False Comfort
One of the main characters on ABC’s show Nashville, Deacon, struggles with alcohol addiction. Tonight that addiction featured prominently in the storyline and the writers did…
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This Sunday i will be speaking to a group of high school students about the dangers of pornography. i get 30 minutes. Thirty minutes are better…
Read articlePerseverance
One of the realities we cannot escape in the fight for purity and freedom is this: it requires perseverance. We will face temptation, at times it…
Read articleVagueness And Hiding
Back when i was actively looking at porn; indulging my addiction with a continual lust for more, i developed a proficiency at vagueness. When people asked…
Read articleGreat Sex? Not With Porn
Breaking Free, the blog of Covenant Eyes ran a great piece on the ways porn kills great sex: i know from experience that it’s true. When i…
Read articleLife Breaks In
It was a beautiful, powerful and redemptive weekend of pursuing the continual healing of our hearts as men who need release from sexual addiction. It was…
Read articleUncovering What’s Hidden
For addicts, there is plenty that remains hidden. We pour so much energy into keeping our secrets. Yet it is one of the greatest moments of…
Read articleThe Good Life
The Good Life. We all want it. But where do we actually find it? In the last post, Life, Death And Porn, i mentioned that the…
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Some lies are so well-crafted that even in their simplicity their power endures through, literally, millennia. And in their simplicity these lies slip past our defenses…
Read articleThe Marriage ‘Fix’
Like many men who struggle seriously with lust, before i was married i thought — mistakenly — that once i was married the issue would disappear.…
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