The Noble Man

Becoming a man. Is it a journey (or process) that takes time... or is it an event that happens all at once? Dr. Drew Ham joins The Noble Man Podcast to discuss the definition of what it means to "become a man."

We all make mistakes. Our response to our mistakes reflects our maturity, especially for leaders. The Bible gives plenty of examples of Godly men who fail, but when failures are used as steps toward learning, God can lead us into success and restoration. Good Leaders Fail Well: How Mistakes Become a Staircase https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/good-leaders-fail-well Seasons of a Leader’s Life: L...

Nancy Pearcey is the author of  The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes , as well as  Love Thy Body ,  The Soul of Science ,  Saving Leonardo ,  Finding Truth ,  and  Total Truth . She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christian...

Nancy Pearcey is the author of  The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes , as well as  Love Thy Body ,  The Soul of Science ,  Saving Leonardo ,  Finding Truth ,  and  Total Truth . She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christian...

In The Noble Man Podcast Episodes 102 and 103, Mike and Dean Briggs discuss raising boys into men and how BraveQuest can help in your endeavor.   Dean developed BraveQuest out of his own need for a strategic plan to guide his seven sons to manhood. Historically, cultures around the world developed rites of passage for their boys beginning around age 13, a time when they would learn to see themselv...

In The Noble Man Podcast Episodes 102 and 103, Mike and Dean Briggs discuss raising boys into men and how BraveQuest can help in your endeavor.   Dean developed BraveQuest out of his own need for a strategic plan to guide his seven sons to manhood. Historically, cultures around the world developed rites of passage for their boys beginning around age 13, a time when they would learn to see themselv...

An exciting movement is taking place to get Bibles in school libraries, thanks to Hannah Sailsbury. While Hannah was working as a special ed elementary teacher, she began prayer walking around her school. Those walks led to the movement to get an engaging Bible into the hands of students across the nation.    Hannah discusses the need for men to engage in this work. Boys, especially, have been ent...

Tommy Thompson knows firsthand what it means to be overloaded and overwhelmed. He spent 35 years running multiple businesses while serving in church and raising a young family.   Tommy was going 100 miles per hour – all for good things – until he found himself exhausted, stressed, and anxious. He and his wife launched into a 15-year process of learning to create margin in their lives and began to...

Tommy Thompson knows firsthand what it means to be overloaded and overwhelmed. He spent 35 years running multiple businesses while serving in church and raising a young family.   Tommy was going 100 miles per hour – all for good things – until he found himself exhausted, stressed, and anxious. He and his wife launched into a 15-year process of learning to create margin in their lives and began to...

Do you know The Dad Whisperer? Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield is a unique voice in men's ministry. She shares the story of how God called her into ministering to fathers. As a woman in the fathering space, she is a voice of encouragement to dads who want to understand how to relate better to their daughters.   Dr. Watson founded The Abba Project in 2010 to help dads connect with their daughters' hea...

Do you know The Dad Whisperer? Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield is a unique voice in men's ministry. She shares the story of how God called her into ministering to fathers. As a woman in the fathering space, she is a voice of encouragement to dads who want to understand how to relate better to their daughters.   Dr. Watson founded The Abba Project in 2010 to help dads connect with their daughters' hea...

This week’s podcast guest is Ethan Newquist, a Gen Z entrepreneur who started an athletic apparel company at just 16 years old. He’s learning a lot about business, but it’s so cool to hear how he desires to serve God and do something for the Kingdom while he’s still in high school.  Ethan wanted to stop settling for less. He wanted to do something with his life, and he wanted it to be about God. T...

We need playbooks and tips on how to engage God’s Word well with our kids. This week Dr. Danny Huerta offers plenty of resources so parents can be proactive in discipling their children to develop a biblical worldview they will hold onto.   Dr. Huerta is the Vice President of Parenting and Youth at Focus on the Family and the author of 7 Traits of Effective Parenting . In episodes 94 and 95, he po...

