The Covenant Eyes Podcast

Noah Filipiak is the founding pastor of Mosaic Church in urban Grand Rapids, MI. He is the co-founder of New Humanity, a multi-ethnic church planting network focused on urban community development. He is the author of Beyond the Battle: A man’s guide to his identity in Christ in an oversexualized world is the host of The Flip Side Podcast, blogs at noahfilipiak.com, and is on the Covenant Eyes blogging team. Noah is a graduate of Cornerstone University and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He and his wife Jen have three daughters. He is on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @noahfilipiak.Men can join a 7-week online group with Noah to experience how to overcome pornography, lust, and fantasy. After the 7 weeks, alumni get to join a weekly accountability Zoom session with Noah. Sign up at www.beyondthebattle.net.  Beyond the Battle: A man’s guide Send us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Greg Miller and review his findings from research his team conducted on men who use pornography.  We also discuss his organization, Faithful and True, and how they have helpful programs for men and their spouses. Learn more about Faithful and True here: https://faithfulandtrue.com/Greg Miller, with his wife Beth, started Thrive Resources in 2011 working with individuals and couples who are struggling with various forms of coping and addiction and are wanting spiritual guidance.  Greg has served as the Director of the Men’s Journey Workshops with Faithful and True in Eden Prairie, MN since 2009.Greg received his Master of Divinity Degree from Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY and his Doctor of Ministry Degree from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.Greg has served on a church staff in North Carolina and Illinois.  Greg and Beth have been married for 30 years and currently live in Chicago, IL.  They have 2 sons – Jacob and Caleb.  Beth and Greg also have Lucy, a rescue dog.Send us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

Episode SummaryToday’s guest on the Covenant Eyes Podcast is Frank Rich is a former bodybuilder, entrepreneur, certified men's health & addiction coach, and host of The Super Human Life podcast. After living with and battling addiction, depression, and anxiety for almost 20 years, he is now on a mission to help men take back control of their lives through the power of faith and fitness.Show notes:Pornography is affecting close to 70% of Christian men and according to new Barna Research, 34% of practicing Christians are struggling with anxiety and depression. 33% are struggling with loneliness. Studies have been correlations on people who struggle with pornography and depression, loneliness. Knowing these facts, it is important the Church find ways to meet people where they are to help them overcome.  In today's episode, we are going to talk about how we can support our Christian men in addressing the elephant in the room. Join our in-house experts at Covenant Eyes, Karen Potter, Director of Church Outreach, and Sam Black, Director of Recovery Programs for an exciting show.Key questions we will discuss in this episode:After deciding to quit porn for good, what are the only 2 reasons someone would relapse?What role does our nutrition & the foods we eat play in our porn addiction recovery?How can someone develop the self-confidence to live a life free of pornography?Free Resources:The 7 Step Guide To Living Life Without Porn (free book) - www.thesevenstepguide.comTry Covenant Eyes free for 30 days Use promo code SUPERHUMAN in checkout on our website: www.Covenanteyes.comSend us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

Episode SummaryToday’s guest on the Covenant Eyes Podcast is Jonathan Daugherty, founder and president of Be Broken Ministries and founder of the Gateway to Freedom workshop for men. After living a divided life of sexual sin for many years, God called Jonathan into ministry, using his brokenness as a path to help men and women find freedom in their brokenness and discover the power and grace of God in their lives.Show notes:Most churches don’t have an invitational spirit when it comes to opening up about pornography and brokenness, which leaves many Christians at a loss with how to get the help they need. In today’s episode, host Sam Black, Director of Recovery Programs at Covenant Eyes, and Jonathan Daugherty of Be Broken Ministries talk about how, despite there being no formula or magic pill for instant deliverance from sexual sin, there is help available to begin the journey to healing.Key topics covered in this episode:Online courses and a powerful workshop for finding true freedomHow wounds of the past contribute to our struggle with brokennessWhat churches can do to create safe spaces for those struggling with sexual sinLinks Blog: The Christian Response to Moral Failure in Church LeadersBook: Grace-Based RecoverySILS: SexualIntegrityLeaders.comSocial MediaFacebook.com/bebrokenministriesSend us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

Questions to be addressed in this powerful conversation with Pastor Don Galardi are:1) Why is technology and pornography a danger for churches? 2) Why is accountability for this concern so important?3) How would a pastor begin to preach on this topic?4) How did you become involved in this fight?Join Josh and Rob from Covenant Eyes as they talk with Pastor Galardi about this powerful topic. Send us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

