The Intentional Man Podcast

While a strong legacy is built across a lifetime, as long as you're still breathing it's not too late to begin. By understanding what legacy means, how legacy is created, and how a man passes his legacy along, he can work toward building a strong legacy that will positively affect generations to come.

When we hear of someone dying to protect someone else we admire them and maybe even wonder if we'd do the same. In this podcast short, we'll cover 4 of the reasons men are willing to sacrifice and how real sacrifice isn't always about laying down our life, but about laying down our comfort.

We admire the courage of men who sacrifice their life to save others. We consider them heroes. While most men will not have to physically give their life for their family, the less recognized daily sacrifice that men make to provide their family a stable, safe, nurturing home environment is also heroic and can make a lifetime of difference. Join Rick and Rusty in today's episode to learn more...

Loving our wife well means knowing what makes her feel loved. Here's a hint, guys - it probably looks a lot different than what makes you feel loved. In this episode, Rusty and Rick discuss how a man can love his wife well by viewing her from the right perspective and treating her in a way that shows your absolute dedication.

With work, school, sports, and other activities, finding time to talk with our family can be difficult. Rusty shares how dinnertime can be the perfect opportunity to connect with our family by asking interactive questions and drawing each member into the conversation around the table.

When we speak, we are sowing seed. What harvest do you see your words bringing? If you find life is filled with conflict, drama, and negativity, take a look at your conversation. It's possible that a change in your vocabulary can make a change in how you experience life.

Positive people tend to bring out the best in others and can even change the ultimate course of someone's life - simply by speaking encouraging, life-giving words over them. How good are you at speaking positive words? Does it come naturally? Do you find it difficult? Rick shares how we can improve our positive to negative word ratio in this episode.

It happens to all of us. We say something in the heat of an argument or while trying to make a point that we regret later. How can we get better at filtering our words? Todays episode will help answer that question as Rick and Rusty talk about the power of both negative and positive words and we should be intentional in how we communicate.

On this episode of The Intentional Man Podcast's 10 Minute Monday, Rusty recaps our discussion on integrity. He points out the importance of defining integrity well and living in a way that honors God. Part of integrity, he says, is recognizing weak areas and strengthening them by paying attention to patterns and putting safeguards in place. We hope you enjoy this challenging episode and check...

In this episode we continue our discussion of integrity's significant impact on the way a man is perceived. Rick and Rusty look at types of failure men experience, as well as the ambushes we should be on guard against to protect our integrity. If you haven't listened to part one, we recommend checking that one out before listening to this one!

Think your integrity - or lack of it - only affects you? In this Podcast Short, we'll take a quick look at how a man's lack of integrity can affect his family, friends, and even his community. A price will be paid and, unfortunately, many times the bill gets shared with the innocent. Don't be "that guy". Be intentional with your integrity.

It's simple: don't lie, don't cheat on your taxes, be a good man. That's integrity, right? Not really. Today, Rick and Rusty dig deeper into an expanded meaning of integrity and it's application in a man's life. Go beyond the simplistic definition of "who you are when no one is looking" and into the depths of how your integrity actually defines you. What do those...

You've heard that a godly man should be intentional but you're not sure what it means, why you should be, or even where to start. Join long-time friends and ministry leaders, Rick and Rusty, as they answer these three very important questions in this episode of The Intentional Man Podcast and get started on the path to living a life with purpose, on purpose.

In a culture where manhood is often misunderstood and incorrectly defined, it is important that godly men are modeling a strong example of manhood that serves, loves, and protects those around him. In this episode, we discuss the importance of working towards a biblical definition of manhood, how our worldview impacts our view of manhood, and how we can intentionally model godly character to those...