From "Timesaver"

The following email came in a few days ago. I have to admit I hardly have time to sign up and post to THIS blog - much less sign up for a course to check this site out. I DID stop by and I agree that the testimonies are impressive. Anyone else who has signed up please feel free to pass along any info you have on this topic. What I am hoping to find out is if the Setting Captive Free program is overall Catholic -friendly. If the priest who took it could share a word that would be great. Thanks! Now, here's the email:

I can give my feedback about the setting captives free Purity Program so long as you please do not share my emaill address on your blog. Call me "timesaver". The course is time consuming - something good for someone like me who wasted SO MUCH TIME in looking at impure material and self-gratifying. This could easily have cost my marriage. One thing I can say is you or anyone can read testimonies always being posted. nobody has to sign up to read these. They are one of my favorite parts to this website. The first couple days are about seeing the impuirty we waste time on as sewer water and how we will always be sick drinking from that well. We make a choice to drink pure living water or drinking sewer water. timesaver. Here is a testimony off the site
David's Testimony
"My mentor was Richard Lee. My life was very sad and I lived in constant fear. I was afraid of being found out, afraid of falling too low, and afraid of missing God's best for me. I was introduced to pornography during my middle school years and, even though I never owned any of those magazines, the images became ingrained in my brain for many years to come. I begun looking at women as objects for my delight and the gratification of my flesh. Having been raised in church, I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I could not help it. Instead, I kept falling deeper and deeper into the trap. I found myself rationalizing it all the time. Finally, I found the perfect excuse: 'This is just a natural result of the sexual abuse I was a victim of when I was a child.' I thought that if I dealt with the trauma of the abuse, the acting out would go away. I sought counselors, books, 12-step programs, prayer, fasting, and even people to "cast out" impurity from my life, but nothing gave me lasting victory. I was desperate and lonely. I felt like I had to show everyone one face, the face of one who has it all together, while I was dying on the inside. I hated myself for what I was doing, and I was beginning to despise God for not helping me. I remember I would just cry and cry, hoping God would finally take my life away. Every day, I would wake up knowing that I would inevitably fall again. Those were very dark years. My soul craved for something or someone, but nothing filled me. Pornography and self-gratification left me wounded and bleeding, but I "had" to revert back to it. Finally, one day I heard my friend talk about the Setting Captives Free course and how great it was. He did not know I was hooked, and he never imagined he was about to save my life. I memorized the name of the website and the next day I went to my office, checked it out, and enrolled in The Way of Purity course. The first two days of the course were dramatic to me. The Lord opened my eyes to the reality of my sin and the reasons why I was still in bondage! From that point on, my life had a drastic change. I was very skeptical at the beginning and, when I read the testimonies, I found it hard to understand how an online course could do so much. I came to know that it was more than a daily devotional, it was the Lord Jesus working through the lessons to bring me back to Him. He broke the yoke of pornography off my shoulders and I have been free from it for seven months now. I never thought I could get rid of those images, but the Lord has slowly been cleansing my mind from them. At times, I have felt overwhelmed by temptation, especially when the old thinking patterns sink in. However, the support and grace that my mentor always gives me has helped me see God in a new light - not as someone distant and uninterested, but as a loving Father who is with me and who wants to help me. My life now is awesome. I had lost all hope of ever being happy, but the Lord has given me hope again. I'm closer to Him than I ever was and, above all, I enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing I do not have any dirty secrets to hide. I have found true intimacy in Him and I want to know Him more and more each day. I am thirty years old, and I feel like my life has just started. God continues to heal me from my painful past, and now He has even opened the door for me to marry a wonderful Christian girl. He is restoring my life and giving me back even the dreams I thought I had lost. Thank You, Jesus!"


Thank you for the email and info "Timesaver" I look forward to hearing more. - MJP