(For all other podcast platforms: The Naked Gospel podcast) Conversation Summary: Jay Holland is a pastor who joins us to discuss what lust has been like in marriage. Jay has also been creating parenting resource for 20 years. He discusses specific temptations and difficulties that children are currently facing and how parents can…
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Fantasy in the Christian Life: Dr. Corey Latta
(For all other podcast platforms: The Naked Gospel podcast) Episode Summary: The word fantasy has a bad rap amongst Christians. In fact, most Christians only use the word in a negative way, such as, “I’m struggling with fantasy,” or “How are you doing with fantasy?” Fantasy is a catchall word for lust…
Reflections on “The Naked Seed” by C.S. Lewis
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Dry My favorite poem is an obscure little work by C.S. Lewis, called “The Naked Seed.” Every time I go back and reread it, it’s opening lines grab my attention right away: “My heart is empty. All the fountains that should run / With longing, are in…
10 Things I’ve Learned through My Husband’s Struggle with Lust
Struggle and Pain, Growth and Gratitude Allie Joy Hudson’s Testimonal In many ways, my husband’s struggle with lust has been a defining force for us as a couple. (He is very open about talking about this and has given me permission to share. I so admire his transparency, and I’ve seen many people open up…
Discipline, Sex, and Your Marriage
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read Sex and Fire I always like the analogy that compares sex to a fire. In the right context, like a fireplace, a fire is a beautiful thing. It’s warm, comforting, and purposeful. It sustains life. But, when a fire occurs outside of the right context, it’s destructive,…
Sexual Integrity After “I Do”
Sexual Integrity After “I Do”: Continuing the Fight By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min. read What About After Marriage? “Lord, why won’t my struggle with lust just go away? Please take it from me!” This prayer is not just the prayer of a single man. Sexual struggles can be long-lasting and stubborn for both…
Lust and New Year’s Resolutions
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read Lusting at the Gym I was reading about a therapist’s struggle with lust in the book An Impossible Marriage, and the therapist described his temptation typically hangs out at a three or four — zero being none at all, and ten being quite high. It’s a simple…
Loneliness and Pornography
Lonely By: Cale Baker 4 min read Lonely: A Public Health Crisis Some have declared loneliness a public health crisis, and not only does it trigger engagement with pornography, but it’s also not good for our physical health. An article in The Guardian highlights that chronic loneliness is worse than being obese and as…
Is Porn Bad?
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min read Celebrity First Sex Scene Celebrity Jennifer Lawrence describes her first on-set sex scene: “I got really, really drunk. But then that lead to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, “What have I done? I don’t know.” And he [Chris Pratt] was married. And…
Can a Marriage Heal after Porn?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read “Can we Heal from This??” Recently, I was at a family’s home with several friends 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 asked about my work, so I told…
Thanksgiving in The Midst of Lust
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read Thankful in Lust?? When you think about fighting through lust, your natural response probably isn’t to be thankful. Fighting for purity is a hard path, often full of setbacks, frustration, numbness, and discouragement. But there’s an interesting passage in 1 Thessalonians 5 that made me think twice…
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. …
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 Isn’t Just a Guy Issue
4 minute read time Proven women In January, we launched Proven Women, because lust struggles are not just ‘guys issues’ and the need is very real. Last week we did an interview with former porn star Brittni De La Mora. Brittni wrote the foreword for our Proven Women curriculum and this week we want to…
How to Find Purity This Christmas
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min read All of Creation Waiting The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. John 1:9 We’re told that Jesus came at the fullness of time. Prophecy and promise were building through the ages until the Word became flesh. It’s crazy to think that…