What if you didn’t wait until January 1st to change your life?

What if you started TODAY?

In Episode 85 of the Building & Becoming Show, Allie and I are talking about why New Year’s resolutions fail—and why you don’t need a new calendar.

🔥 You need new STANDARDS.

We get into the physical AND spiritual changes that can completely alter the trajectory of your life before 2027 even begins.

In this episode:

⚔️ Why January 1st isn’t magical

💪 The difference between resolutions and standards

✝️ The ONE spiritual discipline that could bring you closer to Christ

📈 Why systems, habits and accountability beat motivation

🍺 The truth about “Dry January”

📸 Why taking an honest progress picture can change everything

🔥 Why discomfort can become a catalyst for change

🏋️ What Allie learned after a leg workout pushed her to her limit

🙏 Why your current condition does NOT define your identity

🌊 How the next 90 days could completely change your trajectory

Here’s the challenge:

Ask yourself TWO questions:

1️⃣ What ONE thing does my body and health need most right now?

2️⃣ What ONE spiritual discipline would bring me closer to Jesus?

Write them down.

Then ask yourself:

If those things would matter on December 31st, why don’t they matter TODAY?

You don't need another resolution.

You need a framework.

You need standards.

You need accountability.

And you need to START.

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We don't simply coach workouts.

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📊 Health & performance

⚔️ Habits, discipline & standards

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Your best days are not behind you.

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YOU DON'T NEED A NEW CALENDAR.

YOU NEED NEW STANDARDS.

January 1st is coming either way.

The question is:

🫵Who are you going to be when it gets here?

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What if January 1 wasn't your starting line?

What if January 1 became the day you looked in the mirror and couldn't believe how much your life had ALREADY CHANGED?

In Episode 85 of the Building & Becoming Show, I'm joined by my friend and DeepWater brother Mike Freeman.

Mike decided at 68 years old that he wasn't finished.

He was roughly 75 pounds heavier.

His energy was low.

His confidence was low.

He knew something had to change.

Today, approaching 71, Mike is leaner, stronger, more capable and more confident—and he'll tell you that his relationship with Christ has become even stronger through the process.

His message to the man who thinks he's too old?

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE.

We teach you:

🏋️ How to train efficiently, effectively and safely

🥩 How to eat instead of constantly dieting

💪 How to build strength and muscle as you age

⚙️ The 5 Pillars of Physical Optimization

📊 How to track, review and understand your data

🔄 How to adjust instead of repeatedly starting over

😴 How recovery affects your performance

✝️ How faith and physicality connect through discipline

🤝 How accountability and community change execution

🔥 How to turn a temporary program into a sustainable lifestyle

📖 HEBREWS 12:11 (NIV)

"No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it."

📖 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 (NIV)

"For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."

Your faith and your physicality are connected by a bridge called:

DISCIPLINE.

You keep saying you want to change.But at some point, wanting a different life has to become a different STANDARD.

🔥 THIS EPISODE IS A LINE IN THE SAND.

Maybe you've spent years running from obesity.

Running from addiction.

Running from weakness.

Running from shame.

Running from the person you used to be.

Running away can get you moving…

But it can't determine where you're going.

It's time to stop living with your eyes on your past and start running TOWARD Jesus, strength, discipline, physical capability and the person God created you to become.

📖 “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal…” — Philippians 3:13–14

In Episode 84 of the Building & Becoming Show, we're talking about:

⚔️ Why faith and fitness are NOT competing missions

💪 Why your body carries your calling

🔥 Why discipline matters when motivation disappears

📊 Why you need to stop scoring intentions and start scoring execution

✝️ Why following Jesus requires denying yourself DAILY

🚫 Why your feelings can be acknowledged without getting a vote

🎯 Why standards are more powerful than goals

🏃 Why you need to stop running FROM your past and start running TOWARD your calling

🤝 Why accountability changes everything

Fitness isn't the mission.

But your fitness affects your CAPACITY to carry out the mission.

Your family needs you capable.

Your calling requires energy.

Your future requires discipline.

Eventually…

YOU HAVE TO DRAW THE LINE.

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🔥 THE EPISODE 84 CHALLENGE

Don't just listen to this episode.

DO SOMETHING.

Complete these three statements:

1️⃣ I'm no longer running from __________.

2️⃣ I'm running toward __________.

3️⃣ For the next 7 days, my standard is __________.

👇 PUT YOUR ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS.

Make the standard public.

Private intentions are easy to renegotiate.

DECLARED STANDARDS CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY.

Draw the line

Wake up tomorrow.

EXECUTE.

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📖 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” — James 1:22 NIV

Faith determines our direction.

Fitness develops our capacity.

