Howard Porter has spent years building things. Real estate, businesses, partnerships. He founded one of the Southeast's premier commercial real estate firms, became the youngest MAI-designated appraiser in the country at 29, co-founded Global K9 Protection Group and grew it into the largest provider of third-party K9 cargo screening in the US. By most measures, he's the definition of a self-made man. He'd also be the first to tell you that's exactly the wrong way to look at it. This conversation covers the full arc — the early success, the hotel room floor at 40, the Walk to Emmaus, and a seven-year business slog through fraud, layoffs, a government shutdown, and COVID that somehow ended in a comeback. But underneath all of it is a man learning — slowly, over a lifetime — what it actually means to not be your own. Howard talks about entrepreneurial giving, going into business with friends, the difference between pleasing God and trusting God, and why the last five years of his relationship with the Lord have been the richest of his life. **TIMESTAMPS** 00:00:00 – Intro & meet Howard Porter 00:01:35 – First Birth to Second Birth 00:02:03 – Growing up in Birmingham & life in the church 00:05:43 – The hotel room at 40: "God, I can't do this" 00:16:22 – College, the draft lottery, and joining the Army 00:24:55 – The parachute analogy: trusting a cord, but not God 00:30:11 – The Walk to Emmaus & meeting the risen Lord 00:36:26 – "I Am Not My Own" — what stewardship really means 00:43:04 – Going into business with friends & being unequally yoked 00:46:26 – How Global K9 started (a real estate deal gone wrong) 01:02:12 – Fraud, layoffs, COVID, and the unlikely comeback 01:16:45 – Pleasing God vs. Trusting God 01:20:28 – What has God entrusted to you? The meaning of "Porter"

Trace Hamiter measures his life against two great works: his family and the ministry the Lord has entrusted to him. In this conversation he traces both, from an early animosity toward the church, to coming to faith his junior year of high school, through more than fifteen years of college ministry, and into leading The Oaks Collaborative, a nonprofit that hosts retreats helping incoming college students start rooted in Christ before they ever step onto campus. He and the guys talk about scripture memory as a way of being bound by the Word, the idol of money the Lord exposed through deep financial loss, and the grief of losing a child and what that season put to death in him. The conversation keeps landing where the show wants it to, not on accomplishment but on stewardship and obedience, and on what it means to finish the course (Acts 20:24). This one is personal for the show too. Brock's testimony runs straight through an Oaks retreat, and it was there that Brock and Ben first became friends. Their stories sit right in the middle of the episode. The Oaks Collaborative (ministry info and socials): https://www.theoakscollaborative.com/ Trace Hamiter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trace-hamiter-03748b2ba/ Scripture Memory: https://youtu.be/N-VvGc4pSqo Time Stamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:00 First Birth / Second Birth
 00:19:00 Scripture Memory
 00:29:20 Beginning Full Time Ministry 00:42:00 The Idol of Money
 00:47:38 Season of Pain leads to Killing Idols
 00:54:20 What is Good Financial Stewardship
 01:05:44 What Trace is Entrusted With
 01:15:10 7 out of 10 High School Students “lose” their faith in College
 01:18:00 Brock and Ben’s Oak’s Retreat Stories
 01:33:50 Behind the Numbers of College Faith
 01:37:20 Closing

In this episode, Auburn Mayor Ron Anders sits down with the Entrusted guys to trace a faith journey from a teenage revival that didn't stick, to a second conversion shaped by two faithful men, to a calling into public service he believes God placed on his life. Along the way he reflects on growing up inside his family's multigenerational bookstore, the grief of selling it, the weight of leading through tragedy, and why he is convinced every decision he makes as mayor is a spiritual one. A conversation about calling, identity, and what it means to serve faithfully when the work is never really finished.

Jeff Applegate has spent a career learning the difference between controlling outcomes and trusting the One who holds them. In this episode, Jeff takes us through decades of faith and business: a corporate exit with no plan, an unemployment season that taught him to pray over firewood, 10 years stewarding a company he would never own, and finally betting everything to start Texas Injection Molding at 45. He shares the vision, mission, and core values framework that has shaped every chapter of his life, the brain tumor diagnosis that broke open what it means to love God, and what it looks like to build a business as a living stone declaring the great things God has done. If you are wrestling with obedience, ownership, or what faithful stewardship actually looks like in the middle of uncertainty, this one is for you. **Entrusted Podcast:** Instagram: @entrustedpodcast Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:50 First Birth Second Birth 00:24:46 Leaving Corporate Life 00:28:37 Unemployment, Surrender, and Learning to Trust 00:33:16 The Firewood Story 00:43:08 Vision, Mission & Core Values 00:44:23 The King's Table 00:46:35 Living Stones: Joshua 4, 1 Peter 2, and a Mission That Stuck 00:49:00 Brain Tumor Diagnosis & What It Clarified About Love 01:05:04 Bet the Farm 01:06:42 Entrepreneurial vs. Entrepreneur 01:10:36 The Rock Garden — A Living Memorial to God's Faithfulness 01:21:25 Prosperity Gospel or Genuine Provision? Jeff Addresses the Tension 01:28:03 When to Leap and When to Wait 01:34:13 What He's Been Entrusted With

