You all know about  Shellie R. Warren? She is my sister. Well, not exactly. We are not related but Shellie is like family here at XXXchurch. She has been writing on the site for three years now and is amazing. Her first book was great, her second book will blow you away. It releases today in fact. You can find out all about it HERE.

After the book was finished, Shellie wrote more. She wrote a workbook as well as 15 video teachings that go along great with the book. This is what makes up the new X3pure workshop for Women. Check it out at X3pure.com

Online Workshop For Women

X3pure is the first online, confidential, streaming-video solution for dealing with sexual addiction. This workshop provides you with the absolute fundamentals for understanding compulsive sexual behavior whether it is with masturbation, pornography use, extra-marital/pre-marital sex, strip clubs, or prostitutes. Easy to understand and accessible, this 30-day program can be logged onto from any Internet-connected computer at any time.

Workshop Outline

Shellie R. Warren is a woman who has a passion for all things sexual…in the sense of sexual wholeness and purity. As an author, public speaker and teen mom coordinator for a local chapter of a national non-profit in Nashville, TN, she aggressively devotes her time to helping women recover from sexual abuse and misuse. This online workshop is what she calls the “interactive audio book” to accompany her second release, “Pure Heart: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Integrity”. Her original title? “Eyes Opened; Legs Closed”. After viewing some of this footage, we think you’ll understand why.

Getting Back to the Garden

This chapter walks us back to the Garden of Eden so that we can be reminded of what God’s original plan was for sex. It speaks to the beauty of oneness and covenant. Taboo? Perhaps. Attainable? Definitely.

Have Sex…FOR WHAT?

This two-part series addresses the purpose of sex along with both the spiritual and physical consequences that come when it’s used for other reasons than God’s initial intention. Everything has a “reason for which it’s created”. Sex is definitely not an exception.

Sex Always Has Strings (sometimes it’s rope…sometimes it’s floss)

Sex isn’t just about intercourse. Any kind of sexual activity should be under the covering of marriage. Certain acts, like oral sex, are between the husband and wife; but this two-part section also deals with, what Shellie calls, “sexual additives”…things like masturbation and porn that are often used to pacify our sexual appetites, yet never satisfy. We’ll explore why.

Counterfeits: How Sex Is Abused by the Media

Ever look up the synonyms of the word “counterfeit” on Dictionary.com? You might be surprised at what you see. One word that’s listed is “Hollywood”. The last place people should learn about God’s will for their lives is in a magazine or on a television screen. Don’t believe us? You’ll see.

Sexual Misuse

In Shellie’s first book, “Inside of Me: Lessons of Lust, Love and Redemption”, she coined a phrase, “sexual misuse”. In life, there are sexual violations that happen to us (abuse), but then, sometimes even do to those very things, there are poor sexual choices that we make on our own. That would be sexual misuse.

Sex’s Hamster Wheel

It took the Israelites 40 days to take an 11-day trip. In one instance, it took Shellie 15 years to get over one man. Her mother says that “Experience prevents experience from being your teacher.” She’s hoping this two-part series will spare you the time…and the drama of having to spend 15 years of your life on something that you probably should’ve avoided in the first place.

Treat Me Like a Lady

Sexiness is rampant, yet being a lady seems to be a lost art. In God’s design for woman, he desired for her to be lovely…delicate…feminine. It’s not a sign of weakness. In it, there is actually a lot of power…once you know how to use it…and why.

Patience Is Virtuous

One of the Scriptures that Shellie holds on to for dear life when it comes to her own DAY-BY-DAY sexual recovery is Philippians 4:6, “Be anxious for nothing.” Something that many of us miss is that “nothing” also includes our healing from brokenness. Love is patient, right? Love yourself enough to be patient with the process. This is another two-part that will show you how.

Restoration

Christ told us in Matthew 17:20-22 that some things only come by prayer and fasting. Shellie’s motto is “Sometimes a mountain is moved…one rock at a time.” The “Past Fast” is what she created—and used—to reconcile, by way of true forgiveness, with the man who sexually abused her. It changed her life. Completely.

The Gateway Drugs of Sexual Addiction

This is a two-part series of Shellie speaking at an event on the topic of the “sexual mouse holes” that can lead to a much bigger problem. The Scriptures Luke 11:24-26 (NKJV) come to mind: “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return from my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.”

Use the code "confessions" when you check out for $10 off.

Over the last year and a half we have been hard at work on some new XXXchurch resources. The first was a new book called Pure Eyes - A Man's guide to Sexual Integrity. Steven Luff and I worked on that. Steven then wrote a workbook that goes along with that book and put together 15 video teachings that make up the new X3pure program.

We just launched the all new and improved X3pure site. We have three new workshops on the site and one that is coming soon for parents. I am going to post 3 blogs explaining each workshop. Head on over to X3pure to see for yourself.

Men's Workshop

X3pure is the first online, confidential, streaming-video solution for dealing with sexual addiction. This workshop provides you with the absolute fundamentals for understanding compulsive sexual behavior whether it is with masturbation, pornography use, extra-marital/pre-marital sex, strip clubs, or prostitutes. Easy to understand and accessible, this 30-day program can be logged onto from any Internet-connected computer at any time.

Workshop Outline

Developed by seminary-educated, sexual addiction group leader, and author Steven Luff, this program walks you through our “Sexual Sobriety Map” – a clear explanation of the recovery process from “unwanted sexual behavior” to the “pursuit of contentment.”

Unwanted Sexual Behavior

This two-part section provides a broad over-view of what will be accomplished throughout the program. Its ultimate destination is to answer the question, “Am I really addicted?” Central to this part is the introduction of our “Sexual Sobriety Map,” an at-a-glance tool for locating yourself throughout your recovery process and beyond.

White-Knuckle vs. Real Change

Since change is obviously at the heart of over-coming sexual addiction, the first of these two parts delves into the question “What is Change?” and provides a thorough introduction to the two types of change available for the recovering sex addict: “white-knuckle” and “real.” The cornerstone of real change, which is our goal in recovery, is confession and accountability, which is discussed in the second part of this section.

Understanding Physiology

One of the least known aspects of sexual addiction is its physiology—that is, the way the brain has changed in using sex as a drug and how to we can change it back. This section has three parts detailing a portion of the brain called the reward system. These three parts cover what that system is, what happens to the reward system when it has become addicted to sex, and what it will be like changing the reward system back into its normal state.

