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What does it really mean to WIN as a Christian? Chip Pugh, Director of Team Development and Team Chaplain for the Tennessee Titans, joins Rise Up Kings to talk about faith, purpose, identity, and what NFL players are really dealing with behind closed doors.

Chip trains Titans players, coaches, and staff in character and leadership development. He is the author of Made to Win: Six Practices of Jesus for a Life on Mission and co-founder of Be1Make1 (Be One, Make One), a ministry that trains disciple makers.

In this conversation, Chip explains why so many Christians feel guilty for winning, what he hears in private conversations with pro athletes, and the six SKILLS of Jesus from his book. He walks through the exercise of discovering what your name means (his means "free man"), and Skylar shares the Words of the Womb prayer, why the enemy attacks the exact place your purpose lives, and the promise of Jeremiah 1:5. Chip also opens up about years of infertility and failed IVF, and the penny story that became a ministry built on discipling one person at a time.

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IN THIS EPISODE:
• Why NFL players have the same fears as everyone else
• Why Christians feel guilty for winning (and why they shouldn't)
• The 6 SKILLS of Jesus from Made to Win
• Why purpose beats willpower when it comes to temptation
• What does your name mean? Finding your God-given identity
• The Words of the Womb prayer and Jeremiah 1:5
• How NIL money and no community set young athletes up to fail
• Chip's story of infertility, IVF, and trusting God
• Be One, Make One: how discipling one person can reach 5 million

CHAPTERS:
0:00 NFL Money, No Community = Disaster
0:20 Meet Chip Pugh, Tennessee Titans
0:49 The Man Who Discipled Chip in College
2:54 Made to Win: What Winning Really Means
5:43 Why Christians Feel Guilty for Winning
8:37 Inside the Titans: NFL Players Have the Same Fears
10:45 The 6 SKILLS of Jesus
13:11 Purpose Beats Temptation
15:59 What Does Your Name Mean? Chip Means "Free Man"
19:32 When Your Identity Is Your Performance
21:09 The Enemy Attacks Your Purpose + Words of the Womb Prayer
25:30 Self-Sabotage, NIL Money and Why You Need Community
28:26 Chip's Hardest Season: Infertility and IVF
30:57 Be One, Make One: The Penny That Reaches 5 Million
37:39 What's Next for Chip + Get the Free Book

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n this episode of Coach's Corner, Coach Jeremy, Coach Nate, and Coach Mark react to three viral moments where faith and fighting collide. Corpus Christi boxer Julian Delgado walks away from boxing because of his Christian convictions. Ryan Garcia holds a worship session before stepping into the ring. Katie Taylor walks out to "All Hail King Jesus" in front of a packed stadium.

Can a Christian box with a clear conscience? Does walking out to worship mean God will hand you the win? The coaches dig into conviction, heart posture, and why God repurposes ambition instead of wasting it, using the story of Saul becoming Paul. You'll hear about a hunter who gave up his entire trophy collection in obedience to God and what that sacrifice made room for, plus what Tim Tebow's career teaches us about standing with God without a guaranteed victory.

Then the conversation turns to fear. If following God isn't the safest place to be, why follow Him? From Peter stepping out of the boat to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego facing the fiery furnace, the coaches unpack why courage is acting while you're afraid, why fear is an ingredient (not the enemy), and why you can't fake being fearless in front of God.

In this episode:

• Julian Delgado quits boxing over his faith (Romans 14:23)
  
  
• What real conviction looks like for a man
  
  
• Can Christians box? Why heart posture matters more than the sport
  
  
• God doesn't waste ambition; He repurposes it (Saul to Paul)
  
  
• Ryan Garcia's pre-fight worship and Katie Taylor's "All Hail King Jesus" walkout
  
  
• Is your opponent Goliath, or a brother in Christ?
  