We need playbooks and tips on how to engage God’s Word well with our kids. This week Dr. Danny Huerta offers plenty of resources so parents can be proactive in discipling their children to develop a biblical worldview they will hold onto.   Dr. Huerta is the Vice President of Parenting and Youth at Focus on the Family and the author of 7 Traits of Effective Parenting . In episodes 94 and 95, he po...

Football season is almost upon us, and we are kicking off with Liberty Flames Director of Spiritual Development, Dr. Ed Gomes .  Ed has been discipling young men for decades and sheds light on effectively earning the right to spiritually father young men.   Mike and Ed dive into:  What it looks like to build relationships with younger generations and earn the right to speak into their lives.  What...

Football season is almost upon us, and we are kicking off with Liberty Flames Director of Spiritual Development, Dr. Ed Gomes .  Ed has been discipling young men for decades and sheds light on effectively earning the right to spiritually father young men.   Mike and Ed dive into:  What it looks like to build relationships with younger generations and earn the right to speak into their lives.  What...

As founding Pastor of East End Fellowship Church in downtown Richmond, Don Coleman now serves as Pastor Emeritus. He has a passion for seeing people meet Jesus through the lives of other believers, as well as the witness of the Church. Mike and Don discuss what it means to meet Jesus, how the Church needs to grow and change, and how we need to learn to follow Jesus and guide others to follow him. ...

As founding Pastor of East End Fellowship Church in downtown Richmond, Don Coleman now serves as Pastor Emeritus. He has a passion for seeing people meet Jesus through the lives of other believers, as well as the witness of the Church. Mike and Don discuss what it means to meet Jesus, how the Church needs to grow and change, and how we need to learn to follow Jesus and guide others to follow him. ...

This episode originally aired October 2020. I am joined by Carey Bates, my former pastor and a man who faithfully invested in me. We met Carey when we first moved to Richmond over 20 years ago.  Before Carey even knew what discipleship really was, he started a group of men studying the Bible in his dorm room. Through the mentorship in his own life, he became passionate about reproductive disciples...

Chris Jackson has a background in business and in ministry. They were both thriving when God called him to step away from the active ministry he was running and the successful business he had invested himself into for 18 years.   Chris had been inspired by one conversation he had years ago with a man in his 60s who believed his most powerful and influential days were still ahead of him. He set out...

Chris Jackson has a background in business and in ministry. They were both thriving when God called him to step away from the active ministry he was running and the successful business he had invested himself into for 18 years.   Chris had been inspired by one conversation he had years ago with a man in his 60s who believed his most powerful and influential days were still ahead of him. He set out...

Clarence Shuler is a discipler of disciplers, “a Swiss army knife of ministry,” and it all began when he was 14. A local youth pastor named Gary Chapman took a chance on him in a place and time where cross-cultural relationships were rare and challenging.   “Segregation was outlawed but still being practiced.”   Yet he experienced love and respect from Gary, and over five decades later, the two ar...

Clarence Shuler is a discipler of disciplers, “a Swiss army knife of ministry,” and it all began when he was 14. A local youth pastor named Gary Chapman took a chance on him in a place and time where cross-cultural relationships were rare and challenging.   “Segregation was outlawed but still being practiced.”   Yet he experienced love and respect from Gary, and over five decades later, the two ar...

Paul Henderson discusses the rich heritage of fruitful mentorship in his life and how he is paying it forward to the next generation on The Noble Man Podcast .  Paul’s dad taught him and his five brothers the Scriptures. He had a high school coach who breathed life and belief into him. He worked with mentors in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes who poured into him. Another mentor encouraged him...

Parenting takes work from both the mom and the dad. Join Mike and guest Jay Payleitner as they discuss Jay’s new book, Moms Bringing Out the Best in Dads .  Noble Warriors team members Christen and Hollie participate with experience on the other side of the table, offering their perspectives as wives and moms and how everyone benefits when Mom and Dad work as a team.  “Guys and gals are different,...