Abstinence

This section addresses the very goal of this program: going sober from your unwanted sexual behavior and staying sober. There are two parts to this section that will help you in creating a victorious environment for yourself as well as building an “escape plan” for when you are triggered and want to use your unwanted sexual behavior. These two parts detail what we call our “Sobriety Sheets.”

Acceptance of Conditional Love

For the sexual addict, the root of the addiction is having experienced, or currently experiencing, conditional love. Conditional love is being loved or shown attention and affection only if a person behaves or acts a certain way. Conditional love, in all of its many forms, can cause a sense of anxiety that leads the sex addict to act out. This section helps you locate when and where conditional love exists in your life in preparation for our culminating section.

Pursuit of Unconditional Love

If conditional love is the root of sexual addiction, our goal in recovery is the conversion of conditional love into unconditional love. In four powerful parts, this section breaks down this conversion into our “Recovery Targets”: 1) Psychological Examination of Feelings; 2) Seeking, Establishing, and Engaging in Community; 3) Truth, Trust and Territory; and 4) Development and Exploration of Genuine Faith.

 

If you type in the word "confessions" when you check out you get $10 bucks off.

My friend Anne Jackson's second book, Permission to Speak Freely - Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace releases today. I've asked her to share one of the essays from her book with you. Anne decided to share seven essays on seven different blogs, this being the 5th. To read the rest of the essays, check out the links at the end.

Anne is also giving away a copy of her book to two commenters, chosen
at random, on Friday. So check out the question at the end and leave a
comment to be entered to win.

You can pick up a copy of the book here. It is a great read. We shot a video with Anne a few months back. I posted it below in case you have not seen it.

To read the First Essay CLICK HERE - Donald Miller's Blog

Essay #5 – Shattered Pixels

As you saw from my playground experience earlier, I run when hurt
hunts me down.

I put the blame for the pain I was experiencing from the
“relationship” with this youth pastor on God and began to run from my
faith again. God and I were through. He obviously didn’t care about
me, so I didn’t care about Him anymore either.

To help numb the pain, I began experimenting with a lot of things that
weren’t healthy for me.

A little alcohol.

Some pills.

And pornography.

I know, I know. Porn is a guy’s problem. Girls—especially teenage
girls—don’t look at porn.

And the last place you would expect to see porn is the living room of
a former pastor, right?

But during these “dark years,” between a portrait of my family taken
at Christmastime and an old, broken, dot matrix printer sat a computer
screen. The place where I typed book reports and instant-messaged my
friends became the doorway to an endless amount of forbidden fruit—and
even more amounts of guilt.

Still in culture shock from our move to Dallas, and now with an
awakened sense of myself sexually, I began to notice the provocatively
lit neon signs loudly proclaiming XXX and FULL NUDITY. On the way home
from school on my bus, I overheard two boys talking about looking up
images of people having sex online. Ignited teenage hormones combined
with the new technology of the Internet proved to be a dangerous
combination.

Late one night, after my parents and younger brother had gone to bed,
I logged on and did an online search for “sex.” I had no idea that
typing that one word into a computer would lead me to an addiction I’d
fight for years.

And it wasn’t just a physical addiction either. Viewing these
outwardly flawless women fed the huge emotional need that was left by
my dad’s withdrawal and the youth pastor’s rejection. Through the
fantasies I would have by looking at that computer screen, I would
find love and affirmation.

I graduated as planned my junior year and moved out a few months after
my seventeenth birthday. Now I had my own apartment with my own
computer, and all the freedom in the world.

I would go to work (now the manager of the Christian bookstore), come
home, and look at porn almost every night. Soon my porn binges started
affecting my performance at work and my relationships because I
wouldn’t get any sleep, and when I was with friends, I would secretly
obsess about how soon I could be home and when I could get my next
fix.

What’s a girl to do?

Of course, I never mentioned my struggle to anyone. Looking at porn
was typical, even expected, for men . . . but a girl? A girl who likes
porn? I often questioned my sexual orientation.

If I was straight, why did I like looking at naked women? So was I
gay? Or bisexual?

Or was I just perverted?

I hated the pattern I had fallen into. I think I knew it was wrong. At
least I realized
anything that caused this much obsession couldn’t be right.

But I couldn’t stop.

The addiction went from online to offline. When something as dark and lonely and
shameful as a sexually oriented addiction has a grasp on you, you do a
lot of things you’d never in a million, billion years dream you’d ever
do.

My boundaries crumbled and I began sexually experimenting, at times
with men I barely knew. One night when I was almost eighteen, I
remember going to a cute guy’s house. He was a junior in college, and
I had met him only a few days before at a local Waffle House. Aside
from a few mental snapshots, I don’t remember anything from that night
except having a drink and waking up fuzzy, alone, half dressed on his
couch. He was nowhere to be found; I dressed and went home. I never
saw him or heard from him again.

I don’t even remember his name.

By the time I was twenty, I settled down a little bit and was engaged
to someone I had been dating for over a year. But during the months
leading up to the wedding, my old habits came back with a vengeance
and I began seeing another man behind my fiancé’s back—and I got
caught. After the wedding was called off, I rebounded by becoming a
serial dater. I always needed to have a man in my life in order to
feel worthy.

According to everything I had seen, to be accepted and loved meant to
have a sexual
relationship, and what girl doesn’t need to be accepted and loved?

For years this addiction held me tightly in a dark embrace, and
somewhere inside me I knew it wasn’t the life I was intended to have.
I knew it was wrong. And as I got older and began to rediscover my
faith and my purpose and identity in Christ, I knew I had to break
away from the safety I found in my morphed perspective of sex.

As twisted as it was, it was familiar. And that familiarity brought me comfort.

But I knew I needed to let it go.

I confessed everything I could remember to God, even asking Him to
cover the things I had forgotten or didn’t want to bring up because I
was so ashamed of them.

I took my computer out and placed it in the Dumpster by my apartment
and refused to have Internet at home for the next several years. It
helped me break that cycle.

That confession and resulting penance seemed like it was good enough.
For the time being, anyway.

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People are still surprised that women struggle with pornography and other sex related addictions. Does it surprise you?

To read essay #6 on Catalyst Website CLICK HERE

The movie "Middle Men" just came out across america. I just read this interview about the guy who the movie is about that Luke Wilson potrays in the movie. Really interesting..

Article can be found here or posted below.

He’s definitely not a household name, but if you’ve ever bought anything over the Internet, Christopher Mallick has had an impact on your household. If your purchases include an occasional picture of illicit sex or gratuitously naked people, that goes double.

