid foundation.   In this episode, I discuss that process and the shocking things I uncovered after burying them for nearly 2 decades.

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New Special Series- 12 Steps to Complete Healing; My personal journey through each step of Recovery.     Step 3 Trust- Decide to turn your will and your life over to the care of God the eternal father, and his son Jesus Christ.    Step 3 is a decision step. After feeling that burden lifted ever so slightly in step 1, and that glimmer of hope in step 2. Step 3, is where you really come to a decision. Action is absolutely necessary to find healing. Many people feel the glorious sensations in steps 1 and 2. But that is often fleeting. Step 3 is where the real work begins.    In this episode I explain my personal experiences with this step and how I’ve come to realize that this step above maybe all else, must be continually applied. Every day that decision is the same.

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New Special Series "12 Steps to Complete Healing; My personal journey through each step of Recovery.    Step 2-Hope- This episode goes in-depth with the personal story of my near-fatal infection where my arm nearly had to be amputated. Septic, in the ICU under constant observation, I finally dropped to my knees in complete humility.   Step 2-Hope- Come to believe that the power of God can restore you to complete spiritual health. When we realized the powerlessness over our addictions most of us felt stripped of any hope... Finally humbled, we reached out for help. Following what felt like the tiniest ray of hope.

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Once and for all I explain the real truth about masks.

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New Special Series recounting my personal journey through the 12 steps of Recovery. This episode goes in-depth with the personal story of my near-fatal overdose. The incident brought me face to face with reality once again. It took a major incident like this, but I started anew by sincerely taking step 1.  

Step 1: Admit that you, of yourself, are powerless to overcome your addictions and that your life has become unmanageable.    “Rarely do people caught in addictive behaviors admit to being addicted. To deny the seriousness of our condition and to avoid detection and the consequences of our choices, we tried to minimize or hide our behaviors. We did not realize that by deceiving others and ourselves, we slipped deeper into our addictions. As our powerlessness over addiction increased, many of us found fault with family, friends, even God.    

We plunged into greater and greater isolation, separating ourselves from others, especially from God. When we, as addicts, resorted to lies and secrecy, hoping to excuse ourselves or blame others, we weakened spiritually. With each act of dishonesty, we bound ourselves with “flaxen cords” that soon became as strong as chains. Then a time came when we were brought face to face with reality. We could no longer hide our addictions by telling one more lie or by rationalizing any further.”

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It was July 2019 and I found myself in a Washington D.C. high rise board room presenting to a conference room full of The Who’s who of Republican “King Makers”. It was Grover Norquist’s infamous Wednesday meeting of the wealthy donors and highly influential power brokers of the conservative right. In order to receive an invite to such a prestigious group of individuals, you had to pass their muster, in terms of being a credible candidate with the clout to win a seat in the House of Representatives. Only two congressional candidates of the 2020 cycle were invited this particular day to attempt to win support. The two candidates? Myself and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Don’t miss the inside story of the very origins of the “QAnon Cutie” already becoming “The Notorious MTG”.

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