We're in the middle of our Marriage Misdiagnosis series, talking about how often the church misdiagnoses the problems in marriage--and so offers the wrong solutions. Last week we looked at how often people are pressured to reconcile before trust has been rebuilt....
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How to Break the Stronghold of Porn
If you feel stuck in a porn addiction, how do you break that stronghold? This month, in April, we're talking about defeating porn every Monday--but there's so much to say that I'm carrying that series over into other days of the week! We've looked at the effects of...
The Truth About Porn’s Role in Sex Trafficking
How is porn related to sex trafficking? We've been talking in the month of April in our Monday series on porn and how to recover from it. We started by talking about the effects of porn; we looked at 4 things you had to do if you spouse used porn, and then yesterday...
4 Stages of Porn Recovery: What Porn Recovery in Marriage Looks Like
What does recovery from porn look like in a marriage? On Mondays in April we're talking about porn in marriage, and how to defeat it. We've looked at the effects of porn; at four things you must do if your husband uses porn; at women porn users. This week we're going...
4 Things You Must Do if Your Husband Uses Porn
What should you do if your husband watches porn? This month our theme is pornography use--how to understand the effects of porn; how to defeat porn and recover from porn; how to help the future generation not get hooked. We've also already talked about how women can...
Defeating Porn: Are We Creating Panic?
How serious is the porn issue we face today, both for ourselves and for the next generation? Should we be panicking, or is it all going to be okay? I say neither... but also kind of both? All during the month of April, we're going to be looking at the porn epidemic...
How One Man Explains the Temptation towards Porn–and How to Fight It
How do men who have recovered from a porn addiction see that porn addiction in retrospect? As I unpack from my vacation, I'm happy to have a post to share with you this week from Hugh Houston, who has written the book Jesus is Better than Porn. I know so many wives...
When Porn Wrecks YOUR Sex Drive–Not Just Your Husband’s
This month, as we're talking about pornography's effects in marriage, let's remember that men are not the only porn users. In fact, women make up an increasingly large portion of porn users, and women deal with a lot of the same effects of porn as men do. Recently a...
Top 10 Effects of Porn on Your Brain, Your Marriage and Your Sex Life
This post may contain links to amazon products. After you navigate to Amazon using one of my links, any products you purchase during that visit earn me a commission at no additional cost to you.The side effects of porn are devastating. Pornography is ravaging...
PODCAST: Porn and Coronavirus–How Scared Should We Be?
What do porn and coronavirus have in common? We hate them both, and we want them to stop! My series on the blog in April will be on porn, and so to launch that series, I wanted to give a big picture perspective on the real problem with porn (hint: it may not be what...
Is “Bouncing Your Eyes” So You Don’t Lust Respectful to Women?
Is the antidote to lust that men learn the "bouncing your eyes" technique, as advocated in Every Man's Battle? We've been talking about new ways to think about lust this week, with Keith's post yesterday (and our podcast coming up tomorrow. UPDATE: It's live now!). In...
Can We Respect Women, Please? A New Look at the Church’s View on Lust
What if the real reason that lust is bad really isn't about sex? i've talked about lust before on the blog--with the question "is lust really every man's battle"? I've written that noticing is not lusting. But my husband Keith wanted to chime in today, as he writes...
The Porn Habits Podcast: How Porn Affects Marriage
How does porn use before marriage affect marriage afterwards? I wrote a big post on how porn hurts your sex life earlier this week, and I felt like it was such an important subject (and we got so many comments) that I thought it was important to expand on it a bit and...