Mallick is the producer and inspiration for the highly fictionalized new film, “Middle Men,” which covers the early days of Internet porn as seen through the eyes of businessman Jack Harris (Luke Wilson). Harris makes millions and gets in way over his head after meeting up with a couple of drug addled fools and geniuses (Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht), who, in the process of selling dirty pictures, have developed a way to safely and securely collect credit card numbers over the Internet so they can sell dirty pictures.

In real life, the one-time chief executive of Paycom pioneered the technology that makes buying anything from a DVD to a raincoat to a monthly membership in ButtBusters.com easy, safe, and more or less confidential. He is said to have many outrageous and hilarious behind-the-scenes tales that provided background for the fictional film.

“Middle Men” is actually just the start as Mallick appears to be very serious about the film industry. He’s got more projects coming along the way including films with writer/director George Gallo and a documentary about former porn people, “Exxxit: Life After Porn,” directed by Bryce Wagoner and written and produced by “Middle Men” co-writer Andy Weiss.

I met Mallick during a recent press day at the L.A. Four Seasons. There was a last minute change in the planned location of the room, from the second floor to the first floor, where we were to talk. When I arrived, I found Mallick — who is apparently slightly camera shy (that little picture to the right is it as far as available online photos are concerned) — in a wheel chair, wearing a leg brace, and, I am told, the company of a bodyguard, who apparently was so good at his job I didn’t even notice he was there.

Christopher Mallick: Sorry for the bum leg here.

Premium Hollywood: Did you have an accident?

CM: I did. I tripped and broke my knee and my ankle.

PH: Ooh. I sprained my ankle recently and that was bad enough.

CM: It’s not fun.

PH: Okay. Obviously ["Middle Men"] is largely based on your life experiences. I’ve read on the Internet that you were telling a lot of hilarious stories, but they all were off-the-record, they couldn’t be told. I need to know what we can talk about, on the record.

CM: Anything you say with that recorder is on the record.

PH: That’s very true. Of course, I’m presuming that you didn’t actually cover up the murder of a Russian gangster.

CM: (Smiling) Not as far as you know.

PH: Or [accidentally] got involved with underage…

CM: No. We were actually very instrumental in stopping a lot of child porn. We were one of the original funding entities for a large web group that’s out fighting for children’s rights and protecting children on the Internet. We’ve actually worked with the FBI. We had an office with the FBI within our office and we actually recovered children as a result of some of the work that we did.

PH: That’s very good. I’m trying to remember the name of that organization. Believe it not I’m actually aware of them.

CM: ASACP…

PH: I actually interviewed there once.

CM: Really. It’s Joan Irvine [who's] the woman who started it.

PH: So, as much as you can, tell us, what is the real story of “Middle Men”?

CM: I think generally as you see it in the film it’s portraying my life fairly accurately during a 5-6 year period in terms of what happened to me economically, socially, in pretty much most of the areas of my life. Of course, George Gallo and Andy Weiss, who wrote the script, exaggerated certain things and made things far more interesting and more cinematic than just a guy sitting down and saying, “Hey, guess what happened to me?” or what I did. So, I think that it’s based on a true story, but it doesn’t mean it’s all true. A lot of the characters are composites of people I’ve known and some made up out of whole cloth by the writers.

PH: So, to try to sort of tease things apart…One thing that was interesting to me about the movie was that the Luke Wilson character… he’s a straight arrow, but he does work with [sketchy individuals]. First we see him with the character played by Robert Forster, who loves to kneecap people. Later on, he doesn’t seem too nervous about getting involved with this very scary Russian gangster [played by Rade Serbedzija]. Was that something that you would have been comfortable doing?

CM: You know, I’ve had a wide and varied set of experiences in my life. I learned a long time ago, especially from my father, you can deal with all sorts of people. It’s what you do in your dealings with them. You can deal with gangsters and not break the law. People do it every single day, all over the world. If you have a store in New York City, somebody’s picking up your trash. Those guys may or may not be affiliated with some other industries that may or may not be illegal. Does that make you a part of organized crime because you’re paying someone $500.00 a week to pick up your garbage at your 500 square foot store in Soho? I think the answer is “no.” It’s just part of your life. I sort of view things that way. It’s what I do is what I’m responsible for. I don’t feel like and I know certainly that I haven’t done anything to my knowledge that’s illegal. But I’ve dealt with some rough guys and I’ve dealt with some very professional and nice people and everyone in between.

PH: Of course, in the entertainment industry, aside from the adult industry, there’s a long tradition of [involvement by organized crime].

CM: The entertainment industry is made up of saints. All we do is tell the truth 24/7, and when we leave our offices, we go home to our families, and then we give money to charity. That’s it, that’s all that happens with these guys.

PH: Well, tell us one of your favorite stories that you actually can tell.

CM: I think the terrorist plot in the film [in which G-Man Kevin Pollak recruits the Luke Wilson character to gather intelligence on Middle Eastern bad actors] while it’s a little askew from what happened [is one]. An interesting story is right after 9/11, CNN ran a list of the [hijackers] and people who had tickets who they suspected of being [hijackers]. Back then — this is ten years ago now — we recorded it and I took it into one of my partners and said, “Let’s run these names through our database.”

He said, “You’re crazy.” “Let’s just see what happens.” We had a hit and it was a guy that subsequently was arrested. One of the [hijackers] who went down with the plane had bought a membership to a site with an online check. We traced the check to a bank in San Diego, called the FBI, who was down the hall from us, and said, “We have a hit.” These guys are apparently sitting in an apartment, ordering pizza and porn on their way to meet Allah…I have a great deal of respect for anyone’s belief, but that takes it a little far. [Anyhow], they found the check, went to the apartment, found the phone record, found the cell phone number that one of these guys was using. One of the would-be bombers in Chicago was holed up in the Hyatt in Downtown Chicago and the FBI raided it, on CNN, and arrested this guy. I think it helped in some other things. So, that to me was one of the more interesting aspects of my career. It was always the same story. No one had ever bought online porn. No one ever used their credit card to buy anything. I would go into a car dealership, for example, and I would have my company logo on my polo shirt or whatever. I’d see the salesman. They look at the shirt, they look at the name of the company, and then you’d see a light go off. Then they’d realized, “Oh, that’s the name I see on my credit card bill.” I think the terrorist story and things like that sort of speak to what the movie is based in, which is hypocrisy. Everybody’s saying one thing and doing something else. For me, the theme of the movie is hypocrisy, and redemption.

