Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to finding freedom from pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.

Christ and Pop Culture: Living in a World of “Little Boys With Their Porno” 

“Earlier this year, Arcade Fire released their highly anticipated double album Reflektor to considerable fanfare. While much of the subsequent attention has been focused on songs like the title track, ‘Here Comes The Night Time,’ and ‘Afterlife’—and understandably so—there’s one song on Reflektor that has stuck with me since my earliest listening sessions, but that seems to have flown under most critics’ radars: the bluntly titled ‘Porno.’”

Cripplegate: May I marry for looks? An Open Letter to Single Male Idiots

“I have been asked this same question by many of your ilk. To be more honest than I’d be if I were posting this answer on a blog, I confess I have made that same enquiry myself. The conventional wisdom I received was that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That is true, but some beholders are idiots. I was one of them.”

XXXChurch: 8 Can’t-Miss Ways to Ruin Your Church with a Porn Problem

“If you want to see your church ravaged by a sex or porn scandal, then follow this plan and you are well on your way.”

D.A. Carson, Tim Keller, and John Piper: How Does the Gospel Conquer the Sin of Pornography?

Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to finding freedom from pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.

Gospel Coalition: Fifty Shades, Twilight, and Teaching Young Women to Desire Abusers 

“The study found that compared with nonreaders, females who read at least the first novel were more likely than nonreaders to have had, during their lifetime, a partner who shouted, yelled, or swore at them and who delivered unwanted calls/text messages; they were also more likely to report fasting and using diet aids to lose weight at some point during their lifetime. ”

XXXChurch: Is Being Open Safe?

“There’s just something about telling someone you fell to masturbation or pornography that doesn’t exactly feel welcome in our day. Who wants to leave the security of a good, commendable image and throw themselves under the bus of their own immorality?”

Experimental Theology: God’s Unconditional Love

“About two years ago there was a discussion we had out at the prison bible study that has haunted me. I keep thinking about it.”

Dennis Jernigan: Sing Over Me

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to finding freedom from pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.

Relevant Magazine: What’s the Big Deal With Porn? 

“I get that porn is frowned upon, but why is it such a big deal to look at it since it doesn’t seem like it’s “as bad” as premarital sex? I mean, if you think about it, it may be corrupting you, but it’s not messing up someone else, just you. So what’s the big deal?”

Covenant Eyes: Marriage After Porn—Milestones of Healing

“There was a day in my marriage now known as The Confession—that moment when the reality of my pornography addiction came to light. For about six months, one day to the next there was plenty of fluctuation with regard to how my wife, Carolyn, and I were getting along.”

Jefferson Bethke: A Few Thoughts Women, Men, Porn, & Sexual Assault

Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to finding freedom from pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.

Gospel Coalition: Help Your Kids Say No to Porn 

“The first time porn was served at the cafeteria lunch table, my son was 11 years old. Does that seem young to you? Research suggests that one in three children ages 11 to 14 have viewed pornography on a mobile device. Add to that the very real possibility that a child will stumble across explicit content on YouTube or in a pop-up ad during innocent computer usage, and one thing becomes clear: parents must be proactive in talking about porn with their kids.”

Tim Challies: The Porn-Free Family Plan

“I want to protect my children in a world like this, but I want to do more than that. I want to disciple my children to live virtuously, to use these new technologies for good purposes instead of bad ones. I believe this is a crucial part of my calling as a parent.”

xxxChurch: I’m a Pastor and I Look At Porn

“I’ve had two conversations lately with senior pastors who found themselves in bad situations. After years of hidden porn addiction, they decided they didn’t want to keep living like this, so they confessed to their wives and then called me to talk about their next steps.”

John Bevere: Gaining Freedom from Pornography

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xxxChurch: The Real Reason Why You Can’t Change 

“Throughout the years I’ve heard many stories from people who have talked about wanting to change. They’ve made commitments to stop using pornography, having anonymous sex, or masturbating. But for whatever reason – and there have been many – they haven’t been happy with their behavior.”

