Most Recent Posts in Defeat Lust & Pornography
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Porn at College: Life at the Crossroads
by O.R. Leslie “O.R., can we go outside and talk in private?”…
by O.R. Leslie “O.R., can we go outside and talk in private?” the young man asked. He was in a Family Counseling class at a major Christian university where my wife, Brenda, and I had…
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The Bible and the Brain
How Scripture strengthens, renews neurological pathways The Creator of the brain gave…
How Scripture strengthens, renews neurological pathways The Creator of the brain gave mankind a neurological handbook—the Bible. To live new lives we just have to embed its truths into our daily thinking. Science shows us…
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Moral Revolution (Book Review)
Good purity books don’t magically write themselves. They are forged out of…
Good purity books don’t magically write themselves. They are forged out of the author’s own experience as a sexual struggler, as a minister working with sexual strugglers, or both. Moral Revolution: The Naked Truth About…
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My Dad is Addicted to Porn: Can I Help Him? How Should I Talk to Him?
Recently we received this comment from a reader: I am in my…
Recently we received this comment from a reader: I am in my 20s and I found my dad viewing pornography on the computer. Honestly, it came as a shock to me and has been a…
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Cure For Porn Addiction: Don’t Move to Iceland
Perhaps you’ve heard the news. Iceland is gearing up to ban Internet…
Perhaps you’ve heard the news. Iceland is gearing up to ban Internet pornography. It won’t only be a crime, it would be straight-up impossible to look at porn with government filters in place. Soon, your…
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Closing the Window: Steps to Living Porn-Free (Book Review)
“The good news is that we can say to ourselves, ‘I don’t…
“The good news is that we can say to ourselves, ‘I don’t need to use porn, because God is bigger and better'”(p.65). That is the perspective of Tim Chester in Closing the Window: Steps to…
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“Think On These Things”: Talk to Your Brain to Change Your Life
“February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the…
“February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow…
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Saying No to Temptation: The Fuel of Commitment
Around our house, everybody pitches in to help keep the house in…
Around our house, everybody pitches in to help keep the house in good shape. So after dinner, my eight-year old daughter, Grace, helps my wife load the dishwasher. My four-year old son, Daniel, wipes the…
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5 Lessons Purity Teaches Us
If you had asked me to define purity when I was still…
If you had asked me to define purity when I was still a teenager, I would have told you it was simply this: “Don’t have sex before you’re married.” As the years went on, that…
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Properly Understanding Lust
by Jim Vander Spek I was a Christian for over fifty years, grew…
by Jim Vander Spek I was a Christian for over fifty years, grew up in an actively Christian home, attended a Christian College, spent time in Seminary, was an elder in a fine evangelical church, and…