  
• Tim Tebow and why faith doesn't guarantee a win
  
  
• Worship as the ultimate flow-state hack before competition
  
  
• Peter, the boat, and the myth that God's will is "safe"
  
  
• "Love is a knife fight": why you're going to get punched in the face
  
  
• Tim Timberlake on faking God's presence
  
  
• Fear as a necessary ingredient in the recipe for courage
  
  

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 After going $8.4 million into debt with only $4 million in assets, real estate investor Jeff Rutkowski stopped praying for God to send him millions, and started praying to become the man God could trust with a million. That single shift launched a career training over 30,000 people, building $250 million in assets under management, and founding Kingdom 320, a movement to create 1 million Christian millionaires across the United States!

Jeff Rutkowski is a real estate investor, coach, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder of Kingdom 320, a faith-based real estate training company that has equipped thousands of Christians to build wealth through real estate without using their own money. A Navy veteran who received a prophetic word about real estate while walking to church after his car broke down, Jeff now oversees $250M+ in assets under management and serves on the leadership team of Awaken Church in San Diego, where he and his wife Claudia are launching a new campus in West Palm Beach, Florida.

He explains:
◼️ How most Christians are unknowingly funding wickedness and anti-Christian agendas through their own 401k accounts
◼️ Why the Spirit of Mammon has infiltrated the American church, the medical system, and politics, and how to recognize it
◼️ The prophetic word he received while walking to church with a broken-down car that launched his real estate career
◼️ Why he stopped praying "God send me millions" and started praying "make me the man You can trust with a million"
◼️ How to buy real estate 20 different ways without using your own money
◼️ Why God is not calling you to live on a cruise ship, He's calling you to live on a battleship
◼️ The reason most high-net-worth Christians feel invisible inside their own church 

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Men commit nearly 80% of all suicides in the United States while being only 50% of the population. One in four men between 15 and 34 say they feel lonely — and this is the most connected generation in human history. The Rise Up Kings coaches break down why men are lonelier than ever, why the facade you've built is the thing keeping you unknown, and why it is your responsibility to be known!

Coach Jeremy, Coach Jon, and Coach Mondoe join the show to unpack the male loneliness epidemic — not with theory, but with the tactical frameworks they use to coach men out of isolation and into real brotherhood.

They explain:

◼️ Why the most connected generation in history is also the loneliest — and the paradox nobody talks about

◼️ The facade that men build to protect themselves is the exact thing that guarantees they die alone

◼️ Why it is YOUR responsibility to be known — not anyone else's job to figure you out

◼️ What Jesus modeled in the Garden of Gethsemane about vulnerability that most Christian men ignore

◼️ The "friendship inventory" that reveals who is actually on your ship — and who needs to go

◼️ Why every masculine pursuit must have the potential to create sweat, blood, or a tear

◼️ How Christian men use religion as a facade the same way other men use alcohol

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After growing up as a seventh-generation Mormon whose ancestor was a bodyguard of Joseph Smith, philosopher Dr. Corey Miller converted to Christianity, spent 12 years teaching at Indiana University, and discovered that the greatest threat to the Christian faith is not atheism — it is the university system that Christians themselves built and then abandoned to Marxist ideology! 

Dr. Corey Miller is a philosopher, theologian, and President/CEO of Ratio Christi — a campus apologetics and evangelism ministry operating on 100 university campuses. He holds a PhD in Philosophical Theology from the University of Aberdeen and four graduate degrees. He has taught nearly 100 college courses in philosophy, theology, and comparative religions at Purdue and Indiana University. He is the author of "The Progressive Miseducation of America," "Leaving Mormonism," and "In Search of the Good Life." 

He explains: 

◼️ How Harvard was founded by Christians for truth — and how it was captured by Marxist ideology within 200 years 

◼️ Why the cultural revolution happening in America right now would be the greatest Marxist revolution in human history 

◼️ The reason parents and grandparents are literally funding the apostasy of their own children through tuition dollars 

◼️ How postmodern cultural Marxism moved from the French Communist Party into every American university 

◼️ Why Peter Singer, the most famous moral philosopher alive, openly advocates for positions that destroy the sanctity of human life 

◼️ The "Trojan horse" strategy Dr. Miller used to breach the walls of the secular university from the inside 

◼️ Why the heart cannot embrace what the mind cannot believe — and how Christians abandoned the life of the mind 

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 After writing 25 books translated into over 150 languages and distributing 70 million resources across 240 nations, bestselling author John Bevere explains why millions of Christians have built their faith on only half of the gospel — and why the missing half is the reason so many leaders fall, marriages collapse, and believers live in comfortable disobedience!

