A recent research project by Covenant Eyes has proven what you might suspect: viewing of porn goes way up in the wee hours of the morning. Specifically, for Covenant Eyes users, Highly Mature (HM) sites goes from near 0% visited at 9:00 PM to about 14% between 1:00 AM and 4:00…
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What the Devil Meant for Evil, God Turned to Good
In this short testimony, I will offer my testimony of failure, forgiveness, freedom, and a new family that began in a nearly decade-long addiction to pornography. God’s grace and sovereignty are written all over my life, and what the devil once meant for evil, the Lord has now turned into…
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Living with an Unrepentant, Porn-Abusing Husband: Advice to Weary Wives of Addicts
A woman recently asked a challenging question in response to my article, “My Husband Is Having an Affair with Pornography, What Should I Do?”—in which I counsel a tough-love approach to sin. She asked, “What would you do if you have basically been this route before and the spouse did…
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Getting Free from the Pornography Trap
Pornography is a problem. Chuck Swindoll says, “Pornography is the greatest cancer in the church today.” I believe it. The more I counsel people on a regular basis, the more I see the harmful effects of pornography in the church today. It’s Trapping Many People A study recently conducted by…
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Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing Book Review
“How did I get here?” It’s a common refrain for most people, but it slices to the heart of the man or woman struggling with porn and unwanted sexual behaviors. Too often the question is rhetorical or focused on the trigger that led to acting out. In Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness…
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Why Accountability? – Part 3
. . . continued from previous post . . . The Power of Shame Shame gets a lot of bad press today, and for good reason. Chronic shame that accepts no comfort and no forgiveness from God when He offers it is a real problem. But shame has positive…
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Your Child Struggles with Porn? You Are Not Alone
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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Pornhub and Sex Trafficking: Do You Know the Facts?
We typically think of sex trafficking as something that happens far away in developing countries, but it’s happening right in our backyard. It’s happening on our computer screens, and a big culprit is the mainstream pornography distributor Pornhub. Let’s take a look at the connection between Pornhub and sex trafficking…
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Marriage Matters – Book Review
by Alasdair Groves The preface to Marriage Matters: Extraordinary Change Through Ordinary Moments (MM) opens with a question: Why yet one more book on marriage? Winston Smith, a counselor and faculty member at the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation, answers his own question by describing MM’s basic purpose: to help…
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"Take This Group and Own It!" – Chapter Review
The following is a review of Chapter 3 of Why Small Groups? by C.J. Mahaney. This free e-book is available on the Sovereign Grace Ministries online store and is a helpful guide for accountability groups. . . . . All the inspiring reasons to have a small group ministry given…