Truly Being Free from Porn
Focus on Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
An addiction to porn creates a cycle of shame. Mark Makinney shares with Jim Daly about how he struggled with porn for decades. His wife Rosie then brings up an ultimatum she gave Mark that inspired him to quit pornography. Also, John and the Smalley's will share why wives don't need to blame themselves if their husband is struggling with lust
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 25 years, Monica suffered from an addiction to drugs and alcohol, |
| 0:06.1 | fueled in part by her painful and shameful past. |
| 0:10.3 | The thought would come to my mind that I had had these abortions. |
| 0:15.0 | I would not want to think about it because the pain was just too real. |
| 0:19.9 | Thankfully, God healed Monica's heart, and today, she supports focus on the family's |
| 0:25.2 | pro-life ministry. |
| 0:26.7 | I want to support a ministry that can help change the trajectory of people's life that are |
| 0:32.7 | contemplating abortion. |
| 0:34.6 | I can't go back in time and change my life and change my decisions, but I can support a |
| 0:40.9 | ministry that can help positively change someone else's. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies and give |
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| 1:02.7 | Well, it's an ongoing struggle. It is not an easy one-time win. |
| 1:16.2 | Pornography. It gets a hold of you and so many people make the mistake of saying, I'm just never going to do this. And then a relapse occurs. |
| 1:21.8 | And it's sort of like, well, I'm down the rabbit hole and I might as well just go all in. And who |
| 1:25.1 | cares? This is a tough area of life. It affects you. It affects |
| 1:29.4 | your spouse, your kids. And we want to help here at Focus on the Family. We want to be of service to you |
| 1:34.9 | in breaking free. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron, who head up our |
| 1:40.9 | marriage team. Greg, this is something we have to talk about. It's so |
| 1:44.8 | pervasive. Wishful thinking and then, you know, once and done, repentance isn't really going to |
| 1:50.4 | help me break free from something as strong as pornography, is it? Yeah, it's really thinking |
| 1:57.8 | through, well, what would be the evidence of growth in that area, of healing in that area? |
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