Forging Hearts Podcast

After a long break, Nick and Tanner are back—and getting real about what happens when life gets busy and intentionality slips. In this episode, they sit down with Pastor Al to talk about a powerful truth for every father: your kids are learning more from what you live than what you say. From growing up between Amish roots, Colorado suburbs, and missionary life in Germany, Al shares how faith was m...

Our guest, Pennsylvania State Representative Dave Zimmerman, joins us in a peculiar time of life. This year’s 2024 Presidential election gives us a unique opportunity to discuss politics and faith. How much are the two intertwined? How do we wrestle with the current world’s reality and the heavenly reality that we so eagerly desire? How should we lead our families in this time of great political d...

Tanner & Nick provide a quick life update as they embark on a new recording season. It's a busy season of life in many aspects of life, including family, work, and all of the other items that make life full. In this episode, we discuss what is currently keeping us busy and what content lies ahead for Forging Hearts. We have a lot in store for Forging Hearts, so stay tuned for a lot more co...

Joining us today is Jason Ranck, husband, father of 2 boys, COO of a fast-growing HVAC company, and author. We dive into Jason's life and discuss what it takes to attempt balance in crucial areas of his life: Work and family, which are not necessarily in that order.

In this episode, we invite Dr. Charles Mershon to speak on a variety of subjects. A local medical family doctor has many "irons in the fire" between his work in the practice and his medical work helping those less fortunate. In our discussion, we tackle subjects personally close to him, a culturally sensitive topic in vaccines, and what the Bible has to say about health and medicine. A l...

With so many educational paths available to families today, which path is best? What’s the responsibility of the parent and how can a parent feel confident in their choice? In this Forging Hearts episode we have the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Marti MacCullough, former Dean of Education at Cairn University, to discuss her perspective and dive deeper into the educational conversation.

Joining us today is Carl Edwards, husband, father of 2, Director of Development at CrossNet ministries and all around good guy. We discuss a bit of Carl's background as well as his current role in CrossNet Ministries, a locally-based ministry out of New Holland, PA. Although not strictly named, this episode really hinges off the idea of servanthood, specifically serving the local community. Ca...

Joining us today is Dale Zimmerman, husband, father of two, Pastor, and youth leader. We'll be looking at an in-depth study released by Communio, which looks at social data gathered around faith, parenting, co-habitation, and loneliness. Although the impact of this study does cover both fathers and mothers, we will tackle some of the critical areas in which a father's involvement impacts t...

Welcome to Episode 5 of Forging Hearts podcast. Today's episode features John Good, who is a husband, father of 3 boys, co-owner of Blue Chip Financial. John gives us some background into his financial upbringing and why this subject matters to raising up children to be good stewards. We also dive into what the Bible has to say about finances. With financial literacy dropping each of the previ...

Joining us today is Roger North, a husband, Father, founder of North Group Consultants, the North Foundation, Honored as the Lancaster small business person of the year and as well as serving on many other boards and ministries.  Our discussion with Roger will center around the busyness of life, specifically how fathers operate in the workplace today without giving way to prioritizing Jesus and Fa...

Dave Musser! We'll finish out our conversation with a number of profound topics. If you still need to listen to Part 1, don't forget to go back and listen to that! Part 1: In today’s episode Dave Musser joins us to discuss how fathers can have a strong foundation on which to build a family. Although not intentional, this episode ran too long during our recording time that we had to break i...

In today’s episode Dave Musser joins us to discuss how fathers can have a strong foundation on which to build a family. Although not intentional, this episode ran too long during our recording time that we had to break it down into two parts. Welcome to Part 1 where we kick off the conversation by taking a step back and discussing epigenetics. Don’t know what epigenetics mean? Neither did we until...

Episode 2 is all about introducing the mission of Forging Hearts. Learn about the history and heart of the podcast with Tanner and Nick. As the episodes are being prepared, we want to invite you to hear our hearts on the mission of Forging Hearts Podcast and the direction is it's heading. We even give a sneak peak into upcoming episodes. If you have any feedback into ideas on topics, we welco...

Pastor Brian Martin joins Tanner and Nick as they look to get a proper definition of how the Bible describes masculinity and fatherhood as a whole. Where do men fall short? How does culture affect the Church's stance of men and their roles as fathers? We dive into all this an more as we explore what the Bible has to say.

Get a little glimpse into what Forging Hearts Podcast is all about: a deep dive into Biblical Fatherhood. Malachi 4:6 says “He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.” We’ll dive into the Bible to see how fathers throughout time have taught their children, been challenged through various struggles, and made mistakes. What is Jesus loo...