Addiction.  A word used commonly in a joke, as in, “I’m a chocoholic.”  And it’s funny.  Unless it’s true.

Addiction.  For some it conjures images of needle marks and drunks and back alleys.  Others think it’s just wishy-washy people who lack will power.  For the addicts themselves -- and the ones who love them -- it means a desperate daily struggle to maintain any sense of normalcy while slowly losing a life-and-death spiritual battle with a pull or compulsion now completely beyond anything as puny as will power.

But not beyond the power of the atonement of Jesus Christ.  There is nothing stronger than the absolute power of that infinite act.

Today, we join author Colleen Harrison to discuss her book, “He Did Deliver Me From Bondage,” for part one of a series on overcoming addiction through the incomprehensible power of the atonement of Jesus Christ.

That’s this week on the Cricket and Seagull...