Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Lucas Gifford: The Real Reason We Look at Porn

“That moment as a little boy was the beginning of my relationship with sexual energy. Before I ever became familiar with the anatomy of a real girl, I became very familiar with pictures of girls—just like most men in our modern world. The original conditioning to sexual release for most boys comes from pictures and movies, and the euphoria and release from visual stimulation drives us back time and again, until unfortunately, addictions form in many of our lives.”

Relevant: How Do I Deal With My Partner’s Sexual Baggage?

“…no matter what we’ve done, Jesus loves us unconditionally, takes us back again and again, and empowers us to live holy and righteous lives in the here and now.”

Fierce Marriage: Eliminating “Should” from Your Marriage

“When I find my marriage struggling; when Ryan and I aren’t seeing eye to eye and I feel our agreement and intimacy being chipped away, it’s time I go back to my Savior. I’ve strayed too far and have forgotten His Words that eliminate the pressure and burden of what I should be doing.”

Micah J. Murray: Confessions of the Older Brother

“Always, I was waiting for the day — it was coming anytime now — when my Father would give me his approval, his metaphorical robe and ring. Any day now, he’d throw me a party and say, ‘You’ve finally made me proud.’”

Sean McDowell: Did Jesus Exist?

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Relevant: The Youth Group Lessons I’ve Had to Unlearn

“I always stood there, blinking at that question. I still don’t really know, and I’ve been around the whole thing long enough to know that there’s no formula, no exact equation. But I think there are some problematic messages I learned growing up in church that we’re communicating to our youth still today.”

Intentional Warriors: To Beat Porn, Reclaim Desire

“Unless we live out of the promise and reality of a healed heart which is good — flowing with rivers of living water — we are merely holding on, trying not to sin. But that’s not what Jesus is after. And anyway, a life of trying not to sin is a sure way to fall back into sin.”

XXXChurch: 4 Unexpected Things That Happen When You Quit Porn

“When you quit porn, it means you risk the unpredictable maze of the human experience. I’m not overstating the case here. There are plenty of developmentally stunted young adults who cannot bear to endure rejection or even a friend who’s having a bad day, because they’re so used to clicking the kind of ‘friend’ they want to have. While it sounds safe to stay in a cave with a computer all the time, porn only makes you less human, and not more.”

CCEF: Engaging Our Emotions, Engaging with God

“If you are surprised to hear that God actually wants you to draw near to him when you feel like you are an emotional mess, remember this: the Bible views emotions as fundamentally good. How do I know this? Because we are image bearers of God and he has emotions. His joy, hate, wrath, compassion, jealousy and love are the model for ours.”

Rob Bell: Open

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Anna Malika: A Letter to the Man on the Other Side of the Screen

“I am standing in firm belief that you will overcome this because pornography is more than just pictures and videos: they are children, often girls and sometimes boys. Regardless of their gender, they truly do not want to be there. They are people like me.”

XXXChurch: How To Deal With Loneliness And Shame

“How useful shame has been to your recovery so far? I’m guessing not so much. I’m guessing that beating yourself up over and over again only accentuates the shame. I’m guessing that it only causes you to cover your face.”

Tim Challies: Burning and Yearning

“I draw the distinction to show that there is a sexual desire that is good and honoring to God. We do not need to feel guilt for this desire or to feel that it is intrinsically wrong. It is a sexual desire that is yielded to the Lord.”

Desiring God: A Safe Place for Sexual Sinners

“Christians who struggle with sexual sin begin to fear that Christianity has nothing to offer but bad news — guilt and shame. Whether the struggle is with homosexuality, fornication, or pornography, many feel helpless in the fight to kill their sin. They don’t know how to deal with the guilt and shame. They feel unsafe around Christians and struggle to see anything good about the gospel we present, especially when the grace of the gospel is not highlighted or lived out.”

Pete Wilson: Love Is All That Matters

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Pete Wilson: Unconditionally

“Our human experience makes it exceedingly difficult to believe that God is 100 percent faithful, that He will never let us down. We cannot ever wrap our minds completely around His unconditional, everlasting, indestructible love for us.”

Shaunti Feldhahn: Your husband wants sex? 3 things he’s not saying out loud

“We women may think sex is just a physical need for a guy, but that’s not most of what is going on. When his wife responds to him – or initiates it herself! – it meets a deep emotional need to feel that his wife desires him.”

Gospel Coalition: When Love Saved Me from Porn

“The love of God is constant. It has not changed and will not change. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and amazingly, so is his love for us. The reason such steadiness is possible is because this great love is based on God’s character and actions rather than our own.”

The Bible Project: Animated Explanation of Heaven & Earth

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Benjamin Corey: The Blood of American Christianity Will Be The Seed Of The Church

“Most of all, we’re tired of pretending this is Christianity. It’s time to be honest and just admit: that’s not Christianity at all.”

XXXChurch: Recovery Means Keeping It Simple

“If you can keep things simple and fundamental, then you are more likely to set yourself up for success and allow your recovery process to be doable.”

Desiring God: Praying for a Breakthrough

“The consistent pattern throughout the Bible is that every significant move of God is preceded by a season of increasingly difficult, discouraging opposition. And if we take Ephesians 6, Daniel 10, and other warfare texts seriously, we can understand why: God is invading what Satan considers his territory.”