PH: Speaking of being honest, I have gone to certain sites…

CM: No, say it’s not true.

PH: And seen ads for the movie.

CM: Yeah.

PH: You guys are advertising — or somebody’s advertising — really heavily on free porn sites.

CM: I think it’s the porn community. Because, to my knowledge, we’re not writing any checks. Paramount certainly isn’t. But I think you’ve got people that see this is a movie that’s going to promote their business and promote traffic. The trailer is pretty amazing. So, we’ll see. I have seen e-mails from people saying, “Hey, what’s this about?” As far as I’m concerned, great. Those people buy tickets. The same guy whose going to “Toy Story 3” is going to come to “Middle Men.”

PH: One of the things which is not specific to porn is that you and your partners really did revolutionize e-commerce. This is a huge part of our economy now.

CM: I think it’s something everyone takes for granted. Kids now, and even people my age, you forget when you couldn’t by something online. The technology that was developed as a result of this business and being able to do things in real time. You’d go to Amazon when they first started and you’d buy something and they’d say it’s going to be shipped, and then two-days later you’d get an e-mail saying your credit card’s been declined, because they weren’t doing real-time transactions. This business, because of the volume, set up all the fraud parameters for Visa and Mastercard… The money that is generated from this industry is put back into a lot of technology and research and development by the people developing the content. And it’s for one purpose, to keep more of the sales than they had in the past. It’s evolved to the point where we worked actively with Visa and Mastercard for setting up rules for how e-commerce would work and what they would allow and what they wouldn’t.

PH: But now you’re a movie producer.

CM: I am.

PH: One of the things we want to talk about before I forget is the documentary, “Exxxit” with three Xs…

CM: “Life After Porn”

PH: What is the story on that right now?

CM: It’s going to be released in October, I believe, in New York and L.A., maybe a few other markets and then we’ll do a day-and-date video-on-demand release through a distributor that we’re working with. We’re getting pretty good feedback on it. We think it’s very interesting. We’ll have a press screening or two for it and have all you guys come out. It’s a very interesting account of what happens to these people who were actually performers, actors, however you chose to characterize it.

PH: Are you in the film at all?

CM: No. It’s all “BC”: “Before Chris.”

PH: Can you name any big names that we might know who’ll be in it?

CM: 15 or 20 including Mary Carey, Houston, Nina Hartley, Asia Carerra. Their stories are amazing and heartbreaking and interesting. As odd as it sounds it’ll tug at your heartstrings if you have them.

PH: Oh, that’s not so odd.

Just when you think you heard it all.....

A lot of people multitask while driving, for better or worse. I think this is a scenario which would fall under “worse.” 36-year-old Colondra Hamilton was pulled over for a tinted 2008 Pontiac. And what police found inside was shocking.
 
Officers allege that after pulling her over for a traffic stop, they noticed that Hamilton, a Cincinnati woman, had her pants unbuttoned along with a vibrator in her lap.

After police questioned her, Hamilton allegedly admitted to masturbating while driving as well as watching a porno movie that was playing on the laptop of her friend sitting in the car’s passenger seat.

In addition to charges of “driving with impaired alertness,” Hamilton was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after police found a “broken piece of crack pipe” in her purse.

Hollywood’s big wigs are waking up to the purity and simplicity of young love. The new Rob Reiner movie, Flipped, is just that. "Flipped" is a movie that explores the return to the simplicity of first love as a teenager along with great family values, in a story that everyone can relate to.  

Rob Reiner and actress Madeline Carroll will be featured on a live video chat this Thursday, August 26 at 7pm ET on Facebook as well as on the home page of XXXchurch.com

RSVP on Facebook: bitly.com/flippedlivechat

Plot:
When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows its love. But Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. But if Juli finally looks away, will it be Bryce's turn to be dazzled? Flipped takes Bryce and Juli from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make the discoveries that will define who they are - and who they are to each other.

Directed by all In the Family star ROB REINER (director of such films as: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle (Meg Ryan), Misery, The Princess Bride, Rumor Has It, The American President, and A Few Good Men).

Callan McAuliffe will play Bryce while Madeline Carroll will play Juli. Aidan Quinn and Penelope Ann Miller will take the roles of Juli's parents, and Kevin Weisman has been given the role of Juli's mentally disabled Uncle, while Shane Harper and Michael Bolten will play her two brothers. Anthony Edwards and Rebecca De Mornay will play Bryce's parents, and John Mahoney will take on the role of his Grandfather.

Never heard from her, but did hear from another porn star who wanted out that read the letter on Facebook. Here is something I just read about Montana and a video clip.

For Montana Fishburne, losing her virginity was a little like choosing the red pill in "The Matrix." Once she tasted the body, she could never go back.

Lawrence Fishburne's wayward 18-year-old daughter is opening up about her first-ever foray into the world of porn, telling E! News in an exclusive interview that she viewed making her own X rated tapes as liberating.

"I'd say about 16. I lost my virginity and the whole sexual world sparked my interest," Fishburne tells E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic.

And while she said she can see how Kim Kardashian's sex tape launched the reality star's career even though Kim didn't want it released, the difference is Montana really does want to do porn, not just to break into showbiz but because she really likes it.

"I think it was just wanting to explore sexuality," she added. "Cause I know it's such a big world I was just like, wow, well since I like sex ... I wanted to see everything that I would like, every kind of fantasy I would like and porn is a way that I could explore that."

Fishburne's reportedly not a total stranger to commercialized sex. Last year, the aspiring adult film star was busted for allegedly prostituting herself but reportedly cut a deal with prosecutors who dropped solicitation and prostitution charges in exchange for her pleading no contest to misdemeanor criminal trespass and entering a work-alternative program.

It would seem porn's a better (not to mention safer) bet career-wise.

Fishburne's adult video debut, aptly titled "Montana Fishburne," is being released by  later this month.

© 2010 E! Entertainment Television, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

DAY ONE

Just wanted to send an update on the Ohio strip club outreach. After much prayer, we felt the Lord calling us to spend all weekend with the girls. We arrived at the club at 12:30am and met outside by the local church protesters. We said, “hi” as  we passed them to enter the club, but didn’t communicate any further. We were greeted at the door by the girls and they welcomed us in with open arms! There is a total of 7 girls who work there (but only 6 were present). They brought us into the dressing room where we spent the next 2 hours sharing Jesus’ Love with them!!! They were sharing the pain they were experiencing through this church and telling us disappointing things that have been said to them.

