Power of Purity | Helping Men to Honor God with their Sexual Gift
Here's the "cycle"... a man watches porn... often in violation of his very own conscience... and then masturbates... and then feels guilty... and then tries to NOT watch porn... and then starts the cycle over by watching porn again. The Power of Purity is for men who are interested in discovering how to control sex instead of being controlled by sex. The Power of Purity is a 100% safe and confidential resource that will help men... FINALLY... experience their sexual gift in a healthier way. Purity IS possible with The Power of Purity! A NEW EPISODE PUBLISHES EVERY TUESDAY
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In this episode Tony shares the story of his recent heart attack.
On a Monday morning Tony began to feel a tightness and uncomfortable feeling in his chest, which then escalated to his throat and jaw. He eventually drove himself to the hospital, and as the day unfolded, it was confirmed that he had a heart attack. This led to a heart catheterization and the plac...
In this episode Tony shares 4 important observations from the resurrection of Christ that inspire great hope in our hearts.
No matter what's going on in our lives or situations, we do not have to be afraid, because of the resurrection.
We can both see and experience God's fingerprints and work in our own hearts and lives, and then, based upon what the Lord has allowed us to "see", we can then "go and tell" others.
Sometimes we're a...
In this episode, which was recorded during Holy Week, Tony shares some reflections from Matthew chapter 21 concerning Palm Sunday.
This was the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, and as he did the people shouted exclamations of praise, adoration, and joy!
"Hosanna to the Son of David!"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Hosanna in the highest!"
Among other key thoughts, Tony focuses on one intriguing o...
Jesus was fully God, and fully human, both at the same time.
Jesus, as a human being, lived in this broken and fallen world.
And in his humanity, Jesus experienced temptation just like us.
Because of this, we have a Savior who understands us.
When Jesus was in the wilderness he fasted for 40 days.
At the end of the fast he was hungry, and the devil came to him to tempt hm.
The devil tempted his to "turn these stones into bread".
Or...
Just like a coin has 2 sides - heads and tails - there are 2 different components that are virutally inseperable, which are sex and relationship.
Or, said another, sex is intended to occur within the context of relaitonship, and this leads to a very important and undeniable reality, which implicates the importance of healthy relaitonship.
Or, said another way, the healthier and more funcitonal the relationship is , the healthier an...
In this weeks short episode Tony reflects on a very interesting scripture found in the Gospel of Matthew.
Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane.
He's very sad and he's struggling because he knows what's about to happen.
He leaves most of the disciples at a particular place in garden, and then takes Peter, James, and John with him a little further into the garden.
As the following scene then unfolds, he asks these three disciples, th...
This is Episode 400 of The Power of Purity Podcast!
The Blood Arrow!
If you were an Indian and you went hunting, you'd probably take more than one arrow in your quiver. In fact, you'd probably want a whole quiver full of arrows, so you'd have plenty of shots ready if you needed them.
In much the same way, people need many different "arrows" in their metaphorical quiver that they can draw upon in their struggle/battle agaisnt tempt...
In this episode Tony shares the SECOND greatest gift you could ever give to God, which is the submission of your will to his will.
When God decided to create human beings, he did most amazing and remarkable thing when he decided to give us free will.
God did not make us robots.
He did not program us so we would have to love him and obey him.
Instead, he gave us free will so we would have the choice, and we could then choose to love...
In this episode Tony shares a concept / idea / strategy that has helped him tremendously in his personal life... in his walk with God... in his purity walk... in his mental and emotional equilibrium for at least the past year.
The Power of Music!
God made us, and gave us a heart.
And God made music, and music, in a mystical way, is a powerful language of the human heart.
There's music in heaven, and there will be music for eternity...
In this episode Tony shares 2 important metaphors.
The first one concerns the game of chess.
When you're playing chess, the objective is to get your opponent in "checkmate".
This means he doesn't have any moves left.
In this metaphor Tony compares our relationship with God to the game of chess.
In one sense God is attmepting to get us in "checkmate", which means we surrender completely to his will, plan, and Lordship for our life.
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Are you serious about being a man of purity?
Are you serious about expressing and experiencing your sexual gift in a way that’s consistent with what God says about sexuality?
Are you serious about really working on this area of your life?
If you are, these things are not going to happen on accident.
It’s only going to happen if you can identify some ...
God did the most amazing and mysterious thing.
He created us with free will; the ability to choose; the ability to say "yes" to something if we want to say "yes", and the ability to say "no" to something if we want to say "no".
God could have made robots, but God wanted something way more authentic, and real, and sincere than that.
He wanted a creature that had the ability to disobey him, but that would freely to choose to obey him...
This world is very broken.
Every person is very broken, and this is why we need a Savior.
This world has a way of beating people up.
There's hurt, pain, confusion, depression, difficulty and hardship in every person's life.
It just looks different for each of us at different times of our lives.
There's an ebb and a flow.
When the going gets a little bit tough (or a lot tough), and it seems like things are really hard, we may someti...
Our connection to God in the process of change, healing, and recovery is of supreme importance.
It’s hard enough to overcome sexual compulsion, sexual addiction, or addiction to pornography with the Lord, let alone without the Lord.
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Tony recorded this episode on New Years Day, 2024!
He focuses on one particular passage which is Luke 8:22-25, and observes how God often chooses to bring his people through a "storm" rather than around the "storm".
In Psalm 23 it says that God is with us through the valley of the shadow of death.
In the Old Testament God brought his people through the Red Sea when Pharoah was coming to destroy them.
Jesus himself had to go through...
Good News of Great Joy
Tony recorded this episode on Christmas morning and shares a significant observation from the story of the birth of Jesus in Luke chapter 2.
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This episode was recorded on December 19th, 2023... in the shadow of Christmas which was just 6 days away.
It's so easy to get lost in the helter-skelter and business that comes along with this time of the year - buying Christmas gifts, parties, get togethers, traveling, family obligations, etc.
Rush... rush... rush... busy... busy... busy!
Sigh!
In this episode Tony encourages us to remember the "true reason for the season", and s...
In this episode Tony explores the mystery of the Incarnation - the mysterious reality that God became a man, and made his dwelling among us.
God became one of us, and the little baby in the manger - Jesus - was incomprehensibly 100% God and 100% human at the very same time.
But this profound mystery isn't just theology for us to believe in our head.
It's reality that makes all the difference in our hearts and lives.
It's the realit...
What can God stop?
God is God, and God is all powerful, and God is almighty, and nothing is too hard for God.
God can do anything God wants to do, and God can stop anything God wants to stop.
In this episode Tony shares 15 amazing things that God stopped in the bible, along with the corresponding verse for each of these 15 things.
(1) God stopped sickness.
(2) God stopped the storm.
(3) God stopped the armies of pharaoh.
(4) God st...
The truth is incredibly important.
You're in a spiritual battle that's raging over your life, and the greatest weapon the enemy has to use against you is the power of the "lie".
If the enemy tells you a lie, and you beleive the lie, it's as if the lie becomes your truth, because you're beliving it's true, even though it's a lie.
In this way the lie can hold power and authority over your life and soul.
For example, in the early days...
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