On the weekend of August 20 and 21, Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas initiated its Partnership for Purity with Covenant Eyes. The mission of this multi-year partnership is to help Prestonwood’s families be proactive in the war against Internet pornography. A key component of the partnership is to encourage…
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The Connections Between Pornography and Sex Trafficking
This post has been updated as of October 2020. We often hear today about the horrors of sex trafficking, overseas and in the United States. We are appalled at those who would hold women and children as sex slaves, deny them their human rights, and make them mere objects for…
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Christian Marriage Advice: Why is porn so bad for marriages?
There are many ethical arguments about why porn is bad, but these arguments often make no sense unless we first express why sex is so good. What about sex makes it good? What about porn exploits the goodness of sex? What is our sex drive for? The earliest biblical terms…
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Your First Seven Days of Porn Recovery
While traveling recently, I attended a 12-step group. I enjoyed the meeting greatly, but was saddened by the lack of long-term sobriety in the room. Over half the guys admitted to acting out that week. What’s the take-away? The first seven days of recovery are the most important. For most…
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What Is Considered Porn?
Covenant Eyes exists to help people overcome pornography—but what do we mean by “pornography”? Judge Potter Stewart, in Jacobellis v. Ohio, famously wrote that while he couldn’t give an intelligible definition of pornography, “I know it when I see it.” Most people know what they mean when they use the…
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5 Things I’ve Learned While Pastoring Through a Pandemic
The other day, I heard my wife say from our bedroom, “What is six plus nine?” With great confidence, I yelled out from our office the correct answer (15, just in case you were wondering). A few short moments later, my wife was out of the bedroom and standing by…
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10 Ways to Build Intimacy Apart From Sex
Therapists often recommend a period of abstinence to couples dealing with issues of compulsive or addictive use of pornography, or with issues of other types of sexual acting out. This can provide time for the wounded spouse to begin processing the impact of betrayal without the pressure to be sexually…
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Your Church Is Looking at Porn
The world is a blurry place. I feel like the lines between right and wrong, dark and light, good and bad, used to be more obvious. Words like “Christian,” “porn,” and “addiction” would not have been used in the same sentence just a few decades ago. But, in this post,…
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Accountability and the Habit of Lying
“There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.” – The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous “We are a company of Christian men. We are also… natural liars who are now finding freedom in…
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Pastors and Porn – Question #3: "What will my church think of me if I confess my problem?"
In 1984, two years into my first pastorate, with all the idealism and enthusiasm of youth, I presented my church with a vision for the future. As I am fond of doing, it was laid out step-by-step, with helpful diagrams and graphics, and a personal copy for each person to…