Covenant Eyes

Today's episode is from a woman by the name of Jennifer.

Jennifer was a 2025 Covenant Eyes Scholarship winner.

This is her powerful story of overcoming addiction and devoting herself to helping others do the same.

She says, For as long as I could remember, I struggled with relationships.

This was a completely new concept for me, and before long, I too found myself in a 12-step recovery program for sex addiction.

At the time, there were very few programs for women in recovery, and so I find myself in co-ed 12-step rooms.

With both of us in early recovery, we struggled with chronic relapse and eventually found that adding Covenant Eyes as one of our tools provided just enough support and accountability that together with our work in the 12 steps, using sponsors and accountability partners, we could begin to string together days, weeks, and now finally years and over a decade of sobriety and clean living.

Today, that man in recovery is my husband.

So when I'm working with guys around sexual desire, I will say to them, are you serious about this? And they'll say yes.

And I will say, okay, get an app or a program called Covenant Eyes on your phone.

Doesn't cost anything, it's free, and it gives somebody else access.

Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's somebody else that they trust.

And change is only as deep as the commitment that you make to it.

So in that case, buy a Bible.

If you're dealing with pornography or something you should be looking at, use something like Covenant Eyes.

Make a list of things that you're going to do.

I'm going to check your history.

I'm going to put an app called Covenant Eyes on your phone that every time you look at porn, it'll let me know.

And is that going to work? Is that going to keep him from ever looking at porn until he graduates from high school and leaves your home? The answer is no.

But what it's doing is showing that you have a concern for him.

So after joining this community, it just was very natural to keep working apostolically in the church.

And then I did 10 years in Covenant Eyes, helping with pornography and the fight against pornography.

And now this is the next natural thing is to bring, bringing God anywhere, bringing him to work into our social lives is just, it's a passion of mine.

Well, I mean, I'm grateful that you are following your heart's desire because the truth be told, what we're talking about here has the potential to touch tens of thousands of people in Fairfield County.

And I think to myself, you know, are we that out of touch that we don't know the power of what the Internet, you know, without any restrictions can do to a child? I want to give you some statistics.

According to Covenant Eyes, every second, 28,000 people are viewing pornography online.

that's 102 million viewers every hour every second three thousand dollars is being spent on pornography that's 11 million dollars every hour and so i think about how far the reach of pornography is going and so if your children have unlimited access to the internet that's like giving a razor blade to a baby and that's as destructive as how it gets I want to talk a little bit about the biology.

And again, our ministry motto is igniting an unquenchable movement, restoring all men and women back to the image of our creator God.

And occasionally, I'll ask the same question in maybe one hand.

Two at the most have ever gone up, you know, when I ask that question.

According to Covenant Eyes, 83% of boys and 57% of girls have seen group sex on the internet.

69% of boys and 55% of girls have seen pornography showing same-sex interaction.

This is, this is, men need to hear this, and I, I appreciate you sharing about your pornography struggle.

Uh, we have Covenant Eyes and Canopy on all of our devices here.

The men do

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So I grew up among the first generation of people who went through puberty with the existence of high-speed internet porn.

And we didn't really have the tools that Covenant Eyes is developing and currently publishes at our disposal.

I was on a video game website and there was a pop-up ad featuring simulated rape pornography.

It was really graphic stuff and I wasn't looking for it.

Well, good afternoon.

Welcome to another episode of Covenant Eyes podcast.

I'm Rob Stoddard, your host today, and we have a really special guest, special ministry that we've been partnered with for many years.

Our guest today is Nate Larkin from the Samson Society.

Nate, welcome to the Covenant Eyes podcast.

Oh, it's a joy to be with you, Rob.

Thank you for inviting me.

We have a great teacher coming in to do the keynote.

Hey, Matt Willis.

Thanks for joining the Covenant Eyes Podcast.

How are you today?

I'm doing wonderful, thank you, Karen, for the invite.

It feels safe for them to disclose and to get support and to take those nex- next steps.

So it's such a common thing.

And I think at least in our work here at Covenant Eyes, we feel it is so important for the church to make spaces like that, where people can-

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