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🗓️ 24 October 2024
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With the internet, smartphones and constant media, our culture is saturated with pornography. Erin Smalley explains how she's seen an increase in porn struggles in her counseling clients. Also, Mark and Rosie Makinney share with Jim Daly how pervasive the problem is. Then, Greg and John talk about the need to confess if you're struggling with it.
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0:00.0 | Well today we're talking about the pervasiveness of pornography and we want to |
0:09.9 | encourage you to get help if this is a struggle for you. I'm John Fuller along with |
0:14.4 | Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. They lead our marriage team here and |
0:18.0 | Aaron you're a professional counselor and I'm sure you've seen an increase over the years in struggles with pornography. |
0:27.0 | What are you observing of late about this? |
0:30.0 | Absolutely. I am seeing couples coming in and individuals coming in for support and research is showing that there has been an increase. |
0:39.5 | I'm not sure if it's tied to COVID and post COVID or if it's just simply the accessibility of |
0:46.1 | pornography is just pervasive and of course the enemy continues to place this |
0:51.8 | in front of young people, older individuals, and it's just |
0:56.9 | so accessible and it's being thrown at us. You'll be looking at a website |
1:01.8 | and things will just come up and so it really is |
1:04.6 | important to really evaluate where am I spending my time what websites am I |
1:11.6 | accessing just being very careful and very intentional what websites am I accessing? |
1:12.7 | Just being very careful and very intentional |
1:14.9 | about if I'm putting myself in harm's way. |
1:17.9 | It's good to have an accountability partner |
1:19.6 | and to have prayer support. |
1:20.8 | Absolutely. |
1:21.5 | Let's go ahead now and turn to a conversation that Jim Daly had with Mark and Rosie McKinney |
1:26.6 | as they continue to share their story and address how prevalent this issue is. |
1:30.9 | Rosie, let me turn to you. |
1:32.4 | You have some heartbreaking statistics about the scope of the |
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