God's Glory in Men's Real Stories

God's Glory in Men's Real Stories This podcast/page is for men's real stories of healing and growth showcasing God's glory.

This is a safe space for men to be vulnerable and be themselves with no judgment by opening up and telling their real stories. 2 Corinthians 1:4

09/24/2026

“We only surrender to the level that we can still have control.”

Whew. Jordan Rawls. 😮‍💨

After everything we’ve talked about this week—career, money, retirement, trusting God and taking big steps of faith—Jordan said something I think we needed to hear:

There are levels to this.

This wasn’t:

“I woke up one morning, emptied the 401(k), quit my job and decided to trust God.”

Nah.

Jordan said:

“Your faith muscles ain’t built up yet.”

Because before the big surrender came years of smaller ones.

Getting up and surrendering the frustration with his job.

Sitting in the discomfort.

Having difficult conversations with his wife.

Questioning decisions he’d made years earlier.

Learning to trust God in steps.

Jordan traces this wrestling all the way back to choosing his college major and entering a career he now believes wasn’t God’s best for him.

Twelve years of discomfort.

Three years since our first conversation about some of this.

And now we’re seeing a man willing to make decisions that might look extreme if you only see the ending and don’t know the training that came before it.

That’s the part that hit me.

We can look at somebody else’s step of faith and try to imitate the step without understanding the years God used to develop their trust.

Maybe surrender isn’t always one giant moment.

Maybe it’s a muscle.

And maybe today’s small “yes” is preparing you for a surrender you couldn’t carry yet.

🎙️ Full conversation with Jordan Rawls is OUT NOW on God’s Glory In Men’s Real Stories — YouTube, Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

09/17/2026

We really thought God was about to SHOW OUT. 😂

Kadero gets laid off.

I get laid off.

And apparently we both had basically the same conversation with God:

“Okay, cool. So what You got next?”

Because surely if God allowed this door to close, He already had another one sitting there waiting for us.

Right?

New opportunity.

Next paycheck.

Clean transition.

Maybe even one of those testimonies where everybody looks at you afterward and says:

“See how God worked that out!” 🙌🏾

Kadero said, “Show out, God.”

And I was sitting across the table thinking…

BRO. ME TOO. 😂

And then?

🦗 Crickets.

That’s where this conversation turned for both of us.

Because Kadero said something I needed to hear:

Sometimes we get so caught up in the provision God created that we forget about the Provider Himself.

Whew.

Maybe the hardest part of waiting on God isn’t believing He can provide.

It’s trusting Him when His provision doesn’t look like the version we already wrote in our heads.

We’re waiting for God to show up one way…

while He’s teaching us to recognize that He’s still there when that way doesn’t come.

That’s why this episode felt like a tag-team match. 😂 Every time Kadero said something, I was sitting there thinking, Yep. I’m living that one too, brother.

🎙️ Full conversation with Kadero Watson is OUT NOW on God’s Glory In Men’s Real Stories — YouTube, Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

Come sit at the table with us.

09/11/2026

Our sons are watching us more closely than we think.

I remember asking my son Justin if he ever people-watches the way I do.

His answer caught me:

“Nah…I really just observe you guys.”

Our kids are watching.

How we speak.

How we respond when something goes wrong.

How we handle pressure.

How safe it feels to tell us the truth.

And while talking with Aidenn, that realization took this conversation somewhere deeper.

He described the feeling of getting into a fender bender and immediately thinking about how his dad might respond.

And something hit me:

What if the voice you expect to hear from your earthly father starts influencing the voice you expect to hear from your Heavenly Father?

If I’m afraid to tell Dad, “I messed up,” because I’m expecting disappointment, anger, or “Are you serious right now?”…

could I eventually start approaching God with that same hesitation?

Because if every mistake makes me want to hide from my father, eventually I may believe I need to hide from God too.

And what happens when a man doesn’t believe it’s safe to run to his Father when he needs help?

He stops asking for it.

As fathers, that challenged me.

Because our sons don’t need fathers who never correct them.

They need to know that even when they’ve messed up, there’s still somewhere safe to run.

And ultimately, I want my children to understand something even greater through Jesus:

When life goes wrong…

when you’ve made the mistake…

when you’re scared to make the call…

you can still run to your Father.

🎙️ Full episode with Aidenn & Thomas White is LIVE NOW on God’s Glory In Men’s Real Stories — YouTube, Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

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