Craig Gross

CRAIG GROSS is a pastor and the founder of XXXchurch.com and author of Eyes of Integrity, Pure Eyes, Jesus Loves You This I Know, Starving Jesus , The Dirty Little Secret, The Gutter and Questions You Can’t Ask Your Mama. Craig speaks at a number of church services, colleges, festivals and youth events each year.

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Craig Gross

With so many great things happening in this ministry it can be hard to keep track of it all.  There was our trip down under … Strip Church Training in Dallas … the Porn Kills Tour … and most recently the video launch of Sincerely Freedom  by Nick Vitellaro with over 160,000 views … where do we start? 

2013 has been an incredible year and we are anticipating even more exciting things to...

Join the Launch Team for My New Book!

I have a new book coming out in July called Open: What Happens When You Get Real, Get Honest, and Get Accountable. I need your help to get the word out about its release so I’m asking you to join my launch team. “What is a launch team?”, you ask.  In a nutshell, you will help spread the word about the book, whether it be tweeting, posting on Facebook,...

In March of 2013, Craig Gross, Jeff Bethke and Levi The Poet took off from Washington and drove to California in a Hearse. The XXXchurch #Pornkills tour stopped in 5 cities in 5 night traveling over 2,000 miles and filling up for gas 25 times along the way. The live show is 2 hours long and was shot by 5 cameras and includes spoken word, poetry, Q and A, videos and live messages from each of...

In the #16 edition of XXXchurch Voices we catch up with Chad Johnson. We have known Chad since his days back at Tooth and Nail. Chad runs the Non Profit record label Come&Live. Check out their site for a tone of great music and ministry. 

 

Temptations on the road:

Temptations are everywhere and they’re definitely on the road. For me, the temptation on the road is way less when I’m traveling...

Quotes Recap

by Craig Gross on May 1 2013 in The Haps | Comments

Our theme for April was “Quotes”   If you missed any of the blogs around this theme, below is a compilation for the entire month of April .   We hope you have enjoyed these and that you will join us in this month where our theme for May is:  “Evolution”

Quotes:

 

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Quote - Andy Warhol #2

Quote - Robertson Davies

Quote - Andy Warhol

Quote - Bertrand Russell

Quote - Shirley McClain

Quote -...

May is around the corner! That means summer is almost here. We are excited about the theme that we will be covering on the site in the month of May. We are calling it "Evolution". We have a special video that we are launching to promote this series. 

We started XXXchurch to be a place to help bring sex addiction and porn addiction into the light—speaking candidly and openly in our churches, at...

Family Brokenness

by Craig Gross on April 17 2013 in The Haps | Comments

I have shared with a lot of friends about loosing my dad this past February and how hard that has been. I shared a bit more about him and our story in a message on Family Brokenness at Eastlake Church last month. My buddy Levi The Poet shares at the end of this talk about his father's suicide as well.

Watch below if you are interested.

Last week a few of us flew over to Sydney, Australia. That sounds so simple and easy to fly 7,000 miles away. This was the 5th time we (XXXchurch) have been down under. Our third time we have exhibited at one of the Adult Expos. In addition to holding up a booth at the show, we held a Strip Church training for 15 women from all over Australia and Craig spoke at three different churches on...

Our theme for March was “Confessions”   If you missed any of the blogs around this theme, below is a compilation for the entire month of March.   We hope you have enjoyed these and that you will join us in April for:  “Quotes” where we will expound on the famous quotes of others.  

Confessions:

MEN:

Confession: I am Afraid to Tell My Wife

Confession: I'm Flirting and Getting Close to an...

We hope you have beein enjoying the blogs around the theme for March: "Confessions"

For the month of April we’ll be using the famous words of others as a launching pad for honest discussion about what porn and sex means to us and to our culture.  Here are just a few ideas of what is to come.

  • A man knocking on the door of a brothel is knocking for God. - GK Chesterton
  • A sex symbol becomes a...