Brandon and Tonia Clark have been married for 7 years. They have one beautiful daughter, whom God blessed them with after six years of infertility. They live on a small hobby farm in MN, where there is plenty of work, play, and, most importantly, love to go around each day.  Brandon and Tonia come to us today as an ordinary couple who went through years of marital struggles while Brandon used, and eventually recovered from, pornography. This journey came full circle when Brandon joined the Covenant Eyes team as a Parish Outreach Specialist a couple of years ago.  With real-life experience and practical insights from their journey through the dark road of pornography use in marriage, Brandon and Tonia seek to help couples come together to talk through pornography's impact and the road to recovery in a new Covenant Eyes resource called Restored Vows.Check out this new resource today!Try Covenant Eyes Free for 30 days with promo code FREEPODCASTSend us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

In this episode, we talk with Nate Larkin about his story of recovery and how his porn use impacted his family and his calling as a Pastor. We dive into the blast radius of porn use, the consequences of porn use, and much more. Nate addresses the pressing questions of:What were some of the consequences experienced by you and your family during your years of active addiction?Is there a difference between abstinence and victory?  What benefits have you gained from engaging openly with the issue of porn?Try Covenant Eyes free for 30 days!Visit www.Covenanteyes.com and enter promo code FreePodcast in checkout for your free trial. Check out the Samson Society here: https://samsonsociety.com/ Send us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

The body is not only biological. The body is theological. As the Apostle Paul tells us, our creation as male and female and the call of the two to become “one flesh” reveals “a great mystery” – it reveals the eternal plan of the Father for his Son to have a bride, the church. This is precisely why the enemy attacks right here: his goal is to blind us to the “great mystery” revealed through our sexuality. The good news of the Gospel is that Christ came into the world to give sight to the blind and to redeem us bodily. This brief reflection by Dr. Christopher West will help us open our eyes to the covenant mystery revealed by God through the beauty of human sexuality.Try Covenant Eyes FREE for 30 days by visiting www.CovenantEyes.com and using promo code: FREEPODCAST at checkout. Learn more about Christopher West here: https://tobinstitute.org/Send us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

Today’s guest on the Covenant Eyes Podcast is Darlene Larson, Certified Life Purpose Coach and founder of Hearts with a Purpose. For over a quarter of a century, Darlene survived an emotionally abusive marriage, mining the Word of God daily to find the strength she needed to continue. Her journey has led her to author the 31-day devotional series: “Enable Me, Lord, to Shift: Are you stuck in idle? Learn how to shift into Truth and live!” She comes to us celebrating her 14th year of coaching women around the world in focusing on Truth and discovering their life purpose.Show notes:In today’s episode, we visit with Darlene Larson, Certified Life Purpose Coach and founder of Hearts with a Purpose. Darlene will be talking about the deadly combination of porn and abuse, how that combination played out for 25 years in her life, and how God opened the door for her to help women facing similar circumstances.Key topics covered in this episode:Pornography’s extensive blast radiusWorking through the difficulty in discerning who is telling the truthThe importance of self-care when battling pain, hurt, and angerMore Information:To contact Darlene to speak at your church and/or to train your church leaders on how to deal with toxic people, send an email to: Darlene@Heartswithapurpose.comTo receive a free PDF of her first devotional book, visit: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/kS1Du3GIf you wonder, “Am I stuck in abuse?”, take the quiz on her website at: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/oDeSiXl  www.Heartswithapurpose.comhttps://www.facebook.com/darlene.terrelllarson/https://www.facebook.com/LifeCoachDarleneLarsonhttps://www.pinterest.com/darlenealarson/_created/https://www.instagram.com/heartswithapurpose/Send us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved

Parents today are the first generation to raise kids in a digitally connected, porn-saturated world. Porn can be accessed in locker rooms, cafeterias, classrooms, and bedrooms—anywhere kids have access to digital devices. Worse yet, pornography that was once considered fringe has become increasingly mainstream. All this is misshaping children’s understanding of sexuality, stunting their capacity to process emotions, and crippling their ability to form long-term relationships. In this presentation, Daniel Weiss and Joshua Glaser will outline the themes of the book and share 3 Big Takeaways that can help parents and churches reframe the issue of talking about porn and sex away from what not to do toward living into the goodness for which God created us. They will also explore how churches can develop a missional outreach to area parents and strengthen their congregation in the process.Check out their book here: Treading BoldlySend us your feedback!Try Covenant Eyes for FREE today!Use Promo Code: FreePodcast © 2024 Covenant Eyes, All Rights Reserved