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5 Mistakes We Make When We Talk About Pornography


  I’ll never forget sitting through a church service and listening as the preacher, over and over again, with disgust talked about how sick people in pornography are.  The men who watch it are sick.  The women in it are sick.  The men in it are sick. Sick.  Sick.  Sick. [...]

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Mercy for the Fallen


  It happened… again.  You were doing so well.  Fourteen days without lusting and masturbating.  Then, it happened.  He said ‘hi’ and your heart wandered.  A late night with yourself leads to a morning of regrets.   You roll out of bed and see your Bible there.  This mixture of [...]

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Can Women Find Freedom in Pornography?


I was in the middle of writing one post, and my research led me to start up a second, and now a third.  I stumbled across an article about pornography on college campuses, and I traced the article back to its source. The original article was about a college classes [...]

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System or a Saviour: Where is Your Hope for Freedom Built?


Odds are at one point you have sung the words: “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness…” Have you ever sat back to understand the application of those words?  What does that look like for us- to have our hope built on nothing less than [...]

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Objects of Lust or Objects of Love: Making a Place for {real} People


Besides sex, there is an underlying theme behind pornography, lust, masturbation, and fantasy.  Every one of those acts is isolated and self-serving.  Disagree? When’s the last time you lusted on behalf of someone else?  Odds are the last time you typed in your ‘favorite’ website you were not thinking, “I [...]

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