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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/.
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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 then worked for ten-and-a-half years in the Olympic Movement. Today, Bruce is a Publicist / PR Professional, Podcaster, Author, Speaker, Blogger and specializes in Sports & Entertainment with a radio show called Catholic Sports Radio and a podc...
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 Bowl Congrats to Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers on their undefeated season of 16-0 and the school’s first football national championship. The game had some print dedicated afterwards to the officiating and no calls on some seemingly cheap shots on IU QB Fernando Mendoza. We don’t ever think much about the “officials” in...
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 holdings. For the first two weeks of this year I have consumed content related to AI that stirred my inner man and made me more aware of the wrestling match I am experiencing over it. This episode connects the dots through each of these stories: · ...
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 it hasn’t really sunk in yet, let me give you a few more specific examples: How about a traumatic death, a murder or suicide, where organ donor decisions must be made? How about the death of a child due to a pool drowning or a neglect or abuse situation? Or how abou...
As men, the closest we get to participate in creation as image bearers of God is fathering a child. It is a gigantic moment in any man’s life, regardless of age, when he learns that he has gotten a woman pregnant. It is a moment of overwhelming joy for married couples who might have been struggling to have children. It can be a moment of mixed feelings for a married couple who thought they were through having children only to learn they have been blessed again with the “oops baby” perha...
We all so long for the Norman Rockwell holiday gathering at Christmas, both parents and even grandparents seated with obedient children, heads bowed around an abundant table or cheerfully opening gifts around a Christmas tree. But the truth is that most families today experience everything from anxiety to sorrow or grief over family member estrangements making the holidays a painful reminder of how far our reality is from the desired state. One of the problems causing such estrangement ...
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you genuinely wrestled with being thankful? Maybe even at this time of year? Perhaps after being laid off at work like many people are experiencing today due to AI? Or maybe it’s just the tyranny of inflation and falling behind on rising expenses? Or possibly you're a federal employee impacted by the recent government shutdown? Or it could be something much worse like a life-threatening cancer diagnosis? I’m happy to we...
Proverbs 1:5 says “Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance.” In God’s economy, wisdom is never static; it is always expanding. Even the wise must “increase in learning.” Which means that maturity is not marked by arrival but by continual openness to correction and instruction. The mark of a true disciple is not how much he knows but how much he is willing to keep learning! Jonathan Edwards once said, “The man who thinks he has suffic...
After four years as a state representative, eight years as a state senator, and ten years as the Comptroller of Public Accounts for the State of Texas, my friend and guest Glenn Hegar, began his new position as Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System on July 1st 2025. On July 4th, Kerville Texas experienced one of the most devastating floods and loss of life in Texas history! And with eight state agencies in addition to the twelve universities under his purview, Chancell...
Many of the most intellectually gifted people in this world struggle with true belief in something as simple as genuine faith. The analytical training always asks another question seeking proof. And I can't think of many things worse that what a good old Garth Brooks country song says, "standing outside the fire." Some folks stand at the threshold of belief like at a doorway to freedom. It's wide open and they only have to walk through it but something stops them.... doubt and whi...
Are you the kind of guy who retreats to the cave of isolation like a bear when you get wounded? So many of us do exactly that and then choose to self-medicate to numb our pain with all manner of vices which, in the end, only compound our problems and our wounds. Or we simply stuff them so far down that we never properly process them. One of my mentors, Robert Lewis, says that a real man looks back on his past. It’s the first step to becoming an authentic man. But many of us have never d...
We are entering a new school year and football season here in September where everyone begins anew with an undefeated season! But just as fall follows summer, not all seasonal changes are a fresh start. Most are mileposts for transitions dictated by God’s timetable like rings on a tree stump. Take me for instance, I reach a milestone this September myself by becoming Medicare eligible. And like those other markers, it creates some feelings which are good while others give us pause for r...
Besides your father, did you have a scoutmaster, teacher, coach, or pastor play a vital role in your upbringing and manhood development? Perhaps it was a grandfather or uncle? In our diaspora society today, we are often moving around and away from extended family to go off to college, pursue careers, or enter military service. But for most of human history it wasn't like this! In fact, up until the early 1900's and the advent of the industrial revolution, we were primarily an agrarian culture...
Summer is a season where temperatures and tempers can run hot! And August is typically the hottest month of all, often called the “dog days of summer.” This also means that our law enforcement officials across the country must work a bit harder keeping the peace. We see more and more film clips on the news of people attacking and ambushing uniformed officers. In fact, last year over 100 officers were killed in the line of duty, 104 to be exact. My guest today, Dave Wareham,...
It seems that almost daily we read stories in the headlines about celebrities, politicians, and even preachers who are destroyed by rapid or overwhelming success. P. Diddy Combs is the most notable recent one. It may not be covered in the news or on television, but success has ruined many people for a very long time, dating all the way back to biblical times. In fact, one of the most familiar scripture verses to even secular people is Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haug...
Summer is a season when many young people have the opportunity to experience a mission trip to see the need of a hurting world up close and perhaps for the first time in person. It can be life altering in some cases and certainly a lasting reminder to count the blessings we all take for granted most of the time. Both within the U.S. and around the world there are plenty of people that need to not only experience the body of Christ serving and ministering to their urgent needs but also to hear...
There is an old saying that goes: “The only two certain things in life are death and taxes” Well, we know for sure that death will one day greet us all thanks to the fall in the garden. It’s an uncomfortable topic, especially as we approach its threshold. Some of might die suddenly and unexpectedly, even while we enjoy good health. But many of us are on a slow march of decline both physically and mentally that gives us plenty of time to reflect upon our lives and relationships before we...
Haven't every single one of felt totally worthless at some point in our lives? Some may feel this way constantly or have for a very long time. It is a pit of despair, a quagmire of quicksand that steals our self worth and the intrinsic value we all have as creatures made in His image. And most of the time the Accuser is right there, whispering in our head, confirming our worst feelings in attempt to arrest any effort we could have in glorifying God. Imagine you are a child with a severe...
Father’s Day is a day when we all try to express our appreciation to our fathers, no matter how old we are. And one of the best ways to do that is to do what he has asked or trained us to do. It should be so with our Heavenly Father as well! And Matthew 28:19-20, which is known as “The Great Commission” issues this command as Jesus' last words to his disciples: Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and...
Hey Gen Z folks! This episode is especially for you! Did you wake today thinking “I’m going to take on the world and chart my own course of rugged individualism?” It is the American way! However, we often find out very quickly that it might not be God’s way for us and He seems to prevail in about…100% of these situations. Today I am so excited to have my “listener prototype” as my guest. Nick Hartzler is a class of ‘23 Texas A&M graduate in Agricultural Economics. At 24 years old an...
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