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Jim Bakker died on October 5, 2026, at 86. Paul M. Neuberger uses his death not to mock a man whose fall from grace became a national scandal, but to ask a harder question: why did the theology that built Bakker’s empire survive him? 
This episode traces the PTL Club from its peak, an estimated 13 million nightly viewers and a sprawling Christian resort called Heritage USA, through the 1987 scandal involving church secretary Jessica Hahn, the discovery of a ministry drowning in debt despite enormous fundraising, and Bakker’s eventual conviction on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. But the history is really a setup for Paul’s real target: the prosperity gospel itself, and how comfortably it still lives inside modern American Christianity, including, he admits, inside his own ambition. 
This is one of the more self-critical episodes of the show. Paul turns the lens on his own history as a self-described “recovering workaholic,” connects it to the same 2018 season of depression and suicidal thoughts he’s referenced before, and asks listeners (and himself) where ambition quietly becomes idolatry. 
In this episode, you’ll hear: 

• The rise and collapse of PTL and Heritage USA, including the financial numbers behind the ministry’s debt and donor fundraising
• Why Paul separates “money” from “the love of money,” and insists the show isn’t anti-wealth or anti-fundraising
• Current survey data cited in the episode: a 2023 PRRI finding that 31% of Americans agree God rewards strong faith with wealth and health, a Baylor study at 17%, and a LifeWay study finding 69% of Protestant churchgoers believe God wants them to prosper financially
• Why Paul argues forgiveness and restored spiritual authority are not the same thing
• A direct challenge to Christian leaders, including himself, about confusing audience growth with God’s approval
• The distinction Paul draws between discernment and judgment when evaluating a teacher’s public ministry
• Why Paul calls his 2018 crisis a turning point in understanding his identity apart from achievement
• What Paul says accountability should look like for Christian leaders and organizations, including financial transparency

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Key Scripture referenced:
1 Timothy 6:10, Mark 8:36, Galatians 6:7, James 3:1, Luke 9:23, Matthew 6:24, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Philippians 4:12, John 16:33, 2 Timothy 4:3, Acts 17:11, Galatians 1:10, Matthew 6:21, Proverbs 27:17, Ephesians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 9:7, 1 John 4:1, Ephesians 5:11, Matthew 16:26
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A man can be emotionally unfaithful without another human being ever entering the relationship. That’s the claim Paul M. Neuberger opens with this week, and it’s not hypothetical. He downloaded an AI girlfriend app called Zeta himself to understand what’s happening inside the hearts of Christian men who are forming attachments to software. 
This episode goes to a place most church conversations avoid entirely: artificial intimacy, pornography, secrecy, and the quiet erosion that happens one small compromise at a time. Paul is unusually personal here, naming his own decade-long battle with pornography addiction and a specific turning point in his recovery this past June. He doesn’t treat this as a hypothetical “some men out there” problem. He treats it as a mirror. 
In this episode, you’ll hear: 

• Why Paul believes Matthew 5:28 (lust “in the heart”) applies even when the object of that lust was never a real person
• What happened when Paul spent several days inside the Zeta app researching the appeal a friend had confided he was struggling with, and what he recognized in himself
• Why Paul calls loneliness “a business model,” and how AI companion apps monetize emotional vulnerability
• The Common Sense Media stat that 72% of American teens surveyed had used an AI companion at least once, and why Paul says that number matters even without evidence of romantic use
• Why Paul argues businessmen protect their company’s intellectual property more carefully than their own hearts, and what that double standard reveals
• A direct word to men on the difference between remaining “strong” by hiding a struggle versus taking it to the light
• A direct word to spouses who’ve discovered secret pornography or digital relationships, and why forgiveness and trust-rebuilding aren’t the same timeline
• Why Paul distinguishes “godly sorrow” from simply feeling bad about getting caught, using 2 Corinthians 7:10
• Practical next steps: deleting the app, telling a pastor or accountability partner, setting boundaries before private conversations turn sexual

