The Redeemed Man
The Redeemed Man podcast features interviews with dynamic speakers on a variety of topics affecting men in our competitive, polarized world. Paul Amos, founder of The Redeemed, hosts this podcast in hopes of offering Christian wisdom and insights into many of life’s challenges. Issues ranging from financial and relationship troubles to health problems, addiction, anxiety, and more.
Episodes
129 episodes
Living with the End in Sight with Jerry Wallace
Jerry Wallace has worn many hats over the course of his life—military man (including serving as a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier), student, businessman, college professor, writer, and family man. It’s all given him a wide-ranging pers...
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Redefining True Strength for a New Generation of Men with Jon Ebert
Jon Ebert, founder of Single Stone Counseling, comes from a lineage of pastors. Perhaps that’s why his work focuses on religious leaders, who can feel ashamed to admit they’re struggling. This week, Jon talks with Redeemed founder Paul Amos abo...
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Believe in God—but Also Trust Him with Franklin Rivas Hodge
After spending his formative years in and out of prison, fighting in a street gang, Franklin Rivas Hodge left his native El Salvador for the United States with a bounty on his head. But crossing the Rio Grande was only the beginning. Franklin s...
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Highs and Lows in the Life of a Pastor’s Kid with Barnabas Piper
Barnabas Piper grew up the son of a pastor who practiced what he preached and encouraged deep conversations about God. Despite that upbringing, Barnabas found himself facing a crisis of identity and faith in his mid-20s. Ultimately, that crisis...
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Is Jesus the Hero of Your Story? with Jake Lockert
As an athlete, trainer, coach who heads CrossFit Mayhem’s online programming, and happily married father of four small kids, Jake Lockert has the kind of life, and physique, most men would envy. But he’s struggled with fear and anxiety, too. Th...
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A Former Foster Kid Finds God and Community with David Petty
Few would envy David Petty’s childhood. In and out of the foster care system, David suffered abuse and rejection. However, David’s foster parents modeled a truly devoted faith that helped him build a long-sought relationship with God. ...
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Discussing Hard Topics Without Hard Feelings with Jay Brown
This week, we continue the conversation with Jay Brown, a team member at Church of the Highlands just outside of Birmingham. Tune in as we discuss cultivating meaningful friendships and how to talk about hard topics without hard feelings. Jay a...
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Be Humble, Be Open, Be Curious with Jay Brown
As the third of six children raised by a single mother, Jay Brown didn’t have a road map when he became a husband and father. Today, Jay serves as head of the “Dream Team” volunteer program at Church of the Highlands’ Grants Mill campus and sha...
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Being Honest About What’s in Our Hearts with Pedro LaTorre
For the longest time, Pedro LaTorre avoided addressing what was in his heart. Childhood abuse and blaming himself for his parents’ divorce drove Pedro to perform as a way to prove his worth. But when a major arm injury prematurely ended his bas...
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To Lead Others, Figure Out How to Lead Yourself
This week on the Redeemed Man podcast, Redeemed director Nate Dewberry sits down with his own pastor, Kyle Jackson, from Church of the Highlands in Columbus, Georgia. Kyle shares openly about the temptations he gave into as a young man and how ...
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Season 7
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Episode 39
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37:36
Finding Lessons—and Hope—from Tragedy
It was supposed to be a leisurely ride home from an ice cream parlor for Bryan and Lynn Koch on their beloved Harley-Davidson—but that 2015 ride ended in tragedy at the hands of a drunk driver, costing Lynn her life and Bryan his left leg. As B...
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Season 7
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Episode 42
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50:02
Living Beyond Wins and Losses
If you’ve ever watched a pro athlete making a sign of the cross and pointing to the sky after catching a long TD bomb or smashing a homer, and asked yourself, “Does God really care what we’re doing out on the field?”, this week’s podcast is for...
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Season 7
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Episode 41
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1:00:58
From ‘Emotional Insanity’ to Spiritual Security
Ben Peterson describes his upbringing as “emotionally insane”—a father with OCD and myriad addiction issues; a mother with borderline personality disorder; a constant parade of screaming matches. That, combined with the emotional scars of seein...
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Season 7
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Episode 40
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41:04
God Has a New Story for You
Abandoned by his father and sexually abused as a pre-teen, Jim Miner’s life was one of brokenness, infidelity, and hopelessness. “All I wanted to do,” he remembers of hitting rock bottom, was to “die in the darkest, dankest, stinkiest, ugliest ...
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Season 7
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Episode 35
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52:56
Learning to Wait on the Lord
During his days in the Navy, Charlie Watkins’ best friend was a surgeon who was great with patients, always stayed in shape, and maintained a smile on his face even in the high-stress environment of a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser. One...
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Season 7
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Episode 34
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1:07:54
Seeing Yourself the Way God Sees You
Ron Acosta’s childhood was a nonstop litany of insults, abuse, and even outright abandonment. Constantly having to hear people (even his own family members) tell him he’d never amount to anything made him that much more motivated to succeed in ...
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Season 7
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Episode 33
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59:25
Maintaining Faith Through Both the Peaks and the Valleys
In his very first “Mighty Mite” football game at age six, on a play called “Splat Green Sweep Right,” Jordan Kunaszyk scored a 60-yard TD. Today he’s an NFL veteran who’s played for Carolina, Washington, and Cleveland. But Jordan isn’t shy abou...
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Season 7
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Episode 32
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44:38
Are You Built Different?
As a doctoral candidate in counselor education and vice president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, Zach Clinton has seen up close our society’s epidemic of depression, loneliness, and hopelessness. In this week’s podcast, he...
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Season 7
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Episode 31
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50:09
What's Your Secret Sauce for Leadership?
Josh Swing is a longtime basketball player who’s worked closely with successful Chick-fil-A managers and executives in his current career, and his dad was a youth pastor—so it’s safe to say he’s learned a lot about leadership from many differen...
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Season 7
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Episode 30
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54:01
Walking On In Our God-Given Purpose
It was supposed to just be a fun story for the USC student newspaper, but Ben Malcolmson’s tryout for the Trojans football team led to a spot as a walk-on wide receiver—and a lengthy professional relationship with head coach Pete Carroll, whom ...
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Season 7
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Episode 29
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40:17
Openness and Authenticity is the Only Way
Singer/songwriter Kristian Stanfill has been leading worship services ever since he was 15 years old; unfortunately, he had a drinking problem for nearly that long. He’d managed to mask it reasonably well for years, “talking around” his struggl...
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Season 7
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Episode 28
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43:43
How an NFL Player Deals with Failure
Cody Hollister has two parents who’ve loved and supported him, a twin brother with whom he has an unshakeable bond—and, oh yeah, a seven-year NFL career, one that includes a Super Bowl ring won as a member of the 2018 Patriots. But even with al...
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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53:07
The Weight We Weren't Made To Carry
As a former Division I college basketball player who’d been playing the game ever since he was a little kid, Doug Elks is no stranger to physical exertion or the sacrifices athletes make. Even with that in mind, though, running 100 miles wearin...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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46:29
From Jail and Addiction to Hope and Redemption
This July at The Redeemed we are focusing on community service, and there are few acts more profound than aiding the addicted, the homeless, and the hopeless. This week's podcast features Phil Shuler, Director of Development for SafeHous...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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43:45