Mike Bryan Maxwell

Mike Maxwell lives in Portland Oregon with his wife Heidi. They have 4 kids, a loving black lab named Beau and a temperamental black cat named Sadie. Mikes history includes 7 years on staff with a large and growing 4,000+ member church, 2 years as a Director with Pure Life Alliance and he currently works as the Director of Operations for Pure Desire Ministries International but that isn't what qualified him to write this book. He explains...

"I've been a sex addict most of my life. I was addicted to pornography while I was on church staff and I've been divorced twice. I consider the majority of my life a failure, absorbed in my own self-centered-ness and pain....but Jesus changed everything.

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The turning point began with a simple prayer. The spiritual battle became reality when I found myself living in a hotel over the Christmas Holidays trying to hide my addiction and failing marriage from my parents, in-laws, friends, co-workers and church family.

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It was this crisis that God used to show me how much he loved me. Within a year I lost my wife and step daughter to my second divorce. God had my attention like never before. Over the next few years he taught me how much he hates sexual sin and how it is destroying the church, his bride. He showed me it is his desire that the men and women of church be free from this sin, and they MUST be. The book "The Purity Driven Life" came out of this experience. The book is not my story or my testimony, but what God taught me.

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In the years since, I have remarried to a beautiful kindergarten teacher who loves Jesus with all her heart. I currently lead a purity groups each week and am involved in purity ministry at my home church, Good Shepherd Christian Church in Boring Oregon.

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God redeems broken lives and there is hope if you are willing to repent and enter the fight. If not, it will cost you more than you can imagine. The Purity Driven Life is about your destiny as a man of godly character and integrity. Come join the battle. You aren't alone in this struggle."

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Before I went through suffering, I went down the wrong path. But now I obey your word. Psalm 119: 67

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Fight. Every. Day. Mike