DISCIPLINE CLOSES THE GAP.

🌊 Welcome to the DeepWater.

🔥 Is being fat a sin—or has the modern Church become too comfortable to confront obesity, gluttony, laziness, and physical neglect?

In this explosive Building and Becoming mailbag episode, Jim Motz and Allie answer the faith and fitness questions most Christian podcasts are too afraid to touch.

Nothing is off-limits:

⚠️ Is obesity evidence of sinful behavior?

⚠️ Why does the Church confront alcohol, pornography, and financial irresponsibility—but remain silent about food addiction?

⚠️ Should an obese pastor preach about discipline and self-control?

⚠️ Is Jim using shame to sell expensive coaching?

⚠️ Did Jim leave Lifegate Church because God led him—or because his feelings were hurt?

⚠️ What should a husband do when his wife becomes obese and refuses to change?

⚠️ Has fitness become Jim’s idol—or is physical training an act of worship?

This is not body shaming.

This is a direct conversation about Christian health, biblical discipline, gluttony, obesity, physical stewardship, men’s fitness, marriage, church culture, personal responsibility, and what it means to honor God with your body.

📖 “I will not be mastered by anything.” — 1 Corinthians 6:12

The modern Church has confused compassion with silence.

We can affirm someone’s God-given value without affirming the habits that are destroying their health. Your value was settled at the cross—but your condition is still your responsibility.

Jim isn’t interested in creating comfortable Christians.

He wants to build stronger men.

💥 If this episode challenges you, don’t leave quietly. Comment below:

IS JIM RIGHT—OR HAS HE GONE TOO FAR?

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I left the only church I had ever known after 22 years.

Not because I hate the church.
Not because I’m trying to destroy anyone.
And not because I lost my faith.

I left because the mission God placed on my life can no longer be softened, separated, or silenced.

The modern church has ministries for pornography, alcohol, broken marriages, finances, and parenting—and it should.

But where is the ministry confronting obesity, food addiction, physical weakness, and the undisciplined lifestyles slowly destroying God’s people?

We talk about stewarding our money while refusing to talk about stewarding our bodies.

We preach abundant life while many believers are sick, exhausted, addicted, physically incapable, and merely waiting to die.

That isn’t condemnation. It’s a call to wake up.

In this deeply personal episode, I explain:

🔥 Why my family is leaving Lifegate after 22 years
🔥 What happened after one of my posts was removed
🔥 Where I was wrong—and what God convicted me about
🔥 Why I still love and honor the people who helped build my faith
🔥 The message about faith, fitness, and discipline that I refuse to silence
🔥 Why the Western Church must begin training strong, capable disciples

My faith and physicality are connected by a bridge called discipline.

This isn’t about six-pack abs.
It’s about becoming strong enough to carry your calling.
It’s about protecting, providing, leading, serving, and standing in the gap.
It’s about ensuring that what you say you believe finally lines up with how you live.

“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” — Hebrews 12:11

I’m not backing down.

I’m not getting quieter.

And this is only the beginning.

If you’re ready to become strong, fit, capable, and fully committed to following Jesus, comment STAND below.

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It doesn’t matter what you claim to believe if your life never produces the evidence.

🔥 If you refuse to keep promises to yourself, why should anyone trust you to keep promises to them?

Yes—I said it.

In Episode 81, Allie and I tackle some truths that will absolutely make people uncomfortable:

⚠️ Why undisciplined people are difficult to trust
⚠️ How neglecting your health affects your entire family
⚠️ Why “body positivity” can become permission to remain sick
⚠️ The epidemic of obesity and gluttony inside the Church
⚠️ Why calories matter—but food quality matters more
⚠️ Why AI can give you information but cannot hold you accountable
⚠️ Why building muscle becomes even more important after 40
⚠️ My plan to add nine pounds of muscle by the end of the year
⚠️ What real, whole-person discipleship actually looks like

The Lord does not love you less because you’re overweight, weak, struggling, or starting from rock bottom.

But love does not require me to cosign behavior that is slowly killing you.

Your body is a temple. Your family depends on you. Your calling requires something from you. And your 80-year-old self is praying that you start TODAY.

I’ve been the overweight alcoholic, drug addict, three-pack-a-day smoker who wanted everyone to leave him alone.

Jesus radically transformed my life.

Now I’m here to tell you the truth, extend my hand, and help you become strong, disciplined, capable, and fully alive.

You’re not too old.
You’re not too fat.
You’re not too far gone.
You’re not alone.

Don’t freaking quit. ⚓

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💬 QUESTION: Do you agree that undisciplined people are harder to trust—or did we take this too far? Let us know in the comments.

