🎙️ In this episode of the Men Above Reproach Podcast, we discuss the 1st month of the 90-day Purity Challenge and how Bible Verse Memorization has helped in our pursuit of purity. We also talk about some of the health electives we did, such as averaging 7.5+ hours of sleep and tracking nutrition.

📅 February Challenge: We're doing the Fasting Elective together:

• 📵 Social Media Fast for 1 month
• 🍽️ 48-hour Food Fast

📖 Notes & Tips if You're New to Fasting:

• It’s not a command in the Bible, but it’s implied by how it's talked about.

🙏 Purpose of Fasting:

1. Prayer
2. Guidance
3. Repentance
4. Overcoming temptation

🛠️ Practical Tips:

Choose how you want to grow spiritually—fill the absence of food with a spiritual discipline:

• 📖 Scripture reading or memory
• 🙏 Prayer
• 📝 Journaling
• 🤝 Serving
• 🧘‍♂️ Quiet time & repentance
• ⚔️ Fighting temptation

📩 If you want the official PDF with detailed instructions and rules, email us at: MenAboveReproach@gmail.com

🎧 Listen on:

• 🎵 Spotify
• 🍏 Apple Podcasts
• ▶️ YouTube

• 🔥 Start No Fap/Purity Focus for 90 days
• 📖 Start whole Bible chapter memory

• 💪 Health Elective (7.5 hours sleep, 2x workouts, nutrition tracking)

• 🛠️ Open or Elective

• ✍️ 8 handwritten letters to 8 different people

• 📚 Become a pseudo-expert on a topic and do a book report on it

• 📖 Read 30 chapters or 2 books (adult books)

• 😴 Average 7.5 hours of sleep for 1 month
• 🥗 Track what you eat for 2 of 4 weeks, using the 2nd week to improve one aspect of your nutrition
• 🏋️‍♂️ 2 workouts/day for a month (minimum of 5-min workout)
• 📵 Social Media Fast for 1 month & 48-hr food fast
• 🍽️ Invite someone over for dinner that you know but who isn’t a believer
• ⛪ Invite someone to church with you who doesn’t normally go
• 💬 1 meal & conversation with a homeless person

In this episode of the Men Above Reproach Podcast, we break down the 2024 results and reveal the 2025 Men Above Reproach Challenges.

If you want the official PDF with detailed instructions and rules, please email us at... MenAboveReproach@gmail.com

We also have a spreadsheet we can share.

2025 MEN ABOVE REPROACH CHALLENGES

January Challenge

• Start No Fap/Purity Focus for 90 days

• Start whole Bible chapter memory

March Challenge

• Health Elective (7.5 hours sleep, 2x workouts, nutrition tracking)

May Challenge

• Open or Elective

July Challenge

• 8 handwritten letters to 8 different people

September Challenge

• Become a pseudo-expert on a topic and do a book report on it

November Challenge

• Read 30 chapters or 2 books (adult books)

Elective Challenges

• Average 7.5 hours of sleep for 1 month

• Track what you eat for 2 of 4 weeks, using the 2nd week to improve one aspect of your nutrition.

• 2 workouts/day for a month (minimum of 5-min workout)• Social Media Fast for 1 month & 48-hr food fast

• Invite someone over for dinner that you know but who isn’t a believer & Invite someone to church with you who doesn’t normally go

• 1 meal & conversation with a homeless person

We discuss the final challenges and electives of 2024, and tease out some 2025 challenges. Join the next episode for details about the winner of the 2024 Men Above Reproach Challenge and to hear the finalized 2025 lineup.

• No social media for a month.
• 36 hours without food.
• Journaling what God has taught.
• Making the world's best meatloaf.
• Earning $500 by doing something outside of your job.
• Sharing the Gospel with someone new.
  

In episode 3 of the Men Above Reproach podcast, we talked about more challenges we did in 2024.

• What is the Pennebaker Protocol and how did it help us reflect on challenging life events?
• Is cold immersion all the hype still?
• Do you do less acts of kindness than you think and what happens when you try to do them consciously?
• And hear a little manly poetry from the Book for Manly Men.

Join in on the conversation and hear how we grew as Men Above Reproach with our various challenges.

**Episode 4 will tease out 2025 challenges -- don't miss it!**

In this episode, we dive into three challenges we took on: reading Matthew Mark Luke and John, cutting out sweets, and walking a total of 20 miles. We share how these challenges pushed us physically, strengthened us spiritually, and the unexpected lessons we learned along the way.

Join us as we reflect on the impact of building these habits and the growth we experienced as Christian men striving to live above reproach.

Men Above Reproach: 2023 Challenge Recap We are Christian men that do various challenges throughout the year that push us physically, mentally, spiritually, and relationally. In this episode, we dive into the challenges we took on in 2023, sharing the good, the bad, and the funny moments as we pursued growth in faith and character. Some of the challenges we took on this year include:

• Maintaining purity
• Daily Bible reading
• 100 daily crunches, 3-minute front planks, and 4-minute side planks
• Eating fruit daily (apple, orange, or banana)
• No social media
• Memorizing 4 new Bible verses
• Daily prayer for the same person
• Affirming 5 people throughout the month
• Daily flossing
• No alcohol, caffeine, or pop
• 5 cold showers (5+ minutes each)
• Sleeping outside once
• Summiting a 14er (14,000 ft mountain)
• Having lunch with a stranger
• Writing a short story (5,000+ words)
• Jumping rope for 100 total minutes Through this podcast, we hope to inspire other Christian men to seek out their own community that will challenge and grow them to also be Men Above Reproach. We are Christian men who strive to live above reproach (1 Timothy 3:2-3), yet we know that it is only because of Jesus Christ that we can truly be above reproach (Colossians 1:22).

1 Timothy 3:2-3

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,[b] sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Colossians 1:22

Jesus Christ has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him