Who is Tony Ingrassia?

Tony Ingrassia is an author, speaker, pastor, and entrepeneur. The pictures below represent some of the things he loves most, including his wife, his family, and the great outdoors! After becoming a Christian as a teenager, he studied for ministry at Florida Bible College, where he was elected student body president and graduated in 1979 with a B.A. in Biblical Education and a minor in Theology. Tony earned his Master of Arts in Counseling (M.A.C.) at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis Missouri. Tony is currently a pastor at Discovery Church in St. Peters, Missouri. He also operates Freedom Counseling Sevice, where he specializes in helping men who are struggling with issues of sexual purity. Tony has authored the following books concerning sexual purity: Stories, The Power of Purity, and The Power of Purity Workbook.

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Tony is an entrepreneur who has worked in the remodeling, real estate, and consulting industries. In 1987 he started his own remodeling company and grew it into one of the largest companies of its kind in the Midwest. After selling that company in 1996, he authored various programs designed to help other remodelers improve their businesses and increase their profits.

Tony lives in St. Charles Missouri with his wife, Sheri, and their three sons. He owns a farm in northern Missouri, which allows him to pursue his other interests, including hunting, fishing, and enjoying the great outdoors.

Tony's greatest passion is to share with other Christian men the story of what God has done in his life and his sexuality. Although there was a time Tony had achieved all the trappings of success on the "outside", he was desperate and miserable on the "inside". He had built a successful remodeling business. He was making more money than he ever imagined he would. He had over fifty people working for him. He had healthy children, nice cars, a beautiful home, commercial property, investments and a secure bank account. But despite all these blessings there was a growing desperation in his life as he struggled deeply with his wounded sexuality and failing marriage. Although he had become a Christian when he was sixteen years old, Tony continued to struggle deeply in his ability to honor God with his sexuality. Many negative influences in his early life, including the discovery of pornography, masturbation, ungodly masculine role models, and sexual abuse contributed to the invisible chains that held Tony in places of captivity, and prevented his freedom in the sexual area of life. Through his deep struggle, the evil one literally tried to destroy everything of significance in Tony's life, including his marriage, his family, his finances, his future, his ministry, and his very life. It was only through the process of repentance God required him to walk through that God began to break the chains of captivity as he redeemed Tony's life, sexuality and marriage.

Tony believes there is no greater issue central to manhood, or to masculinity, than the subject of sexuality. It represents one of the deepest and most common struggles for many Christian men, yet there remains a conspicuous silence in the Christian community concerning this important subject. Tony has authored three books in the hope that his story will encourage other men to see that in Christ sexual freedom and victory is really possible.

The first book, The Power of Purity, is intended to help men understand the 6 unholy "roots" that have influenced their sexuality in a harmful way, and to reveal the process of repentance that can forever severe those "roots" to make true freedom possible.

The second book, Stories - The Redemption of One Mans Wounded Sexuality, is the story of Tony's personal journey of sexual sin, struggle, pain, repentance, redemption, and freedom.

The third book, The Power of Purity Workbook, is a workbook designed to help men walk through a process of repentance concerning the sexual area of their lives as they seek the true freedom that only Christ can bring.

Tony can be contacted for further information at tony@powerofpurity.org