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Pure Desire Podcast

213 - The Effects of Pornography w/ Josh McDowell

Pure Desire Podcast

Pure Desire Ministries

Sexual Addiction Recovery, Religion & Spirituality, Celebrate Recovery, Sexuality, Porn Recovery, Porn Addiction Recovery, Health & Fitness, Aa, Education, Betrayal Trauma, Recovery, Biblical Recovery, Christian Recovery, Healing, Sa, Christianity, Self-improvement

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Apologist and author, Josh McDowell has spent the past few years focusing on the area of sexual brokenness, specifically pornography. Today, we talk to Josh about what he's learned from years of research on the effects of pornography. We talk about trends we're seeing and what we can do to change the tide of sexual brokenness in our world.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Pure Desire Podcast.

0:03.8

You're a safe place to find hope, healing, and freedom from sexual addiction, betrayal, and relationship issues.

0:13.9

What is up, people?

0:14.9

I'm your host, Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to Episode 2.13 of the Pure Desire Podcast.

0:19.0

Here joining me, as always, is my co-host, Nick Stumbo.

0:21.9

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Josh McDowell or Superman. So, listener, today we had the one

0:32.9

and only because there's no one else like him, Josh McDowell to talk about, like, yes,

0:39.1

you heard me right, Josh McDowell, like the Josh McDowell, like wrote a bunch of books,

0:43.8

apologist.

0:44.7

Like in the hundreds, I think books.

0:47.4

Like ministry named after you, Josh McDowell.

0:50.2

And we had him on today to talk about just pornography, the effects of pornography and how to battle it.

0:56.1

Yeah, you know, the first time I met Josh McDowell was when he came out for our legacy of honor event celebrating Ted and Diane Roberts a number of years ago.

1:03.8

And he had on a giant Superman belt buckle, which I just thought was fantastic.

1:09.7

And he really is, you know, I think in terms of being an apologist of the faith, someone

1:14.3

that's really for decades been someone that interprets culture and helps culture find Christ

1:20.8

and Christians understand how to live in culture in a way that honors Christ.

1:24.4

And so we're excited about today's episode because he really has over the last

1:29.2

decade or so turned a lot of his ministry focus and attention towards what's happening in our world

1:34.2

with pornography. And we get to talk about that today. And he's, you know, for anyone who knows Josh

1:39.4

McDonnell and has read his books, he is a straight shooter. he calls it like it is and it's compelling,

1:45.4

it's convicting, it's at time hard to hear. But I think when we wrestle through, well,

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