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FirstAdam: A Transparent Podcast for Men

FirstAdam: A Transparent Podcast for Men

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 Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • Life Hacked

    Life Hacked
    Feb 11 2026
    We live in a world obsessed with shortcuts.
Life hacks. Money hacks. Fitness hacks. Faster results with less effort.
And somewhere along the way, we started treating faith the same way. What’s the minimum effort I can give and still get the life I want?
What’s the least I can do and still call myself faithful? But faith was never meant to be hacked. And when we try, it leaves a lot of men confused, disconnected, burned out, or quietly drifting. Some of us go all in, carry the weight, exhaust ourselves, and eventually disappear. Others never step through the doors at all because church feels cold, heavy, or impossible to belong in unless you perform. In this episode, we get honest about why faith can feel either freezing cold or unbearably heavy. Why church can feel more like survival than sanctuary. And why so many men feel like they don’t quite fit, no matter how hard they try. This is a Survivor’s Guide to Church—not built on rules, pressure, or religious performance, but on anchors that actually hold when life gets hard: Belonging before behavior
 Consistency over perfection
 Freedom from performance
 Faith lived in real community Grace doesn’t need help. Jesus didn’t almost save us, He finished the work. Faith was never meant to feel like grinding through winter just to prove you’re committed. It was meant to feel like stepping into warmth, staying long enough to thaw, and realizing you don’t have to earn the fire. If faith has ever felt heavy, foreign, or exhausting, this conversation is for you.
If you’re tired of striving, performing, or pretending, this is your invitation. Stop hacking faith.
 Stop surviving church.
 Stop carrying what Jesus already finished.
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    48 mins
  • 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
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