In this week’s Equipped in 5, we look at Romans 12:10 and what it means to go first in honor.

Biblical honor is not flattery or fake praise. It is learning to notice faithfulness, name it clearly, and encourage what God is doing in the people around us.

This week’s challenge: Choose one man. Tell him one specific thing you see in his character, sacrifice, or faithfulness, and why it matters.

Lead with strength. Serve with humility. Love like Christ.

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How can Christian men lead without controlling people or backing away from responsibility? Episode 33 walks through Jesus washing His disciples’ feet in John 13 and shows why authority and service belong together. Corey addresses domination, passivity, marriage, fatherhood, work, church, brotherhood, healthy boundaries, and one practical way to go first in service this week.

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Chapters

00:00 Servant Leadership for Christian Men

01:22 What Jesus Teaches About Servant Leadership

05:10 Biblical Leadership: Authority and Service

06:50 Why Control Is Not Biblical Leadership

09:01 Why Passivity Is Not Biblical Humility

10:41 Christian Leadership in Marriage, Fatherhood & Work

13:16 Servant Leadership, Boundaries & Biblical Truth

15:08 How to Practice Servant Leadership This Week

16:25 The Gospel Changes How Men Lead

In this week’s Equipped in 5, we look at John 13:1-17 and what Jesus teaches us about servant leadership.

Biblical leadership is not about recognition or control. It is about using our strength to serve others, carry responsibility, and take the lower place when love requires it.

This week’s challenge: Ask, What burden can I carry before I am asked?

Lead with strength. Serve with humility. Love like Christ.

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Can a Christian put God first and still keep Him out of most of his life? Episode 32 carefully examines the difference between treating God as the first item on a priority list and living with Christ at the center of every role, relationship, resource, and decision. Grounded in Colossians 1:16-18 and 3:17, Corey explains how Christ's supremacy reaches home, work, money, rest, and the hidden motives of the heart. The episode ends with a practical Center Check that turns the idea into one concrete act of obedience.

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Chapters

00:00 Can You Put God First and Still Leave Him Out?

00:30 What “God Should Not Be First” Really Means

01:28 Christ at the Center. A Biblical View of Priorities

04:12 Why the Christian Priority List Falls Short

06:04 Following Jesus at Home, Work, and With Money

11:48 How to Recognize the Idols Controlling Your Life

13:55 What Christ-Centered Living Does Not Mean

15:51 The Center Check. One Practical Act of Obedience

18:11 Gospel Hope for a Divided Life

Work Like It’s Worship

Most of us spend a big part of life working, providing, solving problems, and carrying responsibility. But the real question isn’t only, “What do we do?” It’s, “Who are we doing it for?”

In this week’s Equipped in 5, we look at Colossians 3:23 and what it means to work heartily as for the Lord. Our work matters to God, whether we’re leading a team, working with our hands, making sales calls, sitting behind a desk, serving at home, or doing a job nobody notices unless something goes wrong.

But work is a good thing that can quickly become a terrible master. Our identity was never meant to depend on a paycheck, promotion, title, sales number, or somebody else’s approval. Christ defines us. That frees us to work with excellence, integrity, humility, and purpose without being ruled by our performance.

This week’s challenge is simple. Choose one task and do it with excellence as an act of worship to Christ. Even when nobody notices. Even when nobody thanks you. Even when it feels small.

God doesn’t just want our Sunday morning. He wants our Monday too.

Lead with strength. Serve with humility. Love like Christ.

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When your marriage feels distant, taking the first step can feel awkward and risky. In part three of Loving Your Wife When You Feel Disconnected, Corey shows how James 1:19 and 1 Peter 3:7 call a husband to seek understanding, listen without defensiveness, own what is his, pray simply, and rebuild trust through steady faithfulness. This episode includes a practical 48-hour reconnect conversation and pastoral guidance for knowing when to seek help.

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Chapters List

00:00 Why Reconnecting With Your Wife Feels Risky

01:55 1 Peter 3:7 and Understanding Your Wife

04:37 Start With Humility, Not Defensiveness

05:58 How to Start the Reconnection Conversation

07:33 Listen Without Turning Marriage Into a Courtroom

10:10 Rebuild Trust Through Consistent Faithfulness

11:36 Pray With Your Wife and Know When to Ask for Help

15:13 The 48-Hour Marriage Reconnect Plan

16:52 Gospel Hope for Husbands and Marriage

00:00 Why Reconnecting With Your Wife Feels Risky

01:55 1 Peter 3:7 and Understanding Your Wife

04:37 Start With Humility, Not Defensiveness

05:58 How to Start the Reconnection Conversation

07:33 Listen Without Turning Marriage Into a Courtroom

10:10 Rebuild Trust Through Consistent Faithfulness

11:36 Pray With Your Wife and Know When to Ask for Help

15:13 The 48-Hour Marriage Reconnect Plan

16:52 Gospel Hope for Husbands and Marriage

It’s possible for us to look faithful in public while being passive in private. We can work hard, serve at church, and help everybody else, then come home and give our family whatever patience, energy, and attention we have left.

