“If he really wanted to stop looking at porn, he would!” This kind of thinking seems very reasonable to a wife who has been hurt by many broken promises.

Kathy Gallagher thought this same thing once. Although Steve had a powerful experience of repentance and was fighting with all of his strength to gain freedom from sexual sin, it took him a long time to really get the victory. At first Kathy thought this meant that he wasn’t serious about changing, but she began to realize how powerful Steve’s addiction was, and that human willpower was not enough to break the spiritual chains of pornography addiction.

What does the fear of the Lord have to do with overcoming an addiction to porn? It’s actually a very vital part of the process. The trend in our grace-saturated church culture is to limit the definition of “fear” to just reverence. While this is part of it, it’s surely not the whole.

Steve Gallagher takes on this critical topic and guides the struggling Christian into how true fear of God will set them on the path to freedom from sexual sin.

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When a Christian woman discovers that her husband is addicted to pornography, and has been lying to her for years, the word devastated doesn’t come close to describing how she feels. We want to suggest that there is good cause for her to get on her knees and begin to fight for her husband’s soul. Today we’re asking the question, “Why Should a Wife Fight for Her Marriage?”

Deliverance from porn addiction isn’t won merely through abstinence from technology. The battle ground is within the heart. Steve Gallagher explains why understanding this truth is pivotal for any Christian desperate to overcome sexual sin.

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Kathy’s marriage had been filled with pain and grief because of Steve’s addiction to pornography and infidelity. But God showed her that if she wanted to follow Him, it meant staying faithful to Steve and fighting for her marriage.

During a powerful encounter with God, Steve realized the utter sinfulness of his pornography and adultery. He began to fight with all his strength against the power of the addiction, and after intensely battling for a couple of years, Steve found freedom from sexual addiction. The couple soon began to throw themselves into helping other men and women find freedom from pornography and the pain of betrayal.

In this video, Kathy reflects on the past 35 years of her marriage and testifies of all God’s goodness to her. Not only did He reveal Himself to her, He restored her marriage and used all of the pain and suffering to bring about a harvest of good in the lives of many, many others.

Nearly every Christian can name half a dozen ministry leaders of evangelical churches who have fallen due to sexual sin. How does this happen to men of God who are leaders in the church?

In this final installment in our series The Church Addicted, we'll look at the role of the leader, and ask what happens when a leader is compromised by sexual sin.

Kathy Gallagher’s marriage was in shambles. Her husband Steve was addicted to pornography and was cheating on her with other women.

Heartbroken, she desperately tried to get Steve to love her again. But things only grew worse. Eventually, she had enough and left Steve for another man. But God was pursuing her, and through a series of incredible circumstances, He made it very clear to her that if she wanted to follow Him, it meant returning to Steve and fighting for her marriage.

Over the next couple of years, Kathy learned from Jesus what it meant to selflessly love a man who had been addicted to pornography.

There's no doubt that spiritual warfare plays a key role in the formation of an addiction to sex. But is a demon the cause of the addiction? Steve Gallagher biblically defines what a stronghold is and how demonic activity manages to fortify them.

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The psalmist David declared of the wicked that "there is no fear of God before their eyes." The apostle Paul echoed this claim in his letter to the Romans. What about today? Well, one thing is for sure: Christians today are addicted to sexual sin in record numbers.

In this episode of The Church Addicted we explore how a lack of the fear of God has contributed to an epidemic of sin in the Church.

Like so many young women, Kathy Irwin entered into marriage with bright hopes for her future. But after exchanging vows with Steve Gallagher, things began to go downhill quickly. Her new husband was not the man she thought he was.

Life with Steve was very difficult. He was angry, demanding and never satisfied—and she was beside herself trying to understand why she could never please him.

After months of pain, confusion and questions, she found out one afternoon why things were so difficult in their marriage. Steve was addicted to pornography and was cheating on her with other women.

In an instant, all of her dreams about happily-ever-after were crushed, and she awoke to the horrible reality of being married to a cheating husband.

Take a look around and you will quickly see that addiction has found just as much room inside the Church as it has outside its four walls. We’ve been asking the question, how did we get here?

In this fourth episode of The Church Addicted, we look at obedience to God. We will explore how a minimization of its importance leads to a perversion of the grace of God, which in turn results in spiritual apathy, lawlessness and licentiousness.

Sexual addiction is formed inside a person as they repeat the same act over and over--whether it be leering at women, watching pornography or visiting strips clubs.

Science has shown us that addictions are formed as neuro-transmitters create neurological pathways in the mind. The more we seek the pleasure from a certain experience, the deeper these neurological pathways become.  Truly, as Psalm 139:14 says, the human body is "fearfully and wonderfully made."

Tragically, sexual addiction uses the natural biological processes to corrupt our spirits. So how can we practically use our minds to take us farther from degradation and closer to freedom from pornography? Watch as Steve Gallagher expertly blends the physical with the spiritual as he describes the genesis of addiction.

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