John Bevere is a New York Times bestselling author, international minister, and co-founder of Messenger International — a discipleship ministry that has equipped leaders in over 240 nations with more than 70 million resources. He has written 25 books including "The Awe of God," "The Bait of Satan," and "Driven by Eternity," and has been in full-time ministry for over 40 years. He and his wife Lisa have been married for 44 years.

He explains:
◼️ Why the fear of God and the love of God are two guardrails — and why most Christians are driving with only one
◼️ The prison visit with the most famous pastor in America that revealed how entire ministries collapse overnight
◼️ How Paul went from "least of the apostles" to "chief of sinners" — and why that progression was the point
◼️ The reason God told a man who scored 16 in English on the ACT to write 25 books
◼️ Why being filled with the Holy Spirit is not a one-time event — and the daily practice most believers skip
◼️ The one-sentence parenting principle that changed his marriage after 44 years
◼️ What a 1600s French woman imprisoned for her faith taught him about reading Scripture 

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After spending 6 years sick with a mystery illness and 15 years in full-time ministry, World Cup Dad Zach Duke reveals how a single prayer in a Virginia coffee shop led him from a rec league where 40-year-old women stole the ball from him to Brazil's 2026 World Cup roster — and why he almost didn't obey the one word God gave him! 

Zach Duke is a full-time missionary who has served in over 40 countries since 2010, a former Division 1 football player who had never played soccer, and a newly-signed member of Brazil's 2026 FIFA World Cup indoor team. He is the founder of World Cup Dad, a platform challenging men to push their bodies, faith, and discipline to the edge, and descends from the William Wallace clan. 

He explains: 

◼️ The three-sentence "dangerous prayer" that ended 6 years of chronic illness in a single afternoon 

◼️ Why he gave himself a 0.0001% chance of making the World Cup — and wrote the odds down on his phone 

◼️ The two core lies that sabotage almost every man ("I'm not enough" and "it's too late") 

◼️ How praying over a locker room — not his skill — got him drafted professionally 

◼️ The Brazilian teammate he discipled who ended up handing him a World Cup contract 

◼️ Why weak men, not politics or economics, are the real reason the country is collapsing 

◼️ The exact 3 questions any man can ask to start hearing God's voice today 

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AI is coming for your job… but it might also make you rich.

In this conversation, we break down the truth about artificial intelligence, what it’s really doing to the world, and why it’s about to widen the gap between winners and losers. We talk about whether AI is killing creativity, if people are becoming dependent on machines, and the deeper question most aren’t asking… are we slowly replacing our thinking, our relationships, and even our faith?

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Christians keep dividing over secondary issues, and it’s hurting the Church. In this powerful conversation, we tackle why believers argue over theology, hell, deliverance, and denominational differences while people are walking away from the faith feeling unheard and hopeless.

We discuss majors vs minors in Christianity, eternal conscious torment vs annihilationism, deconstruction, church hurt, spiritual warfare, and why asking hard questions should never get someone silenced. If Christians cannot disagree with humility, unity suffers, and the next generation leaves.

This episode is a call for biblical courage, theological depth, and Christlike love. The world does not need louder Christian arguments. It needs Christians who reflect Jesus in truth, grace, and action.

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In this Rise Up Kings conversation, we debate national sovereignty (Venezuela/Greenland), then zoom into fatherhood: protecting your kids from outside influence, how to navigate fear, the 3 phases of parenting (train → teach → trust), homeschool/co-op strategies, boundaries like no sleepovers, and raising spiritually grounded, capable young men.

Watch if you’re a dad trying to lead with conviction, clarity, and wisdom in today’s culture.

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