Last night I read a quote from Augustine of Hippo who became a believer in 387 AD. The main battle in his life was against lust. After he became a believer God radically changed him and transformed him. Here is what John Piper writes about how Augustine thought about the Grace of God. “Grace is …
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Here are the first three things we need to believe about the Spirit so that we can begin to experience His transformation in our lives. The Spirit is God. The Spirit is as much God as God the Father and God the Son. They all share the essence of God equally even though they have …
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I communicate with a lot of men who seem to keep struggling to get traction in their recovery. Last week we looked at the hard work we need to do in creating our sexual sin history, getting connected to the appropriate small group and building a support team. That is all stuff that we have …
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Today is the last in this series. If you missed any they will all be on the 180 blog which you can get to my clicking the 180 logo below my signature. So # 5 is this … Never let a fall go unexamined. Winston Churchill once said; “If you are going though hell … …
When I first meet with a man or men who have just been caught using porn or gotten into enough trouble that they have to seek help … they have that deer in the headlights look. Or their heads are bowed and they don’t want to look you in the eye. They are hurting. They …
I have been on this recovery journey for 10+ years and you might not like these things that I am teaching you. You might still be telling yourself its no big deal to look at porn. I am not hurting anyone. If I really want to quit I could. You are remaining in isolation in …
We begin the hard work of recovery with taking a long and hard look at our sexual sin history. You do not need to do it all at once. For me it was 9 hours over a weekend but you could go more slowly and spread it out. It is hard to force yourself to …
Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. That cliche means you can be so close to the problem that you cannot see how to solve it. That might be true of you in your struggle in trying to stop looking at porn. So you have tried to stop using porn what … 1000 …
Every now and again you hear it as a punch line on a TV comedy show. Someone is going on about how bad their life is and all the bad things that are happening to them and someone says to them … “Sucks to be you!” (Canned laughter in the background) If you are like …
We long for healing. We would love it if God would just zap us and we would no longer struggle with sexual temptation and acting out. If you think about that the only way that could happen would be for God to completely remove your sexual desires … which are there for a purpose and …
