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FirstAdam: A Transparent Podcast for Men

FirstAdam: A Transparent Podcast for Men

Written by: JB & Andy
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 Most men struggle with the same issues. The problem is we feel alone. FirstAdam is about men talking honestly about the struggles we have and how we try to deal with them. Maybe you can relate or you feel alone, numb, and are struggling. Join us as we talk openly and honestly about it. You just might find hope.2022firstadam Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Parenting Relationships Social Sciences Spirituality
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  • Disqualified

    Disqualified
    Jan 20 2026
    Disqualified.
It’s a word loaded with finality declared unfit, ineligible, removed from participation. Not because you lacked passion or purpose, but because someone decided you didn’t meet their conditions. Disqualification isn’t always about a lack of skill, maturity, or effort. More often, it’s about a perceived deficiency imposed from the outside, by critics, authority figures, past failures, or even well-meaning voices that spoke too loudly or too soon. But here’s the tension: being disqualified by people is not the same as being disqualified by God.Human opinion may remove you from a position, but it does not have the authority to remove your calling. Rejection can sideline you socially, but it cannot cancel what God has already spoken over your life. Human judgment can’t cancel a divine calling. If you’ve ever stepped back, shut down, or second-guessed your calling because of criticism, rejection, or comparison, this is for you. If you’ve ever assumed “maybe I missed my chance” or “maybe I’m not the guy”, this is for you. Because the most dangerous disqualifications aren’t official. They’re internal. And can we remind you, God is not looking for permission from people to use you. So let us ask you, in what area of your life have you quietly disqualified yourself? What would change if God’s voice carried more weight than everyone else’s? Join us as we talk with Worship Leader David Jones as he speaks openly about feeling disqualified. Disqualification that comes from outside only has power if it’s believed on the inside.
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    50 mins
  • No Resolutions

    No Resolutions
    Dec 31 2025
    No Resolutions New Year. I’ve got a serious question to start: can you think of a worse way to spend New Year’s Eve than standing in Times Square, freezing, shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, possibly wearing a diaper, waiting for a ball to drop? Yeah… hard pass. That pretty much sums up how a lot of us feel about the new year. Everyone else looks excited, but inside we’re just tired. In this episode we skip the resolutions, and talk honestly about what men actually feel in January: pressure to perform, pressure to provide, and the quiet fear of repeating the same year. We get into why “trying harder” usually fails, why perfection makes men quit by February, and how isolation slowly kills momentum. This isn’t hype or self-help, it’s about renewing your mind, releasing last year, and stepping into who God actually made you to be. Do you want 2026 to be amazing. Take our advice. No New Year RESOLUTIONS.
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    42 mins
  • Dangerous

    Dangerous
    Dec 6 2025
    Some of the world’s most dangerous jobs require unbelievable courage. Think about the people who scale 80-story buildings on steel beams the width of a shoebox. Or the loggers who work on slick hillsides with massive machinery and zero margin for error. Or the commercial fishermen in pitch-black conditions. Or the technicians who calmly walk up to an active explosive device and say, “Well… let’s see if we can keep this thing from blowing us all up.” These jobs make most of us say, “Nope. Hard pass. I’ll stay in my air-conditioned office, thank you.” But there’s another job that’s just as risky only this one doesn’t happen on a construction site or in the ocean. It happens in your soul. That job is praying the words of Psalm 139:23–24:
“Search me, O God… test me… reveal what’s in me… and lead me.” Because inviting God to search your heart is the spiritual equivalent of stepping into a dangerous work zone: • It takes honesty. • It takes courage. • It takes the willingness to face things you’ve been avoiding. • And it takes trusting God more than you trust your self-protection. Just like dangerous jobs expose your physical limits, this prayer exposes the parts of your inner life that are fragile, messy, or hidden: The fears you don’t talk about. The motives you try to justify. The blind spots everyone else sees. The pressure points that reveal what’s inside. The patterns you’ve learned to live with but shouldn’t. It’s not dangerous because God is out to harm you. It’s dangerous because God tells the truth you’ve trained yourself to ignore. And here’s the twist:
Just like the deadliest jobs in the world often provide the greatest impact, saving lives, building cities, creating resources, this dangerous prayer leads to the greatest transformation. Letting God “search you” is how you get free. It’s how you grow. It’s how you become the man God designed you to be. In the end, the most dangerous job isn’t out there in the world, it’s allowing God inside to “Search You”. Dangerous Prayers make Dangerous Men. 

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    47 mins
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