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Flee from Porn: Say “No” Before You Need to Say “No”
I like the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife (Genesis 39) for…
I like the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife (Genesis 39) for several reasons. First, it shows that the sexual instinct can be so powerful that it can cause someone to choose to ignore their…
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Myth: Porn Use Is Nothing More Than a Religiously Motivated Moral Issue
Christians and other religious individuals are widely known for opposing pornography for…
Christians and other religious individuals are widely known for opposing pornography for all kinds of moral reasons. I happen to be one of them, so when I tell people I’m getting ready to publish a…
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What Your Internet Filter Won’t Do For You
Let’s be honest here. How many of us think that if we…
Let’s be honest here. How many of us think that if we just put that Internet filter on our electronic devices that we’re “good to go” and all of our porn compulsions and addictions are suddenly…
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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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When Porn Ruins Your Love Story
He was it. The guy. The one she was going to spend…
He was it. The guy. The one she was going to spend her life with—pray with, start a family with and love forever. Neither of them was perfect, but she knew (or thought she knew)…
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3 Reasons Anime Porn Is Bad for You
Today, there are a lot more people out there speaking out against…
Today, there are a lot more people out there speaking out against pornography on the grounds that it really isn’t a very healthy industry. The more they read the stories of the women and men…
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Protecting Young Women from Cybersex
Bill and Christine called my office deeply distraught about their fifteen year-old…
Bill and Christine called my office deeply distraught about their fifteen year-old daughter, Shannon. They had caught her sexting with her boyfriend. She was taking nude photos of herself with her cell phone camera and…
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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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Will a Better Sex Life Keep Porn at Bay?
Whose side am I going to take? The defeated husband who feels…
Whose side am I going to take? The defeated husband who feels like his unresponsive wife is hanging him out to dry with his temptation or the betrayed wife who feels like she’s being blamed…
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My Kid Was Stuck Watching Porn on a Plane
Shocked. Horrified. Disgusted. Sickened. That’s only a handful of the emotions that…
Shocked. Horrified. Disgusted. Sickened. That’s only a handful of the emotions that overtook me when I found out that my 14-year-old son was a captive audience to a two-and-a-half-hour public display of hardcore heterosexual and…