We continued to let them know that God Loves them and that is not the heart of Jesus. Surprisingly enough, they were totally open to hearing and receiving all we had to say. We thought that they were probably so turned off by the church that they might cringe at the very mention of Jesus…. but it was quite the opposite. These precious women were hungry and told us that all of the hateful things said to them didn’t seem like something God “who is suppose to Love them” would say. The girls thanked us repeatedly for coming and were very touched by the gifts, love, & gesture…. this outreach was MORE than amazing!! It was a total God-thing!

We established great new friendships with the girls and they realized that the Love of Jesus was a gift for them! Tomorrow night we will be returning with dinner for the girls. We are planning on being there from 7:30-9:30pm Eastern time (4:30-6:30pm Pacific time). Please pray during this time because we are certain something even bigger is going to happen!! After leaving the club, God pressed upon our hearts to offer them the free gift of salvation (now that they have received His Love). We are so excited to see what God is going to do; we can’t wait to go back!!

DAY 2

We do believe that we are suppose to talk to the pastor (as of now) because God can change things around through Love. Please pray for wisdom and discernment and that every word spoken out of our mouths is only from the Lord and not our flesh. We want to bring the heart of Jesus to this pastor and to the church as well. I thought that we were here for the girls, but maybe God wants to use us to help bring His Love to the church as well. Thank you very much, as always, for your prayers and support!!

Tonight is one of the greatest nights in our lives!!!! We brought pizza to the Foxhole for the girls and also brought some for the church protesters too. The church was not there when we arrived so we left their pizza in the car. We went into the club and were blessed by flowers & cards from the girls!!! We had such a wonderful night with them. God spoke into us and then we spoke into them. It was so not us, which made it very supernatural. Two of the precious girls gave their lives to the Lord and a few rededicated their relationship with Him!!! Yea God!!! We just LOVE these beautiful girls with ALL of our hearts and pray a special blessing on them and their families.

When we left the club, Pastor Bill and some of the men from the church were there. We were so happy to see them and give them the pizza that we had brought for them. We were able to share with them a little about our ministry and the heart God has given us for HIS precious daughters. They were excited about us being there and the Lord gave us a really special heart for these men… it was the same heart He gives us for the girls!!! We just loved them! He gave us a chance to pray together and pray for Pastor Bill which was a huge blessing! Pastor Bill invited us to their church tomorrow and is going to allow us to share what God can do through HIS LOVE and AMAZING GRACE for the entire service!!!

We are so excited!!! We invited the girls from the club into the church to be there as well, and prayerfully they will accept and the heart and LOVE of Jesus will not only transform the church & the girls, but the community as well! Praise God for what HE is doing and continues to do!!!

DAY 3

Praise, Honor, and Glory to God for what HE DID IN WARSAW OHIO TODAY!! Anny & I were invited to speak to the church this Sunday at The New Life Ministries Church. We were met by our beautiful new friends from the Foxhole Strip Club. We exchanged huge hugs and were so excited to see them again. We also got a chance to meet the strip club owner Tommy and give him a gift! We invited the girls into the church to listen to the message God had given us to give to the church, but said that they did not feel welcomed in and as much as they wanted to go inside, they didn’t.

Anny and I showed up with nothing but the Holy Spirit and the Love of Jesus and were able to share our testimony, stories, and hearts with this beautiful church. God Rocked the House!! Tears were flowing, repentance, grace, and forgiveness was taken place, and the Heart of the Father and His Love was being released to His Church. After Anny prayed an amazing prayer, we invited the church to help CHANGE THE FACE OF CHRISTIANITY by standing with us and truly LOVING God’s Beautiful Girls just as Jesus would. The entire church stood with us and God was PLEASED!!!! There was an overflow of the Love of Jesus onto His people, who were now ready to take that same Love and pour it into their community beginning with the precious dancers.

As the church left the building, they became Jesus in Flesh and the Love of the Father poured out all over these girls as they began to Love them, hug them, and seek forgiveness from them!!! Our Sweet Lola was broken and afraid to trust the church. Pastor Bill Hugged her and held her and promised with all his heart he was not gonna fail her. He prayed for her and it was AMAZING!! I saw my beautiful Lola Smile from ear to ear for the very first time!!!

This whole community was touched and reached today because they received the message Jesus had for them, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Pastor Bill and Strip Club Owner Tommy allowed the Love and Grace of Jesus to heal their relationship and they made peace with one another! They are going to have lunch on Wednesday! Praise be to God and we give Him all Honor and Praise for what HE DID here in Warsaw Ohio this weekend!!! The VICTORY HAS BEEN WON!!! THE WAR IS OVER!! PRAISE OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

We will be at a church in Dallas for the weekend (still TBD what church) and doing lots of stuff around Dallas that week. We have 7 billboards rented around the city and will have the blue elephant and many other suprises.

Anyone want to go to the game? We are giving away a trip to the Superbowl plus hotel for two nights ( Saturday and Sunday) and a front row seat with us for all the PornSunday festivities at the church that weekend. Your football seat won't be front row...sorry.

Here is how you win.  Sign up the most churches for PornSunday. The person who is responsible for signing the most churches of for National PornSunday will win this.

Tell everyone you know about it and then have them sign up and when they sign up @ www.pornsunday.com make sure they put your name and your email on the question that says "How did you hear about PornSunday?". That is all.

The contest ends January 15th, 2011. So get at it.

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The folks over at OkCupid have performed a little study where they analyze photography from a numerical angle. The finding we found most interesting is that iPhone users have more sex than other smartphone users.

The above chart compares the number of sexual partners of 30 year olds who use an iPhone, Blackberry, or Android phone. They also broke down the data of the number of sexual partners by age. The iPhone wins on that chart too.

The mathematical part of me has to ask, are iPhone users attracting more partners because they use an iPhone, or is that that these people prefer iPhones (perhaps because of all those dating apps)? In the chance that it’s the former, any Android users ready to make the switch?

[OkCupid via Daring Fireball, Andy Baio]

Some church people do some crazy things. Some Churches sometimes even do stupider things. PROTESTING DOES NOT WORK. I have to say I think this is pretty comical and these strippers gave the church a taste of their own medicine. What do you think?

The dancers at the Foxhole in Coschocton County, Ohio, are used to arriving at work to the sounds of protests from members of the nearby New Beginnings Ministries church. But the same couldn't quite be said for the churchgoers, who showed up for services on Sunday and were greeted by the sight of bikini-clad protesters.