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Key Scripture referenced:
Matthew 5:28, Proverbs 4:23, 1 Corinthians 13:4, James 1:14, Matthew 26:41, Numbers 32:23, Luke 16:10, Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:24, James 5:16, 2 Corinthians 7:10, Romans 8:1, 1 Peter 5:8, Joshua 24:15, Mark 8:36, Genesis 2:18, Romans 12:2
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This is the hardest episode Paul M. Neuberger has recorded. He says so himself, more than once.
There's no Liam Neeson story here, no villain who gets caught in two hours while the credits roll. This episode is about real human trafficking: a $236 billion global industry built on buying and selling human beings, and the uncomfortable truth that awareness without action has become its own kind of complacency. 
Paul doesn't treat this as an issue "out there." As a father of three, he walks through the numbers the way a parent does, by refusing to let them stay numbers. He talks openly about his own decade-long struggle with pornography and why he believes Christians need to examine what they consume before they condemn what traffickers do. And he makes a direct, specific case to business leaders: the resources, relationships, and influence that build companies are exactly what's needed to fight this. 
This episode is heavy. It's also one of the most action-oriented the show has done, closing with a national hotline, concrete steps for parents, churches, and executives, and a clear answer to the question "what can one person actually do?" 
In this episode, you'll hear: 

• The scale of the problem: an estimated 27.6 million people in forced labor worldwide, 6.3 million in forced commercial sexual exploitation, and children representing 38% of detected trafficking victims globally
• Why Paul says the Hollywood image of trafficking (a van, a stranger, a kidnapping) causes Christians to miss what's actually happening around them
• How grooming really works: not a kidnapping, but attention, affection, and dependency that slowly turns into control
• Why 83% of trafficking survivors in one national survey reported experiencing poverty before being trafficked, and 96% reported prior abuse, and what that means about who predators target
• The scale of online enticement: 1.4 million cyber tipline reports in 2025, and why Paul calls smartphones "thousands of digital doors" into a child's life
• Paul's personal disclosure about his own pornography addiction, and why he connects that conversation to the larger one about sexual exploitation
• The Parable of the Good Samaritan, and why Paul says the priest and the Levite are the ones Christians should read most carefully
• A direct challenge to business executives: how supply chains, vendor relationships, and influence can be used to fight exploitation instead of ignoring it
• What churches should look like as "the safest building in the community," including how not to handle a disclosure of abuse
• Practical next steps for parents, including how to talk to kids about grooming and sextortion before a crisis, not after

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If you or someone you know needs help:
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888
Text: 233733
Emergency: 911
Key Scripture referenced:
Genesis 1:27, Psalm 82:4, Proverbs 31:8, Proverbs 22:6, James 1:27, Mark 7:21-22, Psalm 139:23-24, Isaiah 1:17, Luke 10:37, Matthew 25:40, Micah 6:8, John 1:5, Psalm 147:3, Proverbs 24:11, Ephesians 5:11, Matthew 5:14
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What if the devil isn't a metaphor? 

That's the question Paul M. Neuberger opens with this week, and he doesn't ease into it. This episode goes somewhere most "polite Christianity" avoids: Satan, demons, darkness, and the spiritual battle Scripture says is happening around us whether we acknowledge it or not. 
The jumping-off point is a real, reported incident. On September 3, 2026, messianic Jewish author Jonathan Cahn was on a flight from Dallas to Newark, talking with the passenger beside him about faith, when the conversation allegedly turned violent, fast. Cahn believes he encountered something deeper than one angry man having a bad day. Paul doesn't tell you what to believe about that flight. What he does say is that dismissing the possibility without examining it through Scripture would be a mistake. 
From there, the episode turns into something bigger than one airplane. It's about why our culture will binge supernatural horror and superhero movies by the billion but treats anyone who takes the spiritual realm seriously as unsophisticated. It's about the difference between spiritual awareness and spiritual paranoia. And it's about the masks evil wears when it isn't dramatic at all, when it looks like ambition, success, busyness, or a LinkedIn profile that looks incredible from the outside. 
In this episode, you'll hear: 

