Recovering After Porn In Marriage: A Husband's Story with Matt Cline | Ep. 564
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Recovery after porn is possible. Your mind can heal and you can break the addiction. Today's guest, Matt Cline, is the founder and director of Restored Ministries, which leads men and women out of sexual brokenness and into a life of freedom and impact. Matt has seen countless lives radically changed around the world.Today he talks about his healing process, how God restored his beliefs about sex
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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The God-given purpose of our sex drive - and why that matters
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How do you define the actual difference between "sex" and "making love"?
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Lies porn teaches us about sex and how to replace them with truth
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Specific ways the mind changes after porn recovery
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The process of turning temptation into an opportunity for worship
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
RESOURCES
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Find all of Matt's resources at www.restoredministries.ca
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Restored Ministries is on Instagram @restoredsexuality, Facebook @ Restored Ministries, and the Pure Victory Podcast.
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You don't have to settle for a struggling marriage. The 90 Days to Save Your Marriage plan starts right where your marriage is today and helps get it on the road to healing.
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Click HERE to preorder Dr. Kim's new book, Love, Intimacy and Sex in the Second Half!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Welcome to Us of Marriage Podcast, Matt. Thank you so |
| 0:31.6 | much for joining us today. So good to meet you and to have you on the podcast. And just thanks for |
| 0:36.6 | saying yes. Well, thank you. This is going to the podcast. And just thanks for saying yes. |
| 0:38.2 | Well, thank you. |
| 0:38.9 | This is going to be fun. |
| 0:40.6 | It is going to be fun. |
| 0:42.9 | So we're going to talk about porn today. And so the first thing I want to kind of talk to you about, we know that porn is, use is very prevalent, singles, married, Christian, non-Christian, all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:53.6 | It doesn't seem to be barriers there. And so, |
| 0:57.3 | why is it like that? You know, God made sex to be so powerful, right? And it's powerful with the good |
| 1:05.7 | and the bad. And so the sex drive that we have, there's a reason for it. There's a spiritual reason, a covenantal reason for it that draws men and women together in marriage. |
| 1:17.6 | But we're called to steward that. |
| 1:19.6 | And we're called to have God be our first love. |
| 1:22.0 | And so first Sutherlandians 4, I love it. |
| 1:25.3 | It talks about being sanctified and abstaining from sexual immorality. |
| 1:29.8 | And so if God wants us to be to be sanctified or to seek him above all, we've got to understand |
| 1:37.3 | the power of our sex drive and how that can be in submission to God. And so it's meant to point us to |
| 1:41.4 | God. But therefore, the sex drive is so powerful. And so |
| 1:45.2 | when there's a lack of teaching and lack of understanding around how to, how to steward our sex |
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