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Our friends Tray and Melody Lovvorn were recently featured on ShareWIK.com to talk about their story of pornography addiction, infidelity, divorce, and remarriage. Watch their video testimony. I first interviewed the Lovvorns on October 3, 2009, the day of their second first anniversary (that is, the anniversary of their second…
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According to a new German study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry, there is a significant correlation between higher consumption of porn and a lower amount of grey matter in your brain. It isn’t clear from the study if one phenomenon causes the other. Are those born…
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Pornography remains in high demand for one reason: It is titillating, pure and simple. The enemy would have us believe that he, not God, trades in pleasure, and that we who were created for sexual pleasure can have that experience virtually any time we want. In the age of the…
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We live by habits–some good, but some bad! We have habitual behaviors, like driving the same path to work every day without even thinking about where we are going or turning next–we just do it. We also have habitual thought patterns, like the person who always thinks the negative, or…
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When my son told us he had been watching pornography, I wanted to throw up. When I understood the depth of his addiction and the length of time he had been watching, I berated myself, feeling inadequate as a parent and person. But mostly I felt alone. Every other crisis…
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I am a mom of four beautiful children. They each have their positive and negative traits. Each has made me laugh and feel pride at their accomplishments, and each has disappointed me and fallen short of my expectations. When I found out my third child, a son, had been watching…
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Each time I caught Craig engaging with pornography, I either said or thought things like this: “Why can’t you exercise self-control?” “Why can’t you recognize this is harmful and hurtful and just not do it anymore?” “If you were a stronger person, you would be able to make a different…
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Episode 158 [powerpress] Darren was in seminary, in training to be a minister, but his addiction to porn was growing. Four years into their marriage, his wife April found out about it and continued to discover signs of his problem for eight more years. Little by little, her respect for…
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Covenant Eyes Radio – Episode 104 [powerpress] Today we are playing the second and last part of our interview with Josh and Serena Abdelaziz. In yesterday’s podcast, Serena spoke about the day she discovered that her husband Josh, who was also a pastor, was having an affair. Years of lust…
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Does porn make you stupid? It might sound like a silly question. Or it might sound like an old wives’ tale that prudes would invent to keep kids from looking at porn—like the idea that masturbating too much can make you go blind. Raising this concern might even seem offensive…