Free Indeed Podcast

Mike and Kirk interview Pastor Kelby McCottry who experienced his first Free Indeed weekend intensive for his church. Find out why this intensive is for your church to fight back again pornography!

Mike and Kirk discuss the qualities of a church and especially the men who should consider being bravehearts within their community to help other men. Hint: It won't be easy.

What about those guys who've been going for a while? What's important for them to remember and keep in mind? Mike and Kirk explore why not just "freedom" is important. And, introducing the new tool for churches! Getting your men free from pornography and moving yourch forward.

In this mini episode, Mike and Kirk talk what's next with the podcast. Beyond just helping one man at a time, we want to help churches and church leaders meet the challenge of having a strategic plan to get pornography out of their congregations. One church leader recently said, "This one issue prevents more men (and some women) from serving in leadership roles than any other sin." See 9marks.org - Deepak Reju, "How to Church Members Fight Porn Addiction Together?"

WARNING: TRIGGERS! In this special edition of the podcast Mike and Kirk interview...pornography. The IP Mistress herself. Listen in on how she thinks and get a glimpse into some of her motives. And, find out why men can't "just quit." You may be surprised.

In this episode, Mike and Kirk share a quick summary of the Six Vs: Visualization, Variety, Vitality, Victory, Vacation and Validation. Please listen to all them again if they have hit home or have deeper meaning for you.

In this continuation of our discussion on Validation, Mike and Kirk talk about safety and intimacy and the idea of the power of getting to a place of finding the right validation within the safe confines of good relationships.

The man's need for validation, so fundamental to his identity should come from a place of masculinity. Sadly, too many men (and boys) seek it in all the wrong places. In this first of a two part finale to the Six Vs, Kirk and Mike discuss why pornography will only leave him wanting more and more yet get it.

Who needs a vacation? You do! Or so many of us men say to ourselves when we tap or click on that site. To get away, even if for a few minutes to escape the hurt, pain, irritation, or whatever we feel we need to get away from. The IP Mistress awaits. But there is a price. There always is.

It's the moment we hope never happens. It's the moment when she has said enough is enough and now that habit or addiction has caught up with him. She has said she wants a divorce. What happens next?

Every man has a little boy inside him. Many guys still let him run life and when it comes to having a wife and family, giving him too much of that control. Looking back at the boyhood, both need to meet and talk - man today and boy of yesterday.

In this very special episode (the first minute reveals why), we continue the important series on the Six Vs. This discussion, on victory, is important because of what the IP Mistress offers that no women can: uncondtional victory. Men seek it. We've killed for it, and it has cost us everything.

We continue our series on the six Vs in Kirk's book, For Your Eyes Only. This one, on vitality is a great discussion on the power given by broadband internet pornography. Yes, power. Small engine, but much power. Yet another reason why it's hard for men to "just stop."

One unnatural thing pornography does is offer variety. Why is it unnatural? Because God never intended there be so much variety in our sexuality. The ideal - one marriage partner - goes against the seemingly infinite variety offered by broadband internet pornography.

The foundation to all things Free Indeed the live class held every spring and fall is where you find out in detail how to gain and keep your freedom from broadband internet pornography. We talk about the need to keep it live, not online and the benefits to being the class.

After a quick continuation from the last episode, Mike and Kirk talk about the myths and misconceptions of finding and being in freedom from broadband internet pornography.

In this episode, Mike and Kirk share some of what it feels like to be, well, kicked in the nuts. In a figurative sense of course. Life happens. And bad things happen because no one in this life promises a good life without problems, not even God. But ther

Galatians in the New Testament is a letter written to people who wanted to a return life of slavery, but whom the apostle Paul tried to hold freedom out as the best option to counteract this human tendency of trying too hard to work our way into the gospel.

With this episode, Mike spends time in Psalm 119. This is one of the most beautiful places in all of scripture on the benefits of being a law-abiding citizen of heaven. Freedom comes from obedience.

In this first of Mike's solo episodes of the podcast, we will hear about a beautiful and heartfelt verse from the very mouth of God to his people Israel just after they left Egypt as slaves.

The power of what we see can and does stay with us all our lives. There are visual memories from our very earliest age that almost never lose their detail. The creators of pornography know this.

Having a first conversation with his woman (a wife, his girlfriend or fiancé) can be difficult. This is another practical and meaningful conversation about how to do this with courage but also with a degree of humility and hope.

This is one episode where you get hands on, actionable how to on talking to your son, with (of course) more depth than just a list of things to do. Talking means conversation. Conversation means relationship.

