Raw recovery stories with scripture at the center.
From Beer to the Bible pairs frank recovery stories with a steady Christian frame. Guests describe addiction, shame, illness, family strain, and turning points while Irvin Lee and co-host Sarah McDonald keep the conversation personal, prayerful, and practical.
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From Beer to the Bible is a Christian recovery show shaped by testimony more than production. Its center is the long-form interview. Irvin Lee and Sarah McDonald invite guests to talk through addiction, shame, fear, family damage, health scares, and the slow work of rebuilding a life. The pace is unhurried. A guest may begin with a Bible verse, a childhood memory, a relapse pattern, or a moment of collapse, and the show lets that opening become a fuller account of what recovery required. Will Paz’s story turns on resentment, movement, arrest, and the painful discovery that a person can change locations without escaping himself. Jeff Lee speaks from illness, mental strain, Rock Bottom University, and a renewed concern for men, especially Black and Brown people, to take health and help seriously. Josh Pusley’s episode frames human fragility through James and the feeling that tomorrow is never guaranteed. Rick Hubbard’s testimony moves through race, achievement, anxiety, success, loss, and the promise that restoration can still be larger than what was lost. Aaron Stacey talks about long-term recovery, fatherhood, emptiness, and a walk with Jesus. Guest hosts Jerry Dale and Chris McMullen bring sex, porn addiction, secrecy, and shame into the same recovery-and-faith vocabulary. Jim Tucker and Eric Martin add counsel, friendship, and rebuilding after addiction. The show’s strength is its willingness to stay close to the messy middle of a story. It does not rush every painful detail into a slogan. It listens for the spiritual meaning inside confession, treatment, accountability, and changed behavior. Scripture appears as a working part of the conversation, not as a distant proof text. The result is intimate, sometimes raw, and openly pastoral. It is best for people who already value recovery language, Christian testimony, and conversations where hope is earned through honest memory.
Made for: For people drawn to Christian addiction recovery, personal testimony, and conversations about rebuilding after shame, relapse, illness, or loss. It also suits loved ones looking for faith-shaped language around treatment, counsel, and restoration.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by letting guests tell long, imperfect stories instead of compressing recovery into advice. Its recovery frame and Christian frame are inseparable, with scripture, confession, treatment, and practical encouragement treated as parts of the same path.
From Beer to the Bible is a program dedicated to giving hope to those going through the self-inflicted suffering of addiction as well as their loved ones, and most importantly to lead people back home to Jesus Christ.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Recovery testimony becomes a practical Christian account of responsibility, repaired relationships, community, and faith tested by anger and disappointment.
From Beer to the Bible turns recovery testimony into sustained conversation about responsibility, faith, and life after addiction. Irvin Lee and Sarah McDonald invite guests to recount experiences that include relapse, arrest, resentment, damaged relationships, and the slow…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A raw recovery story that lets the hard parts stay in view before it turns toward hope.
Will Paz's story is treated as a recovery testimony, and the episode does not look away from the harder parts: resentment, addiction, relapse, and the cost of trying to outrun yourself.
A recovery story that brings addiction, faith, and men's health into the same hard-edged turn toward healing.
Jeff Lee's conversation with Irvin Lee keeps returning to the same plain truth: recovery does not stay abstract for long. The story moves from alcoholism and a deathbed reckoning into the routine work that follows, with doctor's visits, blood work, family duties, and the choice…
A patient testimony about success, fear, and the long road toward recovery and faith.
Rick Hubbard remains the focus as the story moves from early pressure and integration-era tension into fear, humor, and the overachievement he used to cover what was going on underneath.
A plainspoken faith-based recovery conversation about addiction, family, and the slow work of healing.
Corey and Christina Lozier join Irvin Lee for a faith-based recovery conversation that keeps its focus on how addiction touches marriage, family, friends, and the people who stay close through it.
A raw faith-based recovery conversation that links sobriety, anger, and hope to a plainspoken personal story.
From Beer to the Bible stays close to addiction, sobriety, and hope. Irvin Lee keeps the frame on being angry at God, then Ben Purtle's story carries the weight, with the dark-room image, the locked door, and the key on the floor giving the piece a plain, memorable shape.
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Rick Hubbard sits at the center of the conversation.
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