By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read (Explicit Content!) Strip Club The first time I came face-to-face with sex trafficking I was 16 and working in Philadelphia. A guy named Matt would often come into my work, flaunting money and confidence. As an impressionable 16-year-old, I thought he was pretty cool. His uncle owned…
Is Porn Only a Religious Issue?
By: Shane James O’Neill Porn Is a Religious Issue Due to our sexualized culture, it’s easy to think that arguments for healthy intimacy and arguments against pornography are only made by religious organizations. For instance, when talking about the sex addiction movement, psychologist Dr. David Ley says: “Most of the leaders of the sex…
What’s the Difference Between Porn and Nude Art?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Nude Art or Porn? A film came out a few years ago, the name of which I’ll refrain from sharing least it lead you in a dangerous direction. Regardless, this film followed the life of a self-diagnosed female sex addict. She loved sex, specifically sex with men,…
Purity in The Face of Defeat
Battle By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read If you’re struggling to overcome a porn habit, and you head home just hoping to not watch it that night, you are almost always going to fail. The Proven curriculum talks about how important it is to have a plan of action in overcoming your entrapment…
Longing for Lust: Three Psalms to Pray
Three Psalms to Pray By: Shane James O’Neill Sex: More Than Biology No matter what kind of beautiful community I have around me, there are times when I just want sexual intimacy. The more distance I get from pornography, the more it becomes less a biological thing and more of a soul thing. …
Christianity and Lust: What’s the Point of Prayer?
4 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill “I Don’t Know How to Pray” I was leading a Proven Men Group at a church this summer and one of the guys in the group made a confession I didn’t expect. He said, he didn’t know how to pray. Of course, he knew the mechanics of…
How Secret Sin Will Devastate Marriage
4 min read By: Shane James O’Neill A Marriage Trapped in Lust Recently, a family in their late 30’s with several children had me and some friends over for lunch. People were eating all over the house, so I went to the living room, finding myself seated beside the mother of that family. She…
These Three Things Will Help You Know Purity
Joshua — 6 minute read By: Allie Joy Hudson The Age of Sexual Commodity It only takes a few minutes of watching TV, scrolling on social media, or even examining some of the thought patterns lodged in our own minds to see three things that our postmodern culture prizes and flaunts: busyness, promoting our…
Trapped in Sexual Sin
5 min read By: Cale Baker Trapped in Sexual Sin We often feel that our addiction to porn is too much to overcome. I know I’ve reached that despairing moment within addiction where I started to believe that Jesus’s power wasn’t enough to help me. The baggage surrounding my sexual sin seemed too complex…
Stepping Stones to Healing
4 min read By: Shane James O’Neill Failure and Healing When stats tell us 97% of men in the church have viewed porn, it’s safe to say nearly all of us have failed or fallen victim to over sexualization. By looking at this struggle, the questions arise, “how should we handle failure?” and “how…
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