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: Purity Is More Than Saving Sex for Marriage

“Followers of Christ should certainly avoid rounding the bases before marriage. The biblical teachings against fornication are clear (see 1 Corinthians 7:2). Some of you may be surprised, however, that there is another form of purity more foundational to the teachings of Jesus than the Sunday-school version.”

Village Church: Diagnosing False Repentance

“When someone truly repents from sin and turns to God by faith in Jesus, it is a beautiful display of His grace. When we distort repentance, the results can be devastating. However, it isn’t until we know what true repentance is according to Scripture that we can diagnose false repentance in our lives.”

Donald Miller: What Makes A Meaningful Life?

“Nearly 80 years ago a psychologist named Viktor Frankl stood up to Sigmund Freud. Freud was saying that the primary desire of man was to pursue pleasure, but Frankl disagreed. He said the primary desire of every person was to experience a deep sense of meaning, and when they can’t find meaning, they numb themselves with pleasure.”

Ben Stuart: Advice for Students Who Are Porn Addicts

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.

xxxChurch: 3 Ways To Beat The Shame

“Shame is an enemy that we all deal with and something that the porn addict is only all too familiar with.  One of the reasons that pornography maintains such a strong hold on men is the incredible shame that comes along with viewing it.”

Gary Thomas: 6 Marks of Healthy Sexuality

“I write this post with a bit of pastoral concern: Lisa and I have met some wives (and the occasional husband) who felt tempted to compromise their faith and even their own sense of sanity because they realized after getting married that their spouse has some sexual hang-ups.”

And Sons: Beauty Heals

“Relief is momentary; it is checking out, numbing, sedating yourself. Television is relief. Eating a bag of cookies is relief. Tequila is relief. And let’s be honest—relief is what we reach for because it is immediate and it is usually within our grasp. Most of us turn there, when what we really need is restoration.”

CovenantEyes: Are You Pursuing Sexual Purity for the Wrong Reasons?

“As long as it is about us, then we will snatch the glory for ourself when the battle is over. “Look what I did! Look at all that my hard work accomplished! I deserve this victory!” That is precisely what God wants us to avoid.”

Desiring God: Law-Keeping Cannot Save You

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: How Playboy Magazine Legitimized Pornography—and Destroyed Itself in the Process

“If you were to travel back in time to mid-1970s—when Playboy reached its pinnacle of circulation at 5.6 million—and told people the magazine was forgoing nudity, the assumption would be that that the anti-pornography faction must have finally won. But just the opposite has happened.”

Desiring God: Single You Will Be the Married You

“When I was single, I thought marriage might be the magic bullet. I believed that it would miraculously transform me. I assumed I would suddenly possess a new measure of love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control that I had not yet known or experienced as a single man.”

CovenantEyes: 5 Often Neglected Ways to Defeat Porn

“Here are what I believe to be five things you have likely not included in your efforts to stop. They are often neglected because they are hard. They are hard because they move beyond your own efforts…which have failed you how many times? But they work. They have and are working in my life and in the lives of many other men I know.”

Christward Collective: How Do I Know that God Loves Me?

“How do we know God loves us, and what does His love look like? How we answer these questions, and we all hold answers to those questions whether we are aware of them or not, is what determines our view of God and the health of our faith.”

Beautiful Eulogy: Live at Portland Underground Studio

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.

James Cordrey: Dismantling the Myth “You Can Look. You Just Can’t Touch”

“I never acted out sexually with another person, but over the course of 12 years I watched loads of porn. And it did real damage.”

BC4Women: Your Husband is Viewing Pornography

“You’ve learned your husband is viewing pornography. However you learned of his sexual sin, the news is devastating. Questions abound as you try to figure out where you have gone wrong, and how you could have prevented it or missed it. The question is, now what do you do? How do you deal with this? I want to help you, Christian wife and woman, to see this sin through the eyes of the Lord and the Gospel.”

I am Second: You need to read what Justin Bieber said about Christianity—because he’s right

“Sure, he’s still on a journey. He’s still making mistakes. He’s going to continue to make mistakes. There’s room for some skepticism, as his lifestyle choices are still confusing to many. And I pray that God has placed or is placing people in his life that can speak to that. I’m not suggesting he be the speaker at the next Passion conference. But guys, there’s a lot that he gets. And we should be celebrating that.”

Tim Challies: Positive Purity

“Sexual purity has two components to it: the turning away and the turning toward, the stopping of one kind of behavior and the beginning of another.”

