What is your biggest fear? For me personally, it’s snakes. I hate snakes—even little, innocent, harmless garter snakes. I know they can’t hurt me. I’ve been told they’re more afraid of me than I am of them. I don’t care. I despise them. It still curls my nose hairs when…
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How to Raise a Porn Addict: Are you making these parenting mistakes?
Now that the first of the Internet generation has entered adulthood, porn use has become more common than ever before. Old Internet filtering approaches aren’t enough anymore. Parents need to understand the problem and create an atmosphere of love and accountability in the home. The goal is not merely to…
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How a Porn Addict Found Hope Between the Altar and the Door
The next best thing to be wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are – CS Lewis (This blog is dedicated to my old friend and mentor, Shawn, and to all who help bear the burdens of those caught in the grip of pornography.) I had…
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Tal Prince Speaks on Breaking Free from Porn Addiction
One of my buddies, Tal Prince, tells his story about recovery from porn addiction in this video. I love what Tal says about porn and sex addiction being classified as an “intimacy disorder.” To be sure, lust often drives our attraction to pornography, but it is a multi-layered sin. We…
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Why some accountability partners don’t work for porn addicts
Most of the men I work with have a long history of failed attempts at overcoming sexual temptation. A common strategy for people in churches is to have an accountability partner. I have nothing against accountability partners . . . they just don’t work. Even during the 15 years I…
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How a Porn-Addict Pastor’s Kid Found Purity of Heart
Growing up as a Chicago church planter’s son and having the privilege of being fed the Gospel as “theological baby food” as a kid, you would think I’d have everything under control on the outside. Look under the rug, and you find an awkward, codependent teenager constantly fighting the cyclical…
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How Wives of Porn Addicts Found Freedom from Lies
The following is a recording of last Friday’s webinar. Special thanks to Melissa Haas and Carolyn Woods for being willing to share some of their story as panelists.
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How Long Does It Take To Recover From Porn Addiction?
If you, a friend, spouse, or loved one is trying overcome porn, you’ve probably wondered how long it takes to recover from porn addiction. Is there a normal, predictable amount of time that needs to pass before they can say, “It’s behind me, I have quit”? If you Google this, you’ll…
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Your Husband’s Porn Addiction: 4 Ways to Get out of the Pit of Depression
My husband and I told the world about how the utter darkness of porn addiction sent him plummeting all the way to the contemplation of suicide. We’ve both professed to feeling like we were drowning, desperate to grasp onto anything that might resemble a life raft that would carry us…
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Save My Marriage: Counseling the Wife of a Porn Addict (Part 2 of 3)
Whenever I am able to give wives a biblical perspective of their husband’s sex/porn problem, I witness a ray of hope beginning to shine into the midst of their hopelessness. You see, it’s not uncommon for the wife to blame herself for her husband’s sin, or for the husband to…