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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.


This video is long, but it may be the most important video you ever watch. Please, my friend, take an hour and watch this. 

Village Church: What is the Gospel?

Sammy A: Just a Dude Talking to Dude’s About Love

Desktop Wallpaper: Broken Top, quote by @LoveDoes

Stop doing what you are able to do and start figuring out what you were made to do. Then do lots of that.

Broken Top | Quote by @LoveDoes

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.


Prodigal Magazine: The Gay Community and That One Time Jesus Called Me the “N-Word”

Village Church: Assurance of Salvation

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.


BBC News: Online porn to be blocked by default un UK

Sammy Adebiyi: Porn is like White Castle

Village Church: Is masturbation sinful?

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.


Storyline: What if the Temptation to Be Impressive is
Keeping Us from Connecting?

Village Church: What Must I Do to be Saved?

The Peace that Comes from Trusting Jesus

There are many areas in my life where I need to remind myself daily to trust God’s leading instead of following whatever feels right to me at that moment. The biggest example is probably the decision to wait, pray, and remain committed to my ex-wife.

trusthandGod has made it clear to me through a variety of ways that He wants me to leave the door open for the possibility of reconciliation. All throughout scripture I see God restoring what is broken rather than creating something new. I hear the command to love my wife as Christ loved the church, and He continued to love the church even as they rejected Him over and over. Ultimately, God has put His unconditional love in my heart for her—which means my love for her is not conditional on her returning any love back to me.

If I am being honest though, there are many days where I am tempted to listen to my friends when they tell me it’s time to move on. Sometimes, if I find myself becoming interested in a girl I know, my mind starts to wander into what-if situations. I begin to justify in my mind why it makes more sense for me to start dating again. After all, what happens if my wife remains single for ten years and then marries someone else? At that point, I’ll probably be old(er) and bald(er) and wouldn’t be able to find a girl to date even if I wanted to.

But God never promised me we would get back together—He only asked me to wait for her. So for all I know, the good in my life He is orchestrating through this time of waiting may be something completely different from the restoration of our marriage.

Perhaps He knew I would never have the time to write a book if I were married. Maybe His purpose is for my divorce to be an example to other men of how much pornography can cost them. I don’t know.

What I do know, is even if God doesn’t bring us back together, He’s doing something good through my waiting. And trusting that allows me to respond to Him with thankfulness rather than worrying about my life.

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.
(Philippians 4:6–7).

So instead of worrying about whether or not I’m going to be single for the rest of my life, I leave it all in God’s hands, remember the ways He has taken care of me, and trust that He will continue to lead me down the best path for my life.

And that gives me peace.

How is God asking you to trust Him today?

10 Lies Men Believe about Porn Preview

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.


Village Church: How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex

R.C. Sproul: What Do Our Good Deeds Have to Do with Our Salvation?

Donald Miller: What to do When it Feels Like Everybody is Out to Get You

Free Music Downloads: Loud Harp

Worship Wednesdays

About once-a-month, on a Wednesday (hence the name: Worship Wednesdays), I will share one of my favorite albums I’ve been listening to. Most of these will be from NoiseTrade, the internet’s best source for free music downloads. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Loud Harp—Loud Harp

Loud Harp is not just a collection of beautiful, worshipful songs. It is an experience from start to finish. The record has a cohesive nature that allows the listener to really take in its simple and truthful message. When Asher begins to sing it is reminiscent of the soul and honesty of Peter Gabriel’s voice, all the while accompanied by Dave Wilton’s sweeping rhythmic lines and wonderful counter melodies.
—The Music Bed

 

Weekly Web (W)roundup

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Each week, we roundup the best links, articles, and videos we find that are relevant to overcoming pornography addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it doesn’t necessarily mean we agree with everything in the linked article. It just means we found it interesting enough to share.


Desiring God: How Should Teenagers Handle Relationships with the Opposite Sex?

Covenant Eyes: 4 Ways Porn Kills Great Sex in Marriage

Jamie the Very Worst Missionary: Guard Your Heart, Bro

Desktop Wallpaper: Broken Top, quote by Brennan Manning

To be fully present to whoever or whatever is immediately before us is to pitch a tent in the wilderness of Nowhere. It is an act of radical trust - trust that God can be encountered at no other time and in no other place than the present moment. Being fully present in the now is perhaps the premier skill of the spiritual life...To stand stubbornly in Nowhere, rejecting the restlessness that urges us to move on, silencing the voices that entice us into tomorrow... is an act of unflappable trust in the presence of God...

Broken Top | Quote by Brennan Manning