Resilient Disciple Podcast

Joey Koontz
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I'm Joey Koontz, husband, father, and a man who has walked my own road of drifting from God and coming back to full surrender to Christ. Through The Resilient Disciple Podcast, I want to walk alongside you as you take your next faithful step, whatever that looks like this week. I also co-founded Brotherhood Forged, a community for men who are done settling for stuck and are choosing to fight for their faith, their marriages, and their purpose together. Join us at bro4ged.com. Separately, I offer The Surrendered Man, my personal one on one coaching for men ready to stop starting and stopping and finally surrender the areas they've been avoiding: health, marriage, pride, or purpose. More can be found at joeykoontz.com

  1. 2d ago

    Why Pride Is Quietly Wrecking Your Life | James 4

    Every fight you've ever had traces back to the same root. With your wife. Your friend. Your church. James 4 says it isn't the other guy. It's what's happening inside you before the argument even starts. In this Resilient Disciple Bible study, Joey Koontz walks through James chapter 4 and the one word James gives as the cure. What we cover: ✔ Why you actually fight (James 4:1 to 3) ✔ How even your prayers can run selfish ✔ God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6) ✔ Submit to God, resist the devil, draw near to God ✔ Planning your future like God's not in the room ✔ James 4:17, the verse most of us skip Joey also shares what two rounds of cancer taught him about who really owns tomorrow. Your challenge this week: Pick the one relationship where you've been fighting or quietly judging. Before you say a word, ask yourself what you wanted that you didn't get. Then go make it right instead of making your case. Question for you: Where has pride been running the show in your life lately? Need men who'll call you out when pride takes over? Join Brotherhood Forged: bro4ged.com Next week: James 5. Money, patience, prayer, and going after a brother who's drifted. Get low. Now go live it. #James4 #BibleStudy #ResilientDisciple

  2. Oct 24

    Why Your Words Keep Hurting the People You Love | James 3

    On the Resilient Disciple Podcast, this James 3 Bible study goes after the words that keep hurting the people you love most. James gives three pictures. A small bit steers a horse. A small rudder turns a ship. One spark burns a forest. Your tongue works the same way. But your tongue isn’t the root. It’s the exit. Whatever is in the spring is what comes out. I share how my sarcasm once wounded a friend, what God showed me years later in prayer, and how He restored that friendship. Then we look at the wisdom from above in James 3:17 and one question to ask the next time something sharp comes out of you. Next episode: James 4, and where all the fighting and envy really comes from. If you don’t have a few men around you who’ll tell you when your spring’s running salty, come find some: bro4ged.com/community New teaching every Saturday. Subscribe so you don’t miss the rest of James. #ResilientDisciple #BiblicalManhood #BookOfJames

  3. Oct 17

    I Said I Believed, But My Life Said Otherwise | James 2, part 2

    I told Jesus I believed. My life said otherwise.If you're a Christian man feeling stuck, James 2 is your mirror. Real saving faith always moves you to act — not to earn salvation, but to prove it's real.In this verse-by-verse walk through James chapter 2 verses 14-26, we unpack faith without works, why James says faith with no deeds is dead, how Abraham and Rahab both prove living faith, and how Paul and James actually agree on faith vs works. No Christianese. Just truth for real life.Where is your faith all talk right now? Drop it in the comments.0:00 — Faith has to show up in your life0:31 — Faith without deeds1:05 — Compassion requires action1:38 — Even demons believe2:15 — Abraham and Rahab2:47 — Brotherhood3:17 — James and Paul3:51 — The marriage analogy4:59 — A practical challenge5:30 — Closing and next episode tease

  4. Oct 10

    James 2: The Sin Christians Don't Think Is a Sin

    On the Resilient Disciple Podcast, Joey Koontz teaches James 2:1-13 and why favoritism in the church is a sin most Christians never call a sin. A well-dressed man gets the best seat. A poor man gets told to stand in the back. James calls that being judges with evil thoughts, and he aims it straight at church people. In this teaching: - Why God calls the poor heirs of the kingdom (James 2:5) - The royal law: love your neighbor as yourself - Why stumbling at one point of the law makes you guilty of all of it (James 2:10) - William Booth, the back door, and how the Salvation Army began - One challenge this week: go be present with a man who has nothing to give you back Mercy triumphs over judgment. This is part one of James chapter 2. Part two asks the harder question: is your faith alive, or does it just talk a good game? Joey mentions Through the Word in this video, an audio guide through every chapter of the Bible. Subscribe for more Bible teaching for men who are done with hype. Want brothers who will hold you to this? bro4ged.com/community #ResilientDisciple #Discipleship #BookOfJames

