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How to Confess the Sin of Pornography to Your Wife (And How Not To) (Part 1)

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  • Jeremy Pierre

This article provides husbands with practical, biblical advice on how to confess their sin with pornography to their wives.

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Adultery and Apostasy

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  • Francis Schaeffer

This article is about adultery and apostasy. Adultery and unfaithfulness distort marriage as it was created by God. Just as we can be physically unfaithful in our marriage, so can we be spiritually unfaithful to Christ. The adulterous culture of today grieves God. Let us remain faithful.

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Questions for the Initial Session after Adultery Is Confessed

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  • Biblical Counseling Center

This article provides a short, helpful list of questions to ask the husband, and the wife, before the first post-adultery counselling session.

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How to Confess the Sin of Pornography to Your Wife (And How Not To) (Part 2)

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  • Jeremy Pierre

These articles provides husbands with practical, biblical advice on how to show true care for their wives after confessing their sin with pornography.

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Adultery and Counselling in the Local Church

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  • Jonathan Holmes

This article speaks about the benefits of providing counselling within the context of the church when there has been marital unfaithfulness.

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Steps to Rebuild a Marriage (Part 6)

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  • Timothy Lane

What are helpful steps to take in order to rebuild a marriage after adultery? This article outlines four steps to improve the marriage.

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Immediate Actions to End an Affair (Part 5)

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  • Timothy Lane

What are immediate actions that can be taken in order to end an affair? This article offers five actions, including the value of getting wise counsel, cutting off the relationship immediately, and confessing to your spouse what you have done.

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Adultery: Who Do You Help? (Part 4)

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  • Timothy Lane

Whom do you help once a couple confides in you about an affair? This article looks at the character of God and how he responds to both the one who was betrayed and the one who committed adultery.

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Adultery: Divorce or Rebuild? (Part 3)

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  • Timothy Lane

What options are there after an affair has come to light? This article considers the biblical options, stressing the priority of rebuilding as much as possible.

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Typical Responses to An Affair (Part 2)

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  • Timothy Lane

This article considers the typical responses to an affair, both by the betrayed spouse and the betraying spouse. It also points out the typical differences between men and women who are betrayed, or who are unfaithful.

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Are All Affairs Alike? (Part 1)

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  • Timothy Lane

This article identifies the different kinds of affairs that can happen.

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The Victim’s Heart

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article addresses the dynamic that often develops when an offender (adulterer or otherwise) repents, and forgiveness is promised, but the relationship is not restored because of the motives of the victim’s heart. The roles are reversed, and the victim becomes the offender. The author shows how the gospel provides the way for believers to escape this pattern.

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Post-Adultery Reconciliation in Marriage

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article identifies the damage that adultery does to marriage, and the hope that husband and wife can have reconciliation through repentance and forgiveness, and working by grace through faith to restore what has been destroyed by sin.

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Do I Admit I’ve Been Unfaithful?

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  • Julie Ganschow

This article addresses the struggle of a repentant adulterer, and the issue of informing his or her spouse about the sin, giving biblical guidance in resolving the question.

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An Open Letter to Someone Having an Affair (Part 2)

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  • Brad Hambrick

This article is part two of a letter addressed to an imaginary person involved in an affair. The article is written to give guidance to those who have to give pastoral direction when dealing with a believer caught in adultery.

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An Open Letter to Someone Having an Affair (Part 1)

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  • Brad Hambrick

This article is part one of a letter addressed to an imaginary person involved in an affair. The article is written to give guidance to those who have to give pastoral direction when dealing with a believer caught in adultery.

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Counselling after Adultery

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  • Dave Dunham

This article offers some insights into counselling the betrayed spouse after adultery has been discovered. It focuses especially on the issue of forgiveness, and the conditions under which it is to be given.

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Will a Happy Marriage Prevent an Affair?

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  • Russell D. Moore

Will a happy marriage prevent an affair? A happy marriage will not necessarily prevent you from adultery, and this article explains why. Often, an affair is more about nostalgia than anything else.

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After the Affair – Ten Steps of Healing

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  • Leslie Vernick

This article offers ten areas that counsellors or pastors need to explore with couples dealing with infidelity or adultery, so that healing can take place.

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Believer Beware!

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  • Alun T. McNabb

This article warns against the sin of adultery, and provides some ways for Christians to behave so that they are not accused of living an adulterous life by the world, in which adultery has become common.

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Ashley Madison Is Just the Beginning

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  • Russell D. Moore

What is it that made the Ashley Madison adultery website work? This article offers an answer, that the website joined original sin to modern technology. Yet this promotion of casual sexuality is an updating of a very old profession, that of prostitution. And it demonstrates a crisis of worship.

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Back from the Brink

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  • Paul Berenger

Is there hope for marriage after adultery? This article shows that through God’s grace, a willingness to face the pain, and a showing of repentance and forgiveness, marriage can be saved after the sin of adultery.

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