CV Global: Why I Believe

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: How an Affair Really Begins

“One of the great misconceptions about affairs is that they begin with sex. Affairs do not begin with sex. Falling into bed with a man who is not your husband or a woman who is not your wife is never a sudden, unplanned event. Instead, it is a culminating decision in a long list of terrible, self-centered decisions.”

Morgan Snyder: Laying Roofing Shingles in a G-String

“Let’s face it: Our culture is fixated on the boobies. Okay, it’s nothing new. From petroglyphs and neolithic pictures to the art of the Renaissance and the paintings of the 20th century, you don’t have to look far to see the perennial celebration of the breasts of women.”

Covenant Eyes: Are You Repenting the Wrong Way?

“The Bible teaches us that there is a right way and a wrong way to respond and relate to God after we’ve sinned. In my experience many well-intentioned Christians are ‘repenting wrong’ because they’ve never been taught the Bible’s way to repent.”

xxxChurch: 4 Ways Porn Will Ruin Your Sex Life

“As a marriage life coach, I’ve never met one couple where porn has helped the relationship. Only hurt. Here’s why (and how).”

U2: Psalm 40

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: Clarity vs. Trust

“How many times have you said to yourself, ‘If I only had clarity… then I would move forward.’  ‘Is this the right thing to do?’  ‘Am I in God’s will?’”

Relevant: Faith and the New Golden Age of Late-Night TV

“Thankfully, in the place of the old guard, a new kind of host has been emerging. And along with ushering in a new era of TV comedies, they are offering an important lesson to the Church, which is also in desperate need of a change.”

Covenant Eyes: 5 Things I Always Say to Porn-Shocked Wives

“I answer a lot of letters from women dealing with the discovery of porn in their marriages. Mostly, they are shocked and hurt and alone, wondering where to go from here. While I answer every one of those letters individually, over time I’ve realized there are some things I almost always say, in one form or another.”

Gospel Coalition: 5 Myths and Truths in Loneliness

“Having been an ordained minister for 32 years and licensed psychologist for 18, I (Gary Barnes) have had the privilege of being entrusted with many personal stories of loneliness. As individuals from all walks of life have opened up with their struggles, I’ve been deeply affected from two different directions. From a psychological perspective, I’ve been struck by the depth of pain humans encounter in their experience of loneliness. And from a theological perspective, I’ve been amazed at how significant human loneliness is to the triune God.”

The Bible Project: Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians

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.

Covenant Eyes: The One Thing SUCCESSFUL Porn Addiction Recovery Has in Common with AA

“We wrongly think people take identity from what they do. We think if we change the way we act, we will change the way we feel inside—and that may have temporary effects. But eventually, behavior always reverts and follows a person’s internal beliefs no matter how many tips, tactics, and twelve steps are employed to control one’s actions.”

Gospel Coalition: The Best News You Can Possibly Imagine

“Several Protestant Reformers asserted that justification is the doctrine by which the church stands or falls. The more I understand of the gospel, and the needs of my fallen heart, the more I feel that I tend to stand or fall each day based on whether I’m living out of my justification.”

Relevant: The Secret Enemy in Your Marriage

“We thought we wouldn’t have the marriage troubles others had. How naive of us to assume we had all the answers when we had barely even begun to understand the questions.”

Ian Hamilton: When I Don’t Feel Forgiven

“One of the most disturbing experiences a believer can face is losing the felt sense of God’s forgiveness. This desolating experience has touched the lives of many Christians throughout the ages.”

Voddie Baucham: How to Fight Addiction in a Pornographic Culture

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.

Christianity Today: Keys to Preventing Adultery

“The Ashley Madison leak has exposed the private lives of thousands of customers, including some prominent leaders. Sadly, the church is not immune to sexual immorality and has seen, in the past year, some leaders step down due to unfaithfulness.”

Intentional Warriors: Managing Your Porn Habit?

“Back in the prime of my addiction, I used to come up with all sorts of ‘plans’ that I tried to employ in order to break free from pornography, lust, and compulsive masturbation. The result was predictable. The ‘plan’ always failed. Some lasted longer than others, but none of them worked.”

Tim Challies: The Curse of a Godly Wife

“Do you see what he has done? Somewhere along the way he has made his wife’s spiritual maturity a problem. He has entered into a kind of competition with her that has made her love for the Lord a liability. He has come to see her godliness as a curse rather than a blessing, as if he has been cursed with a godly wife.”

The Gospel Coalition: How to Repent

“The importance of repentance is hard to overstate. After all, Jesus’s first public exhortation was ‘Repent!’—and if it was that high on Jesus’s list, we probably should pay attention too. But how do we repent well? Psalm 32 is a wonderful place to explore the nature and process of deep repentance. Here are five vital steps.”

Pete Wilson: You Will Change