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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Jesus on Recovery: 3 Keys to Overcome Addiction
Jesus is all about recovery. He stated his mission clearly: “The Father has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free” (Luke 4:18). For three years, Jesus “sponsored” 12 aimless men, whom he left behind to build something…
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What is lust in the Bible?
You probably don’t hear the word “lust” very often outside of church these days. If, like me, you grew up in the heyday of evangelical Purity Culture, you probably heard it a lot! But even then, the concept often brought as much confusion as clarity. See related: The Unfortunate Intersection…
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Pornography’s Prison of Shame and God’s Keys to Freedom: Matthew’s Story
Pornography remains one of the vilest substances on the planet, an abomination that twists our God-given sexual desires and mutates them into selfish desires leading to emotional and spiritual destruction. My Mental Prison Cell I was nine years old when I discovered pornography, and for eleven years, I would spend…
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Can you really be free from porn?
Each year, I find myself reflecting on a question I get asked often as a former sex addict and now sex addiction recovery mentor: “Can you really be free from porn?” It’s a valid question. After all, it seems that there are far more people these days who struggle with…
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Striving, Falling, and Getting Back Up: Persevering Against Porn
I have been struggling with a masturbation addiction since I was about 12 years old. I am 29 now. Even when I am not watching (or listening also in my case) any form of pornography, the tendency to return to compulsive masturbation is there. In the past, I couldn’t make…
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6 Dangers of Having Tunnel Vision in Recovery
When I started in recovery, my sole focus was sobriety. All of my actions were done to ensure I was not repeating the mistakes of the past so I didn’t continue to hurt myself or those around me. Sobriety was everything. I didn’t realize my focus and determination to abstain…
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What the Devil Meant for Evil, God Turned to Good
In this short testimony, I will offer my testimony of failure, forgiveness, freedom, and a new family that began in a nearly decade-long addiction to pornography. God’s grace and sovereignty are written all over my life, and what the devil once meant for evil, the Lord has now turned into…
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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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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…