Desiring God: The Single Man’s Journey to Sexual Happiness

“It was afternoon New Year’s Day and I was sitting in my room, sad and alone. I had met another girl, and I could already tell that pursuing her would lead to another failed relationship. The more I thought about my history, my shame, my brokenness, the more miserable I became.”

TrueFaced: Old Me/New Me

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Tim Challies: Samson and the Pirate Monks 

“I find books like this easy to dismiss, perhaps especially because so many of us have tried accountability relationships and found them wanting…But then I think about men I know and wonder how they would receive this book and, even better, the kind of relationships it models. And then I realize that men are desperate for exactly what Larkin describes here.”

Pastor Bob: Why do Bad things Happen to Good People?

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Gospel Coalition: Grace is Not a Thing

“Yes, God’s love meets us where we are, but it refuses to let us stay there. This is because when the grace of God takes root in your heart then it produces fruit in your life. God’s grace is not a matter of lowering his standards, it’s a matter of transforming his people.”

Dave Willis: 7 Common Marriage Wrecking Habits

“I have found, however, that there are some consistent habits that can undermine the bond between husband and wife and ultimately lead to divorce. This is not a comprehensive list, but below are some of the most common and most destructive bad habits in modern marriages.”

The Porn Pandemic: The Devastating Effects on Children, Family and Society

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XXXChurch: 3 Lies Porn Taught Me About Sex

“Pornography has lied to us about sex. It elicits and perpetuates ideas about intimacy that are actually more about fantasy than they are about real sex. It has taken a gift given to us to cultivate a lasting relationship and turned it into an act of self-fulfillment. It has—both subtly and significantly—stolen from the meaning, beauty, and long-term benefits of sex for most men today.”

Relevant Magazine: Have We Made an Idol Out of Sexual Purity?

“We spend so much time discussing physical purity, without challenging this generation to live a life that is so Spirit-filled, Christ-centered and God-breathed that purity is just the natural overflow.”

CBN News: Divorce Shocker—Most Marriages Do Make It

“Most people believe only half of U.S. marriages make it. But a leading researcher is announcing the true divorce rate is much lower and always has been.”

Bibliotheca: The Bible Designed & Crafted for Reading

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To Love, Honor, and Vacuum: Top 10 Effects of Porn on Your Brain, Your Marriage, and Your Sex Life

“Pornography is ravaging marriages. In our culture porn is treated as if it’s harmless, but it’s not. Porn will wreck the arousal process in your brain and end up wrecking your sex life in marriage. The effects of porn are devastating.”

Covenant Eyes: Is Your Accountability Group Doomed to Fail?

“All I know is that when I’ve thrown it all out, grace is what remains. It won’t leave.”

Dave Willis: 5 Ways to be a Better Husband

“I still maintain a friendship, a quite close one at that, with one of the men from that group, but as for the stated purpose of pursuing purity and integrity together, that Tuesday morning group remains to me a symbol of what is wrong with men’s accountability groups.”

Donny Pauling: Is Viewing Porn Harmless?

Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to finding freedom from pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.

Gospel Coalition: Does He Need to Confess Adultery to His Wife?

“Today I have an email that came in from someone who is writing—he is a Christian man, a member of a church, who writes and tells me that he had an affair several years ago, that this affair only lasted about a week, that he put an end to it, but he writes and wants to know whether or not now—even though he has confessed it to God, he has repented toward God, he has talked to a couple of key accountability partners in his life—whether or not he ought to tell his wife.”

Redemption Pictures: Experiencing Grace

“All I know is that when I’ve thrown it all out, grace is what remains. It won’t leave.”

Beyond Evangelical: Romans 8 Remixed

“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate you from my love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither your fears for today nor your worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate you from my love.”

TrueFaced: What have we discovered about living with shame?