Fruit of the Foundry

We do all the communicating in the world and none of the connecting. Jake and Dan get honest about what it takes to actually build brotherhood -- the 4:30 alarms, the discomfort of reaching out first, the grief we skip past because we're too busy to feel it. Go five miles in either direction and there are a hundred people starving for exactly this. This episode is about being the one who takes...

Most men spend their lives trying to silence the alarm. What if the alarm is working exactly the way it's supposed to? In this episode, Dan and James dig into 1 Peter 5 -- and why following Christ doesn't make life easier. It gives you an enemy. They unpack transactional Christianity, why isolation is the devil's first move, what it actually means to cast your anxiety on God, and why t...

Nobody signs up for suffering. But Peter says don't be surprised when it comes -- and then tells you to rejoice in it. That's either the most absurd thing you've ever heard, or the most freeing. In this episode, James, Dan, and Jake walk through the second half of 1 Peter 4 and ask the question every honest man has thought: what do you actually do with the hard stuff? The argument with...

Jake, Dan, and guest James Sullivan open 1 Peter 4 -- but the real conversation starts around the family dinner table no one is sitting at anymore. Three kids in sports. Choir. Youth group. FCA. A wife trying to figure out who she is again now that the kids don't need her every minute. And somewhere buried in all of it, the question no one is asking: where does the Holy Spirit have space to wo...

Bobby Turner has a binder. Inside it are decades of prayers, notes, and Scripture -- rewritten with her own name in it. Not platitudes. Weapons. In this episode, Bobbie shares what it looked like when God stopped being a concept and started speaking directly to her, and how she learned to write it down, declare it out loud, and hold on to it when everything else was falling apart. Most of us beg G...

Dan has an admission: for years on date nights, he'd knock back a whiskey or two before he could open up to his wife. Not because he had a drinking problem. Because he had a vulnerability problem. That one confession opens up everything in this episode. Jake, Dan, and returning guest Dan Connors work through 1 Peter 4 and land on a question every man eventually has to answer -- what sits on th...

Mikes' story starts in a Texas church at age 7 -- walking a church aisle alone because his mom was wise enough to make him own his faith. It runs through a home with an alcoholic father, a teenager who eventually told his own dad this ends now , and a young man who joined the military not out of patriotism, but because his family needed him to. Hard things don't have to break you. Sometime...

Martin Luther called it the most obscure passage in the entire New Testament. He didn't know what it meant. Neither do we. And that might be exactly the point. In this episode, the guys wade into 1 Peter 3:18 -- 22. Spirits in prison. The days of Noah. The Nephilim. What happened between the cross and the resurrection that nobody talks about? But underneath all the mystery is something that hi...

You poured into them. You gave them a shot. You paid their way. And they walked out the door -- sometimes with your money, sometimes to compete against you, sometimes without so much as a thank you. So what do you do with that? Jake and Dan have been there. And so has every man who's ever built something and handed the shovel to someone else. This week, they sit down with Pastor Todd to wrestle th...

What happens when the wives finally get a seat at the table? Caitlin and Lindsay join Jake and Dan on Fruits of the Foundry to tackle some of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible. We look at 1 Peter 3, discussing what submission, trust, and love actually look like inside their marriages. Their wives don't hold back. From hitting a brick wall in their marriage, to verbal abuse, learning love...

Join in the conversation with our good friend Dan Connors who has served as the local dentist here in Spring Valley since 2009. Dan opens up about his journey... from living a double life back in college and dental school, to building up his dental practice while quietly battling fear, alcohol, and figuring out who he really was. Now, after selling the practice, he’s in a new season, learning how...

Jake, Dan and Pastor Todd talk about spiritual warfare , the importance of brotherhood and community , and how God refines us through difficult moments. Where have you seen spiritual warfare show up in your life, and how did you respond?

Jake and Dan discuss the beginning of 1 Peter with Pastor Todd from Emmaus Church in Spring Valley Wisconsin. Connecting Peter's faith and failures with struggles in our own lives, and our ultimate hope in the midst of suffering.

Don't miss episode 6 with guest Jack Hannack

At just 23 years old, while in the Air Force and single, Jack made a decision that ultimately led to him adopting 5 boys from Afghanistan. Hear the full story about how serving at a refugee processing camp in New Mexico during the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal changed the plans he had for his career by bringing this family into his life. We talk about the intense moments in the desert refuge...

Jake and Dan discuss managing finances and what it looks like to be a good steward and to operate out of faith at home, in business and through life.

Jake and Dan dive into the importance of fitness and health, the dangers of making it an idol, debate the sanity of doing a cold plunge in the Rush River when it's -9 outside.

Jake and Dan discuss the trials and fruit that come from raising a family, and what their roles as husbands and fathers look like in their homes.

Jake, Dan and Johnathan discuss faith - what is it and how does it change how you operate in your life?

Sit back as Jake and Dan unwrap the mystery inside the enigma of what exactly the Fruit of the Foundry means and how it got started