  5. Oct 3

    James 1: The Wisdom You Asked God For (And What To Do With It)

    On the Resilient Disciple Podcast, we continue our book of James Bible study with James 1, verse by verse, and what to actually do with the wisdom you asked God for. James is the Proverbs of the New Testament, and chapter one points every line in one direction. Real faith shows up in action, or it's not real faith yet. We walk through the double-minded man in James 1:6, why your worth was never tied to your bank balance in verses 9 and 10, the fork in the road between perseverance and temptation in verse 12, and the most practical line in the whole letter, James 1:19. Quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger. Then James 1:22, the hinge the chapter swings on. Hearing the Word isn't enough. Knowledge was never the gap. Obedience was. Two challenges for your week: run James's order on purpose in your next hard conversation at home, and quietly serve one real person who's carrying too much alone. Chapter 2 drops in two weeks. Subscribe so you don't miss it. If you want brothers who'll hold you to this, there's more at bro4ged.com/community #ResilientDisciple #Discipleship #BookOfJames

  6. Sep 23

    Why Following Jesus Doesn't Get Easier (And Why That's the Point)

    On the Resilient Disciple Podcast, following Jesus was never supposed to get easier, and that's not a bad thing. I've survived cancer twice, and both times following Jesus got harder, not easier. The truth I've learned is that comfort pulls just as hard as crisis, it's just quieter. Hebrews 12:1 to 2 and Philippians 3:12 to 14 both point the same direction, this life is a race you keep running, not a finish line that gets closer with age. Two moves this week: stop waiting for it to get easier before you call yourself faithful, and name out loud what it's currently costing you to one man who'll hold it with you. New Shorts most days. A longer teaching video every Saturday. #ResilientDisciple #FollowingJesus #SpiritualGrowth

  7. Sep 19

    James: Why God Cares More About Your Maturity Than Your Comfort

    On the Resilient Disciple Podcast, we open the book of James and dig into why God cares more about your spiritual growth than your comfort. James was Jesus' half brother, a man who didn't believe until after the resurrection, and he wrote this letter as a servant leading the Jerusalem church to Jewish believers scattered by persecution. He opens with a hard command: consider it pure joy when you face trials, because the testing of your faith produces perseverance, and perseverance makes you mature and complete. James 1:2-5 also promises that God gives wisdom generously to anyone who asks. This episode kicks off a chapter-by-chapter walk through the whole book. If you want men around you wrestling through this book with you instead of alone, there's more at bro4ged.com/community. #ResilientDisciple #SpiritualGrowth #Discipleship

  8. Sep 12

    You're Becoming Someone. Who's Deciding Who?

    You are becoming someone right now. The only question is who's picking who you become. Here are the three voices doing it without your permission. I'm 57, married to Bobbie since 1992, and not long ago I had to admit that my feed, my fear, and my past had been shaping me more than God had, and I hadn't even noticed. In this video I walk through the three voices that quietly disciple men after 40, then dig into Romans 12:2 and Ephesians 4:22 through 24 for what it actually looks like to stop conforming and start renewing your mind, one honest day at a time. New Shorts most days. A longer teaching video every Saturday. #IdentityInChrist #ChristianMen #resilientdisciple

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I'm Joey Koontz, husband, father, and a man who has walked my own road of drifting from God and coming back to full surrender to Christ. Through The Resilient Disciple Podcast, I want to walk alongside you as you take your next faithful step, whatever that looks like this week. I also co-founded Brotherhood Forged, a community for men who are done settling for stuck and are choosing to fight for their faith, their marriages, and their purpose together. Join us at bro4ged.com. Separately, I offer The Surrendered Man, my personal one on one coaching for men ready to stop starting and stopping and finally surrender the areas they've been avoiding: health, marriage, pride, or purpose. More can be found at joeykoontz.com

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