Sound Mind is a podcast that invites listeners into immersive, scripture-rich reflections on the mental, emotional, and spiritual realities of life—guided by a biblical lens and pastoral heart
The Host of Sound Mind is Jonathan Kindler is faculty professor of Biblical Counseling at the Living Faith Bible Institute, professional counselor and associate pastor at Midtown Baptist Temple. » learn more
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EP 75 | Built to Bless: What is Your Strength For?
What good is becoming a stronger man if the people you love never experience that strength?
In the final episode of Quit You Like Men, Jonathan Kindler explores the ultimate purpose of biblical masculinity: strength expressed through love. Through personal stories, Scripture, and honest reflection, Jonathan challenges men to consider whether their pursuit of responsibility, success, and growth is actually benefiting the people God has entrusted to them.
Drawing from 1 Corinthians 16:13–14, Ephesians 4, and the example of Jesus washing His disciples' feet, this episode confronts the difference between being impressive and being present, between fixing people and loving them, and between building strength for ourselves and giving it away.
Because a passive man refuses to carry his strength. A domineering man uses his strength for himself. A godly man gives his strength away.
Whether you're a husband, father, leader, or simply a man trying to figure out what faithfulness looks like, this episode brings the series home with one final challenge: Be strong. But make sure your strength is a blessing to somebody else.
And yes, that's the Power Team—the legendary '90s Christian bodybuilders—on the cover. Completely unrelated to the episode, but nothing says biblical masculinity quite like ripping a phone book in half for Jesus.
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EP 71 | THE LION AND THE LAMB: Strength, Emotion, Anger, and Tenderness
What does real strength look like when something powerful is happening inside you?
In this episode of the Quit You Like Men series, Jonathan Kindler explores what Scripture teaches about emotion, anger, tenderness, and self-control—and why biblical strength is neither shutting down nor being ruled by whatever you feel. Looking to the example of Jesus as both the Lion and the Lamb, Jonathan examines what it means to feel deeply while bringing your entire inner life under the authority of Christ.
Blending scripture, personal stories, counseling insight, and practical reflection, this episode explores anger as a signal, the difference between emotion and obedience, how to sit with someone else's pain without immediately trying to fix it, and why another person's sin never has to determine your response.
A strong man is not a man who feels less. He is a man who can be honest about what is happening inside him, test it by truth, and faithfully ask: What does Christ require from me now?
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