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    Protect Your Kids

    Consumed By Media: Parental Wisdom for the 21st Century

    Episode 168 [powerpress] In the modern world, media consumes our lives. From…

    Episode 168 [powerpress] In the modern world, media consumes our lives. From TVs to touchscreens, from text messages to tablets, media is part of our every day lives. How much is too much? Today we are…

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    Help Others Restore Integrity

    Preaching About Sex: Using the Song of Solomon to Challenge a Porn Culture

    Episode 167 [powerpress] Three thousand years ago, Solomon’s most celebrated love song,…

    Episode 167 [powerpress] Three thousand years ago, Solomon’s most celebrated love song, “The Song of Songs,” presented a very countercultural view of sex, one that shattered both pagan and prudish views of sexuality. Today, the message…

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    Rebuild Your Marriage

    The Missing Foundation of Family Life

    Episode 166 [powerpress] When couples hit a marriage crisis or when parents…

    Episode 166 [powerpress] When couples hit a marriage crisis or when parents hit a parenting crisis, often what is needed is not just more or better information to solve the problems. Rather, what is needed…

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    Defeat Lust & Pornography

    How to Conquer the Power of Sin

    Episode 165 [powerpress] Paul tells us in Galatians 5:16-18, “But I say,…

    Episode 165 [powerpress] Paul tells us in Galatians 5:16-18, “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit,…

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    Rebuild Your Marriage

    Bringing the Sexual Spark Back to a Porn-Scarred Marriage

    Episode 164 [powerpress] Often we hear from couples struggling in their marriages…

    Episode 164 [powerpress] Often we hear from couples struggling in their marriages because of a husband’s use of porn. How do couples bring both trust and real sexual intimacy back to their marriages when they’re…

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    Defeat Lust & Pornography

    The Lies Men Believe About Porn

    Episode 163 [powerpress] Often when it comes to overcoming a deeply ingrained…

    Episode 163 [powerpress] Often when it comes to overcoming a deeply ingrained habit of looking at pornography, men often don’t know where to start. The most pressing need they feel is quitting something that has…

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    Protect Your Kids

    Is Courtship in Crisis? (Part 3 of 3)

    Episode 162 [powerpress] For the last two weeks we’ve been interviewing Thomas Umstattd,…

    Episode 162 [powerpress] For the last two weeks we’ve been interviewing Thomas Umstattd, Jr., author of Courtship in Crisis: The Case for Traditional Dating. For seven years Thomas ran the website PracticalCourtship.com, but eventually, after speaking with a…

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    Protect Your Kids

    Is Courtship in Crisis? (Part 2 of 3)

    Episode 161 [powerpress] Last week we began our conversation with Thomas Umstattd, Jr., author…

    Episode 161 [powerpress] Last week we began our conversation with Thomas Umstattd, Jr., author of Courtship in Crisis: The Case for Traditional Dating. Seven years ago, Thomas would have been an unlikely person to write such a book—he…

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    Protect Your Kids

    Is Courtship in Crisis? (Part 1 of 3)

    Episode 160 [powerpress] For seven years, Thomas Umstattd, Jr. ran the website…

    Episode 160 [powerpress] For seven years, Thomas Umstattd, Jr. ran the website PracticalCourtship.com to encourage a national conversation to help the so-called “courtship model” work for more singles. He eventually became convinced that courtship wasn’t…

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    Rebuild Your Marriage

    A Marriage Redeemed from Porn: Darren and April’s Story

    Darren was in seminary, in training to be a minister, but his…

    Darren was in seminary, in training to be a minister, but his secret addiction to porn was growing. His wife April tried many things to help Darren to stop, but finally after 11 years of…

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