Stephen Kuhn's Blog, page 9
April 7, 2017
April 6, 2017
Weekly Web (W)roundup
Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn and sexual addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.
KeyLife | What is Christianity Ultimately About?
“As a pastor, I’ve seen way too many people pass out. They tried. They worked hard. They studied. They served. But it never seemed like enough or they never did it good enough. So, finally, in a fit of honesty and integrity, they threw their hands up in the air and quit. Their performances weren’t good enough, and they knew it.”
Wm. Paul Young | Lie #3: God is in Control
“There is an impassable chasm between a God who takes ownership for Creation along with the havoc we have produced—and One who authors the evil itself. The first you might learn to trust, the latter… twisted lip service at best.”
Gospel Coalition | 5 Christian Clichés that Need to Die
“One-liners aren’t always helpful. Sometimes, in our desire to simplify truth, we can trivialize and even obscure it. And to obscure the truth is to tell a lie.”
Strength to Fight | How to Build a Healthy Accountability Group
“At the centre of a healthy accountability group is vulnerability and truth. Practicing confession to your brothers or sisters is a gift from the Lord. Confession is the refusal to allow sin to dwell in darkness because in darkness it festers and begins to spread and grow. Confession is an act of humbling oneself before God and others.”
Grace Community Fellowship | The Effect Of Brokenness
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April 5, 2017
April 4, 2017
“52 Amazing Things That Became True of You the Moment You Trusted Christ” is finally here!
[image error]Hey friends,
Today is the day! 52 Amazing Things That Became True of You the Moment You Trusted Christ is now available.
Many of you have already pre-ordered it, which means your copy will likely show up today.
If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, you should be able to find it anywhere books are sold.
Either way, if you enjoy it as much as I believe you will, hop over to Amazon and/or Barnes & Noble and leave a review. Getting early reviews can be a huge boost for a book, so thanks in advance for those of you who take the time to do so.
Thanks again friends.
—Stephen
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March 31, 2017
Weekly Web (W)roundup
Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn and sexual addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.
AndSons | What Does “Masculinity” Mean?
“A deep, prevailing experience of disorientation is one of the great afflictions of our age—it cuts the heart—and if we’re going to get a handle on what the hell is going on, we’re going to have spend a little time defining the core elements of our experience, like man, masculinity, success, freedom, virtue, community, so that a few definite objects can hold down our life the way stakes hold down a tent.”
Christianity Today | False Intimacy: A Discussion on Pornography, the Brain, and Our Faith
“There’s a generation coming up, says Struthers, who’ve come of age with the Internet in their homes and have a dependency to pornography—it’s a self-medication. If we use a medical model, the young people today have almost an inoculation to pornography, it’s like a dead sexuality. They get little bits of it and it makes it difficult to enjoy true, embodied sexuality.”
Borrowed Light | Something I Never Noticed in Matthew 7:21-23
“No more hiding. No more distance. No more self-focus. But a heart that actually trusts the Lord. A heart that loves Him so much that you don’t just want to know facts about Him, or be a casual observer, or just know Him but to actually be known by Him.”
The Bible Project | The Book of Job
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March 30, 2017
March 27, 2017
March 24, 2017
Weekly Web (W)roundup
Each week, I round up the best resources, articles, and videos I find that are relevant to finding freedom from porn and sexual addiction. Please note that by posting a link here it does not mean I agree with everything in the linked article. It just means I found it interesting enough to share.
Patheos | Megan Phelps-Roper Talks About How and Why She Left Westboro Baptist Church
“This has been at the front of my mind lately, because I can’t help but see in our public discourse so many of the same destructive impulses that ruled my former church. We celebrate tolerance and diversity more than at any other time in memory, and still we grow more and more divided. We want good things — justice, equality, freedom, dignity, prosperity — but the path we’ve chosen looks so much like the one I walked away from four years ago…”
Wm. Paul Young | Lie #1: God loves us, but doesn’t like us
“Even those who don’t believe that God exists are desperate to know that love does and that love knows who we are. More, we are driven from within to take the risk to ask of someone or Someone, Do you find anything in me that is lovable, that is enough, that is worthy of being loved?”
CovenantEyes | 6 Common Myths Wives of Porn Users Believe
“Porn is about escaping real life and entering into a fantasy world. It’s for numbing out—the exact opposite of what sex is designed to do, which is to be a way to engage intimately with your spouse. Your offering of more opportunity to engage does not satiate his need to numb out.”
9Marks | Singleness, Same-Sex Attraction, and the Church
“On the one hand, we should help our same-sex attracted single friend know that their struggle with sin may feel unique, but it’s not fundamentally different. Each individual we pastor or disciple is an image bearer who experiences the consequence of the Fall: original sin, indwelling sin, and actual sin.”
TrueFace | Two Roads
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March 23, 2017
March 21, 2017
Give it Away, Give it Away, Give it Away Now! (Goodreads Giveaway is now live!)
Why, you might ask, did I just quote the Red Hot Chili Peppers in this post title?
Because we’re giving away a bunch of copies of 52 Amazing Things That Became True of You the Moment You Trusted Christ!
And these aren’t just digital copies, they’re the real thing. Physical, paper-and-ink, drop-on-your-head-as-you-fall-asleep-reading, hardcover books.
All you need to do is fill out the entry form here and you’re entered. It’s that easy.
Good luck!
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