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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Finding Healing from Sexual Brokenness

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Pornography is a dangerous trap that sadly many people are caught in today. But instead of keeping it a secret, it must be brought into the light. John, Erin and Greg discuss how having trustworthy friends around you can help save your marriage from pornography. Featuring David and Kirsten Samuel.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.2

today.

0:35.6

There are statistics that suggest that many many people in the church are

0:41.0

struggling with the secret addiction to pornography. That's a sobering reality

0:46.3

for all who claim the name of Christ and something that will harm your marriage

0:51.7

if you don't deal with it. I'm John Foller along with the couple who lead our

0:57.6

marriage department Aaron and Greg Smolley and Dave and Kirsten Samuel our

1:02.2

former colleagues they used to work here at Focus many years ago and they had

1:06.0

this issue in their relationship. In a previous episode Dave shared about the

1:10.9

time that he confessed his addiction to pornography to Kirsten and here they

1:16.5

are now with Jim Daley. The moment again Kirsten were you feeling that

1:21.8

forgiveness or you were you were in that angry mode. Oh I was I was totally I was

1:26.6

I was in shock and then I was angry and I went between shock and anger and

1:33.4

and you know in feeling like I don't who is this guy. This is not who I thought I

1:38.1

married. Right and I I think I just wanted to explore that a little because of

1:42.0

the spouse that this may have happened to or it will happen to. It's completely

1:46.8

natural. It's normal to feel those things and they shouldn't feel guilty for

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