Gospel Coalition: Will I Ever Be “Man Enough”?

“Being a man is not dependent on what one does; rather, a man is a man because he is made in the image of God. That’s it.”

Will You Be Bored in Heaven?

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Dave Willis: 7 Things God Wants You to Know about Yourself

“Your family, your faith and your life will be stronger when you discover the beautiful truth of who you really are. Your true identity can’t be found by ‘looking within yourself’ for the answers. Your identity can only be found by looking to the One who Created you.”

John Pavlovitz: My Emancipation From American Christianity

“It’s getting harder and harder to love all people and still fit into what has become American Christianity, so rather than becoming less loving and staying—I’m leaving. I’m breaking free from religion for the sake of my soul.”

CovenantEyes: How to Confess Your Porn Addiction to Your Spouse

“Anytime we harbor secret sin, it has the power to eat away at us and damage our relationships. Sin without confession always seems to beget more sin. We must keep up the lie lest we risk exposing the truth.”

Pastor Bob: What Are You Addicted To?

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Gospel Coalition: Star Wars—Childhood Revisited

“As a society, we are asking too much of our entertainment because we ask too little of our cultural narrative for adult life. It’s normal to mourn the loss of our childhood, but it’s devastating when we can find nothing compelling to replace it—nothing to anticipate with wonder or fight for in everyday life.”

Church for Men: How the Sexual Purity Movement Drives Young Men from Church

“Again, there’s nothing wrong with holding to Biblical standards of morality. But in our zeal to protect our children, we’ve set standards of holiness that in many cases exceed those found in the Bible.”

Desiring God: What God Thinks About You

“In all my years as a Christian, I had never asked the question quite this way until recently. And what I found is that God has a lot to say about what he thinks about us — a whole Bible full. But if we could summarize it in a short space, here’s how it might sound.”

Christianity Today: Why Pastors Can’t Spot Churchgoing Couples Headed for Divorce

“The research points to a problem with church culture, said Scott McConnell, vice president of LifeWay Research. If couples are unwilling to discuss marital struggles at church, they don’t get the help they need.”

Justin Bieber on Religion

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Path & Pavement: My Date with a Prostitute

“She introduced herself as Anette. I also said my name and as we sat for a few seconds in silence, my heart began to break.”

Gospel Coalition: Godliness Is Not Heterosexuality

“I was flabbergasted by this reply. It finally blew apart my wrong presumption that same-sex attraction and godliness, like oil and water, don’t ever mix. It made me recall that some of the most godly people that I’ve ever known have also experienced same-sex attraction.”

CovenantEyes: 8 Characteristics of Porn Addiction

“If any of these characteristics apply to your use of pornography, you might be addicted. However, don’t be discouraged. Freedom from pornography is possible.”

And Sons Magazine: When I Met Kevin

“Our friendship formed on our walks to the Italian restaurant down the street. Like most of the men in the house, Kevin let the social worker keep his monthly government checks in her safe. He told me once he was scared of what he might do if he was responsible for his money.”

The Bible Project: Animated Explanation of The Law

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Gospel Coalition: Brother, Where Is Your Identity?

“God’s way of sizing up a man goes against the grain of our instinctive opinions and strategies. Here are six basic realities to orient you…”

CovenantEyes: Marriage After Porn—Milestones of Healing

“Things were tense in the house in those days. I was seeing a biblical counselor and attending a small group dedicated to helping men with pornography addiction, but despite doing those things, Carolyn wanted very little to do with me. Hope was in short supply, as our marriage swung like a pendulum between despair and, well, even deeper despair.”

Shaunti Feldhahn: Believing the Best Isn’t Letting Him Off the Hook

“If you assume that your man’s motives are to hurt you, I fear that you’ll never get to that place.  You’ll be so apt to assume that he will always take advantage of you, that that is all you’ll see. You won’t see the man who loves you, even though, statistically, he almost certainly does.”

Ligionier Ministries: Bearing Burdens

“How do we bear one another’s burdens? There are several ways. First, we do so by praying for each other, taking each other’s burdens into the presence of God. Second, we do it by coming alongside our brothers and sisters to help them through trials or difficult seasons in their lives. Third, we do it by stepping into their shoes, taking difficulties away from them, and bearing them in their place.”

XXXChurch: Greg’s Story

Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.

Tim Challies: Satan’s Great Trick

“Do you see the pattern? Do you see the cycle? Do you see the sheer evil of it? Satan’s great joy is to convince you that the sin you are about to commit is very small and the sin you have just committed is very large.”

XXX Church: 3 Quick Tips to Handle the Truth About Yourself

“Even with our voice shaking: we must sometimes become the truth for each other, because friendship and accountability means we’re there to see the best in one another.”

Storyline: Three Things To Remember When You’re Walking Toward Healing

“The journey I started that day in counseling has been the most liberating, exhausting and healing path I could have chosen for myself. It gave me a chance to answer the biblical call to ‘choose life, that you might live.’”

Relevant: Why Don’t Christians Talk About Sex After Marriage?

“Like any other couple, we figured things out, but looking back, it makes me wonder if the Church needs to reconsider some of the ways it talks about (or doesn’t talk about) sex.”

Pastor Bob: Does God Like Me?