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🎙️ BUILDING & BECOMING SHOW | EPISODE 80

AN EPIDEMIC OF HYPOCRISY

Are Christians really different from the world anymore?

This conversation isn't about condemnation...

It's about conviction.

In this episode I challenge every one of us—including myself—to honestly examine the areas where our actions no longer match what we claim to believe.

🏋️ Fitness.
🍺 Alcohol.
❤️ Marriage.
👨‍👩‍👧 Leadership.
🔥 Holiness.
✝️ Following Jesus.

If we're called to be set apart, why do we often look exactly like everyone else?

This isn't an attack...

It's an invitation.

An invitation to reject passivity...
Accept responsibility...
Lead courageously...
And pursue the life Christ died for us to live.

If this episode convicts you...

Don't get offended.

Get better.

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00:00 Why hypocrisy is destroying our witness

03:15 What hypocrisy really means

08:30 The obesity epidemic inside the church

15:10 Why honoring God includes your body

21:40 Alcohol, drunkenness and Christian culture

28:15 How Christian men should treat women

34:20 What "set apart" actually means

40:15 The people you surround yourself with

46:10 Conviction vs condemnation

51:30 Becoming the example

💬 QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What is ONE area where God is calling you into greater alignment between what you believe...and how you live?

Leave it in the comments.

Let's grow together.

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⚔️ The Pillars of Strength | 10 Foundations Every Christian Must Build

Most people don't fail because they lack motivation...

They fail because they never built the right foundation.

In Episode 79 of the Building & Becoming Show, Jim Motz and DeepWater member Mike Freeman reveal the 10 Pillars of Strength that create lasting transformation in every area of life.

This isn't another motivational talk.

It's a practical, biblical blueprint for building stronger faith, stronger discipline, stronger leadership, and a stronger body.

If you've been feeling stuck...
Drifting...
Spiritually dry...
Physically unhealthy...
Or simply know God created you for more...

This episode is your roadmap.

✅ Training
🥩 Nutrition

💧 Hydration
💊 Supplementation
😴 Recovery

AND...

📖 The Word
🙏 Prayer
🔥 Obedience
🤝 Fellowship
🎯 Mission

These 10 pillars have transformed our lives—and they can transform yours too.

Remember...

Faith and Fitness are bridged by Discipline.

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Helping men and women build:

✝️ Stronger Faith

💪 Stronger Bodies

🧠 Stronger Minds

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👑 Stronger Leadership

Because your greatest potential is found when you pursue Christlikeness through discipline.

Build. Become. Repeat.

The Most Controversial Thing I've Ever Said: Christians Have a Spiritual Mandate to Be Fit

Most Christians have separated their faith from their physical health.

I believe that's a mistake.

In this episode, I explain why I believe followers of Jesus have a spiritual mandate to steward the body God entrusted to them—not for vanity, not for ego, but because your body is the vehicle that carries your God-given calling.

Whether you agree or disagree...

Watch the episode first.

Then let's have the conversation.

🔥 QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Do you believe Christians have a spiritual mandate to be physically fit?

👇 Why or why not?

I read every comment, and I'd genuinely love to hear your perspective.

⚔️ IN THIS EPISODE

✅ Why fitness is stewardship—not vanity

✅ Why your body is part of your calling

✅ Why weakness makes us unavailable for Kingdom work✅ The biggest mistake people make with their health...guessing

✅ How comprehensive bloodwork changed my life

✅ Why I partnered with Marek Health

✅ How to know if a deeper health assessment is the right next step

✅ Why I created DeepWater Coaching

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Why you can't build muscle...

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Remember...

"You don't become the person you hope to be...you become the person your daily decisions are creating."

Honor God. Honor your body. Honor your calling.

Build. Become. Repeat.

What do faith and fitness have in common?

Everything.

In this special Mailbag #7 episode of The Building & Becoming Show, Mike Freeman joins me in studio as we answer your questions on faith, fitness, discipline, weight loss, spiritual growth, and becoming the person God created you to be.

Mike has lost nearly 100 pounds from his heaviest weight, but this conversation goes far beyond physical transformation.

We discuss:

📖 How to build faith when circumstances don't make sense

🏋️ The only 4 exercises I'd use to rebuild my physique

🔥 The biggest mistake people make when trying to lose fat

🙏 How to know if God is calling you to something bigger

💪 Why spiritual discipline and physical discipline are inseparable

📚 Bible verses every man should memorize

This episode is packed with practical wisdom, actionable takeaways, and real-world experience from two men committed to building stronger bodies, stronger minds, and stronger faith.

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⚔️ SCRIPTURE BEFORE SCREENS

💧 DRINK YOUR WATER

🏋️ LIFT YOUR WEIGHTS