Tag: addiction

Considering the many documented harms of pornography to children, and the reality that parents can't prevent exposure (even through careful monitoring), what can parents do?

More than 2000 people attended a one-day "Drug Body Convention" organised by Adventists in Wapenamanda District, Papua New Guniea.

Pastor Jared Martin provides some practical ways to protect your children and your church against pornography.

Andrew's parents made the heart-breaking decision to share his struggle with addiction after his death rather than sanitising his obituary—a decision that had unexpected results.

Takoma Park in Washington DC used to be Adventist central. Then one day a young woman was found dead on the seat of a local bus stop.

Aaron had hit rockbottom, and then the bottom gave way again. He was paying for sex, and had given up. Then a Baby came into his life.

Smoking, drinking, drugs, parties, women . . . it's all par and parcel of a good Christian testimony. But after 40 years of hearing these stories, Kent Kingston has had enough.

“This is what church is all about, it is a home.” With these words, Pastor Eddie Tupa’i, president of the North New Zealand Conference, cut the ribbon and formally opened “Our Place”.

“Say YES to Jesus and NO to drugs for forever”. That was the slogan thought up by a group of 52 marijuana users who publicly renounced their drug addiction at an Adventist evangelistic meeting in Papua New Guinea in January.

Being addicted to reading books—specifically novels—does not carry the same stigma associated with being addicted to alcohol or drugs. Yet in its own way, "fiction addiction" is just as insidious.