Weekly Web (W)roundup

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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.


Covenant Eyes: Porn & the Demand for Sex Trafficking (10 Eye-Opening Stats)

“The johns watch porn, seeing violent and aberrant behaviors on film, then they crave the realization of what they have seen. Those obsessions drive them to the prostituted women and girls to get what they have seen depicted so graphically.

Storyline: The Only Religious Formula That Ever Helped Me

“I once heard a Christian speaker say that if we do “such and such” God “has no choice but to respond by doing such and such.” Really? God has no choice? He’s just a remote control Deity we manipulate with our actions?”

Paul Tripp: The Bible Has Power

“You need to read the Bible to experience change. You simply can’t experience spiritual growth on your own. Without God’s Word, you’re going to remain a prickly thorn bush.”

Ran Gavrieli: Why I Stopped Watching Porn (TEDx)

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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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.


Covenant Eyes: Break Porn Addiction—5 Lessons I Learned Along the Way

“As God has brought healing into my life, there are five key lessons I have learned, and each one has been crucial to my freedom.

Redemption Pictures: Unlearning Christianity

“…somewhere between discipleship classes and Bible quizzing competitions and Christian worldview courses, the bottom fell out. I couldn’t learn fast enough to keep up with the aching desire to not only know, but experience the one we call God.”

Storyline: Knowing What You Want Will Keep You From Making Bad Decisions

“Ever wonder why Joseph didn’t sleep with Potiphar’s wife? He certainly could have.”

Tyler Ward: Marriage Rebranded

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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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.


Carl Thomas: Talking To Your Kids About Porn, Sharks, And Sh*t

“If we wait too long to talk to our kids about porn or sex because of fear they will eventually see or hear about it on their own.

Shaunti Feldhahn: Busting Cultural Myths About Marriage and Divorce

“Those of us who work with marriages may secretly wonder whether there is reason for our ministry, if the news about the divorce rate is better than we think. And the answer is a resounding yes.”

The Village Church: Are All Sins Equal?

“Don’t buy into the lie that you might as well have premarital sex since you are addicted to porn, anyway. Lesser sins have a way of begetting greater ones.”

Dave Willis: How to Fix Your Marriage

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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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.


Covenant Eyes: Husbands Who Watch Porn—12 Ways to Reassure Your Wife

“Men…what can you do to reassure [your wife] of your love and devotion, despite the fact that you haven’t gotten to the bottom of your pornographic obsession yet?

And Sons: The Litmus Test

“Last week I was in a gathering of men when one of the single guys asked a question—maybe The Question. ‘How do you know when a girl is the right one?’ Or something like that. A mighty important question. Wish I knew the answer years ago.”

Relevant: Watching Porn Linked to a Decrease in Gray Matter

“The jury is still out on whether watching porn actually eats away at your gray matter or people who have less gray matter to begin with are more likely to consume pornography in higher quantities, but either way, studies show that it’s not an intellectually healthy activity.”

TrueFaced: She doubts that God wants anything to do with her

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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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.


Matt Fradd: How To Tell Your Fiance You Struggle With Porn

“No she doesn’t need to know, but it is her business. She’s discerning marriage with you, and therefore, it seems to me, she has a right to know (think of it as truth in advertising).”

Freedom In Christ Ministries: The Belt of Truth

“The first step in any recovery program is to face the truth and acknowledge our need for God, who alone has the power to overcome our sin.”

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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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.


Covenant Eyes: Porn Culture vs. The Gospel

“The gospel says: ‘This is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent’ (John 17:3).

Porn culture says: ‘This is real life, that we would not be denied our every sexual desire, no matter how misogynistic or demeaning.’”

Desiring God: Porn, Pride, and Praise

“At the root of viewing pornography is an arrogant heart that says: ‘I will have whatever I want. And if I want pictures of naked women, I am going to have it. And I don’t care if God doesn’t want it, and I don’t care if my wife doesn’t like it, and I don’t care if I might lose my ministry over it — I am going to look at it.”

Matteus Clement: Masks Off

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming 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.


Village Church: Why Doesn’t God Just Change Me?

“Too often when we seek spiritual growth in our lives we become frustrated by the pace of progress. The changes in us can be so slow and microscopic that it may seem like they aren’t happening at all.”

Eric Geiger: 5 Things that Killing Sin is Not

“Killing of sin is a work of the Spirit, not something we can accomplish in our own merit or might.

Covenant Eyes: 5 Things My Husband Did to Rebuild Trust

“Although there were specific things Michael did that helped rebuild my trust, each action would have been meaningless apart from a foundation of true brokenness and repentance.”

Lecrae Unwraps His Joy in Jesus

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming 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: Is Divorce Ever OK?

“Do you think it’s better to ‘stay together for the kids’ than to end a mediocre-at-best marriage? Should I just resign myself to contentment with this situation and be thankful it’s not worse?”

Freedom in Christ Ministries: Overcoming the Flesh

“Before Christ, our total person was dominated by the flesh and oriented toward sin. Now that Christ dwells within us, our hearts are oriented toward God, but we still have a remnant of propensity toward self-autonomy.”

Jon Acuff: 4 Questions Everyone Should Ask

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming 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.


Desiring God: Hijacking Back Your Brain from Porn

God…designed the interplay between the brain and the soul. Discoveries of the connections between physical and spiritual reality do not nullify either.

Pete Wilson: It’s Not Too Good to Be True

 

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming 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.


Experimental Theology: The Theology of Uglydolls

If Jesus had a doll what kind of doll would it be? It’d be an ugly doll, right? Jesus would pick the most unattractive doll and love it.

Thom S. Rainer: Sex, Millennials, and the Church: Five Implications

“We specifically surveyed 1,200 of the older Millennials, those who were born between 1980 and 1991. The results of the study were fascinating on a number of levels. But, probably to the surprise of few, we found that views on sexuality among these young adults are dramatically different from previous generations.”

Relevant: 5 Signs You May Have a Wrong View of God

“There are many different false ideas we put on God, but here are a few signs that you have a wrong view of God.”

Desiring God: Beat Porn By Enjoying Jesus More