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Struggles with pornography and unwanted sexual behavior are patterns that can be difficult to break and it feels impossible by yourself.  We want to help.  Below you will find resources that have proven helpful to many.  For more information, or if you need help for yourself or someone you know, send an email to flee@emmanuel.church. This email is completely confidential and monitored/read by only a select few with the experience to help you take the next step. If you have questions, need resources, or just want to connect with someone who can help, this is a great place to start. You will receive a response within 24 hours.

Pure Desire Ministries

Pure Desire exists to create a safe place for men, women, and young adults to find hope and healing from the effects of sexual brokenness. 

Pure Desire is the standard bearer for ministry to heal sexual brokenness.   Their resources include a great podcast, books, online recovery groups, individual and couples counseling, group curricula, video series, and more. 

Website: PureDesire.org

Category: Ministry

Audience: Men & Women struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors or betrayal trauma

Quest 180°

At Quest 180° we celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the 12 Steps and their Biblical comparisons. By working and applying the Biblical principles, personal, and spiritual growth begins to happen, and freedom from addiction becomes possible. This freedom creates hope, peace, serenity, joy, and, most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others. Come check out this opportunity for life change. Quest 180° is open to anyone in recovery from any type of addiction and for the people who love them.

Quest 180° meets at many Eaglebrook campuses on different nights of the week.  

Website: Quest180

Category: Weekly Sexual Integrity group

Audience: Men

Faithful & True

Located right in our backyard in Eden Prairie, Faithful & True was founded by Mark & Debbie Laaser, pioneers in the area of sexual addiction and trauma counseling. One of the nation’s best resources, Faithful & True is a sexual brokenness and trauma counseling ministry, well known both globally & locally as a pioneer in this area. 

They offer one-on-one and couples counseling by professionals specializing in this field, along with group counseling and a 3-day weekend intensive to jumpstart men’s recovery.

Website: faithfulandtrue.com/

Category: Counseling Ministry

Audience: Men and their wives struggling with porn and unwanted sexual behavior in their marriage

SheRecovery.com

SheRecovery.com provides unique recovery resources to women and teen girls struggling  pornography and other unwanted sexual behaviors. These resources include daily virtual meetings, online community, recovery intensives, and special events. Formerly Dirty Girls Ministries founded by Crystal Renaud Day in February of 2009, SheRecovery has been streamlined into a place where women can find fellowship and support from other women all across the world. SheRecovery is now a division of Crystal’s counseling organization, Living on Purpose. At Living on Purpose, Crystal and her team offer counseling, coaching, and spiritual care services to women, teen girls, and the occasional couple facing an assortment of life events and circumstances (not just addiction).

Website: SheRecovery.com

Category: Ministry

Audience: Porn addiction support for women

The Samson Society

The Samson Society is a fellowship of Christian men who are serious about authenticity, community, humility, and recovery. 

The mission of Samson House is to provide a safe place, physical or virtual, for Christian men to bring their real selves and say the real truth about the things they’ve kept hidden. It’s a space of grace on the addiction battlefield, where men can be transparent without judgment or shame. It’s a storehouse of resources, an oasis of acceptance, and a network of “no bull” brotherhood. We recognize we’re in a battle for sexual sanity, authentic relationships, and an end to destructive hidden habits. We refuse to let the casualties of this battle be our marriages, our children, and our grandchildren.

Website: www.samsonsociety.com

Category: Ministry/Support groups

Audience: Men wanting community support

Fight For Love Ministries

Fight For Love Ministries brings hope and truth to women battling porn in their relationships.

Without the right tools and the right information, couples normally flounder for years, until pain and sheer desperation drive them to seek help. But this does not have to be your story. You don’t have to wait until you or your marriage are in crisis to take action.

By availing yourself of these resources, community, and recommended avenues of help, you can take biblically-based, proactive action to take back your marriage from porn. And by doing so, whether your husband decides to get into recovery or not, your own life and the lives of your children will drastically improve.

Website: www.fightforloveministries.org

Category: Ministry

Audience: Women battling porn in their marriage

The Game Plan

Drawing from seventeen years of counseling practice, and using material that he’s taught for more than ten years, Joe Dallas is equipping those who have been caught up in pornography or other forms of sexual sin with the ability to abandon that behavior and never return. Using the acronym ROUTE—Repentance, Order, Understanding, Training, and Endurance—Dallas walks readers through the steps necessary to attain and maintain sexual integrity.

Website: The Game Plan

Category: Book

Audience: Men pursuing sexual integrity

Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation. Speaking from his own experience with sexual addiction and recovery, Dr. Mark Laaser is sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness. He traces the roots of the problem, discusses its patterns and impact, and maps out a Biblical approach to self-control and sexual integrity. Whether you know someone with a sexual addiction or struggle yourself, Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction points the way to understanding, wholeness, and holiness.

website: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

Category: Book

Audience: All

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research—and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction—this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the consequences of sexual addiction and dependency. With practical wisdom and spiritual clarity, it points the way out of the shadows of sexual compulsion and back into the light and fullness of life.

