Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with Super Bowl champion and former NFL punter Steve Weatherford on this week's episode of Built 4 More.
Steve spent ten years in the NFL, won a Super Bowl, made the cover of Men's Health, and became known as the fittest man in professional football. From the outside, he had everything. On the inside, he was addicted to pain pills, trapped in pornography, and standing at a window at two in the morning after the biggest win of his life wondering why he felt nothing at all.
Steve shares the story he rarely tells. Being cut in a locker room at twenty five years old and having to ask the groundskeeper for a ride. Hearing a street preacher through a hotel window seventeen floors up saying the exact words he needed. Being abused as a child by a Christian teacher and spending the next twenty four years trying to prove he was enough. And the night in a circus tent in the desert when everything finally broke open.
Joby, Denny, and Steve talk about identity, addiction, the lie that achievement will finally fill the hole, confession and healing in marriage, why encouragement makes you a leader, and what it actually looks like to be transformed instead of just informed.
If you have ever chased something believing it would finally make you enough, this conversation is for you.
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Chapters:
00:00 β Meet Steve Weatherford
01:20 β Cut in the Locker Room
04:50 β The Street Preacher Outside the Window
07:10 β Jacksonville and the Jeep on Beach Boulevard
12:50 β Ten Years in the NFL as an Undrafted Free Agent
13:10 β "Winning the Super Bowl Was the Most Depressing Night of My Life"
15:15 β The Goals He Wrote Down at Fourteen
15:20 β The Abuse That Made Him Question If God Was Real
16:35 β The Night He Won It All and Felt Nothing
17:25 β The Greyhound and the Fake Rabbit
22:30 β Pills, Porn, and the Life Nobody Saw
24:20 β Leaving His Wife and Kids
25:05 β Walking Into Church for the First Time in Twenty Years
28:00 β The Burden Board
29:10 β The Man Who Led Him to Christ at Eleven
32:25 β His Son Gives His Life to Jesus
36:00 β The Deceitfulness of Sin
41:30 β From Competition to Completion
48:40 β Working For Victory vs From Victory
55:35 β Fighting the Devil in the Dark
57:45 β Confession, Marriage, and Healing
1:02:00 β Why Discipline Could Not Save Him
1:05:20 β Identity Comes First
1:13:30 β The Game Film in Heaven
1:26:35 β What Surprises Him Now
1:32:45 β Change Your Inputs
1:40:30 β Get in the Dust of the Right Men
1:44:40 β "I Got This" Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Man Can Say
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