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Luke Gilkerson has a BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies and an MA in Religion. He is the author of Your Brain on Porn and The Talk: 7 Lessons to Introduce Your Child to Biblical Sexuality. Luke and his wife Trisha blog at IntoxicatedOnLife.com

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Husbands Who Watch Porn: 12 Ways to Reassure Your Wife

When a woman discovers her husband has been watching porn behind her back, it can feel absolutely devastating. It is a traumatic discovery in the truest sense of the word—the wife undergoes terrible trauma. These women…

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Redeeming Accountability: When sinners walk together

Accountability can easily devolve from a relationship to an activity, but with a rigorous focus on the gospel of Christ, we can avoid this pitfall and enter into something powerful and transformative. This is the…

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Discipleship: The Missing Link for Overcoming Habitual Lust

When it comes to overcoming habitual sins, like viewing pornography, we often need more than just more determination, more Bible reading, and more prayer. We need a second set of eyes to help us see…

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Porn & the Demand for Sex Trafficking (10 Eye-Opening Stats)

“The johns watch porn, seeing violent and aberrant behaviors on film, then they crave the realization of what they have seen. Those obsessions drive them to the prostituted women and girls to get what they…

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Porn Culture vs. The Gospel: Two Irreconcilable Messages

The gospel says: “This is my body, which is given for you” (Luke 22:19). Porn culture says: “This is your body taken by me.” The gospel says: Treat “older women as mothers, younger women as…

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10 Ways Anyone Can Fight Sex Trafficking

In the book Stop the Demand we address how pornography is a key force driving the demand for sex slavery. Since we released the book, some have asked us for some simple actions steps. What…

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Sex Trafficking & Sex Addiction: A Documentary Addresses Two Forms of Slavery

There are millions of sex slaves in the world today. Millions. Anywhere from 14,000 to 17,000 individual are transported to the United States every year, most of them for the purposes of sexual servitude and…

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Renewing Marital Intimacy Book Bundle (Giveaway Worth $50)

Often we head into marriage expecting it to be a sexual utopia or an ever-flowing fountain of intimacy, and then when the honeymoon is over, we realized that we are sinful people married to sinful…

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Do Christians Overhype Porn Addiction?

Is it true, as one survey suggests, that 50% of Christian men and 20% of Christian women would say they are “addicted” to porn? Really? Has it gotten that bad in the church? A recent…