In this week’s Equipped in 5, we look at Joshua 24:15 and what it means to say, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Biblical leadership does not begin with a title, platform, or position. It begins with the people God has placed closest to us. Our homes do not need perfect men. They need humble, present, faithful men who pray, listen, repent quickly, love sacrificially, and consistently point their families toward Christ.

This week’s challenge is simple. Lead one spiritual moment at home. Pray with your wife. Read Scripture with your family. Encourage your adult child. Pray with your kids before bed. Ask someone close to you how you can pray for them.

Don’t make a big speech. Just take one faithful step.

Lead with strength. Serve with humility. Love like Christ.

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What do we do when we know we’re supposed to love our wife, but we don’t feel close to her?

In Part 2 of our series, Loving Your Wife When You Feel Disconnected, we look at what covenant love requires when feelings are weak. Biblical love is not fake affection or pretending everything is fine. It is faithful obedience shaped by the cross and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Using Ephesians 5:25 as our foundation, we talk about the difference between emotional love and obedient love, why scorekeeping damages a marriage, how biblical leadership means sacrifice instead of control, and what it looks like to move toward our wife with steadiness, service, honor, curiosity, and repentance.

We also get practical. Each of us is challenged to choose one clear act of covenant love this week and do it quietly, without demanding praise or keeping score.

A husband’s first command is not control. It is love. And the shape of that love is the cross.

In this episode:

• How to love your wife when you feel emotionally disconnected
• Why feelings make a poor foundation for marriage
• The difference between fake love and obedient love
• What Ephesians 5:25 teaches Christian husbands
• Why scorekeeping turns marriage into a transaction
• How repentance, service, and steady leadership rebuild trust
• Gospel hope for husbands who know they have failed

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Be strong. Lead well.

Chapters

00:00 How to Love Your Wife When You Feel Disconnected

00:31 Why Feelings Make a Poor Foundation for Marriage

02:12 Ephesians 5:25. What Christlike Love Looks Like

03:24 Is Loving Without Feeling It Fake?

06:07 Biblical Leadership Means Sacrifice, Not Control

07:55 Why Scorekeeping Damages a Marriage

09:10 How the Gospel Changes the Way Husbands Love

10:39 Practical Ways to Love Your Wife When You Feel Distant

12:49 Choose Curiosity Instead of Assumptions

17:10 Gospel Hope for Husbands Who Have Failed

Biblical strength isn’t pretending we’re never weak. It’s learning to bring our weakness honestly before Christ.

In this Equipped in 5 Monday devotion, Corey walks through 2 Corinthians 12:9 and reminds us that God’s grace is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in weakness. A lot of men stay busy, stay quiet, isolate, or keep saying “I’m fine” while carrying burdens they were never meant to carry alone. But real strength starts when we stop hiding and depend on the Lord.

This week’s challenge is simple: name one burden you’ve been trying to carry alone, pray over it, and ask one trusted Christian brother to pray with you.

Lead with strength. Serve with humility. Love like Christ.
Be strong. Lead well.

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Why do I feel disconnected from my wife?

A lot of marriages do not fall apart in one dramatic moment. The distance usually builds slowly through busyness, unresolved anger, distraction, bitterness, exhaustion, silence, and neglect.

In this episode of the Equipped to Lead Podcast, we begin a three-part series called Loving Your Wife When You Feel Disconnected. Part one is about naming the drift.

Using Ephesians 5:25-33 as the foundation, we look at what happens when a husband stops moving toward his wife and starts hiding behind work, screens, silence, resentment, or excuses. We also talk about emotional disconnection, hidden sin, spiritual responsibility, and why biblical leadership begins with honest examination before God.

This episode is not about blaming our wives or trying to fix everything in one conversation. It is about asking the Lord to search us, naming where the drift is showing up, and taking one humble step toward our wife.

If your marriage feels cold, distant, or more like a working arrangement than a covenant friendship, this episode will help you slow down, look honestly at your own heart, and begin moving toward your wife with humility, courage, and Christlike love.

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Chapters

00:00 Why Do I Feel Disconnected From My Wife?

00:52 Loving Your Wife When You Feel Disconnected

04:56 Why Marriage Disconnection Usually Starts Small

06:41 How Men Respond to Emotional Distance in Marriage

08:49 What Scripture Reveals About a Husband’s Heart

11:27 How Quiet Bitterness Damages a Marriage

12:58 When Exhaustion Becomes Emotional Neglect

14:28 How Distraction and Hidden Sin Hurt Marriage

16:58 Biblical Marriage Is Covenant Friendship

18:27 A Christian Husband’s Marriage Heart Check

21:12 Gospel Hope for a Disconnected Marriage

23:18 How to Start Reconnecting With Your Wife