Wrestling with the Inner Man
Welcome to the podcast of “Wrestling With The Inner Man” with Author / Speaker David Savage. David has a passion for Men’s Ministry and Biblical Truth to help build Better Men for our society. The show title is derived from the first fight we each face every day, the fight with our flesh. Do we listen to our selfish sinful nature or to our spiritual and divine nature guided by the Holy Spirit? Contact David at wrestlingwiththeinnerman@gmail.com or go to https://www.thesavagepath.com/.
Episodes
148 episodes
What If Strength Is Choosing Not To Force
Force gets results fast and breaks things quietly. Power moves slower, stays present, and builds something that lasts and that difference shows up everywhere from marriage arguments to leadership decisions to the private battles men fight alone...
Love Your Enemies
Loving your enemies sounds simple until you’re face to face with betrayal, disrespect, or the kind of hurt that doesn’t go away. We sit with Luke 6:32–36 and ask the uncomfortable question it raises for every Christian man: am I really living b...
Discipling In An Age Of Deceit
Truth doesn’t usually get rejected because it’s obviously false. It gets rejected because it gets repackaged, renamed, and blended with just enough Bible language to feel familiar. That’s the tension we sit with here, especially as we mark Amer...
How To Move Through Painful Transitions With God
Betrayal, disaster, career loss, family crisis, the slow grind of grief, they all create the same gut-level question: why, and what do I do with this pain now? I sit down with Tony Stoltzfus, a veteran Christian coach and author who has spent d...
How Roger Williams Shaped America’s Freedom Of Religion
“Separation of church and state” gets thrown around like a trump card, but most of us have never been shown where that idea actually comes from, what the First Amendment really says, and why the founders cared so much about protecting religious...
From Workaholic To Redeemed Father
He chased success hard enough to build a global career and still ended up empty. Mitch Guinn joins us to tell the truth about what it looked like to spend years hunting for acceptance in all the wrong places: performance, sex, alcohol, and the ...
A Dad’s Rite Of Passage
A kid doesn’t need a perfect dad, but they do need a present one, and the window to shape a heart doesn’t stay soft forever. Father’s Day sets the tone with a simple poem, “The Sculptor,” and it lands like a warning and a gift: the impressions ...
What If Dad Really Is Destiny
A lot of men carry a quiet ache they can’t quite name, then spend decades trying to outrun it with work, wins, and willpower. On this Father’s Day, we sit with that ache head-on: the father wound, the craving for approval, and the lifelong impa...
When A DNA Test Changes Everything
A single email during COVID turned into a paternity test, a flight to an empty LAX, and a face-to-face meeting with a 46-year-old son Rick Wertz never knew existed. That’s the kind of story that sounds impossible until you hear the details, and...
The Forgotten Grief Of Fathers
A lot of men can describe the exact second they heard the words “I’m pregnant” and what happened next, their mind racing through fear, responsibility, and what kind of man they’re going to be. But almost nobody asks the next question out loud: ...
Breaking The Debt Cycle With Behavioral Stewardship
Debt is not just math, it’s pressure, identity, fear, and the quiet belief that you’re failing the people you love. We start with a hard look at how easy credit, emotional spending, and constant comparison normalize borrowing, then we bring it ...
Wrestling with Discernment
This show is about spiritual warfare in its many forms. We all are in its midst whether we are aware of it or not. It is the human condition since the fall in the Garden of Eden. Ephesians 6:12 says:For our struggle is no...
Wrestling With Mind Space; Taking Every Thought Captive
Romans 12:2 says "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.."A related verse in 2 Corinthians 10:5 says "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sees itself up agai...
Wrestling With Accepting Personal Responsibility
Today we are talking about a second pandemic which has swept through our country and the world at large, it’s called immaturity and it manifests today in no larger way than refusing to accept personal responsibility, especially in the roles God...
Welcome to Wrestling with the Inner Man
My show is aimed primarily but not exclusively at men. It is a nonprofit categorized as Christian Education with a focus on the numerous aspects of spiritual warfare that men face daily. My tagline in the show's intro is:"Be...
Wrestling with Science and God
Our institutions of higher education have been co-opted by a liberal ideology for decades now that have wedged out belief in God as somehow being naïve and unacceptable to highly scientific minds. I have had several guests on this show wi...
Wrestling with An Afterlife Experience!
I'm posting this episode on Good Friday ahead of Easter Sunday for 2026.This is the high Holy season of the Christian faith and for most of us, it is our fear and uncertainty of what happens to us when we die that we wrestle most with in...
Wrestling with God's Assignment
There are many stories in the bible of reluctant people who resist their assignment like Moses and Jonah for example. And many of us today still struggle with our own assignment, but God always seems to have His way with us in the end doesn’t H...
Wrestling with Institutional Inertia
Servant leadership is a popular term today to talk about, and Christ himself demonstrated it by washing the disciples’ feet. As Christians we should be using our spiritual gifts in volunteer service to advance His kingdom here on earth.
Wrestling with the Olympic Spirit
My guest in this episode is Bruce Wawrzyniak. Bruce has had a lengthy career in sports including ten years working for a National Hockey League team, three years as VP/Public Relations at the League office for the National Lacrosse League and t...
The Super Bowl of Self Control
It’s early February and we are right smack in the middle of Championship Football Season! College is decided and its Seattle vs New England in the upcoming Super BowlCongrats to Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers on their undefeated ...
Wrestling with the Idolatry of AI
Wrestlers, I don't often do solo episodes but sometimes I have more that I want to express as my personal view and this episode is one of those times.The stock market darling for all of 2025 was Nvidia and all things related to AI holdin...
Wrestling with Asking for Help
How would you like to have a job where everyone you serve is having the worst day of their life?? That is the everyday truth of a career as a first responder; the police, fire, and EMS folks who we call on our worst days.If i...