• The full account of what happened aboard American Airlines Flight 618, and why Paul refuses to either dismiss it or declare it proven
• Why Ephesians 6:12 ("our struggle is not against flesh and blood") is the anchor for the entire episode
• The difference between seeing Satan everywhere and refusing to acknowledge him anywhere, and why Paul says both extremes are dangerous
• Pew Research numbers on how many Americans believe in a spiritual world beyond the natural one, and what that says about where the culture actually stands
• Why Satan's "opening move" in Genesis wasn't an explosion, it was a question: Did God really say?
• The masks evil wears: greed as ambition, pride as confidence, self-worship as authenticity, idolatry as success
• Why the real enemy, according to Paul, is never the person in front of you, and what that means for how Christians are supposed to fight this battle
• Current religious landscape numbers: 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christian today versus 78% in 2007, and what Paul thinks that means for the mission ahead
• Why surrender, not willpower, is the actual battle plan, drawn from James 4:7

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Key Scripture referenced:
Ephesians 6:11-12, 1 Peter 5:8, Genesis 3:1, 2 Corinthians 11:14, John 10:10, John 3:19, John 8:12, Romans 1:16, Luke 23:34, Romans 12:21, James 4:7, Colossians 2:15, 1 John 4:4, John 1:5
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Today, we confront a moment that shook the nation. The assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Not just another headline. Not another fleeting controversy to be fed to the algorithm and forgotten by Friday. A 31-year-old husband, father, and believer gunned down in broad daylight for stepping into the public arena. But one year later, Paul M. Neuberger refuses to offer empty sentiment. He asks the hard, convicting question: Did America actually learn anything? Or did we just trade our grief for more outrage, deeper tribalism, and louder hatred?

Make no mistake—a bullet is not an argument. And Christianity is not a team sport. Jesus Christ doesn’t share His throne with political parties, media figures, or cultural movements. When we excuse venom on our side while screaming about it on theirs, we aren’t defending the gospel—we’re worshiping an idol.

What will you do when the cultural temperature rises? Will you surrender your witness just to win a political argument, or will you stand boldly and play for an audience of one?

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” — Romans 12:21

Episode Highlights

08:40 - It's easy for me to condemn hatred when hatred is directed towards somebody I admire. The harder test comes when hatred is directed towards somebody whose worldview I strongly oppose. Do I still defend that person's humanity? Do I still condemn violence? Do I still refuse to celebrate suffering? Do I still pray? Because if my morality changes depending on which jersey somebody's wearing, I don't have morality, I have team loyalty. And Christianity is not a team sport.

27:14 - I'd rather publish something truthful that not a single person reads than something destructive that goes viral. I'd rather lose followers than lose myself. I'd rather disappoint an algorithm than disappoint God, because one day I am going to stand face-to-face in that heavenly exit interview in the sky, and there ain't going to be do-overs at that point. And I am not willing to make that meeting a bad meeting for me to make you feel good.

38:20 - Politics makes a terrible religion. And when politics becomes religion, disagreement becomes heresy, opponents become demons, elections become salvation, politicians become messiahs... winning becomes righteousness, and eventually almost anything can be justified because our side is supposedly saving civilization from theirs.

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Today, we take you inside the real story behind the Lindsay Clancy tragedy. Not just another headline. Not just another trial. Not just another parade of explanations and excuses. Three children—Cora, Dawson, Callan—gone. Lives that matter. Names you need to remember.

Our world hands out sympathy for the accused, forgets the victims, and explains away evil until nothing shocks us. But on this podcast, Paul M. Neuberger refuses to sanitize, refuses to bow. He exposes the numbness, calls Christians to courage, and reminds us: Jesus is still King. Truth is still truth. Life is still sacred.

