Posts tagged ‘addiction’

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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Catalyst

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…

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Perseverance

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…

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Vagueness 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…

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Great 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…

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Life 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…

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Uncovering 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…

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The 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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Life, Death And Porn

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…

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The 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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