We talk with Aaron Dickerson about growing up with a fear-based view of God, building his identity on performance, and how stress eventually broke through in severe health crises. We share how forgiveness and hearing “You are loved” reshaped Aaron’s view of God and opened a new life of trust, freedom, and discernment
• growing up around Revelation seminars and a distant picture of God
• building an identity on academics and “never making mistakes”
• work pressure, anxiety, ulcers, and the belief that it is all on me
• the shower fainting incident, long-term vertigo, and physical recovery
• a chair injury that turns into infection, sepsis, surgery, and home IVs
• wrestling with disappointment, unanswered healing, and trust in God’s care
• hearing God say “You are loved” and why it took years to believe
• Love Reality skepticism, pride, and the breakthrough conversation that clicked
• forgiveness as the doorway to receiving love
• spiritual gifts, dreams, and practicing discernment with wisdom and Scripture

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We challenge the idea that calling ourselves a porn addict is harmless, and we explain how that label can reinforce the very behavior we want to quit. We connect brain science, shame cycles, and Scripture to show how renewing our minds can turn freedom from porn into a new normal.
• why coaching helps when good advice does not stick
• how identity language shapes expectations and behavior
• placebo and nocebo effects as a picture of belief at work
• a personal story about shame and learning to expect lifelong struggle
• why behavior modification and streak tracking can feed relapse binges
• Romans 6:11 and Revelation 1:5 as a foundation for freedom
• renewing the mind so temptation loses its grip
• what a guilt free and shame free path forward looks like

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We trace Jonathan Leonardo’s journey from Adventist upbringing and party-driven identity to a sudden, undeniable encounter with the gospel that makes “God loves me” real. Along the way, we name how theology can mask bondage, how fear of being hurt shapes relationships, and how the Holy Spirit turns sonship into actual freedom.
• growing up between the Dominican Republic, New York, and Massachusetts with Adventism as a defining culture
• learning to speak and preach early while still feeling personally disconnected from God
• building identity around being cool, being wanted, and avoiding vulnerability
• the Red Cup college years, honest excuses, and the slow dulling of conviction
• a seed planted through a new reading of Moses and Scripture’s “failures”
• Micronesia, Ellen White, and the first real hope that God uses weak people
• switching to theology for curiosity while keeping a double life
• public confession while preaching and the weight of hypocrisy
• Australia bus tours and hundreds of short gospel talks that sharpen his voice
• grad school and PhD ambition feeding pride and masking insecurity about the gospel
• being confronted by the question “Do you know the gospel”
• the relationship conflict that forces the double-minded life into the open
• a YouTube message that breaks intellectual pride and reveals Holy Spirit power
• “God loves me” as revelation, freedom from lust, and new power to live clean
• reframing sin, flesh, and identity as beloved sons and daughters with an advocate

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