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. …
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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…
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…
How To Find Sexual Purity
Timothy W. Brophy What if I told you that the secret to maintaining sexual purity was revealed somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago? Although lust may seem like a modern issue, the pathway to sexual purity was shown long ago in Psalm 119. New is Always Better We live in culture where new…