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By Robert Heywood
I was exposed to pornography at a very young age. I was six. At that point in my life I really didn’t know what I was looking at. I didn’t understand my body’s reaction to it. All I knew was I felt good and I felt guilty. Those two feelings drove me to a life of shame that I still haven’t fully unpacked. The hallmark of that shame was sneaking. And I was good at it. But to have an entire area of my life in the dark and not talked about, meant that I knew I wasn’t functioning properly. Something was wrong and that reality drove me to Christ. |
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When a Family Is Shattered by Pornography: One Wife's Story
By Sharon*
My long journey to HARVEST USA began more than 10 years ago. It was then that my husband confessed to me that he had a problem with pornography. He told me that it had started when he was twelve years old.
Married for five years then, I had sensed that something was amiss in our relationship. Something was drastically impacting our ability to relate to each other both emotionally and physically. His confession made sense to me, but it also devastated me.
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Your Church CAN Be a Healing Community for Sexual Strugglers
By Barney Swihart, M.A., M.Div.
I deal with lives that have been devastated by sexual sin every day. Just the other day I talked with a young man facing the painful exposure of having sexually fallen. This man was distraught and repentant. He shared with me his life long struggle of being raised in a solid, fundamentalist church, and yet feeling like there was no one he felt safe talking to. He went on to speak of the years of loneliness he felt struggling with his “schizophrenic” like existence in his church. On one hand he was an active member of the church. On the other hand, he struggled with the guilt and shame of his secret double life of struggling with pornography and occasionally acting out sexually.
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How and Why Pornography Hurts a Marriage: Occasional and addictive use is damaging to real relationships
By Nicholas Black
Christians used to boast that marriage between two Christians had a much higher rate of success (in terms of longevity) than secular marriages. But recent statistics seem to be showing that’s not true any longer. Divorce rates among professing Christians are virtually the same with those who do not say theirs is a faith-based relationship.
There are multiple reasons why marriages fail, even Christian marriages. But in the last decade, one new and disturbing trend has emerged: A growing reason for divorce among believers is the addictive use of pornography by one of the spouses (usually the husband).
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Lust
By Dan Allender
The church pianist arched her back and stretched her arms in preparation for the opening hymn. The man in front of me didn’t miss one movement. His wife, painfully aware of the object of his gaze, jabbed him in the side, he shot back angrily, “I wasn’t looking at anything.” His remark seemed well-rehearsed, perhaps from countless other occasions of being caught stealing looks at attractive women. The couple’s hurt and anger betrayed the endless cycle of accusation, defense, guilt, effort, helplessness, and failure so often associated with struggles of lust.
Lust is a battle for us all. Christians — both men and women — have struggled with it for generations. Many have measured their or others’ spirituality on the basis of their freedom from lust. Yet for all the interest focused on lust it would seem that we ought to be far clearer about the problem and its solution. What exactly is lust, why is it so hard to change, and how can we deal with its power to shape our lives? |
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