When you are using Accountability Software, the most important question to ask is: Who should receive your Accountability Reports? For some people, the choice of an accountability partner (or an ally as we like to call it) is an obvious one: a parent, a best friend, a spouse. But a…
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The Best Kept Secret for Keeping Kids Pure
Recently, a dad proudly told me he put Covenant Eyes on his son’s iPod. “What about your iPhone?” I asked. It didn’t take this dad long to connect the dots: (1) As a man, he is also susceptible to online temptation, he admitted, and (2) his son would embrace accountability…
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It’s Time to Take the Dad Challenge
There are always things we need to improve on as parents, but before I get to that I want to talk about what we’re doing right. Parents are doing a lot of things right these days, something we may not hear a lot. Fathers in particular have improved in their…
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Pleasure, Longings, and an Unsatisfied Heart
There were early indications that I had unrealistic expectations and was prone to disappointment and depression when things didn’t go according to plan. An early story took place at a railroad crossing. I don’t have conscious recollection since I was only two or three. But my parents insist I was…
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Awakening Our Thirst for God (part 2)
“Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.’” In a previous post we spoke about a festival in Jerusalem in the days of Jesus where the pilgrims would cry out to God to pour out His Spirit upon them,…
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5 Fears That Keep Us from Talking to Kids about Porn
Why do we put off what we know we need to do, even when we know it is something very important? In my experience most parents know that modern day pornography is more dangerous than ever and that they need to regularly talk with their kids about it. However, my…
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Sold for Life
How Advertising Influences Children, and What You Can Do About It You’ve no doubt seen the kid in the grocery store, throwing a temper tantrum because his parents wouldn’t buy him the new toy or candy he wanted. Maybe you’ve even been that parent, and you know the sting of…
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When Porn Shattered My Fairytale World
When I got married, I wanted the sun to shine and the sky to be blue. I wanted the birds to sing and the flowers to bloom and for us to hold hands and just be happy together forever. What I wanted was happily ever after. And what I got…
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Elliot Rodger and the Lies We Believe About Sex
Let’s talk about Elliot Rodger for a moment, shall we? On May 23, “the Day of Retribution,” the 22-year-old man acted in vengeance against those who, he believed, had willfully ignored him, keeping him a virgin and denying him the physical affection he craved. Enacting a plan that originally called for…
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A Safeguard for My Innocence (Scholarship Essay)
There are only a few weeks left to apply for a Covenant Eyes scholarship! Each year we award thousands of scholarship dollars to students who demonstrate integrity. Check out the application information and pass it along to a student you know or apply for the scholarship today. The essays below were…