1 Tim 6:11 states, “But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness.” 2 Tim 2:22 states, “Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” Paul is presenting what it means [...]
Rip Out the Eye of Lust? (Matthew 5:27-30)
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Matt 5:27-30 says that if we look on a person with lust in our heart then we have committed adultery in our heart. Then he goes on to give some extreme statements like “if your right eye causes you to stumble then tear it out and throw it from you…if your right hand causes you [...]
Do You Want to Be Healed? (John 5:1-9)
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Rich Mullins, a famous Christian musician, said, “People don’t read the Bible to know stuff; they read it to know God.” So I wondered what I was doing. I did start off to know God. I got a Bible College education because I wanted to know God. However, something happened. Something changed. There was a [...]
12 Steps to a Slip
December 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Every Slip Has A Beginning, and every slip has an ending.Know Your Danger Signals!Make the ending of your slip Recovery not death!Relapse is a serious and sometimes fatal reality. Start missing meetings for any reason, real or imaginary. Become critical of the methods used by other members who may not agree with you in everything. [...]
A Practical Guide to Using Journaling to Overcome Addiction in Recovery
November 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Journaling has been one of those daily disciplines that evade me. I have every good intention of doing it every day but fail often miserably. So now, I have committed to only journal three times a week. We’ll see how it works. However, this time, I actually have a plan, a list of questions to [...]
8 Core Feelings and Their Associated State of Beings
November 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
One thing that I have noticed in my meetings whether group or 12-step, I have noticed that there is a lack of understanding of feelings and associated state of beings. At first, I didn’t have a clue about this and would constantly pass off states of being as my feelings; however, this chart was given [...]
New Symptoms of ADHD in Adulthood
November 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Statistics (by Carnes and others?) reveal that there is a high correlation between porn/sex addiction and ADD/ADHD. While I don’t really remember the exact statistic but it is something between 70-80% of addicts have ADD/ADHD. So I thought it would be good to talk about some of the symptoms of ADD/ADHD. I don’t remember where I got this [...]
Write Your Own Letter to Your Addict
September 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It may be tempting to rant and rave at your addict part and angrily tell that part of you to get lost, get out of your life, or to…whatever. That kind of emotion is okay and has its place. The problem is that an emotional outburst doesn’t necessarily equate to a commitment to change. So [...]
The Stockdale Paradox and Pornography Addiction
July 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What is the Stockdale Paradox? The Stockdale Paradox is best described in Jim Collins’s book Good to Great. In it, he writes (83-87): Admiral Jim Stockdale who was the highest ranking US military officer in the “Hanoi Hilton” prison-of-war camp during the height of the Vietnam War. Tortured over twenty times during his eight-year imprisonment [...]
Porn Statistics
June 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Deacon Ralph at the Catholic theporneffect.com, posted this awesome imaged statistics that I wanted to repost. Check it out!
More Resources
Recently, I came across a couple websites (Justin Taylor’s Blog on Porndemic <-Love the Title & Sam Isaacson) that had some additional resources while I haven’t read many of them, I wanted to share them with you. R. Albert Mohler Jr., “The Seduction of Pornography and the Integrity of Christian Marriage” (talk to college students: [...]