Miles Fidell is the founding pastor of All Christ Church in Auburn, Alabama — a church he planted at 25 years old with no denomination, no network, and no funding. In this conversation, Blayne sits down one-on-one with Miles to trace the whole arc: a Catholic father, a Pentecostal mother, a sovereign conversion at 13 with a group of friends who all became pastors, late-night Louis Giglio sermons snuck downstairs as a teenager, and a calling to preach that never wavered. They also go deep on ecclesiology — what the church is actually for, the cost of preaching five services in a day, and why Miles had to go back and repent to a satellite congregation he nearly disbanded. This one covers ground most pastor conversations don't touch.

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Mark Fuller went from being the self-described "leader of the fools" in professional baseball to bowing his head and receiving Christ in a San Diego classroom — and then spent the next 22 years wondering why God's plan looked nothing like his own. From the New York Mets to the SEC coaching ranks to getting fired and weed-eating lawns for $9 an hour, Mark's story is one of identity stripped bare, a desert that wouldn't end, and a father's heart forged in the process. Now a life coach, author of Dad on the Clock, and a man finally at peace with where God has him, Mark sits down with Ben to talk fatherhood, humility, and what it actually costs to become the man your family needs — to the glory of God. Guest: Mark Fuller — Life Coach, Author, Former Professional Baseball Player & SEC Pitching Coach 🔗 Dad on the Clock — https://a.co/d/0421pYK1 🔗 Coach Mark Fuller — coachmarkfuller.com Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:00 First Birth/Second Birth 00:15:09 Getting Released, Getting Saved, and the Tension Between the Two 00:22:25 Fired from Auburn 00:26:06 The Desert Years — Weed Eating, Bloody Hands, and Learning Humility 00:35:07 The Boys from the Neighborhood 00:46:18 Having a Plan vs. Surrendering to God's Plan (Proverbs 16:9) 00:56:27 Life Coaching 01:04:50 Dad on the Clock — Why Fathers Have About 12 Years 01:12:22 Advice for a Dad 11 Days Out 01:15:02 What Has God Entrusted to You?

In this follow-up episode, Kevin joins us again for a discipleship-focused conversation on media discernment, political narratives, and what it looks like to think biblically in a world that wants to do your thinking for you. We talk about algorithms, audience capture, the overlap between political schemes and spiritual warfare, and why being rooted in scripture is the only anchor that holds. New episodes every week — to the glory of God. Learn more about Kevin's work: Center for Biblical Unity — centerforbiblicalunity.com Substack — https://substack.com/@kevinbriggins  ⁨@KevinBriggins⁩   ⁨@InformedTakes⁩  00:00:00 Intro 00:01:00 Don't Let Your Algorithms Disciple You — Romans 12 00:12:35 Political Talking Heads and Romans 13 00:30:00 Brock Asks About Donald Trump and Kevin's Switch to Voting Conservative 00:49:00 Similarities Between Political and Spiritual Warfare 00:59:00 Dr. King Wasn't Jesus 01:07:30 Oppressed/Oppressor — Understanding Marxism 01:14:30 John Piper Quote on Comfortable Christianity 01:20:00 BE ROOTED IN SCRIPTURE

Kevin Briggins grew up in the inner city of Birmingham, Alabama. He joined the military, drifted far from the Lord in Panama City and Germany, and then felt something leave that he'd never lost before. Years later, he'd read about it in an RC Sproul book: the dark night of the soul. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Kevin takes us through his upbringing, the moment God pulled him back, how he met his wife (and shared the gospel on their second date), and what happened when the ideology of critical theory tore through his church. As the first and only black elder in a multiethnic congregation, Kevin had a front-row seat to something most people only argued about on Twitter — and he couldn't stay quiet. Kevin is a former intelligence analyst, the Managing Director of the Center for Biblical Unity, co-host of Informed Takes and Off Code podcasts, and an elder at his local church in Auburn, AL. 🔗 Center for Biblical Unity — centerforbiblicalunity.com https://substack.com/@kevinbriggins  ⁨@KevinBriggins⁩   ⁨@InformedTakes⁩   ⁨@OffCodePodcast⁩  00:00:00 Intro 00:03:27 First birth — growing up in Birmingham's inner city 00:09:30 Second birth — walking the aisle at 9 years old 00:13:12 Joining the military & drifting from the Lord 00:16:54 The dark night of the soul — feeling like God had left 00:20:01 The means of grace — why community matters 00:29:06 How Kevin met his wife & shared the gospel on date two 00:36:22 Dating advice — intentional dating, marriage, and leading 00:46:27 Ephesians marriage — leading like Christ, not like a CEO 00:52:12 Becoming an elder & the church that tore apart 00:58:29 What critical theory does to the church — a graceless Christianity 01:11:45 Providence — how a collapsed house deal brought Kevin to Auburn 01:14:34 Speaking out — from a Facebook post to a national conversation 01:18:06 Closing — what has God entrusted to Kevin Briggins?

