The Redeemed Man

This is the time of year for new year’s resolutions and fresh starts, but how do we make those last longer than just a few days—or even than an entire year? In this week’s podcast, Nate Dewberry and Paul Amos dig deeper into the topic of making new beginnings and healthy habits, focusing not just on the things we want to achieve but the people we want to become—and how we can put ourselves in the...

Rodney McClure, Founder & Lead Care Pastor of One Need , and Lance Osborne, the organization’s CEO join The Redeemed Man Podcast . Community churches are always getting requests for help from people in difficult financial situations, but they don’t always have the time, manpower, or resources to give those requests the attention they deserve. One Need partners with churches to review requests...

A chaplain on active duty in the United States Army (his name is being withheld due to safety concerns) joins The Redeemed Man Podcast . From frequent moves and long separations to depression and the stress of combat, members of military families face many unique and difficult challenges. Our guest, a married father of two young children, will talk about his background and share the insights he&ap...

Kevin Harris, president of Radical Mentoring, joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Radical Mentoring is a ministry facilitating group mentorship opportunities and helping individuals find the tools to lead groups.  Rather than being one-on-one and topic-driven, the organization’s group mentorship model, as envisioned by founder Regi Campbell, mirrors the conversations Jesus had with disciples and follo...

John Shibley joins The Redeemed Man podcast to discuss how to become a servant leader.  John Shibley is a leadership coach who is spreading the gospel of servant leadership through his podcast, writing, and ministry. Servant leadership means focusing less on one’s own power, influence, and accomplishments and instead prioritizing the growth and well-being of those being led—recognizing that we hav...

Nate Dewberry, director of The Redeemed , joins The Redeemed Man podcast .  Nate Dewberry, who was appointed director at The Redeemed in 2022, bringing extensive experience as a student, associate, and administrative pastor, as well as several semesters of seminary training. A native of Lineville, Alabama, Nate earned a degree in horticulture at Auburn University and worked for seven years in the...

Brett Clemmer joins The Redeemed Man Podcast .  Brett has been with the Florida-based ministry Man in the Mirror since the year 2000, serving as its president and CEO since 2016. The mission of Man in the Mirror is to help Christian men worldwide engage in meaningful relationships that change lives and build the kingdom of God. They focus on helping the local church reach and disciple men effectiv...

Garret Barbush, president and CEO of Men of Iron , a ministry that develops frameworks and resources for a number of different kinds of mentoring relationships joins The Redeemed Man Podcast .  There are plenty of younger men out there looking for advice and mentoring from men with more life experience, Barbush says, and many older men who would jump at the chance to share what they’ve learned wit...

Tierce Green, director of the Authentic Manhood Initiative and Good Feed Media joins The Redeemed Man Podcast . A longtime pastor, speaker, and writer, Tierce is one of the producers of “ 33 The Series ,” which uses experiences and teachings from the brief but prolific life of Jesus to help men form fellowship and face challenges in all areas of life by reclaiming their God-given purpose.  Find co...

Britt Gusmus , joins The Redeemed Man Podcast . Britt Gusmus, author of the recently released The Oak Tree Source , as well as co-author of The Impact of Influence, released last year. He was also a multi-sport athlete with prospects in Major League Baseball before, as he freely admits, bad choices and a lack of emotional maturity derailed his athletic career. But his spiritual journey taught him...

Gary Miracle joins The Redeemed Man podcast . Gary Miracle,  a Tampa-area husband and father of four for whom a catastrophic blood infection cost all four of his limbs in early 2020. Yet his first thought upon learning the news wasn’t anger or despair, but rather the wisdom of the Book of Job—”The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.” “I remember thinking that in my life, it was just my taking-awa...

Greg Bainter joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Greg Bainter, who struggled for decades with a pornography addiction before finding the courage to confess his secrets to his wife and re-dedicate himself to a godly life. His “recovery” was aided by LiveFree ministries and its accountability app, through which he met other men who had battled similar addictions—and, eventually, younger men whom Greg wa...