What will you do when accountability collides with compassion… when darkness demands a voice? Will you speak?

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." –Ephesians 6:12

Episode Highlights

29:32 - All of that can help us understand human behavior, but explanation and justification are not the same thing. Understanding why somebody did something doesn't automatically transform what happened into something morally acceptable. Yet sometimes I listen to our culture talk about wrongdoing and wonder whether we still believe anybody is responsible for anything anymore.

38:08 - I believe we've spent decades teaching ourselves that the value of human life can depend upon circumstances—wanted or unwanted, convenient or inconvenient, dependent or independent, inside the womb or outside the womb, healthy or disabled, productive or burdensome. And from my Christian worldview, I believe that's extraordinarily dangerous. Don't play that game.

59:36 - If calling abortion morally wrong costs me followers, good. Get out of here. Good riddance. If saying Satan is real makes somebody laugh at me, I could care less. If saying 3 murdered children deserves more cultural attention than they received makes me controversial, well then put a big fat frickin' sticker on my forehead that says controversial and I will wear it for the rest of my life with pride and honor.

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Episode 14: Forgiveness - The One Thing Standing Between You And Everything God Promised (Tara LaFon Gooch)

In this powerful episode, Tara LaFon Gooch, coach, author, and host of the Grasp Confidence Podcast, steps into the spotlight to tackle the question: Could forgiveness be the one thing standing between you and everything God has promised?

Prepare your heart as Tara paints a raw and unfiltered picture of Christ’s example at the cross, where forgiveness flowed with no delay. If you’re ready to confront the space between your wounds and your words, this episode dares you to ask what ( who) occupies that room in your soul.

Is a hidden barrier holding back your breakthrough? Don’t miss this episode—discover what happens when you close the space and let God fill the cracks with gold.

"Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.' And they divided up his clothes by casting lots." –Luke 23:34

Episode Highlights

02:37 - Paul writes, do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. That word foothold, in the original language, it means place or space. Every day you leave an offense unaddressed, it's not a quiet day. It's occupied. The enemy doesn't need you to fall apart dramatically. He only needs a vacancy. And bitterness doesn't break down the door.

04:23 - And for a long time, I left that space open. I filled it with everything else. The rehearsed conversations that never happened, the resentment, the story I kept replaying in my mind and telling myself that I was right. But something shifted. I understood that space that I was leaving open wasn't neutral. It was occupied.

09:02 - Here's a question to carry with you. Would you still need to say what you're holding onto if you knew for certain you'd never get a response that you want? If the honest answer is no, it's not a resolution driving you. It's a need to be understood, and that need can only be met by God. Forgiveness doesn't pretend that the break never happened. It releases the right to make someone pay and let God fill your space with gold.

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Today, we draw a line in the sand. We talk about a threat in the church so few want to name—celebrity worship. Not in Hollywood. Not in D.C. But in the church. In your pocket. In your earbuds.

Candace Owens. Tucker Carlson. Names that command attention. Voices that spark outrage, controversy, clicks—voices some believers cling to tighter than Scripture. But what happens when our discernment is sold out for the dopamine hit of a viral clip?

Here’s the hard truth from Paul M. Neuberger: Jesus doesn’t share His throne. Not with Candace. Not with Tucker. Not with me. You make an idol of any voice other than Christ, and you’re on dangerous ground.

Are you letting a commentator shape your soul more than the Word? What happens when your feed shouts louder than your faith?

Will you tear down your idols?

“You shall have no other gods before me.” — Exodus 20:3

Episode Highlights

13:13 - If C-Suite for Christ ever becomes about building Paul M. Neuberger's brand or Paul M. Neuberger's platform instead of Christ's kingdom, shut the door. Unfollow us. Cancel your membership. Get out of Dodge. I'm as serious as cancer when I say this. This movement is not worth existing if Jesus isn't at the center of it.

