Fruit of the Foundry
by Jake and Dan
Forging Men in Faith and Purpose.Life is God's own Foundry, and he's asked us to be men of purpose and leaders of our home, our children, and our wives. We won't find the strength for these things in ourselves, so join us as we explore the fruit of finding strength and endurance in the forge of life that is required to live out the purpose God has for you.
Episodes
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Holding On Too Tight? | Proverbs 10
Close your fist around your money, your wife, your kids or your business, and you'll smother the very thing you're trying to hold on to. We come out of the Sermon on the Mount and into Proverbs 10, one of 31 chapters that can give you "a PhD in everything life" if you read one a day. We talk…
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Is Your Faith Built on Sand? | Matthew 7:21–29
Can you do all the right things (go to church, give, serve) and still hear Jesus say "I never knew you"? It all comes down to what you're building on. We finish the Sermon on the Mount with Matthew 7:21–29: the wise man who built on the rock and the foolish man who built on sand. We talk about…
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Win or Lose, Pick Joy | Matthew 7:12–20
When life falls apart, you pray. When life is going great, do you still? Most of us don't, and that's exactly when pride and comfort creep in. Back in the (newly upgraded) studio, Jake and Dan pick up the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 7:12–20 and wrestle with a hard question: how do you win or...
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Two DUIs by 19. Then Life Finally Made Sense. | Luke's Story
Two DUIs by 19. Ten days in a jail cell. A family where every gathering started with "where's the closest liquor store?" Luke's story is what happens when grace shows up anyway. Luke (ultrarunner, builder, husband and adoptive dad) sits down with Jake and Dan to share how the anger from a broken...
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Is Your Heart Stinky? | Matthew 7:1–11
You can smell the stink in someone else's house the second you walk in, but never in your own. Jesus says our hearts work the same way.We're back in the Sermon on the Mount with Matthew 7:1–11. We talk about taking the log out of your own eye before going after your brother's speck, why only…
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Dam Days Special; Five Spring Valley Men discuss Failure, Faith & Family
Every September Spring Valley celebrates Dam Days, and in this show we want you to experience a sample of our community. After more than 40 of you ran the Dam Mile with us at 6am, Jake and Dan opened the studio to a live audience and sat down with five local men for quick 15-minute conversations....
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Do Not Be Anxious: Is Anxiety From God?
Jesus says don't be anxious. Easy to say, harder to do. This week Jake and Dan finish up Matthew 6 and talk about what that looks like when you're actually anxious. Anxiety hits everybody differently, so they talk about how it shows up in life and in marriage. They also cover why you should have...
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An Invitation To Do The Hard Things - The Dam Mile Experience!
You don't grow by staying comfortable. You grow by showing up anyways. Jake and Dan discuss a hiking trip that fell apart, and while giving up control of the plan felt like failure, their pivot and response to that turned out to be the whole point. They talk through the difference between chasing…
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Treasures in Heaven: What Actually Lasts?
Everything you own is going to rust, break, or get left behind. So what's actually worth building?Jake and Dan dive into Matthew 6: if moth and rust destroy everything we chase on earth, what actually lasts? Jake gets honest about the tension of pouring into his wife, his three boys, and his...
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Raising Leaders or Followers?
Most kids spend twelve years learning how to follow instructions. Almost none of them spend twelve years learning how to lead.In this episode, Dan and Jake sit down with Bobbie, co-founder of Spring Forth Academy, an Acton Academy. She talks about what it looks like to raise kids who can think…
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Breaking Addiction and Building a Man
How do you deal with pain in your life?At 16, Ryan's mom sat the family down and said she was leaving. He never learned how to process that. He learned how to bury it.For the next two decades, alcohol did the burying. Not every day, but every time was 0 to 100. He drank through college, through a...
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Are Your Prayers Dangerous?
Jake and Dan are back from the road and get honest about what happens when you actually pray for patience or strength -- because God doesn't always answer the easy way. They walk through Matthew 6 on giving, praying, and fasting without an audience, and land on what they call "dangerous prayers":...
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You have to follow through
"Let your yes be yes, your no be no. Anything more than that comes from the evil one." Jesus is blunt about this. It's a simple standard that's brutal to actually live by. A dad realizes he's said "I'll be there" more times than he's meant it. Discipline gets promised and then quietly skipped...
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Cut Off Your Hand - Lust and Temptation
Jesus doesn't soften this one. "If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off." In this episode, we sit down with the Sermon on the Mount's hardest teaching on lust and dig into what it actually means to take sin that seriously.We talk about why looking is the same as an affair in God's eyes,...
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Did Jesus Say Anger Equals Murder?
Jakes back from a family vacation and talking through what came home with him: his family grieving the trip's end and their time together. Also, teaching boys responsibility through chores and hard conversations, and the harder truth underneath it all, learning to hand your kids over to God…
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183 good days a year... is a good year
Sheriff Chad Koranda made a bad choice in college, and he owned it. Two weeks after getting in trouble, he walked into the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, sat in the lobby for two and a half hours, and told the sheriff exactly what happened. That sheriff took a chance on him anyway. Twenty years...
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Raising Sons into Men - Rite of Passage
James sits down with Jake to unpack a rite of passage he built for his son Killian -- the severing from Mom dinner, the cold plunge in the Rush River, six men speaking truth over a boy stepping into manhood. It's not about doing it perfectly. It's about showing up. The conversation moves into the...
