Steps
A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

I cannot recommend this book enough. I will be re-reading and referencing for likely the rest of my life. I’ve had mostly a negative association with the twelve step program of AA largely due to experiences with people who leave the programs with a primary identify as “addict”. But this book and goi......more

This was a great read. Fourteen years ago, I took one of my favorite classes at Fuller, a two week intensive called "Recovery and Spirituality". We learned how the church should look more like a recovery group - experiencing connection and healing through openness about faults. This is exactly what......more

12 Steps to Freedom I highly recommend Steps by John Ortberg. As a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for over 25 years, I have read countless books on the Twelve Steps, but this one stands above the rest. Steps is not just about addiction. It is about the things that keep all of us stuck: fear......more

It would probably be difficult for me to dislike a book by a Willard student, but this work by Ortberg stands on its own. There’s a powerful place to write from—when the author isn’t writing from a mountaintop but from the valley they’ve walked through. Ortberg’s writing in Steps carries the voice of......more

Ok here's the truth. I listened to this book on Audible, but I ordered it on paperback and I'm planning to turn around and read it through page by page. Even if you've never taken the opportunity to join a twelve step program, Ortberg opens up the power behind it while all along encouraging you to d......more