43:03 - If political content is consuming more of your emotional energy than the gospel, if you're talking more about commentators than Christ, if you're spending more time forwarding clips than sharing scripture, then I believe something has quietly become disordered in your heart. The solution isn't censorship. The solution... is refusing to finance spiritual junk food. Every click is a vote. Every share is a recommendation. Every subscription is an investment.

54:43 - If the C-Suite for Christ podcast ever becomes more important to you than your Bible, turn me off. I'm dead serious about that. Unsubscribe to the YouTube channel, unsubscribe to the podcast, revoke your membership in C-Suite for Christ. If we ever become your idol, get rid of us. Drop us like a bad habit.

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Today, we talk about a man who became the face of a nation in crisis. Dr. Anthony Fauci.

This name isn’t just a headline. It’s a lightning rod. It’s the spark in a culture of amnesia. And let’s be clear—this episode isn’t about revenge, politics, or score-settling. It’s about remembering. It’s about holding leaders accountable—publicly, biblically, unflinchingly.

Because while the world says “Move on… forget the pain… ignore the cost…,” Scripture shouts, “Remember!” (Deuteronomy 8:2). Jesus is still Lord—even when truth is bulldozed, even when accountability is mocked, even when leadership tries to skate by on charisma over character.

What will you do when your moment of truth arrives? Will you stand for justice or let comfort buy your silence?

Buckle up, brothers and sisters. This one’s raw, real, and rooted in truth. Let’s go.

Episode Highlights

07:08 - Christians should never fear examining powerful people, and I pray what we're doing on today's episode of the C-Suite for Christ podcast is a catalyst—a spark that starts a roaring fire to get other people off their duff, to stop believing everything that they're spoon-fed, and get them to hold others to a similar level of accountability. We as Christians should be the first people to do this. Scripture doesn't tell us to blindly trust authority. It says to test everything against truth.

29:30 - When fear becomes our primary compass, we often surrender freedoms, relationships, and convictions that we never imagined giving away. And looking back, I believe that's one of the deepest lessons of the entire pandemic—not simply how dangerous a virus can be, but how quickly fear can reshape an entire culture.

01:11:01 - Truth without grace becomes cruelty. Grace without truth becomes compromise. Scripture calls us to embrace both. My challenge to you today is simple. Don't allow this episode to end when you turn off your phone, close your laptop, or leave your car. Keep asking hard questions. Keep seeking truth. Keep praying for our leaders. Keep extending grace where repentance is found. And never become so comfortable that you stop caring about accountability.

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Today, we tackle a force that shapes every boardroom, every church, every home—social media. This isn’t a tech review. This is a battle for your soul.

Paul M. Neuberger pulls no punches. He calls out the idols of likes, follows, and empty affirmation. He exposes the toxic tide of comparison, outrage, and curated lives. But he also proclaims this: Social media has become a mission field—ripe for the Gospel if you have the backbone to enter it.

You’ll hear about criticism, mockery, and spiritual wounds. You’ll also hear how Christ turns tools of darkness into megaphones for His truth. Jesus is still Lord—online, offline, everywhere.

So what about you? When your faith collides with the digital world, will you run, or will you rise?

Buckle up. This episode is raw, real, and rooted in truth.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.” –Romans 12:2

Episode Highlights

27:09 - God wants to form your character. Algorithms want to capture your attention. God develops patience. Algorithms reward immediacy. God teaches contentment. Algorithms often cultivate comparison. God tells us to love our enemies. Algorithms frequently introduce us to more reasons to hate our enemies.

34:15 - I think the greater danger is that it slowly changes what we think about all day long. And over time, what captures your attention shapes your thinking. What shapes your thinking influences your decisions. Your decisions become your habits. Your habits shape your character, and your character determines the direction of your life.

49:42 - Jesus never promised his followers comfort. He promised his presence. And that changes everything. The answer isn't to panic. It's not to become angry or to retreat into the darkness. The answer is to become so deeply rooted in scripture that no algorithm can redefine your identity.

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