Discipleship Toolbox
Filtering By Tag: Addictions/Life Dominating Sins
Documents
The Cycle of Captivity
Describes the cycle of captivity and enslavement to sin and how to be free from enslavement to sin through the gospel.
Documents
Study Guide for Finally Free
To use with Finally Free by Heath Lambert. Study guide with questions to discuss as you help someone overcome lust, pornography or any other sin using Lambert’s book.
Articles
Letter to an Alcoholic
Helpful article for anyone helping an alcoholic or someone who deals with the life dominating sin of drunkenness. Explains the process of becoming enslaved/addicted to alcohol.
Articles
Is “Addiction” Rooted in a Disease, Demon, or Decision?
Shaw helps us to see the source of “addiction” or life dominating sin according to the Bible. He shows that alcoholism or drug addiction or porn addiction are rooted in decisions to worship idols.
Documents
Addiction
Describes what addiction is through studying Bible passages. Identifies the root of addiction action steps to take to repent of life dominating sin.
Documents
Addiction Evaluation
Great inventory of questions to help understand and evaluate addiction/life dominating sin. Helpful for the alcoholic or drug addict or porn addict or anyone enslaved in sin to understand their sin.
Books
The Liberating Truth of Romans 6: Breaking Free From Sinful Habits, Thoughts, and Tendencies
Booklet giving help in overcoming sinful habits, thoughts, and tendencies that are hindering their walk with God, hurting their closest relationships, and undermining their peace and joy in Christ.
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Killing Sin Habits: Conquering Sin With Radical Faith
Demonstrates how God through the work of the Holy Spirit and radical faith can help you conquer sin in your life. Unpacks John Owen’s work “Mortifying Sin”. Life Dominating sins, addicts, porn,alcohol
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Divine Intervention: Hope and Help for Families of Addicts
He demonstrates that it is the addict's self-centered, sinful thoughts that cause addicts to commit harmful acts towards others and themselves. Gives practical help and hope to families of addicts.
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Help! I’m Addicted
Helpful questions and teaching about addictions, life dominating sins and how to overcome them through faith in Christ. Alcoholics, drug addicts, pornography users, etc…
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Passions of the Heart: Biblical Counsel for Stubborn Sexual Sins
Takes a hard look at the passions of the heart: the underlying idolatries that lead Christians to commit egregious sexual sins. Helpful for understanding and overcoming pornography, lust, impurity.
Books
Addictions - A Banquet in the Grave: Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel
The addict must face the fact that what and who he worships will control his life and that true freedom can only come through the cross. Life dominating sins, addictions, alcoholics, drug addicts,porn
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The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective
makes the distinction between a "disease" and what Scripture demonstrates is a life-dominating sin nature problem. Gives biblical tools to help you examine heart's motives at the root of addiction.
Documents
The Enabler’s Inventory
Inventory of questions to answer to help someone understand the ways they might be enabling an addict or someone enslaved to life dominating sins.
Articles
Counseling An Addict's Enabler
Counseling for the person who might be enabling an addict. How do you know if you are enabling someone else to continue in their life dominating sin?
Documents
Battle Plan for Killing Sin
Battle plan for killing sins document. Helpful for those dealing with life dominating sins. Helpful for any discipleship and training someone to fight sin.
Podcasts
Thinking and Theology
Helpful podcast on the importance of taking your thoughts captive. Helpful for counseling pornography addiction, lust, wrong thinking in general, and other kinds of sinful thinking.
Web Pages
Ever Accountable
This is an accountability software that we recommend for helping people fight lust and pornography enslavement/addiction.
Web Pages
Affairs of the Mind - Help for those struggling in their thought life
This is a link to Debi Pryde’s page with lots of resources. We are recommending in particular the article on “affairs of the mind” for helping women with purity, lust, and learning how to fight sin.
Articles
Helping Women Who Struggle With Pornography
Article helping women who struggle with pornography, lust, purity.
Books
Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace
A shorter, very helpful tool that explains 8 strategies for using the means of grace that God has given us to fight lust; has an accompanying study guide; purity, marriage, singleness, pornography
Books
Passions of the Heart: Biblical Counsel for Stubborn Sexual Sins
Very robust treatment of the heart issues and practical strategies related to fighting lust – includes study questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. Discipleship, lust, purity, porn
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