Avatar for Noah Filipiak

Articles by Noah Filipiak

Noah Filipiak is a pastor and the author of Beyond the Battle: A Man's Guide to his Identity in Christ in an Oversexualized World (Zondervan)He also hosts The Flip Side Podcast. If you desire to be free from lust, porn, and fantasy, you can join Noah and his team in an online small group at Beyond the Battle, or get the leader guide to run your own group.

Image for article: Why There Is No Sex in Heaven

Why There Is No Sex in Heaven

Here are two contrasting cultural beliefs for you to consider: Sex is the best thing on the planet Heaven is full of the best things we can imagine So if both of these things are…

Image for article: Marriage Is Not the Answer to Your Desire for Sex

Marriage Is Not the Answer to Your Desire for Sex

It’s a line often heard in well-intentioned lessons on sexual purity: God created sex. It’s His. Pornography and premarital sex are just distortions of what God made that is good: sex within marriage. Those sexual…

Image for article: How to Lose Your Desire for Porn and Lust

How to Lose Your Desire for Porn and Lust

For many struggling with porn, their #1 goal is to stop looking at it. This is why we install Covenant Eyes on our computers and have accountability partners ask us if we’ve stumbled this week…

Image for article: What the Bible Says About Premarital Sex

What the Bible Says About Premarital Sex

I’ve heard it said that the Bible doesn’t mention premarital sex as a sin. There are major implications to this on two levels. One, there is the simple and important question of knowing what is…

Image for article: Are You Attracted to Your Wife or Objectifying Her?

Are You Attracted to Your Wife or Objectifying Her?

I Plan on Objectifying my Wife. You Can’t Stop Me! I recently wrote a Covenant Eyes article “What Christian Culture Has Gotten Wrong About Sexual Purity.” In it, I wrote: Satan’s definition of sex is…

Image for article: How Life Becomes More Fulfilling Without Watching Porn

How Life Becomes More Fulfilling Without Watching Porn

One of the most severe things porn does to someone is shape their brain to start seeing men and women in real life the way they see men and women in porn.

Image for article: When Fantasy Invades Your Marriage

When Fantasy Invades Your Marriage

Fantasy seems like an invincible foe. Close your eyes and you can picture anything you want, with no one to stop you. Unlimited helpings of dessert, without gaining any weight? Done. Scoring the winning touchdown…

Image for article: What Christian Culture Has Gotten Wrong About Sexual Purity

What Christian Culture Has Gotten Wrong About Sexual Purity

Let me start with something that is fundamental to addressing sexual purity: churches have to talk about porn. I went to church every Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night growing up and we never…

Image for article: How a Little “Harmless” Entertainment Can Affect Your Husband

How a Little “Harmless” Entertainment Can Affect Your Husband

Numerous Christian men I’ve counseled have shared how their Christian wives read romance novels and watch movies and shows that contain nudity in front of them, even asking them to watch with them. Ironically, these…