This is the first of a four-part Quick Hits series where we’ll dig deeper into each of our Core4 pillars. Up first is our beFIT pillar. We call this one “beFIT for the Kingdom” because ultimately, everything we do should be to build up God’s Kingdom; even our fitness. Join us as we talk about what the pillar represents to … Read More
Jerrad Lopes – Tired Body vs. Weary Soul
Jerrad Lopes from Dad Tired joined us live at our recent men’s conference at Redemption Chapel. He has a wife and 4 kids, the newest being 7 weeks old. His podcast has been downloaded millions of times and has had an impact on innumerable husbands, fathers, and families. In Season 2, instead of a new bourbon every episode, our guests … Read More
How-to: Build your own light poles
Our church, Redemption Chapel, has an outdoor men’s event coming up this week. I was tasked with running the knocker-ball station. If you haven’t seen knocker-balls before, here you go: Part of my task also involved getting some sort of lighting so that we can see who gets blasted to the moon in their knocker-ball deep into the night. The … Read More
Season 1 Finale
In this episode, we recap our first season as the Core4Life Podcast. It’s been a great year and there’s so much we’ve learned, so many cool people that we’ve met, and so much to be thankful for! Join us as we talk through all of those things. Podcast Transcription: Hows it going, everyone? Glad you could join us for another … Read More
Drew Salyer – beDRIVEN with Drive Team
Drew is the owner of Drive Team, husband and father of three, former college athlete, and the man who did the most pull-ups this year in our fitness challenge. Bourbon: E.H. Taylor This is our first podcast in our new location in the upstairs of the Drive Team warehouse!Drew started working at Drive Team when he was in high school. He came … Read More
Jamie Borchik – Ministry through Athletes in Action
Whisky – Alberta Premium Cast Strength RyeJamie is the local team leader with Athletes in Action in the Chicago Area. His mission is to make it impossible for someone to come to Chicago to play a college sport and not meet Jesus along the way. We sit down with Jamie to learn more about his ministry and heart for reaching … Read More
Teaching Responsibility with Pets
My kids have been asking for pets of their own for quite a while. We, well… I, have been a little reluctant to make that happen. My primary concern has always been that the pets will quickly lose their luster in the eyes of the kids and fall to my wife and me to take care of. It’s a legitimate … Read More
Quick Hits – Community
How do we build community? How do we have an impact within our community? These are the topics that we discuss on today’s Quick Hits with special guest, Michael Robertson. Michael is a long-time friend of ours and also one of our most consistent attendees for working out. We’ll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick Hits episodes every other … Read More
Core4Life on The Triune Podcast
We have a special episode today. We’re re-airing our appearance on The Triune Podcast. We recently got the opportunity to appear on George’s podcast to talk in-depth about our Core 4 pillars, how our podcast and platform came to be, some of our favorite things, and… aliens. Yep, we went there. Give it a listen. We hope you’ll enjoy it!
Quick Hits – Losses
You win some, you lose some… but today, we talk about the losses. We got to sit down with our fantastic guest, Dave Pyper, again and he shared some great insight on how to handle loss. In this episode, we specifically talk about losses in sports, but then we get into how to apply those lessons to other areas of our … Read More