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Why I’m excited about Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Don Jon (and you should be too)
“There’s only a few things I really care about in life. My…
“There’s only a few things I really care about in life. My body, my pad, my ride, my family, my church, my boys, my girls…and my porn.” So begins the trailer to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial…
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Porn Free: Finding Renewal through Truth and Community (Book Review)
Porn addicts are, unfortunately, a dime a dozen these days. And in…
Porn addicts are, unfortunately, a dime a dozen these days. And in the Christian “recovery” community, there is no shortage of would-be therapists and theologians. Brian Gardner, author of Porn Free: Finding Renewal through Truth…
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Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn’t Good Enough (Review)
Marriages don’t have to be ordinary. God can help couples find oneness…
Marriages don’t have to be ordinary. God can help couples find oneness and intimacy, or recapture it. The authors share from their marriage godly beginnings, deterioration, building resentment, the consequences of an extramarital affair, restoration,…
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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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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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Helping Her Heal by Dr. Doug Weiss (Review)
Helping Her Heal is a two-disc DVD set from noted sexual addiction expert…
Helping Her Heal is a two-disc DVD set from noted sexual addiction expert Dr. Doug Weiss. It offers practical tools for hearing the wife, partner, or girlfriend’s pain, navigating her grief and losses, discovering her expectations…
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Guardians of Purity (Book Review)
Media and popular culture are already pulling our children away from God’s…
Media and popular culture are already pulling our children away from God’s standards of purity. Parents must take a proactive stance. The author shares how parents can create a godly culture in their homes, protect…
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What’s Wrong with a Little Porn When You’re Single? – Book Review
This week we are reviewing What’s Wrong with a Little Porn When…
This week we are reviewing What’s Wrong with a Little Porn When You’re Single?, published by Harvest USA. . . . . We write a lot about how porn damages marriages…and for good reason. Often, a…
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Surfing For God (Book Review)
I was grateful to get an advanced copy of Michael John Cusick’s…
I was grateful to get an advanced copy of Michael John Cusick’s book Surfing For God: Discovering Divine Desire Beneath Your Sexual Struggle. I heard him on Nate Larkin’s Pirate Monk Podcast talking about his…
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A Black and White Choice NOT to read Fifty Shades of Grey
by Mary Kassian Fifty Shades of Grey, an erotic novel by an…
by Mary Kassian Fifty Shades of Grey, an erotic novel by an obscure British author based on Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series, has electrified women across the country. Readers have spread the word like wildfire on…