Vulnerability Episodes

What does emotional maturity actually look like? As men, we can be good at describing everything happening around us—our work, responsibilities, problems, and what needs to get done—while struggling to recognize and describe what is happening inside of us. But what if emotional maturity isn’t about becoming a man who feels less? What if it’s about becoming a man who knows what to do with what he feels? In this episode of The Prodigal Journey, we look at the life of Jesus as the ultimate...

JP3 talks about how men’s ministry showed him that our identity isn't in what we do or what people can do for us, but in Christ — and that real manhood is forged in intrusive, relational community where we learn to cast our care upon Jesus. He shares his story of growing up hyper-churched, walking through family pain and poor choices, and how getting plugged into God’s Mighty Men finally gave him a safe, biblical space to discover my spiritual gifts and stop burning all my energy trying to perform. Out of that journey he started Men on Purpose during the lockdown — Manhood Monday became our weekly lifeline, full of honest teaching, small-group accountability, and even straight-up conversations about sexual purity and fidelity. We talk about the tension between natural gifts and spiritual dependence (yeah, sometimes your charisma takes you farther than your character can keep you), why vulnerability among guys is not weakness but healing, and how diversity and getting out of comfort zo…

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