Davey Blackburn, founder of Indianapolis-based Nothing Is Wasted Ministries , joins The Redeemed Man podcast. NIW’s message centers on the idea that even our traumas and tragedies have a higher purpose—“God does not waste an ounce of your pain,” Blackburn says, and his ministry’s mission is to help those who are feeling broken and defeated to discover how God wants us to learn and grow from those...

Scott Smith, founder of Banished from Eden , joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Scott Smith, who grew up in a troubled household and spent a decade away from the church before being “radically saved” a few years ago. Today, through a number of efforts including his blog Banished from Eden, Smith has made it his mission to help other men find their way out of depression and addiction and back to a mea...

Carl Thomas joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Carl Thomas, who struggled with a pornography addiction for two decades before “getting free,” becoming an ordained pastor, and founding Live Free ministries to help other men stuck in a similar cycle of addiction.   A nationally certified neuro health coach, Thomas explains that porn is a symptom rather than a disease—“it’s just a thing that people turn...

Frank Schwartz joins The Redeemed Man podcast.  Frank Schwartz, president of F3 Nation , with the Fs standing for “Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith.” F3 started in Charlotte, N.C., a decade ago simply as a way to provide fellowship opportunities for adult men through free, organized outdoor workouts.  As the workout sessions grew and friendships strengthened, the participants felt more at ease shari...

Patrick Tyndall joins The Redeemed Man podcast.  Patrick Tyndall, founder of Ironman Outdoors , in which men bond with each other over both hunting and discussion sessions that give them a chance to open up about their deepest fears and insecurities. Particularly for men who are disinclined to attend church regularly in the first place, traditional church environments can be a difficult place to b...

Jay Cookingham joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Jay Cookingham, founder of Strategic Fathering Ministries , which encourages men to embrace God’s call to aid and mentor other people in need. It’s those kinds of people, “strategically placed” in his life, whom Cookingham says helped him find God and strengthen his faith after years of horrific abuse from his father. “God gave me other men in my life...

Trey Etheridge joins The Redeemed Man podcast.  Trey Etheridge, a founder of MPACT Ministries in Melbourne, Florida (their tagline: “Discovering grace one man at a time”). When struggling men come to his ministry for help, he often knows firsthand what they’re going through: In 2010, faced with mounting financial troubles and a marriage damaged beyond repair, Etheridge nearly took his own life.  F...

Kyle Jackson joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Kyle Jackson, pastor at the Columbus branch of Church of the Highlands. Just as Church of the Highlands is a large organization that tries to offer localized worship and healing through its many locations, Jackson says people shouldn’t look only to their pastors for restoration; ideally, churches would provide small groups where worshippers can feel com...

Bart Scarborough joins The Redeemed Man podcast.  Bart Scarborough, founder of Ancient Way Farm, a west Georgia retreat where ministers and other religious leaders can find the peace and quiet needed to experience spiritual growth and renewal. Citing studies indicating that 70 percent of ministry leaders deal with depression and half would leave their jobs if they could, Scarborough says it’s vita...

Richard Illges joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Richard Illges is an investment advisor with more than three decades of experience in banking and finance. While he’s built a successful career on wise money management, the end goal, he says, should always be how we can use those resources to enrich others throughout God’s kingdom, not merely ourselves. “We think money and status can propel us ‘ahead...

Jim Blanchard joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Jim Blanchard is the former CEO and chair of Synovus Corporation and current chair of JBA Capital. Blanchard has left his distinct mark on the state of Georgia as a business and civic leader, but a true leader, he says, measures his effectiveness not by the number of people he’s made to do his bidding but by whether those people feel supported, empower...

Dr. Gregory Jones joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Dr. Gregory Jones is the dean of the Duke University Divinity School . Dr. Jones will introduce the concept of “holy friends”—people perceptive and compassionate enough to see through the fictions we’ve constructed around ourselves and help us reach the truth in ways that can change our lives. As he describes it, holy friends are “the people who ar...

Rev. Michael John Cusick joins The Redeemed Man podcast. Rev. Michael J. Cusick is a licensed therapist and founder of the ministry Restoring the Soul . In his thought-provoking presentation “God, Sex, and the Soul,” he will draw upon his experiences as a minister, a therapist, and someone who has struggled with addiction and infidelity issues himself to show how men can open up about sex and rela...