This special episode of the podcast features a special guest who agreed to share the pain of her story with others in the hope that what she's been through, someone else doesn't have to.

This episode Mike and Kirk discuss chapter 11 of Kirk's book, For Your Eyes Only. The chapter, "Just Quit?" is about the power of the IP Mistress over the man who continues to need to feed his emotional hunger. Hint: She has way to much power!

A big part of a porn habit or problem is wandering eyes and subsequent thoughts and often fantasies. Kirk and Mike talk about how to stop doing this and repeating the cycle again.

In this episode we talk about the importance of counseling in finding and keeping freedom. There are complex and usually many reasons why a guy develops and keeps a habit of pornography consumption. Counseling can help see some of the deeper reasons why.

Mike and Brandon talk about the experience of growing with broadband internet access. Brandon shares some of his story and the struggle he has had with pornography.

Slavery in any form does nothing to help the worth of a person, especially pornography. This episode is about the importance seeing ourselves as worth something to someone, but also to ourselves.

In this episode, if you choose to listen to it, you'll hear about...choice. The God-given ability to choose is one of the most defining characteristics of being human. We choose both well and poorly, us humans. And it has an important role to play in free

When it comes to overcoming an addiction or habit that has been going on for years, the work that emerges can often involve grief. Grief is a necessary part of emotional growth and can be painful. Dealing with it is serious business Kirk and I talk about in this episode.

What do you fill your mind with? Instead of how to find the next fix in the never-ending cycle of pornography consumption, find something to learn. Find more. Grow more. Be more. Learn something to give back.

Fundamentally, the slavery of broadband internet pornography is consuming. Usually for men, it's consuming women on a screen and perhaps off the screen as well. In our consumer society, what's the opposite of consuming? Find out in this week's episode.

When it comes to learning from people, finding freedom isn't done in a vacuum. While no one can be free for someone else, the journey of masculine freedom should involve learning from other men.

When it comes to finding and then living in freedom, something to remember is that it's journey, not a destination. We have milestones, yes, but remembering to live in freedom and enjoying those victories along the way helps in the mindset of getting there.

Our bodies can be tricky. What we see on the outside is only a part of who we are. The essential work of getting and staying free from broadband internet pornography is our mind telling our body what to do. It's more important than we realize.

As guys, we are visual by nature. We are attracted to beauty - for a reason. God made us that way. In itself it's a good thing. But when the attraction to beauty is misguided, it can set up for feeding the appetite.

For the person who only knows life with broadband internet access that is mostly free and is also addicted to pornography, is that person also a sex addict? We discuss why Free Indeed targets this person.

As human beings seeking freedom, we need connection at a deeper level than just information. While learning the right information can help in the journey of freedom from broadband internet pornography, what about the connection at the soul level? Kirk shares how music helps him along in living his own freedom.

Every (good) story has at least one turning point. In episode 8 Kirk shares the turning point every man seeks, especially guys seeking freedom from pornography. Redemption is possible and you may be closer than you think!

We don't like pain. We try to avoid it if we can and no one usually enjoys experiencing pain. But, if it's unavoidable and we are either about to go through it, are in or have experienced it, it must be dealt with. In this episode Kirk goes deep into why it's important to spend time dealing with pain to help find purpose.

This ministry is all about freedom and in episode 6 Kirk answers and we discuss his response to the question, Freedom from what? Hint: I may have asked the wrong question.

In this third part on the armor of God, we explore the last two pieces of God's weapons in his armor for us: the helmet and the sword. We continue asking, What do you mean by being offensive?

“I will live among you and not despise you. I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the yoke of slavery from your neck so you could walk with your heads held high.” Leviticus 16:11-13

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free; stand firm, therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1

In Episode 4 of the Free Indeed Podcast we continue a series on being offensive. What do we mean by that? It's more fun to put up points rather than try and stop the enemy from scoring against me.

In Episode 3 of the Free Indeed Podcast we start a series on being offensive. What do we mean by that? It's more fun to put up points rather than try and stop the enemy from scoring against me.

We discuss answers to the question, What is freedom? Is freedom a destination or a journey? Does being free also mean abstinence? Mike and Kirk discuss inspiration and hope, clarity and direction.

Introducing the Free Indeed Podcast to help with finding freedom from broadband internet pornography. Inspiration and insight with experience and passion to support the fight and struggle for freedom.

I ask Kirk the very important question, If he could narrow it down, what is one thing that has helped maintain his freedom and why has it helped?