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7 Keys to Integrity: A Student’s Perspective
Every year Covenant Eyes provides scholarship opportunities for students who use Covenant…
Every year Covenant Eyes provides scholarship opportunities for students who use Covenant Eyes. The applicants write essays in which they share their experiences, struggles, and victories—and their perspectives on what it means to use today’s…
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5 Ways Accountability Can Deepen Your Relationship With God
You probably recognize that accountability is a powerful tool for behavior change.…
You probably recognize that accountability is a powerful tool for behavior change. The business world, the self-help world, and the porn-recovery world all acknowledge the vital importance of accountability. But it can be much…
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When Porn Leads To Despair
For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground, making…
For the enemy has pursued me, crushing me to the ground, making me live in darkness like those long dead. My spirit is weak within me; my heart is overcome with dismay. Psalm 143:3-4 Has…
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Everything Changed With a Video
I was a 14-year-old Catholic. I sang with the church choir, attended…
I was a 14-year-old Catholic. I sang with the church choir, attended Mass every weekend, and participated in youth group as often as I could. My friends and family had always warned me about the…
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Willing To Be Healed
Ten years old. That’s when it started. I had begun to feel…
Ten years old. That’s when it started. I had begun to feel strange urges to look at women without their clothes on, but couldn’t bring myself to talk about these feelings with my parents. Instead,…
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Faith and Porn: Jonathan’s Story
To explain my struggle against this sin is to, in essence, describe…
To explain my struggle against this sin is to, in essence, describe my faith journey as a whole. So, let’s start there. I was raised in a Christian home, albeit one that didn’t actively have…
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Beth Davis’s Story: Jesus Set Me Free
Like so many people, I was exposed to pornography at a young…
Like so many people, I was exposed to pornography at a young age—maybe eleven or twelve. I wasn’t looking for it and no one showed it to me. I stumbled on it accidentally. I knew…
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I Can’t Do It Alone
I crouched nervously behind the glow of our home office computer. Just…
I crouched nervously behind the glow of our home office computer. Just hours before, my sister and her friends had called me into that very room to see “something funny.” I was trying to remember…
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From Addiction to Accountability
I started watching porn when I was in high school, but this…
I started watching porn when I was in high school, but this was before the age of the smartphone. So, while the seed had been planted, my exposure to porn was very limited. I did…
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Learning To Feel Like a Whole Person
I was 12 years old when I first started looking at porn.…
I was 12 years old when I first started looking at porn. I don’t remember the first time, but it started with just random magazines and Pinterest art. I didn’t know why I liked looking…