Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I'm really excited to have Tim Challies with me on today's episode.

He is a Christian and a husband to A. Lean and a father of three children aged 12 to 18.

He worships and serves as a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto,

Ontario, where he primarily gives attention to mentoring and discipleship. He is a

a book reviewer for World Magazine, co-founder of Cruciform press

and has written three books including the Discipline of Spiritual

Discernment.

The Next Story, Visual The The next story, Visual Theology,

Do More Better, and the newest a Visual Theology Guide to the Bible.

He writes daily at W. W.

dot chalies.com and that is C H A L L L L I E S.

Welcome Tim.

So I contacted Tim after I read one of his blog posts at chalies.com and it was entitled

Eight Sins You Commit whenever you look at porn and I was so impressed with this I just

wanted him to come on the podcast to talk about how he came up with this article and

some of the concepts that he teaches in the article so one of the reasons why I was extremely impressed with the article

is that it said that men who use pornography

are participating in sexual assault, which I couldn't agree with more.

Can you tell me why you came to that conclusion, Tim?

Sure. A little bit of background is many years ago now I had been talking to young men

and starting to realize that as they were looking forward to life,

they were looking forward to meeting somebody and marrying and settling into life.

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