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Saturday- Ep: 470 – There is a Solution – We in turn sought the solution with the desperation of a drowning man – What seemed at first a flimsy reed proved to be the powerful hand of God!

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Saturday – Ep: 469 – There is a Solution – Page 26-7 – Dr. Jung gives the solution to Roland Hazard – Thus AA is born – Roland to Ebby to Bill to DR. Bob to us today!

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Saturday – Ep: 468 – There is a solution – Page 25 – Spiritual Experience – Pages 567-8 – These pages describe the solution to our hopeless condition of mind and body!

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Saturday – Ep: 467 – There is a Solution – Pages 20-24 – “The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink. Our so-called will power becomes practically nonexistent.”

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Saturday – Ep: 466 – There is a Solution – Pages 17-20 – How shall we present what has been so freely given us? We have set forth to publish an anonymous volume describing the problem, the solution, and the program of recovery!

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Saturday – Ep: 465 – There is a solution – Page 17 – The common peril and the cement that binds us!

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Saturday – Ep: 464 – Bill’s Story – Part 5 – Pages 12-16 – I believe these pages are essential for all alcoholics to read and understand – The whole deal!

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Saturday – Ep: 463 – Bills Story – A message of hope for all those suffering from the disease of alcoholism – Part 4 – Pages 9-12 – Bill W becomes willing to believe in a power greater than himself – Scales of pride and prejudice fell from his eyes!

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Saturday – Ep: 462 – Bill’s Story – A message of hope to all those suffering from the disease of alcoholism – Part 3 – Pages 7-9 – God sends Ebby to Bill in Nov 1934 to us today!

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Saturday – Ep: 461 – Bill’s Story – A message of hope for all those suffering from the disease of alcoholism – Part 2 – Pages 5-8 – Bill admits complete defeat!

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Saturday – Ep: 460 – Meeting with treatment center patients – A talk about the disease of alcoholism, the big book, and in particular step 1

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Saturday – Ep: 459 – Bill’s Story – A message of hope to all those suffering from alcoholism – Pages 1-5 – Part 1 – Bill W progresses in the disease of alcoholism

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Saturday – Ep: 458 – Drs Opinion – Pages xxix- xxxii – The Dr. earnestly advises every alcoholic to read this book through, and though perhaps he came to scoff, he may remain to pray!

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Saturday – Ep: 457 – Drs. Opinion – Pages XXVIII – XXIX – The problem – Part 2 – Loss of control – Loss of choice

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Saturday – Ep: 456 – The Doctor’s Opinion – Part 1 – The problem – Pages Xxvi-xxviii

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Saturday – Ep: 455 – Forward to the second edition – AA history – The hand of God – Part 2 – The growth of AA from Ebby to Bill to Dr. Bob to us today!

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Saturday – Ep: 454 – Forward to the first edition and forward to the second edition – AA history – The hand of God – Part 1

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Saturday – Ep: 453 – Beginning study of the book Alcoholics Anonymous – Purpose of the book and how it came into being!

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Saturday – Ep: 452 – A Vision for You – Pages 163-4 – Powerful conclusion to the first 164 pages!

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Saturday – Ep: 451 – A vision for you – Pages 160-163 – Are you willing and able to recover on a spiritual basis?

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Saturday – Ep: 450 – A Vision for You – Pages 158-160 – AA in the beginning! A fellowship of the spirit!

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Saturday – Ep: 449 – A Vision for You -Pages 155-158 – Bill W and Dr Bob carry the message to AA no. 3 – He had found God – and in finding God he found himself!

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Saturday – Ep: 448 – A Vision for You – Pages 153-156 – Bill W stood at the turning point in the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel – God did for him and is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves – Then carries the message to Dr. Bob and AA is born!

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Saturday – Ep: 447 – A Vision for You – Pages 151-153 – You will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life – You will learn the full meaning of “Love thy neighbor as thyself”

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Saturday – Ep: 446 – Working with Others -Step 1 and Step 12 – Pages 100-103 – Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others! Powerful conclusion to this chapter!

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Saturday – Ep: 445 – Working with Others – Step 1 and Step 12 – Pages 98-100 – Powerful spiritual message in these pages!

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Saturday – Ep: 444 – Working with Others – Step 1 and Step 12 – Pages 95-98 – We simply do not stop drinking so long as we dependence on other people ahead of dependence on God!

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Saturday – Ep: 443 – Working with Others – Step 12 – Pages 94-5 – Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self appraisal. how you straightened out your past and why you are endeavoring to be helpful to him”

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Saturday – Ep: 442 – Working with Ohers – Step 12 – Pages 93-4 – “The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles”

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Saturday – Ep: 441 – Working with Others – Step 12 – Pages 92-4 – Carrying the Message – Dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady – Tell him exactly what happened to you – Stress the spiritual feature freely!

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