So, you’re a teenager and you’re battling lust. You know that lustful thoughts don’t honor God, and you also don’t like the out-of-control feeling of your sexual desires. It feels dirty—and scary. But it seems like other Christians don’t have the same struggles, and the world around you thinks you’re…
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7 Tips for Wives of Sex Addicts: Looking for a Good Therapist
It can be harder than you think to find a counselor who really gets the trauma you have suffered as a partner of a porn or sexual addict. Learn what to look for, what questions to ask, and what to do when you keep hitting road blocks. I get e-mails…
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For Allies: How to Respond When Your Friend Looks at Porn
Brian hopped on his laptop to see if any grad schools had gotten back to him yet. He knew he had just sent out his transcripts an hour before, and he knew that clicking the refresh button on his browser had no scientific ability to generate new emails that had…
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Building Walls Against the Flood: Luke’s Story
I was thirteen the first time I saw pornography. It happened behind the snack bar at our neighborhood pool, where I worked my first summer job. A few older guy–friends I looked up to were hanging around after hours. One of them asked casually if I’d ever watched porn. I…
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Porn in the Pew: Can You Love God and Porn at the Same Time?
It’s the thing nobody in the church wants to talk about. But it kills more marriages, drains more hearts, and ends more ministries than anything else. It’s the elephant in the church–pornography. The church has only three available responses: ignore it, condemn it, or address it. We have chosen to…
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Why Do I Stay Stuck in Pornography?
Why would a Christian have such a personal battle with something he or she believes is wrong? Let’s check out three hidden reasons it’s so hard to go more than a few steps on the recovery journey. All three are driven by pride. The first hidden reason is denial. Countless…
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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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Good Kids Get Hooked on Porn Too: Pastor Noah’s Story (Part 1)
I’m 37. This is relevant because you can tell a lot about someone’s sexual purity story by how old they were in the mid-’90s, also known as when the internet became as common in households as the telephone or television. For me, this was 7th grade. I’m a bit biased…
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Porn on Pinterest? The Darker Side of the Fastest-Growing Social Network
Pinterest is hot, pinned as one of the fastest-growing social networks ever. But the online pinboard has a dark side where people are showing off more than recipes and muscle cars. Created as a site to “organize and share what you love,” Pinterest has seen exponential growth since its start…
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5 Insights About Women and Pornography From Ashley Jameson
Ashley Jameson is the Associate Director of Women’s Groups for Pure Desire Ministries. Not only is she an expert in the field of sex addiction, but she has her own powerful story of overcoming addiction. Our podcast team sat down with Ashley to discuss important issues related to women and…
