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John Fort, MST, is the Director of Training for Be Broken Ministries where he oversees online training on Pure Life Academy. He is also a co-founder and board member of the Sexual Integrity Leadership Summit. John is a regular speaker on parenting and is the author of Father-Son Accountability: Integrity Through Relationship.

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Life Gets Messy

My daughter made me write this. It wasn’t my idea. She is 21 years old, and on a recent visit, she informed me that, after reading my blogs, she felt I wasn’t being totally honest.…

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Why live with it?

What discomfort or debilitation are we living with today that we don’t need to? What unpleasant aspect of our life do we accept as normal when it isn’t? It’s so easy to assume we already know…

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How to React the First Time Your Child Admits to Watching Porn

My child stands shivering before my wife and I and says, “I didn’t tell you before, because I was too afraid, but I looked at pornography a month ago, sort of for a few days…

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How to Explain Lust to Your Children

How do we teach our children to avoid pornography and damaging sexual situations, while teaching that sex is good and was created by God? I have found it helps to remember that children’s first encounter…

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The Hidden Danger of Private School

Why do some of us send our children to private Christian schools, or provide homeschooling, rather than use public schools? One of the reasons is to protect our children from negative influences. However, school choices…

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3 Accountability Steps to Take Before Your Kids Leave Home

Updated as of June, 2020. In spite of the current trend for kids to live with their parents long past their 18th birthday, we all need to realize our kids won’t live with us forever. We…

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Failure: The Making of a Mentor

Parents who have never struggled with at least the occasional desire to look at pornography or fantasize often make poor mentors for their kids in this area. Why? The number one thing a child worries about…

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How to Parent for Purity in the 21st Century

When my wife and I began guiding our children on the journey to sexual purity, I felt overwhelmed. My parents never talked to me about anything other than the most rudimentary “birds and the bees”…

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Online Directory of Sexual Purity Communities

My own recovery from pornography and sexual addiction has been a continual unfolding of new lessons. There was the intense counseling for several years, the support groups, the authors I learned from, the seminars I…