One of my buddies, Tal Prince, tells his story about recovery from porn addiction in this video. I love what Tal says about porn and sex addiction being classified as an “intimacy disorder.” To be sure, lust often drives our attraction to pornography, but it is a multi-layered sin. We often retreat to porn because [...]
When you are outgunned, and outmanned, there are only four options. The first is to fight it out to the death, taking as many of the enemy with you as possible. The second option is to surrender, or sue for peace. The third option is to kill yourself to avoid capture and possible torture. The [...]
Read Part 1 “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.” -CS Lewis It took less than 60 minutes for me to convince myself that God and gay were compatible. It would be another six years [...]
A month ago a standing-room-only crowd attended a briefing on Capitol Hill to listen to several researchers summarize their findings about how pornography harms men, women, children, and culture. Below is a portion of that briefing, featuring Mary Anne Layden, Ph.D. (Please note: this video contains mature subject matter.) Layden is a well-known sex addiction [...]
Covenant Eyes Radio – Episode 72
Man realizes there is a relationship crisis in his life. He knows something is wrong, something is missing, and something needs to be fixed. The bad news is that typically he does not know exactly what the “something” is. Man was wired for community, but as an un-regenerated man he is not participating in or [...]
Covenant Eyes Radio – Episode 71
How does porn impact the brain? Dr. William Struthers, Associate Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, talks about this in his book, Wired For Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain. In the following video he dives into this topic in great detail, explaining why pornography is addictive from a neuroscientific perspective. (Please note: this [...]
Would you watch porn in a church building? I wish I could say I was asking merely for shock value, but I’m not. I was talking with David Blythe, a pastor who regularly travels and speaks on the temptations of pornography. A young man approached him after one of his seminars and spoke about being [...]
I was defeated again…lust was reigning in my life. When I would leave my house in the morning, darkness would set in. I felt compelled to look for porn and “act out.” It had been happening for months…and I was “in the ministry.” I knew better, but didn’t know how to stop and change my [...]
