Reviving Sexual Integrity: How a Generation of Pure Men and Women Can Transform the Church Introduction We often talk about revival. We talk about revival in worship, revival in evangelism, and revival in prayer. However, what if the revival we most desperately need is one of sexual integrity? In today’s world, even the Church often…
How to Protect Your Child’s Innocence
How to Protect Your Child’s Innocence: Train for the “When,” Not the “If” Parents today are not dealing with a hypothetical threat. Exposure is not a matter of if. It is a matter of when. Your child will encounter sexualized content, confusing messages, and peer pressure. The good news is that you can prepare them….
Save the World Through Great Sex
Save the World Through Great Sex: Why God’s Design for Marriage Matters More Than Ever When was the last time you heard someone say that great sex could actually save the world? It sounds outrageous, maybe even offensive, but Scripture and history tell a different story. God designed sex to be far more than a…
How to Survive an Affair and Rebuild Your Marriage
How to survive an affair Are you about to give up? This is what you need You did not come here by accident. Something inside you knows you cannot keep living the way things are. Maybe your marriage feels like it is hanging on by a thread. Maybe betrayal has shattered the trust you thought…
Breaking Free from Porn: How to Rewire Your Brain and Redeem Your Imagination
Breaking Free from Porn: How to Rewire Your Brain and Redeem Your Imagination Pornography is not a side issue. It is the cultural battle of our time. Everywhere we turn, from our phones to our streaming platforms, sexualized images bombard us. And while many see it as “just entertainment,” the truth is that pornography is…
Why Most Christians Stay Spiritually Stuck w/ Andrew Yates
Why Most Christians Stay Spiritually Stuck & the One Shift That Changes Everything A special thank you to our podcast guest, Andrew Yates! If you’ve ever felt like your faith was on repeat—going to church, reading the Bible, maybe even leading a small group—but still wondering why your heart feels unchanged, you’re not alone. In…
When Parents Stay Quiet, Kids Pay the Price
A special thank you to our podcast guest, Sam Black! When Parents Stay Quiet, Kids Pay the Price w/ Sam Black Most parents dread it. Some delay it. Others hope someone else will do it. But the truth is, every child needs guidance when it comes to sex, identity, and integrity — and they need…
Mom’s Heartbreak! 14-Year-Old Son Addicted to Porn: Barb Winters
A special thank you to our podcast guest, Barb Winters! Mom’s Heartbreak! 14-Year-Old Son Addicted to Porn: Barb Winters Barb never imagined her 14-year-old son was hiding a secret. Like many Christian parents, she and her husband had “had the talk.” They thought they were doing enough—teaching him about sex from a biblical perspective, guiding…
Rescuing the Forgotten: Freedom for Exploited Girls in Malawi
rescuing the forgotten: Freedom for Exploited girls in malawi We read about the door-kickers, the armed rescuers, the front-lines warriors. Then we have the infiltrators, the impersonators, the sting operators. Wherever human trafficking reveals itself, we have valorous individuals in our society, trained and equipped, to go save the enslaved. This is needful work,…
Emotional Healing for Men: Power through Honesty
emotional healing for men: discover your power – begin with honesty Marshall Shank was the first Director of Outreach with Proven Ministries, at the helm for over five faithful years. On this episode of the Naked Gospel, he joins Wailer, the current Outreach Director, as they compare notes and review a decade of ministry tendencies,…
Protecting Kids from Online Pornography: Supreme Court Upholds Age Verification Law
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that could reshape how states are protecting kids from online pornography. In Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, the Court upheld Texas’s H.B. 1181, a law requiring adult websites to verify a user’s age before granting access to sexually explicit content. While…
The Sex Talk You Never Got: Sam Jolman
A special thank you to our podcast guest, Sam Jolman on his book: The Sex Talk You Never Got! The Sex Talk You never got: sam jolman “We cannot love that which we don’t talk about.” When Sam Jolman wrote that in his seminal work, The Sex Talk You Never Got, it hit me right…
Why Men Must Lead the Fight
