The Noble Man

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,...

Dr. Greg Beechaum ,Senior Pastor of Little Zion Baptist Church in Powhatan, VA, is devoted to serving his church in every capacity, including joining the men’s choir. He doesn’t even sing, but he goes to be where the men are . Greg had the blessing of being raised around godly men, but he observed too many men around him who didn’t. Like Timothy, they had godly women, but Greg wants to see men ste...

Local student pastors, Mike Camire and Mark Young , join Mike to discuss how young men are ready and willing to be discipled. In this episode, learn how the church is instrumental in connecting the generations and responding to this need for discipleship. Scripture: 2 Timothy 2:14-16 Titus 2:1-2, 6-7 1 Timothy 4:7-9 Acts 2:42-47 Resources: Mike Camire - Pastor of Next Generation Studentz, Parkway...

One of my pastors, Joe Tanner , introduced me to this week's unique podcast guest. Joe and Alex worked together in Central Asia for seven years, where Alex was born and raised. He had never heard the Gospel before age 14 and shares his incredible testimony, as well as a little bit about what men’s ministry is like in his home country.    Alex’s story shows the impact that one faithful man can have...

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Kent Evans of The Manhood Journey and Mike discuss how we need wise guys in our lives to learn from and how we can become wise guys for younger men.  Kent answers some questions guys have like:   Why do I have the gifts I have?  What do I do with them?  What is wisdom?   His answers might not be what you think!  He also challenges a theology problem he says many guys have that if you believe, you...

In The Noble Man Podcast Episode 78, we’re talking about activating and mobilizing an untapped, undeployed army in the church – the Gen X and Boomer generations. Rev. Chuck Stecker, Executive Director and Founder of A Chosen Generation Ministry , has dedicated the past 22 years to equipping, training, empowering, and releasing a new generation of leaders, and he sees the need for intergenerational...

What can a young man in his 20s do to have a lasting effect for the Kingdom? What could he have to offer?  Listen to Episode 77 of The Noble Man Podcast to find out how a college sophomore founded Christian Service Brigade (CSB Ministries) in the 30s. Now, the 85-year-old ministry has been geared towards purposefully pointing boys to Jesus for generations, in hundreds of churches, in every state. ...

Stephan Hicks is a prime example of a man allowing God to use his scars to empower other men in overcoming their wounds. Stephan was in his 40s when he founded My Brother’s Keeper , an organization born out of his own healing.     It started with just six guys, then multiplied. “Little did I know inviting six guys into my home would turn into a non-profit organization.”    My Brother’s Keeper is a...