Oliver Underwood is a CABC (Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor) with The Addiction Connection, a certified biblical counselor with ACBC, serves on TAC's advisory board. He is also the Director at Damascus House in the Seattle, WA area. Find more recommended residential addictions programs at TheAddictionConnection.org/residential-programs/ Habakkuk 1:2-4 "O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? 3 Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. 4 So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted."(ESV) Habakkuk 2:15-16 “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink—you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! 16 You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the Lord's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!" (ESV)
6:08 How does God's response to Habakkuk's plea relate to today? 9:00 How bad is the Fentanyl-lacing crisis that is pouring into the USA and what can Addictions Biblical Counselors do about it? 12:35 What insight does Oliver have from his experience at Damascus House? 15:10 Eric Smith from DEA, Houston, reported seizure of fentanyl. 15:38 Tim Murphy, Congressman in 2017, predicted fentanyl's rising overdose deaths. 16:15 What is the rising cause death those age 18-45? 17:12 What is hindering many local churches from taking opportunities to reach the addicted? 21:10 How did the stigma about alcoholism, recovery, and addiction occur and what is the only remedy to the problem of stigma? Does the biblical approach to addiction reduce it to a moral failure? 25:18 Jeremiah 17:5 "Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord." (ESV) 25:45 In what ways can a local church get involved combatting the problem at the heart of addiction with the hope of the Gospel? 27:01 What is the latest on the development of the women's program at The Damascus House?
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NASB 1995) says, "Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls, 18 Yet I will exult in the Lord,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. 19 The Lord God is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, And makes me walk on my high places." (NASB1995)
2 Timothy 4:2 (NASB1995) "...preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction." (NASB1995)
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