Stephen Arterburn’s Every Man’s Battle and the Life Recovery Bible have helped countless people struggling with sexual integrity. In this course, he addresses not only basic issues of dealing with sexual temptation, but goes beyond to examine the challenging topic of sexual addiction and the problem of anger. You’ll better understand both the roots of lust and how to battle against it.
“The fact is, that whoever we are as dating men, we’re going to be that after we’re married” (source)
“One of the things that can happen in our difference, rather than accept our spouses, we can retreat and we can avoid. When we retreat and avoid, we are much more susceptible to sexual addiction and sexual integrity issues.” (source)
“Temptation is not a sin. So, if I think that it is wrong to lust after a woman, if I am tempted and feel like lusting after a woman, that’s not sin. That’s temptation. The sin comes when I act on it and when I lust after that woman, but what I hope that every man can achieve is congruency, where thinking, feeling, and acting is all the same.” (source)
“‘The demand for pornography, just like demand for drugs, is an addiction that feeds on the notion that there is no value above immediate self-gratification.’” (source)
“Congruency is where what we think and what we feel and how we act is all the same” (source)