

"I Spent My Whole Life Fighting. I Never Learned How to Suffer." | Sean Kennard on Suffering
"I spent my whole life fighting. I never learned how to suffer." Former pro fighter and SWAT officer Sean Kennard on a biblical view of pain and suffering and what a year of debilitating illness has taught him about God. In this episode, host Jeremy Stalnecker sits down with Sean Kennard, Brazilia…

"You Will Not Be the Same Person" How Christian Can Men Build Real Resilience
"If you can't control your mind, when you get to the end of this, you will not be the same person." - Dr. Scott Peterson's father-in-law, a physician, told him that on the day he started chemo. Scott would later survive stage 3 colorectal cancer AND a stroke that hit him at 30,000 feet on a Delta f…

Dane Ortlund: The Jesus Most Christian Men Have Never Met | Gentle and Lowly
A thousand times a year, someone sits across the table from Jeremy Stalnecker and says: "I've tried everything. If this doesn't work, I'm not going to make it." How is a gentle and lowly Jesus the answer to that? Dane Ortlund, pastor of Naperville Presbyterian and author of the runaway evangelical…

"I Had to Hit Absolute Rock Bottom" - Ryan Ackerman on Why Men Can't Keep Running
Ryan Ackerman did three combat tours with 1st Battalion 5th Marines, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the first push into Fallujah in 2004, and a return to Ramadi. Then he came home. "It was a roller coaster ride without a seatbelt." In this conversation, Ryan tells Jeremy Stalnecker, his brother fr…

Christian Men Need Community Now More Than Ever
"I would have died without them." - Sean Kennard Sean Kennard has been the strong guy his whole life, professional MMA fighter, SWAT Officer, "the most dangerous man in the room." Then a serious illness flipped the script in the past six months, and the man who'd spent 36 years being the one who c…

A Marine Sniper's Identity Reset | Dagan Van Oosten Tells All
What happens when the uniform comes off and the identity you built underneath it goes with it? Marine Scout Sniper Dagan Van Oosten sat down with Jeremy Stalnecker, his platoon commander from the 2003 push into Iraq, and opened up about the moment a counselor asked him a question that hit "like a …

Clarity Is a Leadership Obligation: Why Vague Communication Costs You the Room
"When you can't give clear, concise communication, sometimes it's on purpose. It's because I don't want to be held accountable for what I say." - Justin Atherton Bestselling author and retired law enforcement veteran Justin Atherton returns to the March or Die Show to make the case that politeness…

Leading Through Global Anxiety: Principles for Christian Leaders
The world feels more chaotic than ever, wars, political division, broken communities, and an endless firehose of social media noise. So how do you lead your family, your team, or your community without drowning in that anxiety yourself? In this episode of March or Die, Jeremy Stalnecker walks thro…

Can A Christian Kill In Combat? Black Hawk Down Ranger Jeff Struecker Responds | March Or Die
Can you be a Christian and kill the enemy in combat? Black Hawk Down Army Ranger Jeff Struecker has been asked this question a lot and in this episode of March or Die, he gives his answer to Jeremy Jeff Struecker survived the 18-hour Battle of Mogadishu, outnumbered 100 to 1 with no air support, n…

The Guardrails Every Man Needs To Protect His Marriage with Jim Ramos
Every man is one choice away from stupid. Jim Ramos, bestselling author and host of the #1 Christian men's podcast Men in the Arena, sits down with Jeremy Stalnecker to talk about the guardrails every man needs to protect his marriage, why Gen Z men are filling churches in record numbers, and what …