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Pornography is all too common these days and sadly it is common even among believers. In this episode, we share How Aaron has been able to walk in freedom from this addiction for more than 6 years now and how you can too. We also talk about how you can help prepare and protect your children from this destructive sin.

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jennifer:

Hi, and welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.

Aaron:

We're your hosts, Aaron and Jennifer Smith.

jennifer:

We have been married 15 years and have five sweet children who are growing up way too fast.

Aaron:

We love God and we love marriage.

jennifer:

And we love to be honest about it all.

Aaron:

Marriage is not always a walk in the park, but we do believe it has a powerful purpose.

jennifer:

So, our goal here is to open up the conversation to talk about our faith and our marriage.

Aaron:

Especially in light of the gospel.

jennifer:

We certainly don't have all the answers, but if you stick around we may just make you laugh.

Aaron:

But our hope is to encourage you to chase boldly after God's purpose for your life together.

jennifer:

This is Marriage After God.

Welcome back to another episode of the Marriage After God [inaudible 00:00:52].

Aaron:

Podcast. We're Aaron and Jennifer Smith, and we're glad you're here.

jennifer:

Okay. But can I just say, in all realness, this was a hard episode to start, to hit that record button on, because-

Aaron:

Not just because of the topic, of course.

jennifer:

... Aaron and I, we're having a hard moment in our flesh just now. And he even said, "Maybe we should postpone this. Let's just wait." And I said, "No, this is exactly why we started a marriage ministry is because marriage is hard and we're not exempt from that." And-

Aaron:

Well, I want to be exempt from it, but-

jennifer:

But marriage wasn't hard back then in our early years. Marriage is hard even now. You go through these rhythms and motions where some days you're really great, and then there's times where it's not so easy.

Aaron:

This was one of them, but we're starting and we're doing this episode whether we like it or not. And I like it. I'm glad we're moving forward.

jennifer:

Well, I guess I just wanted to share all that because I want you guys to know that we said this before, but we don't know it all and we're not perfect at marriage. But the reason that we do this is because we're just like you guys and we know that there are hard days mixed in with a lot of good. And it's those little bits of encouragement that you get hopefully through our podcast that remind you to just press in and keep going and keep-

Aaron:

Continue on?

jennifer:

Yeah. Just going. So, here we are.

Aaron:

Well, we're going to do it in today's episode. We're going to be chatting about also a hard topic for us, but we're going to be talking about victory from pornography. Which, the victory's not hard. That's awesome. But just the topic of pornography is sensitive. So, thanks for bearing with us today. We're going to try our best. We love you guys and we're excited to be here. But before we get into the sponsor for this episode, I just wanted say that we're so honored that we're currently getting over 12,000 downloads per episode for this season, which is crazy because that's actually double, if not more than double what we were getting last season per episode.

jennifer:

Nice.

Aaron:

Which is crazy. I have no idea why, but it's awesome and it's happening.

jennifer:

So, I just told a lot more people that we have