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You Need Community More Than You Think
We do all the communicating in the world and none of the connecting. Jake and Dan get honest about what it takes to actually build brotherhood -- the 4:30 alarms, the discomfort of reaching out first, the grief we skip past because we're too busy to feel it. Go five miles in either direction and...
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Anxiety Isn't the Problem. It's the Alarm.
Most men spend their lives trying to silence the alarm. What if the alarm is working exactly the way it's supposed to? In this episode, Dan and James dig into 1 Peter 5 -- and why following Christ doesn't make life easier. It gives you an enemy. They unpack transactional Christianity, why…
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Embracing Suffering... Wait, Seriously?
Nobody signs up for suffering. But Peter says don't be surprised when it comes -- and then tells you to rejoice in it. That's either the most absurd thing you've ever heard, or the most freeing. In this episode, James, Dan, and Jake walk through the second half of 1 Peter 4 and ask the question...
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Devil Can't Make You Bad? He'll Make You Busy
Jake, Dan, and guest James Sullivan open 1 Peter 4 -- but the real conversation starts around the family dinner table no one is sitting at anymore. Three kids in sports. Choir. Youth group. FCA. A wife trying to figure out who she is again now that the kids don't need her every minute. And...
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Don't Just Ask God to Remove It. You Have to Kill It.
Bobby Turner has a binder. Inside it are decades of prayers, notes, and Scripture -- rewritten with her own name in it. Not platitudes. Weapons.In this episode, Bobbie shares what it looked like when God stopped being a concept and started speaking directly to her, and how she learned to write it...
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Vulnerability without alcohol?
Dan has an admission: for years on date nights, he'd knock back a whiskey or two before he could open up to his wife. Not because he had a drinking problem. Because he had a vulnerability problem. That one confession opens up everything in this episode. Jake, Dan, and returning guest Dan Connors...
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Becoming a Protector with Guest Mike McFadden - Episode 13
Mikes' story starts in a Texas church at age 7 -- walking a church aisle alone because his mom was wise enough to make him own his faith. It runs through a home with an alcoholic father, a teenager who eventually told his own dad this ends now, and a young man who joined the military not out of...
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The Most Mysterious Verse in the Bible? - Episode 12
Martin Luther called it the most obscure passage in the entire New Testament. He didn't know what it meant. Neither do we. And that might be exactly the point. In this episode, the guys wade into 1 Peter 3:18 -- 22. Spirits in prison. The days of Noah. The Nephilim. What happened between the…
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Responding to being Wronged - Episode 11
You poured into them. You gave them a shot. You paid their way. And they walked out the door -- sometimes with your money, sometimes to compete against you, sometimes without so much as a thank you. So what do you do with that? Jake and Dan have been there. And so has every man who's ever built...
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Marriage, Submission & Faith - Episode 10
What happens when the wives finally get a seat at the table? Caitlin and Lindsay join Jake and Dan on Fruits of the Foundry to tackle some of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible. We look at 1 Peter 3, discussing what submission, trust, and love actually look like inside their marriages....
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Dr. Dan Connors, Drilling into Discomfort - Episode 9
Join in the conversation with our good friend Dan Connors who has served as the local dentist here in Spring Valley since 2009. Dan opens up about his journey... from living a double life back in college and dental school, to building up his dental practice while quietly battling fear, alcohol…
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Faith, Trials & Brotherhood - Episode 8
Jake, Dan and Pastor Todd talk about spiritual warfare, the importance of brotherhood and community, and how God refines us through difficult moments.Where have you seen spiritual warfare show up in your life, and how did you respond?
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The Cornerstone - Episode 7
Jake and Dan discuss the beginning of 1 Peter with Pastor Todd from Emmaus Church in Spring Valley Wisconsin. Connecting Peter's faith and failures with struggles in our own lives, and our ultimate hope in the midst of suffering.
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Episode 6 Trailer
Don't miss episode 6 with guest Jack Hannack
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Guest Jack Hannack - I adopted 5 boys from Afghanistan - Episode 6
At just 23 years old, while in the Air Force and single, Jack made a decision that ultimately led to him adopting 5 boys from Afghanistan. Hear the full story about how serving at a refugee processing camp in New Mexico during the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal changed the plans he had for…
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Managing Finances - Episode 5
Jake and Dan discuss managing finances and what it looks like to be a good steward and to operate out of faith at home, in business and through life.
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Fitness & Health - Episode 4
Jake and Dan dive into the importance of fitness and health, the dangers of making it an idol, debate the sanity of doing a cold plunge in the Rush River when it's -9 outside.
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Forging Family - Episode 3
Jake and Dan discuss the trials and fruit that come from raising a family, and what their roles as husbands and fathers look like in their homes.
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What is Faith? - Episode 2
Jake, Dan and Johnathan discuss faith - what is it and how does it change how you operate in your life?
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Fruit of the Foundry - The Pilot
Sit back as Jake and Dan unwrap the mystery inside the enigma of what exactly the Fruit of the Foundry means and how it got started
About this show
Forging Men in Faith and Purpose.Life is God's own Foundry, and he's asked us to be men of purpose and leaders of our home, our children, and our wives. We won't find the strength for these things in ourselves, so join us as we explore the fruit of finding strength and endurance in the forge of life that is required to live out the purpose God has for you.
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Jake and Dan
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