How To Break Up & Recover – ft/Abram Goff & Alley Vallotton
Breaking up is never easy, but understanding the process can help you move forward. Breakups — it’s the often unavoidable part of dating. They have to happen...
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How to Break Up Well: A Step-by-Step Guide for Christians
A good breakup starts with clarity, honesty, and the goal of leaving the other person better off than you found them. Know what you want to say before you say it. Be clear, be kind, and don't leave the door…
The Real Trigger Behind Women’s Porn Struggles: From Self-Hatred to Self-Compassion
For many women, the real trigger behind pornography use isn't lust. It's self-hatred. When you constantly criticize yourself, compare yourself to others, and punish yourself to try to motivate change, you create an emotional environment where porn becomes a coping…
The Hidden Truth Behind Manhood: Finding Freedom From Our Hiddenness
I have discovered that universally, as humans, our greatest desire is to feel seen and heard, or ultimately, “known”. When a part of us is lost in hiddenness, then we can never be fully known, and without being known, we can’t feel fully loved. It’s when we bravely step out of the darkness where we’ve been trapped by self-judgment that we pave a way for love to get in and defeat the lies that keep us feeling separated from God, life, family and friends.
Breaking Free from Sexual Sin: Why Repentance Means Contending, Not Just Coping
Breaking free from sexual sin requires more than willpower and more than passive regret. True repentance is an act of spiritual authority. It's not just feeling bad about what you did. It's declaring that the cycle ends here, receiving the…
Women Struggle With Porn Too – ft/ Katy Harris
It’s time we stop talking about pornography as if only men struggle with it. Women are struggling with pornography too... but sometimes the motivators behind porn consumption for women are different than men.
Why Women Don’t Talk About Porn (And Why Shame Thrives in Silence)
Women struggle with pornography too, and most of them never tell anyone. The cultural assumption that porn is a man's issue creates an extra layer of shame that keeps women isolated, silent, and stuck in cycles they can't break alone.…
Sex, Jesus, & Conversations the Church Forgot – ft/ Mo Isom Aiken
Sex. It’s everywhere in our culture, but in so many instances the church is still too uncomfortable to talk about it.
Virginity Isn’t Purity: Why the Church Got It Wrong
Virginity is not the same as purity. You can be a virgin and have a completely impure heart. You can have lost your virginity and be walking in deep, genuine purity before God. When the church reduces purity to a…
Let’s Get Practical: 8 Tips for Walking Out Purity
I've sat in the front row of really inspirational church services, staring at the speaker thinking, "Yes. This is it. I will never be the same after this message. My life is changed forever." I've also woken up the next day, been hit with the normalcy and routine of life and thought, "Wait, what did that speaker say at church yesterday?"
We can have all the inspiration in the world pointing us to a life of purity, but without practical ways to walk it out, inspiration fades and we can often find ourselves in the same cycles. So in this post, we are about to get really practical.