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July 1, 2020 By Noah Filipiak Leave a Comment

Strength Is Found in Numbers: Pastor Noah’s Freedom Story (Part 3 of 3)

I was hooked on porn as a Bible college student.

I fell back into it in the first years of my marriage.

I wanted to flee marriage and pursue a life of promiscuity.

As I clung to God through failure, his grace carried me through. He took me into paths of freedom. I had a story to share and I began sharing it…

…But here’s the thing: no matter how much freedom you experience in your sexual purity, Satan will never stop attacking you with temptation. When one type of temptation doesn’t work anymore, he just morphs and shifts to another. With the greatest temptation of all being that you no longer need to share your temptations and struggles with others.

May 7, 2020 By Noah Filipiak 2 Comments

I Treated Sex Like a Vending Machine: Pastor Noah’s Story (Part 2)

When I got married on June 19, 2004, I thought my sexual purity problems were in the rearview mirror for good.

I had been porn-free for over two years, was leading sexual purity small groups, and had regular accountability. I was also reading Christian sexual purity books that told me if I starved my eyes from lustful looks and images, there would be a “sexual payoff” in my marriage. My wife and I were both virgins when we got married, and I was ready for this payoff.

February 17, 2020 By Noah Filipiak Leave a Comment

Ep. 26, Interview with Nick Stumbo: Going from a pastor looking at porn to Director of Pure Desire Ministries, helping others find freedom

Listen below or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Nick and Noah talk through the desire that is underneath the desire to look at pornography, and how the only real way to find freedom is to have that desire met in legitimate ways. Listen in to find out what those legitimate ways are and how you can get […]

January 9, 2020 By Noah Filipiak 2 Comments

Yes, You Can Relearn how to View Women as People Rather than Objects to be Consumed

It sounds kind of bad when you put it that way, doesn’t it?

Our culture has adopted lust, casual sex, and pornography as normal and expected behavior, as if there are no consequences attached. Meanwhile, each of us deals with the litany of consequences that these behaviors bring with them, both internally and affecting our society at large.

December 16, 2019 By Noah Filipiak Leave a Comment

Podcast ep. 22: Trying to fill the hole inside of us & what to do with our brokenness

Episode 22 dives into all the many ways we try to feel whole, valuable, accepted, and loved. Noah leads the way with opening up about some current struggles he is dealing with. This leads to a conversation about what to do with our brokenness and the amazing way God’s love can be experienced in the midst of not knowing how to fix ourselves.

October 21, 2019 By Noah Filipiak Leave a Comment

The Lies of Lust: Stolen Humanity

“My dad told me it’s okay to look, as long as you don’t touch,” a large, well-past-puberty 8th grader once told me with a smile.

This boy’s father passed on to him the idea that objectification doesn’t hurt anyone. This is a lie. It’s a lie the father had bought into and has now passed on to his son. It’s a lie from culture that many of us have bought into as well.

One could argue that it’s better to look and not touch than it is to give unwanted touches, which is obviously true. This is probably what this father was trying to teach his son. But the fact that unwanted touches bring great harm does not mean that “looking without touching” is a victimless crime, as this dad had led his son to believe.

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