Men in the Arena - Christian Men's Podcast

Updated: 06 Jun 2025 • 824 episodes
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The Men in the Arena podcast equips Christian men in the stress bubble of life: married, with kids, building your career and trying to follow God while leading your family well. We'll help you become your best version, equipping you to honor God in your marriage, parenting, work, church and community! Tuesday's podcast is Equipping Men in Ten - a ten-minute, laser-focused teaching from Jim Ramos to help you become your best version of a man. Friday's podcast is a high-octane interview with an expert in the realm of masculinity and Christian manhood, with authors like John Eldredge, Gary Chapman, Gene Getz, Patrick Morley, and Emerson Eggerichs. Jim reads their books and boils down their teachings into a powerful interview to help you learn from their expertise. Your host is bestselling author and speaker Jim Ramos. Jim has authored 9 books, including the bestseller 'Strong Men Dangerous Times: 5 Essentials Every Man Must Possess to Change His World', 'Tell Them: What Great Fathers Tell Their Sons and Daughters', ‘The Field Guide: A Bathroom Book for Men’, and the 5-book Strong Men Study Guide men's small group curriculum. Jim's high-energy storytelling and conviction will call you out, build you up, and motivate you to become the man you've always known you could be. The Men in the Arena are calling you into the Arena of manhood. We're calling you out of the faceless, nameless bleachers, and calling you UP to be the best version of you. Because when a man gets it, everyone wins.

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What if the secret to your success as a husband starts with what your wife says—and what you don’t say? Your wife's words may be slowly breaking you and she probably doesn't even know it. In this week’s expert interview, Jim Ramos is joined by the hosts of FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson. They get brutally honest

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This is a Men in the Arena podcast highlight from EP 695, Fight Smarter: Fight FOR Your Marriage by Fighting WITH Your Wife (the Right Way) w/ Aaron Freeman. Check it out!  Get Jim Ramos' USA TODAY Bestselling book, Dialed In: Reaching Your Full Capacity as a Man of God tinyurl.com/dialedinbook  This episode is sponsor

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Are you blindly following the wrong leaders? Could you be letting unqualified voices shape your soul? In this week’s 10-minute equipping episode, Pastor Jim Ramos exposes the trend of self-proclaimed “coaches” flooding the internet with no real accountability or biblical backbone. Too many men are allowing themselves t

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Why are so many young men turning back to Christianity in a culture that’s moving in the opposite direction? Is their faith intellectually credible — or is it just blind belief? In this week’s expert interview, Jim Ramos is joined by Justin Brierley, host of the groundbreaking Unbelievable? podcast, to dive deep into t

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This is a Men in the Arena podcast highlight from EP 635, How to Connect with Your Daughter: 15 Tools for Girl Dads - Part 2 w/ Dr. Michelle Watson Canfield. Check it out!  

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Men, are you man enough to face your weaknesses? It takes real courage to confront your weaknesses head-on. In this week’s 10-minute equipping episode, Pastor Jim Ramos pulls no punches as he challenges men to confront the areas where they fall short. Drawing from his bestselling book Strong Men Dangerous Times, this e

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