Website: Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

Category: Book

Audience: All

Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing is a ground-breaking resource that explores the “why” behind self-destructive sexual choices. Jay Stringer’s (M.Div, MA, LMHC) original research found that when we pay attention to our unwanted sexual desires and identify the unique reasons that trigger them, the path of healing is revealed.

Although many of us feel ashamed and unwanted after years of sexual brokenness, Unwanted invites us to see that behavior as the very location God can most powerfully work in our lives.

Website: Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

Category: Book

Audience: All

The Healing Church: What the church gets wrong about pornography

Millions struggle in secret while misunderstanding porn’s impact on Christians and the Church. In The Healing Church, ministry leaders will discover how to create safe spaces and apply processes that restore those trapped in compulsive behaviors with pornography. Be the beacon of hope that cuts through the fog and leads people through a grace-filled process to the foot of the cross where strongholds are crushed! 

Name & Link: The Healing Church: What the church gets wrong about pornography

Category: Book

Audience: Ministry leaders or anyone

Pure Desire Podcast

A weekly podcast from Pure Desire Ministries helping you take back your life from the effects of unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma.

Website: PureDesire Podcast (Apple) (Spotify)

Category: Podcast

Audience: Men and women struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors or betrayal trauma

The Faithful & True Podcast

The Men of Valor Program is now The Faithful & True Podcast hosted by Dr. Greg Miller, Director of the Men’s Journey Workshops at Faithful & True, and co-host, Randy Evert. This podcast is dedicated to helping men who are struggling with pornography and sexual purity issues and their wives who are struggling with betrayal.

Website: Faithful & True Podcast (Apple) (Spotify)

Category: Podcast

Audience: Men and women struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors or betrayal trauma

Fight for Love Podcast

Join LifeWay author and founder of Fight For Love Ministries, Rosie Makinney, as she tackles everything you need to know about helping your porn-addicted spouse. By introducing you to the best resources and experts available, this honest and upbeat panel discussion will educate and motivate you to take proactive action to take back your marriage from porn.

Name & Link: Fight for Love (Apple) (Spotify)

Category: Podcast

Audience: Women battling porn in their relationships

Pure Sex Radio Podcast

Pure Sex Radio tackles the tough subjects of porn, lust, sexual brokenness, and practical principles for living every day in sexual integrity. Pure Sex Radio seeks to help men, women, and families move from sexual brokenness to wholeness in Christ and equip others to do the same.

Name & Link: Pure Sex Radio (Apple) (Spotify)

Category: Podcast

Audience: Men and women 

Betrayal Recovery Radio Podcast

Betrayal is traumatic, and those who have been betrayed by partners living secret lives of sexual addiction deserve to be empowered and supported with knowledge and resources to allow them to move from shock through grief and into growth. On Betrayal Recovery Radio, our host, Dr. Jake Porter, lays out important topics for both sex addicts and their betrayed partners through conversations leading to hope and healing.

Betrayal Recovery Radio is the official podcast of The Association of Partners of Sex Addict Trauma Specialists (apsats.org). Dr. Jake Porter can be reached at drjakeporter.com.

Website: Betrayal Recovery Radio (Apple) (Spotify)

Category: Podcast

Audience: Partners of those struggling with unwanted sexual behaviors 

Covenant Eyes

Covenant Eyes software and apps help you and the ones you love live porn-free through transformative accountability relationships. The Covenant Eyes app allows you freedom through transparency. It sits quietly on all of your devices, monitors your screen activity, and provides protection through blocking pornographic content.

Name & Link:  Covenant Eyes

Category: Accountability Software

Audience: All

Ever Accountable

Ever Accountable is scientifically-backed software that helps the whole family avoid porn and other dangers on the internet with the power of accountability.

In addition to pornography, cyberbullying, sexting, and unsolicited, inappropriate direct messages are dangerous. Oftentimes loved ones do not know how to open up a conversation about this stuff because of shame, embarrassment, or fear. With Ever Accountable, parents can protect their family’s online activity through reporting that does several things:

  • Intercepts potential dangers quickly
  • Invites dialogue between kids and their parents or caretaker
  • Teaches responsible online behavior through the meaningful conversations that can come from weekly reporting
  • Encourages healthy digital parenting practices

Website: www.everaccountable.com

Category: Accountability Software

Audience: All

Fight the New Drug

Fight the New Drug (FTND) is a non-religious and non-legislative nonprofit that exists to provide individuals the opportunity to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on its harmful effects using only science, facts, and personal accounts. They aim to decrease the demand for sexual exploitation through education while helping individuals live empowered lives free from the harmful effects of pornography.

Website: Fight The New Drug

Category: Research & Resources

Audience: Anyone wanting info & data about the reach and effects of porn

Josh McDowell

The Porn Epidemic Portfolio is documented research compiled by Josh D. McDowell on the impact internet pornography has on society, and will help you be more prepared to support those around you into healing.

Website: Josh McDowell: The Porn Epidemic

Category: Research & Resources

Audience: Anyone wanting information and data about the reach and effects of porn

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