Cole Zick

Cole Zick is passionate about seeing the church come together to be effective and thrive in every area of life. He and his wife Caitlin served as directors of Moral Revolution in Redding, California for 6 years before moving on to be Senior Pastors of Risen King Community Church. With more than 15 years of marriage and ministry experience, they openly share their story and first years of sex in marriage hoping to start a healthy conversation and ultimately see others find freedom through their experience. They also created four children in five years, which gives insight into their love for chaos.

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Podcast 🎧, Video 📺, Pornography, Healing & Restoration

Men & Masturbation 📺+🎧

Podcast 🎧, Video 📺, Pornography, Healing & Restoration

Let's go there. Is masturbation okay? Is it actually helpful? What's the driving force for men behind it all? We've brought in three men to talk about this topic: one who's experienced masturbation with porn, one without porn, and one who has never experienced either.

Podcast 🎧, Video 📺, Pornography, Healing & Restoration

Pornography, Children & Parenting

This is Your Brain on Porn

Pornography, Children & Parenting

As a child, you were creating habits and building these connections at a faster and stronger rate than at any other point in your life. So, the earlier and more frequently you experience things like porn, abuse, and sexuality, the more these things feel like they are part of you.

Pornography, Children & Parenting

Identity, Healing & Restoration

Restoring the Heart of the Father

Identity, Healing & Restoration

Understanding God as our Father and truly leaning into a relationship with Him through that paradigm has many challenges in our generation. It is clear that God wants to engage with us in this way because in the book of John alone God is referred to as Father over one hundred times. I, myself, have been on a journey to truly see God this way and understand what it means for Him to love me as His son. My personal challenges have been the walls I created as a child to protect myself from the pain of disappointing people.

Identity, Healing & Restoration

Identity

Getting to Know Yourself: Keys to Overcoming Insecurity

Identity

The greatest kryptonite of relational depth is insecurity. In romantic relationships, insecurities can cause a couple to spend hours, days, and even years circling back to issues that seem to never go away. In friendships, insecurities assume the worst rather than believe the best. In marriages, insecurities can cause one partner to shut down, another to be jealous and a marriage to fall apart. In our relationship with God, insecurity minimizes us to a form of godliness. It is imperative that a healthy individual get to know themselves, become sold out to the belief that God made you that way on purpose, and then love what God created. So here are some practical steps to becoming more secure in who you are…

Identity

Sex

The Church and Sex

Sex

We’ve been handed a problem and we’ve been unknowingly contributing to it. For far too long the church has been precluded from the cultural narratives of sexuality. Our near-fatal mistake has been that our only message on the topic is, “No! Don’t be led by evil desires.” As pornography, casual sex, and the introduction of media began to shape culture, we were shaped by fear and lack of understanding. Now we are facing the consequences of our fear-based response.

Sex

Sex, Marriage

Sex & Marriage

Sex, Marriage

Sex and marriage have become two words that almost don’t seem to go together. It seems the narrative has become, “Husbands never get as much as they want, and wives periodically grit their teeth through it.” We have experienced this first hand in our own marriage. It has taken us years to learn how to fully enjoy sex, and in all honesty, years to understand that sex in marriage isn’t a luxury but rather a necessity.

Sex, Marriage