Sober and Whole: Victory Over Alcohol Addiction is Episode 13 of The Military Chaplain Podcast. In 25 direct, compassionate, resource-rich minutes, Chaplain Ibanga addresses alcohol addiction — naming it as the most socially accepted and most destructive addiction in our culture, identifying the underlying spiritual thirst that alcohol has been medicating, and providing the three-action framework for recovery that addresses the spiritual, clinical, and daily practice dimensions simultaneously.

Overcoming pornography addiction in our culture requires more than willpower, more than internet filters, and more than moral resolve. In Episode 12 of The Military Chaplain Podcast, Chaplain Dr. Ernest Ibanga delivers pastoral care, clinical honesty, and the ancient wisdom of Job 31:1 — "I made a covenant with mine eyes" — to address one of the most pervasive and most shame-saturated struggles in our culture, the military, and veteran community. This episode is not a lecture. It is the chaplain's office conversation that tens of thousands of service members, veterans, college students, ministers, etc. have needed and been too ashamed to ask for.

Reliable guide for successful deployment goes beyond tactical preparation, operational readiness, and mission briefings. In Episode 11 of The Military Chaplain Podcast, Chaplain Dr. Ernest Ibanga — drawing from his twelve-month combat deployment in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 as Brigade Chaplain for the 3rd Signal Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas — delivers the theological framework that every soldier needs before the deployment date arrives: the specific, personal, active presence of the God who said to Paul in Corinth, "Be not afraid, for I am with thee." Acts 18:9-11 is not ancient history. It is the service member's deployment order from the God who goes before them.