Brotherhood Forged | Christian Men's Community & Podcast
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast created to help men live with faith, discipline, strength, and purpose. Hosted by Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel, Brotherhood Forged is a place for honest conversations about following Christ, building biblical masculinity, developing spiritual and physical discipline, strengthening marriages, and leading families well. This podcast is for men who know they were made for more: more faith, more responsibility, and more impact. Through Scripture, real life experience, and brotherhood, we help men forge their identity in Christ and walk out their calling together. Brotherhood Forged is more than a podcast. It's a full community built to help men take these conversations off the screen and into real life. Alongside the show, that includes a weekly newsletter with Scripture, practical challenges, and honest reflection to keep you growing between episodes, a men's community built for real accountability and brotherhood, coaching for men working through their walk with Christ, their marriage, or their leadership, and speakers available for churches, men's groups, and events who want this message brought to their community in person. If you're looking for a Christian podcast for men focused on growth, leadership, and faith driven living, welcome to Brotherhood Forged. Come for the podcast, stay for the brotherhood.
Episodes
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
This week Joey is back in the room and we're pulling back the curtain on something we don't talk about enough: the Daily Forge, our Monday-through-Friday devotional inside the Brotherhood Forged community. This month we're in the book of James, and we walk through three days of it together: "Count It Joy" (James ...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
It's just Paul today. No Joey, no peanut butter and jelly, just peanut butter. We're trying something new: shorter, weekly solo episodes built off Paul's "If I Could Tell My Younger Self One Thing" series from social media and YouTube Shorts. The goal is simple: pass on the lessons we learned late, or the wrong way, so the next...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
It's been a month since our last PB and J episode, and Paul and Joey are back with a lot to unpack. This one kicks off officially as Season 2, Episode 2, and it's loaded: behind-the-scenes vlogs, a brand new newsletter, a controversial marriage question, and the launch of a 12-month series on biblical manhood.
In this episode:
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Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
In this special behind-the-scenes episode, Paul sits down with his wife Amber for the start of a monthly marriage and family series. As they approach their 10-year anniversary, they walk through “10 questions for 10 years” and talk honestly about marriage, parenting, priorities, boundaries, family culture,...
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Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
In Episode 110, Joey Koontz sits down with Bob Waldrep -- founder of Crosswinds Foundation and Warriors on Mission -- to tackle something most men never discuss: the invisible wounds that fo...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
In Episode 109, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel sit down with guest Fred Frederickson for a powerful conversation about addiction, recovery, identity, discipline, and redemption.
Fred shares his journey from being a high-performing kid to battling addiction, homelessness, multiple overdoses, arrests, and rehabs — and how one...
Many men live by a story they didn't choose, shaped by past failures or labels. This episode explores how these experiences contribute to an individual's personal identity and self concept, often leading to an identity conflict. We discuss mental wellbeing and self improvement, offering insights into understanding human behavior and fostering personal growth. Stay strong. Stay faithful. God bless.
Brotherhood Forged is a Chr...
Join Joey Koontz and Wes Bake for a special episode of the Christian podcast, Brotherhood Forged, as they share insights from a coffee shop conversation. This discussion highlights the importance of self improvement and personal growth, emphasizing how a strong men's community fosters accountability for men. Stay strong. Stay faithful. God bless.
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, disc...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Episode 106 started with a text message. One of our brothers reached out to Joey an hour before our Wednesday night discipleship call and asked a question a lot of men are afraid to say out loud: "How do I actually lead my wife spiritually?"
What followed was one of the most real, unscripted conversations we've ever had. Joey Koontz...
The conversation delves into the transformative power of gratitude, highlighting its role as a weapon and a catalyst for change. It explores the impact of gratitude in the face of hardship, the connection between gratitude and contentment, the role of gratitude in serving others, and the humbling effect of gratitude. The discussion emphasizes the importance of recognizing and embracing gratitude in everyday life, and the profound i...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Nobody handed you a parenting manual. In Episode 104, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel share the five most important lessons they've learned as fathers — grounded in scripture, lived experience, and the kind of honest conversation men rarely have.
From a powerful blacksmith parable about a dad who spent his life shaping iron and ne...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Episode 103 — What 34 Years of Marriage Actually Teaches You
Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel sit down for an honest, unscripted conversation about what strong marriages are really built on — and spoiler: it's not the wedding day. It's the daily grind of showing up, serving your spouse, giving grace when it's hard to give, ...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Most men don't lose their life all at once. They lose it slowly -- from the inside out. A compromise here. A little pride. An outburst. A careless word. A lack of discipline. Before they even realize it, everything on the outside is a direct reflection of what they've ignored on the inside.
In Episode 102, Joey Koontz and Paul Ben...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Episode 101 -- The Invisible Breakdown
You go to work. You come home. You go to bed. And somewhere in that routine, you lose yourself. The worst part? Nobody even notices.
In this episode, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel have one of the most raw and real conversations Brotherhood Forged has ever recorded. They dig into the silent epid...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Episode 100. One year. Eleven testimonies. And a God who showed up.
Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel celebrate 100 episodes by doing something they have never done before — sitting back and letting other people tell the story. In this milestone episode, you will hear real testimonies from the wives and the men of Brotherhood Forg...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men's podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Episode 99 -- Stepping Into the Forge
We made it to 99 episodes -- almost a full year in! Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel sit down to reflect on what it took to stop planning and start doing, and how that same decision applies to every area of your life as a man.
If you know there's more in you but you keep standing outside the thing ...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
In this episode, we dive into one of the most common communication breakdowns men face—trying to fix when we should be listening.
Most men don’t have bad intentions. We want to help. We want to lead. But too often, we jump into solutions before understanding, creating distance instead of connection in our marri...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
Your family is already following your example. The question is, where are you leading them?
In Episode 97 of Brotherhood Forged, Joey Koontz and Paul Bengel have an honest conversation about what it means to lead your family spiritually. This episode is a challenge for Christian men to stop waiting for the “perfect t...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
In this episode, Joey and Paul unpack one of the most damaging habits in relationships: keeping score.
From pride and defensiveness to delayed apologies and unresolved anger, they talk honestly about why repair is so hard for men—and why it matters so much. This conversation dives into what it looks like to stop trying...
Brotherhood Forged is a Christian men’s podcast helping men grow in faith, discipline, and leadership.
In Episode 95, we sit down with Ed D., a member of the Brotherhood Forged community, to hear one of the most powerful and emotional stories we’ve ever shared on the show.
Ed and his wife opened their home to the foster care system for over a decade, welcoming 97 children into their family. Through that journey, they ex...
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