For the last four years, the pastor at New Beginnings has led a protest outside the Foxhole every weekend. Beyond just voicing their disapproval of the strip joint, the church members also videotape the license plates of the bar's patrons and then post the info online.

So the crew at the Foxhole decided to give the churchgoers a taste of their own medicine, sitting outside the church in skimpy outfits and cooling each other down with Super Soakers as they grilled up burgers.

They also held signs with Bible quotes like:
Matthew 7:15: Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing
Revelations 22:11: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still

The strip club's owner has unsuccessfully tried to sue the church for their protests, but now he's hoping that this table-flipping will help to put an end to things.

"When these morons go away, we'll go away," he said. "The great thing about this country is that everyone has a right to believe what they want."

One of the Foxhole dancers, a married mother-of-six, says the protesters outside the strip club every weekend are ill-informed:

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These church people say horrible things about us... They say we're homewreckers and whores. The fact of the matter is, we're working to keep our own homes together, to give our kids what they need.

”

The New Beginnings pastor counters that he and the other protesters aren't there to condemn the dancers, but to offer them a way out. "I tell them, 'I will put a roof over your heads, and your bills will be paid, and your children's bellies will be full,'" he explains.

The pastor says the protests outside his church of only served to confirm the churchgoers' feelings. "They have now seen the evil firsthand," he says. "This has just made us stronger."

The Foxhole owner sees things differently. "They're just mad," he said, "because their wives won't let them come to my club."

FULL STORY FOUND HERE

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Run Las Vegas Marathon or half-Marathon with TeamXXXchurch.com

You might have already heard, we have started a brand new effort call TeamXXXchurch.com. Our aim is to raise awareness about our battle against pornography and it's devastating control over millions of people's lives. At the same time, we are raising money to support this cause we so believe in.

Here is a great opportunity for you to join our brand new team in Las Vegas on Dec. 5. We are currently recruiting and plan to have our 50 people on our team for this year's race.

You don't have to be a super athlete to participate.

Last year, over 36,000 people were participants in the half-marathon and marathon.
There were 1000's more cheering them on.

This year we plan to have a huge impact on all of those people who are coming out to our home town. Sharing the light and love of Jesus right in and on the Las Vegas strip.

Join us... It's going to be a killer weekend.

Our staff and some of our board members will all be involved. We plan to throw a great party the night before for everyone involved. PLUS we have some incentives to help keep you motivated and engaged.

Click here to sign-up or get more details.

I don't know what you will end up doing but would love it if you would reconsider. I met a girl named Kristina a few years back after doing a few porns she said to me " i know God is mad at me but I will get back to him later…after I make a lot of money".  I told her and will tell you that God is not mad at you if you decide to do porn, I just believe he has something better for you.

You choose to make a video and this will be something you can never get rid of. The images, screen shots, video clips will never disappear. Your kids and grandkids will all search away on google and see you fully exposed one day.  This is the story of a woman we helped transition out of porn a few years ago named Wendy.  Wendy thought she was happy and in control until her 10 year old son came home hysterically crying in the middle of the night from a slumber party because unbeknownst to him some of his buddies had found his mother's porn videos on the internet and couldn't wait to show him and everyone else at the party.  Wendy left the industry after that but her kids have had an extremely hard time trying to move on.  This decision doesn't just affect you.  It will affect all the people around you as well as all those that look up to you.  

I don't know the guy that is involved but I am sure there is someone that has told you this is a great thing and will be good for your career. I disagree that it is good for anyone's career but beyond your career this is not a good move for you and your life.

I debate Ron Jeremy on college campuses all the time. He always hates responding to the question "What would you do if you had a daughter and she got into porn?" It takes him about 15 minutes to answer that question. He does not really know how to answer it. He can't say he would not allow it but what he does say is "it would not be my first choice for her". I don't know your dad but there has been a huge amount of interest in this story because of his notoriety. Like Ron, I am sure this is not his first choice for you.

I met with a girl on Sunday who has done 300 plus videos over the last 10 years. She has made a lot of money.  She granted media interviews over the years where she spoke so eloquently and educated- she was (to a point) convincing that she was proud of her "adult entertainment" decision and that it had not affected her negatively, that she was in control, the money enabled her to do the things she wanted to do and she was content.   Here we are 9 years after that first interview and she is broken and facing a life trying to not be noticed, trying to deal with the fact that her own family doesn't want her around their children, trying to deal with the fact that unlike most people she can't just start over somewhere else with a clean slate where her past won't follow her to whatever town she tries to settle down in because she IS recognizable.  She is empty.  Most of the women that leave the industry doubt that any man would even want to settle down and start a family with a woman that most men can watch having sex  by doing an internet search.  We know women who were very well known in the industry walk away because it is an empty and dead-end street.  Of all the men and women we've met who have left the industry whether they were well known names with "connections" or not were never successful in removing content from the internet once it was out there.  We even know a woman who left the industry in 2006 that has a website still operating in her name that not one lawyer has been successful in the last 4 years to remove because essentially- she sold all rights to the content and use of her name.... FOREVER.   There is no time limit in porn.  

I believe you are better than that.  I believe God has plans for your life that far surpass anything porn can offer and I had to at least try to convey these things to you.  Whether you decide to do this or not is up to you, I just hope that I've given you some things to really think about that would at least cause you to reconsider.

Whatever you choose, we are here for you at XXXchurch if you ever need anything.

God Bless,

Craig Gross

WTF: It’s not WHAT; it’s WHY

Today, in conjunction with heartsupport.com we are launching a brand new progressive abstinence campaign called WTF.info

We deal with all sorts of addictions. There are many things we can tell people about sex. At some point we will address aspects of sex and sexual addiction. To start, we decided to encourage people who are not married to wait to have sex.

We’re sick of seeing campaign after campaign saying; “Sex is bad! Don’t do it!” without giving any real reasoning as to why.

In the culture we live in today, people say that sex is a lot of things:
 
Sex is bad.
 
Sex is cheap.
 
Sex isn’t a big deal.

Sex is how you get what you want.

We want to be a voice that says something different:
 
Sex is awesome.
 
Sex was made for marriage.
 
So please, take a moment to head over to the site and take a second to ask yourself… WTF?

WTF is progressive abstinence education and a program of heartsupport.com.

When you get to the site you will see two options WHAT/WHY.

Just so we're clear on this... most of the WHAT section is a joke.

No, really.

In the WHAT section we want to take a second to go through every that has been and is being done in the world of abstinence education... from celeb sex scandal videos to STD scare tactics, we wanted to get it all in to one place so that we could take you on a journey through what ISN'T working. 

