Category Pornography

What I Wish I Would Have Known About Porn

I was staring at the screen my eyes fixated, glued, to what I was seeing. What was happening? Why weren’t people wearing any clothes? I didn’t understand. Why were people touching each other like that and why on earth did…

Pornography & Chick Flicks

Question   Are chick flicks and romantic comedies a pseudo-source for meeting emotional needs for a woman, in the same way that pornography is a pseudo-source for meeting the need for intimacy for a man? And do romantic comedies create…

Understanding Addictions

What is an addiction? An addiction is a compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance. Compulsive describes a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, especially one that is irrational or contrary to one’s will. Addictions are…

Silencing Shame

  Have you ever heard that little voice in your head say…? “You don’t fit in” “Nobody likes you” “You’re stupid” “You’re the only one who has made this mistake” “How could God love you? I mean He really knows…

There’s More to Grey Than Black and White

  50 Shades of Grey romanticizes a nightmare of violence and abuse that many only wish they could escape. Even some in favor of consentual BDSM practices are remarking that 50 Shades depicts rape, manipulation, control and violent abuse. Why then, is…

My Spouse is Addicted to Porn … Help!

QUESTION How do I move forward in my marriage? I have been married for 23 years and there has always been a third in our lives: porn! Any way he can get it, he would, and the Internet has opened…

How Do I Renew My Mind After A Porn Addiction?

QUESTION I stopped masturbating and watching pornography awhile ago and God set me free from it but the way I look, think about, and treat women is totally wrong. It’s like porn has left an imprint on me of wrong…

Sex in Marriage … After a Porn Addiction

QUESTION I feel God has delivered me from pornography, but after I have sex with my wife, I feel like I’m fighting those same demons again! Right now we expect different things from sex. However, I feel the most victorious…

Finding Freedom in Community

I Am Not Alone  I’m in the men’s purity group in the church. I didn’t start going because I was struggling with a pornography issue that I couldn’t control, I went because the way that I had chosen to “control”…

Pornography and Addiction

THE REALITY: AN ABUNDANT LIFE Mike Bickle says in his book, ‘The Seven Longings of the Human Heart’, Addiction wraps itself around a person, giving their natural appetites an artificial life of their own, while simultaneously short-circuiting their ability to…

Redemptive Love in Redding

FINDING FREEDOM FROM PAIN  I was born to a single teen mom. My dad left three months into the pregnancy leaving my mom was devastated. She cried all the time and as a result, I felt abandoned by my father and…