Articles for tag: Internet Pornography

January 1, 2015

Christian Standard

Faithful and True

By Mark R. Laaser If you were Satan and wanted to bring down the church””all churches and all denominations””what would you do? Attack leadership, of course. Thanks to the Internet, Satan now has that technology, and he is using it. I call addiction to Internet pornography among pastors the tsunami that is threatening to engulf the church. I am an ordained pastor who struggled with sexual addiction, and by the grace of God, found freedom in March 1987 when I went to an inpatient treatment program. Thanks to the intervention of the Holy Spirit and the best clinical resources available at

November 24, 2012

Christian Standard

Sticky Conversations: Pornography in Ministry

THIS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF FIVE “STICKY CONVERSATIONS”   By Steve Larson We want to believe this is someone else”s problem. We want to believe that ministry professionals are above entanglement in this sin. But statistics tell us, and my experience affirms this: pornography is present even in the church, but those enmeshed in it can be helped. A little over 15 years ago, I left the marketplace in Michigan and planted a church in Cary, North Carolina. Crosspointe Church began in the fall of 1997. Having been involved in a family business for a number of years,

April 13, 2008

Christian Standard

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Little Things Mean a Lot

By LeRoy Lawson In his book Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow”s Big Changes (Twelve, 2007), Mark Penn argues that if you”re serious about trying to figure out where in the world we”re going, you have to look at the little things. Specifically, you need to check out 75 trends still too small to capture the headlines but big enough to reach the front page before long. I can”t list all of them here, but let me give you some samples. But before I do, here”s a pretty good motive for paying attention. “If Islamic terrorists were to convince even

November 11, 2007

Christian Standard

Three Stories, One Problem

By Darrel Rowland The student minister starts his car, already planning how he will unbuckle his seat belt, zoom onto a nearby causeway, and veer over the guardrail into the lake . . . The senior minister silently envies the ailing neighbor he”s visiting, wishing he could trade places with the terminal cancer patient . . . The church leader, alone one night in his small apartment, pulls out a steak knife and stares at his wrists . . . CHRISTIAN STANDARD”s editors asked for an article on sexual misdeeds by church leaders and ministers. So why are we talking

August 14, 2005

Christian Standard

You Are Not Your Own

By C. Robert Wetzel Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20). The Vernon Newland family spent the duration of World War II in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines. They had planned to serve in China when the war broke out. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines in 1942 they, along with many foreign nationals, were interred in cruel and miserable conditions. Many people did not survive

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