A Greater Love

Lesson 10 of 12 · About 11 minutes

A Greater Love

If I stop watching porn, what takes its place?

Desire was made for love of God and of other people, so a heart emptied of porn needs a greater love to fill it; Chalmers called this the expulsive power of a new affection, and real goods such as sleep, friends, work, exercise and prayer hold the hours while that love grows.

A farm labourer kneels in a ploughed field with his head bowed over his clasped hands; a lidded pot and other things he has dug up lie in the soil at lower left, and the legs of his plough oxen stand behind him.
Historical witnessThe Hidden Treasure (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)After Sir John Everett Millais; engraved and printed by Dalziel Brothers · 1864 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art (21.68.4(4)), Rogers Fund, 1921CC0 (The Met Open Access)

In this Lesson

  1. The question in front of us
  2. If I stop watching porn, what takes its place?
  3. What desire is for
  4. The expulsive power of a new affection
  5. Real goods for the weak hours
  6. The people on the screen
  7. Can a walk or a friend really compete with porn?
  8. Fill the weakest hour

Lesson 10 of 12

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