And, I mean, hey, with t-shirts that say things like "Virginity Rocks!" it's no wonder abstinence is a joke.

But after you take some time to go over what's wrong, head over the WHY section and spend some time considering what we can start doing right.

Explore the site. Get educated. Join the movement.

WTF?

....Oh.. my favorite part the music player at the top....

We finally have it. A XXXchurch book for WOMEN and a XXXchurch book for MEN. These officially hit stores September 1 but we have instant downloads of the PDF available NOW for only $10 bucks. We have small group kits as well. Check out www.eyesofintegrity.com to purchase. Here is a bit about each book.

Join us on to strengthen your community, equip your church, empower people to battle America’s dirty little secret of pornography.

In addition to tons of great resources to equip you and your church to confront the elephant in the pew, this year we’re including the opportunity to be part of a Virtual Simulcast. Download a half hour video message with me (Craig Gross) along with a few of our friends in the NFL.

Register your church for FREE @ www.pornsunday.com

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Here is the trailer for the event:

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Here is an email from Bill, who I met this weekend in Ohio. We just interviewed him on this weeks podcast, so check that out. Please pray for Bill and his family.

This is the end of Porn Blvd. ....Craig

My first time I was introduced to porn was when I was about 11. My friend who lived down the street who was the same age, was apparently allowed to have it. He lived with his mom, and in his room there was porn all over the place. It was never hidden, so I would believe that his mom had to know. And since his dad was no where to be found, where else would he be getting it from? Anyways, I had already been masturbating since I was 7 or so, not really knowing why, but I was. When i first saw this porn at my friends house, I was instantly hooked. I was practically living over is house, just so I could be around it constantly, and when I couldn't be there, I would "borrow" it and take it home and hide it. Porn changed my whole perception on what the world was really like. It made me think that all men and women were put on this earth for my pleasure. Being exposed to porn at such an early age, made drastic changes in my life, all for the bad of course! When I was 14 or so, I got my first computer. Back then it was BBS websites, nothing like it is today, but I was still seeking porn, or people. And I was still masturbating atleast 2-3 times a day. When I got to be about 16, and I got my first car, I would find myself picking up the free newspapers and looking for the porn ads and calling them, porn was in my head 24/7. I began "dating", but all it really was was picking up anyone I could just to have sex with them, and then rushing home to look at porn and mmasturbate again. My need for porn was out of control, even at the age of 17. After awhile, just the "normal" porn wasn't good enough. I was seeking more taboo subjects, or people. I would look at people and never think,oh they are nice people, I would look at them and sexualize them in my mind, just like I had seen in the porno's. I went to college and when I graduated, I began a career as a corrections officer. I passed all the tests with flying colors, I thought it was funny how I hid my addiction and now I was working for a police department! When I was 22 or so, I got the real internet as it exists today. Between cyber sex, porn sites, and emails, I could not get enough! Somewhere along the line, my porn addiction dipped into the child pornography. As I have told many people, the child pornography, to me, was never about sex. It was just another image to feed my addiction. I never talked to a underage person, or tried to meet an underage person, as we so frequently hear these days. But I did view and trade with other people child porn. I knew I had a problem and prayed to God to help me. And He did! I am currently awaiting sentencing on Feb. 3, 2006 in US Federal Court for possesion and distribution of child porn. And I am grateful!!!! I am facing some serious time in prison, but I am not bitter in the least. It's not like you can ask God to fix something under your terms, this is what He wants, and I will do as He asks. I have been using your monitoring program for about 2 months now, it is awesome, and I'm so grateful that you provide it free, since I am financially in ruins due to my pending incarceration. I went to my 12-step meeting this morning (saturday) and found out that your group will be coming to Willoughby Hills, Ohio next weekend, and I am anxious to go! I wish there was a way, I could help people realize just how horrible it really can get. I so grateful for people like you willing to make a stand and try to help others.

See you next week!

Bill

Here is a follow up email after our meeting!

I have been anxiously awaiting your email. I know you are very busy, so I just waited, and prayed that you would remember me. I would definetly be willing to share my story with your show, but if we could schedule it maybe for next wed.?..  I think I told you before about my mother in law who is dying of stage 4 cancer, Beth (my wife) and I have been at the Cleveland Clinic almost all of yesterday, and we just came home today with her mom, so we are very very tired. Not to mention, I have to work tonight, but in no means am I trying to get out of it. I would love to share my story. In fact, last sunday night I went back to the church for their Victory Over Porn Celebration, and I got up in front of about 400 absolute strangers and told them how pornography has effected my life. I even went as far as telling them about my role and future consequences of my viewing of child pornography. The people there were blown away, because I was so candid. I know societies view on "people like me" who view child pornography, but as I told you before, I feel God has answered my prayers for help, and I am not ashamed of telling others, if I can help them go down the road I have. I was so nervous getting up in front of the congregation, I really wanted to, but I was afraid/nervous. I said a small prayer to God, asking him if he really wanted me to talk, I would, and the next thing you know, I was standing in line to speak! As I told you before, and I like to make this clear, because I am not trying to minimize my victims, but I do not have direct victims. I never tried to meet a child under 18, nor did I ever talk to someone under 18. I just ad this because I feel it is important. I am going to be labeled a sexual offender through my sentencing, and in today's society a sex offender is a child rapist, or a potential child abducter. I can't help what society feels, but I can only act as my own model for what I know I am, and am not. Sorry to be rambling on, but I am so happy to hear from you. When I was finished speaking, I felt this awesome power come over me, and it could only be the power of God, I have no other opinion on it. With out your awesome group coming to that church, I would have never expierienced it. THANK YOU! Many people came up to me afterwards and said they would pray for me, not to mention how they were amazed at my candidness. But I told them the same thing I told you. If I can help just one person from going through what I have then it's all worth it, and hopefully, they can gain an attraction to God, like I have, because without God, nothing is possible. I want you to know, I truly appreciate you personally talking to me, and emailing me. I now I keep saying it, but I am truly grateful to meet you! My wife and I are going through a terrible time, but we are blessed by awesome family and friends. As I said before, Beth's mom is not well and needs 24hr. care. She is on a feeding tube, and will never eat or drink anything again. She had a tumor in her esophagus to her stomach, and all of it was removed in I believe August of 2005, and was doing very well until December of 2005, when she was rediagnosed. The cancer had came back to her throat, and then she shoulders, tailbone, and an adreanal gland. Her time with us is very limited, according to her doctor. We are doing what we can for her, she lives with us, and we have her under hospice care as well. We take it one day at a ime with her. My wife's employer has been wonderful throughout all of this.Beth is an insurance agent. She had taken all of her sick time and vacation time to care for her mom. Once her time was gone, she was taking time off without pay, but her employer, through the Grace of God, has paid her for that time, just recently. The girls that work in her office have also volunteered for the last three weeks, to make dinners for us, and from what I understand it is still continuing. The dinners have been such a blessing since Beth's mom is so sensitive to smells and what not, it makes it hard to cook in our home. As I told you when I met with you last saturday, I used to be a correction officer for a local police department. As soon as I was under investigation, I  lost my job. This was a huge financial impact. Since June of 2004 when I first became under investigation, I've sold my home and moved into a mobile home. It is alot smaller, than what I had, but I'm not complaining. My attorney has taken any and all of any savings I had. To do it all again, I would have not gotten this attorney, he has taken about $45,000 so far. He is good at what he does, but just kind of pricey. I appreciate your concern for my wife and I and our situation, financially, emotionally, and others. I am not asking for anything, but my chance to help you spread my story, and help other's. Prayers are always welcome. I hope that I don't go to prison, but if I do, I would still want to stay in contact with you, and do whatever I can! I would appreciate the gentleman from Cleveland if he wanted to come in support on Feb. 3rd. My sentencing is at 10am. He can email me or call me, or him and I can meet as well. Craig, anytime you want to call me please feel free to do so. I'm still smiling from ear to ear just from hearing from you! And I would love to share with you on your show, just this wednesday is not a good day.

