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…
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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…
Do You Want To Be Free?
By: Shane James O’Neill As we’ve touched on before, the O in P.R.O.V.E.N stand for Open and Honest. Walking in freedom means living in the light, which can be a terrifying thing — yet that’s where freedom is. As the writer of this particular article, it only makes sense to walk through the doors…
Lust and The Holidays
By: Shane James O’Neill provEn: Eternal In Perspective When it comes to purity there are two ways we should always keep perspective: You are not the center of eternity Eternity is on your side The Holiday Season Holiday seasons are a unique time in the purity calendar (that’s not an actual calendar, in case…
Raising From the Dead
By: Shane James O’Neill ProVen: Victorious in Living. Paradox There is an intense, and often confusing, paradox at play in the New Testament: We are given the freedom to be weak and we are given the power to be strong. In Romans chapter 8, St. Paul shares the intensity of this paradox in the…
Passion and Destroying the Sacred
By: Shane James O’Neill What are you passionate about? If I asked you to name one thing you’re passionate about, could you? Maybe it’s something you do right now. Maybe it’s something you’ve already found. Or maybe it’s a dream; a hope that is pulling you forward in life. ‘Passionate’. That’s a buzz word,…