Yancy Carpenter grew up poor in Dothan, Alabama — fatherless, rebellious, and by his senior year of high school, convinced the best thing he could do for his family was end his own life. What happened instead, alone in the back room of a men's clothing store on the circle in Dothan, changed the entire trajectory of his life. In this conversation, Yancy takes us from the wiregrass to the mission fields of Uganda and the mud churches of South Sudan. He walks us through 20 years climbing the corporate ladder at Sysco, 15 years of unexplained infertility, failed adoption attempts, a miscarriage, and what it was like to finally hold Emily and Jack in a Dallas County courtroom — and then, at 40 years old, to find out Joy was pregnant on Mother's Day. He talks about what it means to leave a salary, insurance, and a pension behind when God calls you somewhere that can't match any of it — and how a tornado in Beauregard, Alabama became the unlikely provision that kept Four Corners Ministry's thrift stores running. This is a story about obedience over outcome, the cost of leaving comfort, and what it looks like to be entrusted with life itself. Learn more about Four Corners Ministry: https://www.fourcorners.org/ Timestamps: 0:00:00 – Welcome & Blayne's absence (family first in action) 0:00:45 – Introducing Yancy Carpenter & Four Corners Ministry 0:02:06 – First birth: growing up poor in Dothan, AL 0:04:17 – A mother who loved Jesus and worked multiple jobs 0:05:35 – The three lies that nearly destroyed him 0:13:37 – The rant that became a prayer — and what happened next 0:27:56 – God's plan through Sysco: favor he didn't deserve 0:38:32 – Two Sudanese men in a Sunday school class change everything 0:41:06 – Guatemala, Lupita, and a Smarty that crushed him 0:48:14 – "These are not your hands" — South Sudan, 2010 1:03:11 – Leaving Sysco for Four Corners: do you trust me to provide? 1:07:27 – Joy's breast cancer and Psalm 103 1:18:00 – Fifteen years of infertility and wrestling with God 1:24:26 – The miscarriage, and learning he was enough 1:25:19 – The adoption journey: Lifeline, a profile never circulated, and a phone call in New Orleans 1:32:24 – Emily, Jack, and the birth certificate that made him weep 1:35:07 – Julia — born at 40, on Mother's Day 1:38:48 – Family worship and stacking wood 1:43:57 – What God has entrusted him with

What happens when everything in your life is working… and God asks you to walk away from it? In this episode of Entrusted, we sit down with Taylor Teel (Executive Director of Camp Maranook) to walk through a story marked by survival, success, surrender, and ultimately obedience. From a life-threatening diagnosis as a newborn to building a thriving career, and then taking a massive pay cut to step into ministry, Taylor’s story is a powerful reminder that God is not looking for comfort—He’s looking for obedience. This conversation hits on pride, legalism, identity, calling, and what it really looks like to depend fully on the Lord when the path forward doesn’t make sense. If you’ve ever wrestled with what God is calling you to do—or what it might cost—this one is for you. Camp Marannook is a Christ-centered residential summer camp in Lafayette, Alabama focused on helping students encounter the Gospel, grow in their faith, and be discipled in God’s Word. Through intentional teaching, community, and mentorship, Marannook exists to raise up the next generation to know and follow Christ. https://marannook.org/ Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:49 First Birth / Second Birth 00:16:45 Pride / Legalism 00:27:45 College Life 00:36:50 Dependent on God 00:38:45 Early Career Years 00:43:50 Primo 00:54:00 Getting Into Ministry 01:06:00 Wrestling With the Call 01:13:30 Taking the Leap of Faith 01:20:00 Stepping Into Ministry Life 01:27:30 When Everything Feels Like It’s Falling Apart 01:35:00 God’s Provision in Uncertainty 01:43:30 Building Something That Lasts 01:50:00 Trusting God Daily 01:55:00 What We’re Entrusted With 01:58:00 Closing