The Bible was meant to be read in 3D! Dr. John DeLancey, director of Biblical Israel Ministries, explains how understanding the topography of the land of Israel helps you more accurately interpret the Bible. John calls this “understanding the Bible through the context of the land.”

The topography of Israel is unlike any other place on earth, and its unique landscape had a big impact on the people and events of the Bible. After this interview, you’ll never read the Bible the same again!

Dr. John DeLancey served as lead pastor in two evangelical churches for a total of 26 years. He’s led 86 tours of Israel, with many of these trips including Jordan and Egypt. John has excavated at seven archeological sites in Israel and written two books: Devotional Treasures from the Holy Land and Connecting the Dots Between the Bible and the Land of Israel.

Interested in going to Israel? Email Mike Hatch (mhatch@clchq.org) or Dr. John DeLancey (DrJohn@BiblicalIsraelTours.com) about the trip they will be co-leading in September 2024.

Did you have a coach who positively impacted your life? How can you have a similar influence on key people in your life, outside the world of sports?

Author and coach Levi Nelson explains the significance of developing your own unique philosophy of coaching in everyday life. The key is to approach every relationship from a posture of love, effort, attitude, and discipline.

As he discusses his book, L.E.A.D.: A Coach’s Playbook on How to Positively Impact the World Through Love, Effort, Attitude, and Discipline, Levi details the process he used to find his own life’s mission to positively impact the world. He shares proven methods from sports and performance psychology and best practices from his own experience as a head football coach and certified trainer for the Positive Coaching Alliance that will help you implement the characteristics of LEAD in your own “coaching practice.”

Coach Nelson holds a doctorate in Sport and Performance Psychology and currently serves as a college professor and coach developer for USA Hockey. Connect with him on Twitter.

Fear and insecurity handicap your ability to lead courageously. How do you confront your fears? How do you embrace risk and trust God in uncertainty?

Michael McDonald, Chief Global Focus & Strategic Relationships Officer for The Bible Project (website, YouTube channel), has been in many precarious situations. By God’s providence, he’s found his way through and discovered new levels of God’s faithfulness. Drawing on his experiences, he explains how God uses your successes, failures, and other experiences to refine you and prepare you for unexpected roles and purposes.

Michael cultivates awareness and creates strategic relationships with churches and other organizations that seek to use The Bible Project’s nearly 200 videos and other resources. He also leads the organization’s global focus team, which localizes videos into 56 different languages. Before The Bible Project, Michael spent 11 years leading a global development organization and served on boards for international compassion and justice organizations.

To learn more about The Bible Project, read this article penned by podcast co-host Chris Bolinger.

Suffering sucks. But God uses it to refine us, make us more like Jesus, and grow us as leaders. The key is trusting in God’s character through the process. How do we persist in believing that God is good when we don’t understand the challenging circumstances we’re facing?

As he has suffered — and as he has watched his wife and older daughter suffer — PW Gopal has learned to trust God and take Him at His word. Along the way, PW has communicated his frustrations and his joy through the songs he writes and performs.

We had the privilege of listening to PW’s compelling story through three of his songs: “Stacking Maybe’s,” “Fall to Pieces,” and “The Newest Parts.” Join us as we vicariously journey through his life and apply impactful lessons to the nitty gritty of our own lives.

Follow PW at his website, on his Spotify channel, and through The Hundred Movement, his non-profit that helps victims of human trafficking.

The state of men’s discipleship in the church today is anemic at best. Our guest today, Bob Jamison, founder and president of Adam’s Quest Men’s Ministry, explains the vital role of mentoring in vibrant men’s discipleship. We discuss the impact of the book, 4 Chair Discipling on Bob and his ministry with CLC. You’ll gain a valuable framework for understanding the development of a disciple.

Bob Jamison is a co-founder of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Leaders Prayer Breakfast, Prayer Over Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Prayer Evangelism. He has served on the Mayor’s Youth Policy Council and a broad range of advisory boards. Bob served for 24 years as president of Family Guidance, Inc., one of the Pittsburgh region’s strongest programs for at-risk youth and families. Before coming to Family Guidance, Bob served in college administration. He has traveled in mission to Mexico, Argentina, England, and Brazil.

Biblical leadership looks a lot different than many men realize. Less like confident self-sufficiency. More like a desperate dependence on God.

Our guest today — entrepreneur, author, and publisher Tom Harper — discusses true biblical leadership. He begins by transparently sharing about the season of hell he walked his family through in 2020, which included deaths in the family to nearly losing his business. We learn significant leadership lessons, including how to lead our family and business through the toughest of times. Spoiler alert: It has nothing to do with your capabilities!

Tom Harper is publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com and executive chairman of Networld Media Group. He has written five books, including: Inner Threat, Servant Leader Strong, Through Colored Glasses, and Leading from the Lions’ Den.

When he turns 18, your son will be considered an adult. How he behaves as a man will depend in large part on how he navigates his teenage years. As he enters those years, how can you effectively pass down your wisdom when he is more influenced by his phone than his father?

Steven Arms recommends that start by doing what his father did for him: have a rite of passage. In this episode, Steven gives practical, step-by-step guidance on planning, organizing, and executing a Christian rite of passage experience that will have a powerful impact on your son (or daughter), not just for a weekend but for a lifetime.

With his dad, Steven wrote the book Milestone to Manhood. Learn more at MilestoneToManhood.com.

Dr. Dan Nahrwold had heard of CLC’s life-changing ALL IN discipleship curriculum, but experiencing it for himself surpassed all his expectations. Dan shares about how God planted seeds in his life several years earlier, and how those seeds led to eventually starting his own ALL IN group after moving to Tampa, FL. We discuss the significance of relationships in men’s discipleship and how accountability impacts our approach to work and our careers.

Dan is an Assistant Member in the Moffitt Cancer Center Department of Anesthesiology. After earning his MD at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Dan completed an Anesthesiology Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center followed by a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dan’s clinical interests are in acute pain management, ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, biomedical informatics, and critical care medicine. His research interests are in advancing technology and anesthetic techniques to improve perioperative quality outcomes. Contact him via email.

By entrusting themselves to the state rather than to God, many men have abdicated their self-sovereignty in favor of a sovereign empire. As we seek to lead our families, how do we reclaim our God-given role of taking dominion of the earth, ruling over it, being fruitful, and multiplying?

In the second half of our interview with TikTok influencer Cody Thompson, he shares scriptural and philosophical insights that will challenge and encourage you. We discuss how he and his family are trying to grow their own food, stay healthy, and embrace honest money. And we discuss Bitcoin: its role and significance to us, Christian men seeking to put God first.

Connect with Cody through his website and on TikTok.

Often God will get our attention through suffering. Unfortunately, it takes some of us longer than others to finally come to our senses and surrender to God’s will.

Cody Thompson has an incredible story that entails a long road of trials and suffering on his way to finally discovering God’s faithfulness. We took an entire hour in this first half of our interview with Cody to unpack his amazing journey.

You’ll certainly relate to the wild ride of Cody’s story and you’ll be inspired along the way with the profound lessons about God’s goodness and faithfulness.

Connect with Cody through his website and on TikTok.