Brotherhood Forged: A Christian Men’s Podcast on Faith, Fatherhood & Leadership

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. In this special behind-the-scenes episode, Paul sits down with his wife Amber for the start of a monthly marriage and family series. As they approach their 10-year anniversary, they walk through “10 questions for 10 years” and talk honestly about marriage, parenting, priorities, boundaries, famil...

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Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. In Episode 109, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel sit down with guest Fred Frederickson for a powerful conversation about addiction, recovery, identity, discipline, and redemption. Fred shares his journey from being a high-performing kid to battling addiction, homelessness, multiple overdoses, arrests,...

Many men live by a story they didn't choose, shaped by past failures or labels. This episode explores how these experiences contribute to an individual's personal identity and self concept, often leading to an identity conflict. We discuss mental wellbeing and self improvement, offering insights into understanding human behavior and fostering personal growth. Stay strong. Stay faithful. God bless....

Join Joey Koontz and Wes Bake for a special episode of the Christian podcast, Brotherhood Forged, as they share insights from a coffee shop conversation. This discussion highlights the importance of self improvement and personal growth, emphasizing how a strong men's community fosters accountability for men. Stay strong. Stay faithful. God bless. Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast hel...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Episode 106 started with a text message. One of our brothers reached out to Joey an hour before our Wednesday night discipleship call and asked a question a lot of men are afraid to say out loud: "How do I actually lead my wife spiritually?" What followed was one of the most real, unscripted conv...

The conversation delves into the transformative power of gratitude, highlighting its role as a weapon and a catalyst for change. It explores the impact of gratitude in the face of hardship, the connection between gratitude and contentment, the role of gratitude in serving others, and the humbling effect of gratitude. The discussion emphasizes the importance of recognizing and embracing gratitude i...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Nobody handed you a parenting manual. In Episode 104, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel share the five most important lessons they've learned as fathers — grounded in scripture, lived experience, and the kind of honest conversation men rarely have. From a powerful blacksmith parable about a dad who spe...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Episode 103 — What 34 Years of Marriage Actually Teaches You Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel sit down for an honest, unscripted conversation about what strong marriages are really built on — and spoiler: it's not the wedding day. It's the daily grind of showing up, serving your spouse, giving grace w...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Most men don't lose their life all at once. They lose it slowly -- from the inside out. A compromise here. A little pride. An outburst. A careless word. A lack of discipline. Before they even realize it, everything on the outside is a direct reflection of what they've ignored on the inside. In Ep...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Episode 101 -- The Invisible Breakdown You go to work. You come home. You go to bed. And somewhere in that routine, you lose yourself. The worst part? Nobody even notices. In this episode, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel have one of the most raw and real conversations Brotherhood Forged has ever reco...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Episode 100. One year. Eleven testimonies. And a God who showed up. Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel celebrate 100 episodes by doing something they have never done before — sitting back and letting other people tell the story. In this milestone episode, you will hear real testimonies from the wives an...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Episode 99 -- Stepping Into the Forge We made it to 99 episodes -- almost a full year in! Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel sit down to reflect on what it took to stop planning and start doing, and how that same decision applies to every area of your life as a man. If you know there's more in you but y...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.   In this episode, we dive into one of the most common communication breakdowns men face—trying to fix when we should be listening.   Most men don’t have bad intentions. We want to help. We want to lead. But too often, we jump into solutions before understanding, creating distance instead of conn...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.   Your family is already following your example. The question is, where are you leading them?   In Episode 97 of Brotherhood Forged, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel have an honest conversation about what it means to lead your family spiritually. This episode is a challenge for Christian men to stop w...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. In this episode, Joey and Paul unpack one of the most damaging habits in relationships: keeping score. From pride and defensiveness to delayed apologies and unresolved anger, they talk honestly about why repair is so hard for men—and why it matters so much. This conversation dives into what it lo...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. In Episode 95, we sit down with Ed D., a member of the Brotherhood Forged community, to hear one of the most powerful and emotional stories we’ve ever shared on the show. Ed and his wife opened their home to the foster care system for over a decade, welcoming 97 children into their family. Throug...

In this episode of The Daily Forge, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel discuss The Ripple Effect—how the small choices, words, and attitudes of a man can shape the lives of those around him.   Through a powerful story about two men and a pond, the conversation explores how everyday actions create waves that impact families, marriages, children, and communities—often in ways we never realize.   The guys t...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. Welcome back to Episode 93 of Brotherhood Forged — where we get real about something that can quietly destroy marriages, friendships, and brotherhood if left unchecked: You can be technically right… and still be relationally wrong. In this episode, we unpack: How ego shows up in conversations (ev...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.   Episode 92 dives into something every man faces: stress—and how it leaks out into our relationships at home, at work, and in our brotherhood.   We kick off with a recap of Rob’s vulnerable interview (Episode 91) and the powerful reminder that real brotherhood takes intentionality, even across d...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.   In Episode 91, we sit down with Rob Lawrence for one of the most honest conversations we’ve had on the show.   Rob opens up about living behind a mask, battling suicidal thoughts, losing a fellow officer in the line of duty, and walking through the passing of his mother — the woman who sacrific...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.   Welcome to Episode 90 — “Trusting the Divine GPS: Navigating Life’s Unseen Paths.” In this conversation, we unpack the powerful idea of GPS as “God’s Positioning System” (from The Energy Bus by John Gordon) and what it looks like to trust God when the road makes no sense.   We talk about: Why w...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.   Most men don’t quit because growth is hard — they quit because growth stops looking like progress.   In this episode, we talk about the seasons where growth feels slow, quiet, and invisible. The moments where there’s no momentum, no wins, and no clear results — just obedience, trust, and contin...

Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership. In Episode 88, we share a powerful real-life story: Dean (a lifelong pool hall friend) comes to church, hears the Gospel, and gives his heart to Jesus—and his baptism is coming soon. This episode is a reminder that God uses ordinary conversations, ordinary friendships, and ordinary men to do extr...

In Episode 87 of Brotherhood Forged, Paul, Joey, and Caleb unpack how intentionality drives identity—and why your habits are either forging the man you’re becoming… or keeping you stuck. The guys talk morning routines, discipline, family leadership, and the freedom that comes from rooting your identity in Christ instead of performance, status, or titles.   📖 Scripture Mentioned: Romans 5:8 John 1...