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by Gene McConnell What man doesn’t want to know that when he leaves this life he will have done things right and left an honorable legacy? In order to do this, we must realize it is necessary to live our lives in such a way that has positive and meaningful…
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It all started for me in the mid-80s at a young age. It was all innocent enough. My neighborhood friend found his dad’s stash of Playboys and he showed them to me. Like all addictions, it started small and snowballed out of control. It started with Playboy, but when that…
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What discomfort or debilitation are we living with today that we don’t need to? What unpleasant aspect of our life do we accept as normal when it isn’t? It’s so easy to assume we already know everything we can do to help ourselves. However, there are usually methods we’ve never heard…
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At age 13 I received my very first personal electronic device, an Amazon Kindle Fire. My parents made sure that the browser was blocked to protect me from pornography. I still had access to the app store which eventually became a tool for seeking out inappropriate images. I was not…
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“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and redeemer” (Psalm 19:14). This passage has been the one I’ve been able to fall back on in recent months as I continue to wage war against my flesh.…
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Recently I had the opportunity to see a pre-release of Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s writing and directorial debut about a young man whose porn use interferes with his relationships. While many Christians in particular would consider the movie to be highly inappropriate (see this post for full details), there were…
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Despite the fact that people across the world use porn on a daily basis, those who become addicted to it often feel alone in their compulsive porn use. At Covenant Eyes, we believe that one of the first steps to overcoming addiction is to recognize that you are not alone. And,…
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How do you handle stress? Is it possible that stress is causing you to relapse back into watching porn? This past summer, I went through one of the more stressful seasons of my life as my family relocated from one end of the United States to the other. In that…
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A 90 day sexual fast. That’s right, almost three months of abstinence from sex. This is what many porn addiction counselors prescribe for addicts and their spouses during the initial months of recovery. Why is this? Is this really necessary? Dr. Mark Laaser was a nationally recognized author in the…
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There are millions of sex slaves in the world today. Millions. Anywhere from 14,000 to 17,000 individual are transported to the United States every year, most of them for the purposes of sexual servitude and forced prostitution. Anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 Americans are undergoing the same slavery, many of…