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Porn RecoveryPastor Caught On Ashley Madison Commits Suicide
Comedians make adultery sound like harmless fun. Then a hack dumped the details of 32 million accounts on a site built for affairs, church leaders included, and the laughing stopped. What followed says everything about what shame does to a person who believes he has to be flawless.
Porn RecoveryPastor Barely Escapes Death In Underwater Cave (VIDEO)
A rope around the leg, a cave with no air left, and one lesson that has shaped thousands of men since: pulling harder is what tightens a noose. That near-death escape became the picture behind one of the Conquer Series' hardest truths about porn addiction, and the science now agrees with it.
Porn RecoveryTo My Porn-Watching Dad, From Your Daughter
She found it on the computer when she was about twelve. Everything he had taught her about guarding her mind and valuing herself went silent the moment she did. This anonymous letter from a daughter to her father names the cost porn carries into the next generation, and the grace that can still break the cycle.
Porn RecoveryPorn in Churches: Filmmakers Rally Pastors to Fight Back
The numbers that started it: 50 percent of pastors and 68 percent of Christian men visiting internet pornography every week. A group of filmmakers spent two years answering them, not with another behavior-modification program, but with a cinematic course built to show men how to retrain a brain already hooked.
MarriagePeople Were Stunned When She Chose to Marry Him (VIDEO)
People were stunned when she chose to marry him, and plenty of them said it could never work. Three years on, the picture looks nothing like the one the doubters painted. A short video story about covenant love holding after a life-altering accident, and an update on where this couple stands now.
Porn RecoveryMy Conversation with Jesus
A repairman came by the house for a small job, and the conversation drifted to God. His question was the one most people stop at: there are too many religions, so how would anyone know which one is true? What followed was a math class analogy, a courtroom, and one difference that separates Christianity from everything else.
Porn RecoveryWhat’s The Biggest Problem Christian Men Face Today?
Everyone in the church knows about it. Almost nobody says it out loud. The biggest problem Christian men face is not a lack of sincerity, and it will not be solved by another round of praying harder. Here is what sexual bondage actually is, why the usual church response fails, and what changes when a man understands the battle.
Porn RecoveryThe Bullfighter Who Forgave the Unforgivable
He was a five-time world champion bullfighter, the man who stepped between a charging bull and a fallen rider without hesitating. Then brutality reached his own family, and vengeance was all he could think about. What he did next says more about grace than about grit.
Porn RecoveryCrisis of Manhood
Church attendance in America was 39 percent male. Nine out of ten churches cannot sustain a men's ministry. More than 70 percent of boys raised in church walk away in their teens and twenties, and most never come back. The numbers are the symptom. Underneath them is hurt, and men who are far closer to heroes than to lost causes.