We will have people there with Bill and his family on February 3rd....
Craig

We added a sidebar on the XXXchurch site if you scroll down you will see something that says "Recent Confessions". Everyday people send in confessions to XXXchurch. We hope this serves as on of the first steps that people take in getting rid of the sin in their life. The next step we would suggest is to share this with a friend, not just complete strangers.

One of the things about porn is it makes you feel like you are all alone. If you are struggling, we hope you see that is a lie. There are almost 4,000 confessions on the site of people (MEN, WOMEN, SPOUSES, PASTORS, TEENS) just like you that are struggling.

You can see the latest confessions on the side of the home page as well as on the CONFESSIONS page or on all the get help pages there is a link.

I just read this one right now and love the fact that he said he is going to God. God is faithful to forgive us.

I am not passionate about attending porn shows or holding conferences on porn but I am passionate about people, especially hurting people.That motivates me to go to porn shows, hand out Bibles and meet with pastors about helping people inside and outside of their buildings walls.

I have spent a lot of time praying and going over this vision that has been set out for Canada. I will be up front and say it has been overwhelming all too often. So many people to reach, so few resources.

Last month I had the privilege of finally meeting Craig Gross, who started this whole thing called XXXchurch. I shared a bit with him about how limited I felt. Canada does not have the mega-churches with mega-budgets that they have in the US, or half the population for that matter. He told me something very wise, he said all it takes is one passionate person. He told me about a church plant that is sponsoring the New York porn show and the plant isn't even a year old yet. Those are people passionate about reaching out.

This brings me to my original question then, what are you passionate about? If you are passionate about people then we need you. We need prayer warriors, we need fundraisers, we need team members. If you are passionate about people then we have a place for you. God has given you talents – use them. Don't let fear or finances stand in the way of allowing God to use you. You won't regret it.

July 18, 2010 marked the beginning of Team XXXchurch as we completed the Vineman 70.3 half Ironman Triathlon. Many months ago the idea was fresh and untested - would it work for a organization battling porn to break into the endurance world to raise funding and awareness? Absolutely YES! This last week our team, made up primarily of men who had no previous connection to the ministry, raised over $12,000 and completed a 70.3 mile triathlon. Our goal was to raise awareness to the ministry and to raise funds for the ministry.

As Sunday morning neared 6AM our team arrived and prepared for the event. We were all wearing our new team jersey's and ready to fight the battle in front of us. In each wave members of our 8 man team started the journey standing tall for an organization we all believe impacts a forgotten segment of the world. There were a number of times during the race that I reflected on the battle many face each every day to stay free or to break free from the world of pornogrpahy. Having attended a number of porn shows with XXXchurch, the desperate eyes of the so many women caught in the world of porn inspired me to press ahead.

After the swim and the ride I was running the final 13.1 miles when I connected with a man out on the street. He asked me (as he ran past me) what X3 stood for and I briefly explained the mission of XXXchurch. He yelled back, "I thought that might be you guys!" I believe that as we do more events we will see an increase in participation by people we have never known or touched. In my mind, the Vineman 70.3 is just the first event of many.

We had amazing individual sponsors who jumped on board and supported the team as well as a number of companys. We are thankful to all of them, including: Safe Eyes, Internet Safety, Bridgeway Christian Church, Electrical Design, Simms Chiropractic, William Baker Law Offices, Synergy Brokerage, and HeartSupport.com.

Check out our Flickr pictures and sign up today for one of our events coming up...Thanks Team, you all did an amazing job!

Source Sex Addiction

I just got back from an amazing vacation with the family. We flew straight from our vacation to New Orleans. I am currently staying right on Bourbon Street surrounded by 40,000 teenagers. This is not Mardi Gras this is for a youth conference. Kind of a crazy place for a national youth gathering. If you don't know about Bourbon Street read more about it here.

I was here 9 years ago for the same event. Excited to be back. I get to speak three times to about 12,000 kids. My good friends David Dean and Jason Harper are speaking as well. 

Back to Vegas late Tuesday night.

Apple probably needs a laugh about now, and this might be giving them one.  After all, Apple CEO Steve Jobs once famously said that "Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone." This Ann Arbor, Michigan woman didn't buy an Android phone for porn, but got it anyway, and preloaded to boot.

The reason that Rhonda Lee ended up with porn on her phone is that the HTC EVO 4G she bought wan't new. She bought it from a third-party (read: not corporate) Sprint store, and they said it was new, but that was obviously not the case.

There were five video clips on the phone, some as long as 12 minutes. Worse, Lee ended up discovering the clips when she was showing the device, which has been sold out for a great deal of its "lifespan," to co-workers.

Lee tried to return it to the third party store, but employees first denied that the phone had been used. Later, they 'fessed up and said it had been returned by another customer. Meanwhile, Lee is still looking for an apology from Sprint (realistically, it's unclear why as this is obviously not a corporate store), the Sprint corporate offices told her she could get a replacement phone at one of their stores.