After his family introduced him to porn at age nine, Scott Smith eventually found his sex addiction sending him to Cell Block 7 of the Jackson State Prison with a life sentence. Intriguingly, this is where God got ahold of him quickly—so quickly that he was released from his life sentence in two years. I…
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Scott Smith’s, “Killing a Sex Demon”
A little over two years ago I released my first audiobook. It’s kind of a bizarre story. I had made a narrator account on ACX and was then reached out to by a guy from Texas who had listened to my samples and was wondering if I could narrate his book. It was a…
Sexual Temptation
Not only did Jesus beat temptation in the desert, but he beat it in every single way. That is not to say that temptation was easy for Jesus—just that he succeeded in beating the urge to sin. This should speak volumes to us, because often we think that God couldn’t understand our temptations and addictions,…
Be Fruitful and Multiply
God’s command to “Be Fruitful and Multiply” is often used by pastors to talk about the goodness of marital sex (which is all well and good), but this ignores the mission at play in the command. As it ends up, there’s a real reason for this command based on the fact that we are imagers…
Paul’s Comments on Women
Much of modern misogyny in the church can be attributed to Paul’s comments on women in the Bible. But is misogyny really what Paul intended to communicate? In today’s podcast, I take a look at Paul’s comments in 1 Corinthians 11 and sort out what’s at the heart of his message. As it ends up,…
