Your child approaches you and tells you that they’ve been looking at porn. As a parent, how do you respond? You may feel tempted to yell, take away their phone, ground them, or all of the above. It’s easy to feel a rise of emotions when you find out your…
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Can Fathers in Sexual Sin Lead Their Children?
King Solomon stands out as one of the premier sexual sinners of the Bible. He was richer than Warren Buffet, smarter than Albert Einstein, more spiritually influential than Billy Graham, and yet he had a harem bigger than Hugh Hefner’s. Solomon’s women would be his downfall. As predicted, the more…
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The Right Way to Quit Porn
Is there a right or wrong way to quit porn? Actually, yes. You might have a sense of this if you’ve tried to stop before and failed. If that’s you, keep reading. What’s the worst way to try to quit porn? I’ve found a couple of contenders for the absolute…
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Day 5: Marriage Didn’t Fix Brandon
In today’s video, Tonia entered the scene! By the time she and Brandon started dating, Brandon had already developed a bit of a reputation for his porn use and his sexual activity. But since he was honest when she asked him point-blank about it, Tonia figured she could work through…
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Why the Best Porn Blockers Include Accountability
The Best Porn Blockers Include Accountability A porn blocker can be a great solution to keep unwanted content off your devices. But porn blockers shouldn’t be the only tools you use. Here’s why Covenant Eyes pairs porn blocking with accountability to help people live porn-free. Page at a Glance Finding the Best…
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Faith and Porn: Jonathan’s Story
To explain my struggle against this sin is to, in essence, describe my faith journey as a whole. So, let’s start there. I was raised in a Christian home, albeit one that didn’t actively have the Holy Spirit influencing it. My first memories don’t involve my father; my mum split…
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Forgiveness vs. Trust: Why Knowing the Difference is Essential
The first 8 years of Troy and Melissa’s marriage were horrible because of Troy’s sexual addiction. As God healed them—Troy from his addiction and Melissa from betrayal trauma—they developed a passion for helping other couples. From this, their ministry, HopeQuest, was born. Troy and Melissa recently sat down with our…
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Day 2: Lead With the Relationship, Not the Tech
In the 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrind identified two essential qualities for raising healthy children: “parental demandingness” and “parental responsiveness.” Using these two qualities, she and her team developed a grid for understanding parenting styles: Our goal as parents is to be Authoritative—safe and understanding people for our kids to come talk…
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Day 18: 5 Secrets to Walking in the Spirit
For the follower of Christ, the ultimate goal is not merely “quitting pornography.” If merely modifying behavior was the most important thing, there are any number of psychological tips and tricks one can use. But for Christians, the true goal is to be remade by God Himself into the image of the…
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My Personal Purity Battle Plan: 28 Things I Try to Never Forget
I’ve learned the hard way that pornography addiction will never be broken unless there’s genuine biblical repentance, and I’ve also learned the hard way that genuine biblical repentance always requires radical life changes. To break the chains of pornography addiction, I had to go beyond the never-ending cycle of sin-guilt-shame-sorrow-confession-rededication-repeat.…
