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Quitting Porn: When Time Is Running Out

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…

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5 Important Things To Know About Singleness and Porn

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…

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How Identity Shapes the Journey to a Porn-Free Life

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,…

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My Biggest Struggles Were Hopelessness and Apathy

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…

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How Jesus Changes Addicts

Every one of us has heard the story or seen the testimony of the former addict who, one day, simply threw away their drug of choice, never to touch it again. In the Christian form of this, there is generally an encounter with God, perhaps a conversion, and Voila!, no…

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Do Internet filters work?

Surprising data* from a nationwide study suggest that Internet filters might actually promote pornography use, while accountability software reduces the use of porn. Of adults in the general population, 29% “seek out” pornography at least monthly. However, for those who use a filter to block pornography, 39% seek it out…

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Are You Repenting the Wrong Way?

How You Respond After Sinning Affects “The Next Time” As crazy as it sounds, did you know that there’s actually a wrong way to repent? The Bible teaches us that there is a right way and a wrong way to respond and relate to God after we’ve sinned. In my…

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Does Porn Cause Erectile Dysfunction?

Back in 2013, GQ Magazine published an article called, “10 Reasons Why You Should Quit Watching Porn.” Yes, the same GQ that published its “100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century” feature in the same year they also told men why masturbating to lust-provoking images is not a good idea. The very…

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Singleness and Longing: Why Porn Is Not the Cure

Valentine’s Day is still a few weeks away, but the seasonal items—the balloons, the teddy bears, the crummy candy in heart-shaped cardboard boxes—are already going up in the stores. Pretty strange, considering that as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to the realization that the only people over the age of…