Pastors

Eyes of Integrity: The Porn Pandemic and How It Affects YouChapter 7 - A Safe Work Place"Brazen Use"Porn use at work is now so widespread that just about every company has a monitoring system in place. According to a 2008 Nielsen online study, 25 percent of employees with internet connections use them to visit porn sites, which is up 23 percent... More...

Maybe it's how the past week has gone; perhaps it's just something on my mind - whatever it is, it is rife with discontent on what I see pastors struggling with and how I see them approaching life. I know this message is not for all pastors out there, but there are several who can stand to read this. First off, let me just say this: Confronting... More...

Eyes of Integrity: The Porn Pandemic and How It Affects YouChapter 2 - Pornified Church - How Christians Have Failed to EscapeHonorable Men"The Neglected Elephant in the Evangelical Room"Just before the summer of 2006, everything was going Ted Haggard’s way. He was the lead pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as... More...

There is a ton of stuff out there about pastors and accountability. Books. Magazines. Blogs (like this one). With so much out there, how are you to know what to do? How do you go about doing it? Too much information bogs down the thought process. There's an adage out of North Point Church, "Speak Less For More". This means simplifying the process,... More...

Pure Eyes: A Men's Guide to Sexual IntegrityChapter 4 - It’s Not What You Think; Defining Normal Sexuality"What The Bible Says"(Gen. 38:9), Lot and his daughters (Gen. 19:30–38), David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11), the Corinthians, and others. From these stories, and the Levitical law, we could develop our own version of what is right... More...

I encounter this question all the time, whether or not pornography use amounts to "adultery" that gives a spouse grounds to pursue divorce. In fact I was talking to a pastor this week who struggled with porn and his wife (who recently discovered it) is ready to leave him because she is convinced that his elicit consumption of Internet porn is... More...

You ever have that type of day when everything you hear somehow relates to what you’re feeling inside?  Even the lame song at the grocery store somehow has a line that pops out at you and makes you think, “Ok, I get it!!!”  The problem with me is I tend to be a little dense at times and it takes a lot to get me to... More...

Dirty, filthy hands. You have them when you are dealing with the issue on your own. You have them when you are dealing with the issue with other people. But let's focus on those who are unwilling to get dirty. The problems are going to continue to steamroll and the pyramid of filth will continue to grow unless someone is willing to tackle the mess... More...

For some time now I have seen a pattern, not only lived out here on xxxchurch, but in life as well. That for some reason, many reasons, pastors aren't talking porn. They aren't speaking about addiction. They have turned their monitors off and yet the computer is still running. I guess the elephant is still in the pew; perhaps it's in the pastor's... More...

What takes up your time? Where does your mind go when you have down time? What do you spend time pondering? What do you focus on?I believe we need to guard what we put into our heads because it determines what we focus on when we have down time. If I spend all day focusing on things that bring me down or put negative images into my head, then when... More...