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Porn RecoveryWhy Willpower Won't Help You Quit Porn
There is no on and off switch for porn. Resolutions fail, and each failure deepens the shame that drives the next relapse. The battle is not for your willpower - it is for your brain, and it is won by renewing the mind rather than gritting your teeth.
Porn RecoveryWho Owns the Worlds Most Popular Porn Website?
No one knows how many porn sites exist, but a handful of companies have quietly bought up most of them, and the men in the executive chairs stay out of sight. Here is what is known about the ownership behind the world's most visited porn website, the lawsuits closing in, and what it means for you.
Porn RecoveryMajor Porn Site Suffers Tremendous Blow
Years of child abuse and sex trafficking allegations finally cost the world's largest porn site its payment processors. Mastercard terminated card use within days, Visa suspended its privileges, Discover cut ties, and more than 75% of the site's content vanished. Here is how it unfolded.
Porn RecoveryThanksgiving: Gratitude In The Midst Of Chaos
Some years the table is smaller, the news is grim, and giving thanks feels like pretending. But the longer you stare at the problem the bigger it grows, and the stronger the pull to numb the ache. Gratitude is not a feeling you wait around for. It is a choice you make while the battle is still on.
Porn RecoveryWalt Disney World's New Park Map Features a Same-Sex Couple
Families save for years for the ultimate Disney vacation. But the guide map your child grabs at the gate now shows more than Mickey and Minnie. Here is what changed, how decades of cultural drift around sexuality got us here, and why the conversation about God's design has to start at home.
Porn Recovery109 Women and 45 Kids Rescued in Ohio Trafficking Operation
While the country argued about politics and a pandemic, one evil kept moving in the dark. Then one state said enough. Five counties, 154 people brought out, 179 men arrested. Here is how traffickers find the vulnerable, why the demand never let up, and what any of it has to do with you.
Porn RecoveryMajor Porn Site Fails To Protect Known Victims
She was fourteen when it happened, and months later her classmates found the footage online and started passing it around. Asking the site to take it down got her nowhere. This is the part of the industry nobody defending it wants to look at, and the reason the pull you feel toward porn is worth fighting.
Porn RecoveryIs the Church Ready For Revival
Something is stirring. People are walking away from the lives they have been living and turning back to God, sometimes on streets where they are shouted down for it. But a new believer's spirit is made new the moment he says yes. His wounds are not. If the prodigals came home this Sunday, could you hold them?
Porn RecoveryIs the Church Being Targeted By California And COVID-19?
Christian music flagged as harmful. A governor telling believers to stop singing. Indoor services shut down. One at a time it reads like pandemic policy; together, a pattern is hard to miss. Here is what has been quietly shaping the culture for decades, and the subject the church must stop avoiding to get its voice back.
Porn RecoveryU.S. Navy Bans Attendance At Indoor Church Services
A June 2020 order barred every sailor from indoor church services, non-essential shopping and the movies, while protests and house parties of any size carried no limit at all. Religious liberty attorneys called it unconstitutional. Here is what the order actually said, and how churches kept troops connected anyway.
Porn RecoveryChanging The Future Of Men's Small Groups
Most programs help a man manage the struggle. Very few go after what is underneath it. This is a look at how men's small groups are changing: roots instead of behavior modification, a daily check-in and a FASTER Scale that flags a relapse before it happens, and leaders who can finally see who needs a call this week.
Porn RecoveryThe Shocking Truth Of How Porn Fuels Racism
The sex industry has been selling racist stereotypes for profit since long before the current debates began, and the women and girls it exploits are rarely the ones anyone marches for. If the church means what it says about injustice, this is one arena it can no longer afford to look away from.
Porn RecoveryChild Sex Abuse Rises As COVID-19 Continues to Cause Concern
Lockdowns closed the schools and sent every child home. For some of them, home was the most dangerous place there was, and the teachers who would have noticed were gone. The reports that came in during those months are hard to read, and harder to ignore. Here is what happened, and what it asks of us.
Porn RecoveryA New Streaming Platform for Inner Healing and Mental Health
A Florida film studio built something churches did not know they were about to need: cinematic classes on inner healing, streamed anywhere, built for small groups. Within weeks of launch it was running in 19 countries. It is now in more than 100, and the reason why says a lot about this moment.
Porn RecoveryControversial Super Bowl Half-Time Show
Half the country called it a show for the ages. The other half saw something else entirely and got told to be quiet about it. No wardrobe malfunction this time, just a pornographic message handed to a family audience and sold as art. Here is why that matters, and what to do next.
Porn RecoveryDo Couples Benefit From Watching Porn Together?
It gets sold as harmless, even as a way to spice things up. What it actually does is quieter and far more expensive: self-esteem erodes, real intimacy thins out, and two people end up chasing a screen instead of each other. The good news is that the brain God gave you can be renewed.
Porn RecoveryMarriage Life After Porn Addiction
Right now it may look like there is nothing left to save. Marriages in this exact place have not only survived, they have come out stronger than they ever were before the truth came out. It does not happen quickly and it does not happen by accident. Here is what the rebuilding actually looks like.
Porn RecoveryFocused On Noah’s Ark And Porn
Eight years of filming a documentary on the search for Noah's Ark, shelved after a single line in a Sunday sermon: nearly 70% of Christian men are hooked on porn. Two years later the Conquer Series existed. Nobody expected men to sit in a room and talk about this. Millions in over 100 countries have.
Porn RecoveryAfter a Weekend Conference, 155 Men Sent Out to Conquer Porn
They drove across the country and flew in from three others, and the event sold out weeks before the doors opened. More than 155 men gathered for three days of training on helping other men find lasting freedom from pornography, then went home to do the unglamorous work that almost nobody claps for.
Porn RecoveryWhich Accountability Software Is Right For Me?
Accountability software and filtering software are not the same thing. One builds honesty, the other builds a wall, and knowing which you need is half the decision. Here is a plain comparison of the better-known packages, what they cost, which devices they cover, and why software alone was never going to be enough.
Porn Recovery6 Keys to Leaving a Godly Legacy When You Struggle With Porn
For a lot of men, Father's Day is not a celebration. It is a reminder of what a dad said, or never said, and of the habit that grew in the wound he left. You do not get to choose the legacy handed to you. You do get to choose the one you hand down. Here are six places to start.
Porn RecoveryThis Man Found A Way To Help Pastors Fight Porn
He had told his story of overcoming porn addiction across seven countries and still felt something was missing. Men would listen, nod, and go home with nothing in their hands. The Conquer Series became the missing piece: biblical teaching paired with a workbook, so a man finally understands the addictive process he is caught in.
Porn RecoveryOur 10 Most Popular Reads From 2021
Some years you can read the church's condition in what people click. These were the ten posts men and women returned to most: porn creeping into gaming and virtual reality, a culture calling it morally acceptable, children caught in the middle, and the harder question of whether revival is possible while the church stays silent.
Porn RecoveryWatch How These College Guys Show Their Passion for Purity
Ninety college-aged men gave up a summer to work, share the gospel and study purity together on the Gulf Coast. The welcome they gave a speaker who had been honest about his own struggle with porn was worth filming. What they heard that night was not a challenge to try harder, because trying harder does not work.