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How Porn Destroys Families (Scholarship Essay)
Each year Covenant Eyes awards thousands of scholarship dollars to students who…
Each year Covenant Eyes awards thousands of scholarship dollars to students who demonstrate integrity. This year, we’re doing it again! Check out the application information and pass it along to a student you know or apply for the…
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Women and Masturbation: Talking About It Openly (Part 2)
This is the second half of a two-part series on the topic…
This is the second half of a two-part series on the topic of women and masturbation. If you missed my first post, I highly recommend reading it before you read this one. In the first…
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Creating Church Policies That Help Your Staff Overcome Porn
This post has been updated as of March 5, 2021. I was…
This post has been updated as of March 5, 2021. I was listening to a podcast from a popular megachurch. Instead of the usual welcome, the senior pastor used the first five minutes of the…
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What Happens When Lust Trains Your Soul
While teaching at a men’s retreat, a standoffish young single challenged me…
While teaching at a men’s retreat, a standoffish young single challenged me with a purity question, “There are so many things in the Bible we don’t observe any longer. I mean, we don’t circumcise, or…
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Covenant Eyes at the Movies
Back in February, Covenant Eyes had the pleasure of sponsoring the 25th…
Back in February, Covenant Eyes had the pleasure of sponsoring the 25th Annual Movieguide Awards, which honored the top films and TV shows from 2016 featuring family-friendly content and Christian values. It was a beautiful,…
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Why Your Pastor Can’t Be More Practical than You Are Honest
How often are you truly honest with those around you? Often when…
How often are you truly honest with those around you? Often when we have a prolonged struggle, our tendency is to get upset with those around us. In churches, that frustration often gets directed toward…
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Are you a prisoner to unforgiveness?
As a society, we don’t encourage forgiveness very well, do we? Instead,…
As a society, we don’t encourage forgiveness very well, do we? Instead, the culture encourages resentment and paybacks by making the person suffer for the wrong they’ve done. Unforgiveness is almost celebrated. Our hurts come…
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Why I’ve Never Placed My Wife as Number One
I’ve never placed my wife as number one in our relationship. For…
I’ve never placed my wife as number one in our relationship. For the first 20 years of our marriage I had completely selfish reasons for not putting her first. For the last 13 years of our marriage…
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Have you ever been tempted to cheat?
Given my husband’s attraction to other women over the years, it was…
Given my husband’s attraction to other women over the years, it was almost a given that someone would later ask me, “Have you ever cheated on your husband?” My answer: “No, I have never cheated…
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Why the Church Must Be a No-Shame Zone
When I found out about Craig’s porn addiction, the last place I…
When I found out about Craig’s porn addiction, the last place I thought of calling for help was our church. First of all, I wasn’t prepared to ask anyone for help. If anything, I thought…