A special thank you to our podcast guest, Britney Higgs on “Breaking the Cycle of Trafficking; Why Men Must Lead the Fight” Why Men Must Lead the Fight Against Exploitation and Sex Trafficking There’s a war happening all around us—quiet, hidden, and too often ignored. This war is not fought with guns or governments. It’s…
How Women Really Feel About Compliments: A Mini Study
How Women Really Feel About Compliments: A Mini Study Written by Emma Witler From Butterflies to a pit in my stomach I, like many young women and girls, pretty much melted the first time the boy I had a crush on called me cute. He thought I was cute! Sure, that’s what all my mom’s…
Porn in Marriage
Porn in Marriage Pornography has a way of slipping into marriages quietly. For some couples, it’s a known battle carried in from dating or even childhood. For others, it’s discovered suddenly—through confession, confrontation, or quiet suspicion. However it shows up, the presence of porn in marriage can feel like a betrayal, a threat to…
The Power of First Mention
A special thank you to our “Talk to Your Kids about P*orn” podcast episode guest Drew Boa! THE POWER OF FIRST MENTION: HOW PARENTS CAN SHAPE THEIR CHILD’S UNDERSTANDING OF SEXUALITY Why the First Voice Matters Many parents hesitate to talk about sex and sexuality. They might feel their children are too young or not…
An Impossible Marriage
A special thank you to our “An Impossible Marriage” podcast episode guest Laurie Krieg! An impossible marriage & Same-sex attraction: With laurie krieg Wrestling with God: A Path to Understanding In Genesis 32, Jacob has an encounter with God, wrestling with Him throughout the night. As dawn breaks, God blesses Jacob and sends him on…
The Proven Path for Living Out Sexual Integrity
The Proven Path for Sexual Integrity by Joel Hesch, Founder of Proven Ministries I am writing blogs to systematically guide people in gaining and retaining sexual integrity. Today’s blog outlines the Proven Path™ for living out sexual integrity. The Proven Path is a blueprint for living a victorious life. Here’s how it works: as you…
Raising Kids with Biblical Sexuality
A special thank you to podcast guest Justin Batt. Raising Kids with Biblical Sexuality: A Call to Action for Parents Parenting in today’s hypersexualized culture is like sending a soldier into battle without a weapon. The world is loud, aggressive, and relentless in shaping your child’s view of sex, relationships, and identity. If parents aren’t…
Sex, Christmas & Silk Stockings
Approximately eight years ago, Proven Ministries financed Barna research into the status of sexual integrity throughout American churches. More recently, our colleagues at Pure Desire have revisited the data with Barna research of their own, bringing more current statistics before our observation. Eight years ago, only 8% of churches reported having anything programmatic in regard…
Revealing the hidden roots fueling lust, porn, affairs, and all other sexual sins.
Revealing the hidden roots fueling lust, porn, affairs, and all other sexual sins. by Joel Hesch, Founder of Proven Ministries I am writing blogs to systematically guide people to gain and retain sexual integrity. The first blog spoke of making a decisive decision and commitment that your particular sexual sin is not an option and…
Tackling Tempting Thoughts
Utilizing the 3 R’s as part of the Proven Path for winning the battlefield of the mind – Tackling Tempting Thoughts by Joel Hesch, Founder of Proven Ministries Introduction In the battleground of everyday life, every man faces the lure of lust. It’s all too easy to drift into fantasy or secretly enjoy sensual thoughts—from…
Pornography is Idolatry
Pornography is idolatry – the single most ostentatious idolatry of our day. Someone might think that’s a bit harsh, even from a Christian perspective. For all the shame so common among sexual addictions, most especially with people of faith, who in their right mind would even *imply* that a believer would worship pornography‽ How could…
How Pastors Can Save the Next Generation from Porn and Exploitation
The world today is saturated with messages about sex. Whether we like it or not, it’s a conversation happening everywhere—both inside and outside the church. As pastors, we are called to shepherd our people through every aspect of life, even the challenging and sometimes uncomfortable terrain of sexuality. The church cannot afford silence, especially when…
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