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…
Can God Use My Sin?
4 min read By: Shane James O’Neill Can God Use My Sin? There is a difficult passage in the book of Hebrews, a passage that always sobers my soul. It goes: See that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when…
Lust and The Sin of King David
6 min read By: Allie Joy Hudson Lust and The Sin of King David After a two-day reprieve visiting with King David, Uriah traveled back to where his fellow soldiers were encamped. The Israelites had been waging war against the Ammonites, and they had besieged Rabbah, one of Ammon’s major cities. Uriah shook his head…
Can I Ever Be Free of Porn?
Free of Porn — 6 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill Shaped by Porn We know lust and pornography deeply impact us. Porn rewires our brains: porn creates grey matter, which stunts our thinking, memory, and jacks up our neural pathways. Porn prevents us from really using our minds. 97% of men in the…
Pornography and Doubting Faith
By: Cale Baker 4 min read Pornography and Doubting Faith During my senior year in college, I went through a lengthy period of doubt, and I questioned a lot about the Christianity I was living. Questions about hell, about sexual morality, about God’s goodness, and about God’s love plagued me, and since this was…
Sex Apps. Affairs. Hope.
Sex Apps. Affairs. Hope. Life is short. Have an Affair. This is the slogan of one of the world’s most popular dating websites, a dating site for married people whose services provide private easy and discrete opportunities for affairs. One of their recent commercials shows a woman going out to exercise, as a kind of…
Three Ways to Run Toward Sexual Integrity
5 min read Three Ways to Run As Christians, we often hear the comparison of faith to running a race. Just before his death, the apostle Paul reflects that he had “finished the race” (2 Timothy 4:7). Running is one of my favorite ways to exercise. I was running the other day, and while…
Should You Tell Your Spouse that You Watch Porn?
Porn Isn’t A Big Deal… Should you tell your spouse that you watch porn? Can a person, married or not, get through lust alone? In a recent movie, a man was regularly watching porn but kept it from his wife. The film presented his habit as a good thing. It nurtured his sexual appetites and…
How to Deal with Secret Lust
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 Minute Read Time Super Heroes and Secret Lust “There’s a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.” — Prov. 14:12 Having grown up with three sisters, I’ve seen my fair share of romance films. But romance is not isolated to chick-flicks, as…
When a Pastor Falls
By: Shane James O’Neill A Pastor Falls My pastor fell to unfaithfulness at my childhood church. I really liked him. His teaching was captivating, he was personable, he had children my age. He was kind and he listened. The infidelity wasn’t overt; he didn’t sleep with another woman. My pastor pursued another woman emotionally…
Sexualized TV
4 minute read By: Allie Joy Hudson Parks and Rec The other day I was watching Parks and Rec, and one of the characters comments, “I’ve seen a LOT of porn.” Another character shoots him a brief, disgusted look, but that is the only reaction he is given, as if what he said was…
Why We Pursue Porn over Sex
3 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill The Porn Oscars WHy We Pursue porn Kevin D. Williamson describes how every year the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is packed out for the Adult Video News awards ceremony (AVN) — also known as the “Porn Oscars”. Presentations are given, new products are displayed, vendors of…
Shameful Nakedness, Beautiful Dignity
4 minute read By: Allie Joy Hudson Self-Porn (In this article we’re going to reference an incident of a celebrity who had images leaked. You’ll likely feel a desire to go discover who it was and find the images, as though it’s a fun game. Let me tell you it isn’t a game. This…
Why People are Having Less Sex
By: Shane James O’Neill The Decline of Sex Did you know that people are having less sex today than they were 10 years ago? A report was released in May of 2019 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which surveyed the sex-lives of 34,000 people. The steepest decrease of sex is…
Humans Are Made for Pleasure
4 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill A Land of Pleasure Did you know Eden means pleasure, even ecstasy? Some versions have more literally translated a verse like Genesis 2:8 as “The Lord planted a paradise of pleasure” instead of “a garden in Eden.” The story goes that God created man and woman to…
3 Ways My Husband and I Were Able To Stay Pure Before Marriage
5 minute read By: Allie Joy Hudson Sex was an option The other day I had a sobering thought: It would have been so easy for us to give in and have sex before we were married. Wow. Honestly, it would have. If we wanted to, we could have made it happen. Praise be…
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