If you’re surrounded by dangerous triggers to look at porn, and your willpower to resist is a finite resource, what can you do? You need to find a way to renew your willpower. How can you build it back after it’s been depleted? After 20 years of helping people quit…

Since the ’60s, our culture has gone through a sexual revolution. This era overturned ideas of sexual morality, poked fun at the prudishness of previous generations, and offered a compelling alternative to traditional ideas about sex. As documented by professor Carl Trueman in his book, The Rise and Triumph of…

“What are you made of?” It sounds like a rhetorical question, something from a motivational speech. And in the context of overcoming porn, “What are you made of?” could be taken as a challenge—a test of your willpower, determination, and character. But have you ever tried to answer that question…

We asked Kirk what he’s working on right now, and he explained the premise of the latest movie. His new movie focuses on restored relationships, specifically adoption: “Lifemark is a brand new movie that’s coming out on September 9. It’s the first time that the Kendrick brothers and I have…

If you search online for “radical amputation,” you’ll find a list of articles about dealing with lust and porn, mostly for men. That’s because the Bible used the metaphor of “cutting off your hand” to demonstrate the radical measures required to overcome sexual temptation. “If your right eye causes you…

When it comes to quitting porn, time drains your willpower like a leech. How so? Quitting porn means shifting the focus of your time from porn to developing new relationships and restoring old ones that were marred by porn. As you do this, you build new patterns of life apart from…

Let’s face it: being single is challenging on so many levels. You may feel like you “deserve” or need sexual release and turn to porn, or you may be driven into a deep sense of shame by unwanted or uncontrollable porn use and feel like nobody will ever love you…

When someone embarks on a journey to quit consuming pornography, they generally come from one of two places. Some people make a conscious, motivated decision to stop watching porn because they’re committed to a healthier life. Others, however, reach this point after a painful or “rock bottom” experience—perhaps getting caught,…

Over the 13 years that I struggled with pornography the two biggest struggles I encountered were hopelessness and apathy. You can only have so many moments where you tell yourself, “This is the last time I am doing this,” only to fall the very next day before you begin to…