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…
Category: God and Porn
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…
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 I stopped masturbating and looking at porn after 25 years of addiction
The Two Keys to Victory: How I stopped masturbating and looking at porn after 25 years of addiction by Joel Hesch, founder of Proven Ministries Introduction The struggle with porn, masturbation, or other sexually addictive behaviors feels like a fight for survival, where each day brings its own battles, and the waves of temptation threaten…
Imagine a world…
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS Imagine a world created in baffling beauty and extravagant elegance. A world of incomprehensible intricacy yet daily ease of interaction. Here we are capable of breathing in our joys, breathing out songs. In this place, we are permeated by infinite wonders and ineffable mysteries. Our birthright is nothing short…
Pornography and Resurrection
4 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill Abused and Lonely If you’re reading this then it’s likely that you’ve felt the suffocating entrapment of lust, or that you’ve felt the pain of unfaithfulness or even abuse from the lust of another. Lust is a deep hole that chokes both marriages and relationships alike….
Does God Reject Me When I Fail at Lust?
By: Allie Joy Hudson DO We Need God? Something that God has been placing on my heart over and over (and over) this week is the uncomfortable and humbling revelation that I cannot exist in a way that is pleasing to Him or life-giving or fulfilling in my own strength. Everything good in me…
How is Jesus Better Than Porn?
By: Cale Baker Don’t you love how porn doesn’t require anything from you? We’re free to demand and consume without it ever asking for anything in return. Or at least that’s the lie we’re sold. Becoming a burden For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled with feeling like a burden, and this…
Burning Porn to the Ground
By: Shane James O’Neill Deuteronomy 7:3-4 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods … Loving My Lust Many times in the past I told myself that pornography and promiscuous…
Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity
By: Shane James O’Neill Do you know that on a global scale Jesus is currently waging war against sexual impurity? Or to use Biblical language, God is actively working to put His enemies under Jesus’ feet. But let me back up. Does Spiritual Warfare Exist? I’ve “struggled” with sexual purity since before my body…
Lusting During Church
By: Shane James O’Neill Lusting Sitting in church, singing, worship, beautiful voices, God’s Word, smiling, laughter, lust. Can’t focus. Good things are being said, but I can’t hear them. People are trying to connect, but I can’t see them. Old memories vying to be my current masters. They want me to play in a…
Porn. Secrecy. Ash.
By: Shane James O’Neill hiding Watching porn is a very secret activity. It’s one of those things we desperately don’t want people to know we’re doing, and we certainly don’t want them to catch us doing it. There’s a kind of obvious shame in feasting our flesh on the flesh of someone who hasn’t…
10 Ways to BE ON GUARD
In order to fight the battle with pornography, you need to stop looking at it. We need to rewire the pathways in our brain. Your brain has become hardwired to go down the path of pornography and we need to set up roadblocks and exit ramps that allow our brain to grow a new path….
3 Ways Pornography Affects Your Relationship with God
One of our recent surveys revealed that over half of Christian men view pornography at least once per month. This statistic is extremely concerning for leaders, for wives, girlfriends, parents, and men. To help explain why this shift is so important, Christian men must first understand how it impacts their relationship with their Creator. After…