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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 – Meet Steve Weatherford
01:20 – Cut in the Locker Room
04:50 – The Street Preacher Outside the Window
07:10 – Jacksonville and the Jeep on Beach Boulevard
12:50 – Ten Years in the NFL as an Undrafted Free Agent
13:10 – "Winning the Super Bowl Was the Most Depressing Night of My Life"
15:15 – The Goals He Wrote Down at Fourteen
15:20 – The Abuse That Made Him Question If God Was Real
16:35 – The Night He Won It All and Felt Nothing
17:25 – The Greyhound and the Fake Rabbit
22:30 – Pills, Porn, and the Life Nobody Saw
24:20 – Leaving His Wife and Kids
25:05 – Walking Into Church for the First Time in Twenty Years
28:00 – The Burden Board
29:10 – The Man Who Led Him to Christ at Eleven
32:25 – His Son Gives His Life to Jesus
36:00 – The Deceitfulness of Sin
41:30 – From Competition to Completion
48:40 – Working For Victory vs From Victory
55:35 – Fighting the Devil in the Dark
57:45 – Confession, Marriage, and Healing
1:02:00 – Why Discipline Could Not Save Him
1:05:20 – Identity Comes First
1:13:30 – The Game Film in Heaven
1:26:35 – What Surprises Him Now
1:32:45 – Change Your Inputs
1:40:30 – Get in the Dust of the Right Men
1:44:40 – "I Got This" Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Man Can Say

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Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with actor, filmmaker, and former police officer Jim Klock on this week's episode of Built 4 More.

Before Jim ever stepped onto a Hollywood set, he spent a decade serving as a police officer and undercover narcotics detective. He loved the job, but God began calling him somewhere he never expected. What followed was a journey of faith that took him from the streets of Virginia to some of the biggest productions in Hollywood.

Jim shares how a late-night security shift led him to Christ, why he walked away from a career he loved, and how God opened doors that eventually led him to work alongside some of the biggest names in the film industry. But more than anything, this conversation is about learning to trust God's calling, choosing humility over recognition, and using every opportunity to encourage the people around you.

Joby, Denny, and Jim discuss the difference between passion and purpose, what it's really like to be a Christian in Hollywood, the danger of pride, why encouragement matters, leadership, identity, and what success actually looks like when your life is centered on Christ.

If you've ever wrestled with stepping into God's calling or wondered if He's asking you to leave what's comfortable for something greater, this conversation is for you.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Meet Jim Klock
01:25 – From Drama Student to Police Officer
04:25 – The Night Jim Gave His Life to Christ
07:55 – Undercover Narcotics & Finding His Calling
11:45 – Leaving the Career He Loved
16:20 – Passion vs. God's Assignment
22:45 – Faith Requires Action
27:30 – From Cop to Hollywood
33:45 – Is Hollywood Really Anti-Christian?
39:15 – Keanu Reeves & Humility
43:00 – The Power of Encouragement
47:00 – Sharing Your Faith in Hollywood
50:00 – Changing Hollywood's Culture
56:30 – Success, Identity & Purpose
1:07:10 – Playing Villains Without Losing Yourself
1:12:00 – Giving People More Grace
1:17:00 – Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership
1:24:00 – Fame, Validation & Identity
1:29:45 – What Success Really Looks Like
1:38:00 – The Roles That Changed Jim's Life
1:49:50 – Building Healthy Culture on Set
1:57:00 – Leadership, Teamwork & Hollywood
2:02:45 – The Film That Meant the Most
2:05:20 – Final Thoughts

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Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with Green Beret John Wayne Walding on this week's episode of Built 4 More.

Born on the Fourth of July and named after the Western legend, John Wayne Walding lost his right leg in the Battle of Shok Valley, one of the most intense firefights since Vietnam. He tied it off with a tourniquet and kept fighting for hours until every one of his brothers made it off the mountain alive.

But the war was only the beginning. John woke up the next morning with one leg and a choice: be a victim or be a victor. He chose to never quit. He ran the Boston Marathon on a hand cycle, became the first amputee to requalify as a Green Beret sniper, got 14 years sober, and surrendered his life to Christ. In this conversation he shares the warrior mindset that carried him off that mountain and now drives his faith, and the conviction he lives by every single day: I owe it to the fallen to live well.

This is a raw and powerful conversation about courage, identity, and what it actually costs to be free. Joby, Denny, and John Wayne dig into the true story of the Battle of Shok Valley, the faith of America's founders 250 years after the Revolution, why God never calls anyone to easy, why struggle is good, spiritual warfare and the tactics of the enemy, and the difference between earning grace and walking worthy of it.

If you have ever felt like your hardest season was the end of your story, this one is for you.

This week on Built 4 More, Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down alone. Just the two of them answering listener questions.

They open on what may be the most common question in the inbox. What do you do after baptism when you find yourself back in the same sin you thought you left behind. Joby walks through the difference between conviction and condemnation, the three tenses of salvation, and why the instinct to clean yourself up before coming back to God is the exact opposite of what God actually wants from you.

The conversation moves through some of the heaviest questions you have asked. Discerning God's calling on your life versus your own ambition. Carrying the burden of leading a family when the world feels heavier than it used to. Supporting a husband struggling with his identity. Loving a family member fighting suicidal thoughts. Raising an athlete without putting a weight on them they were never meant to carry. Talking to the friend who says they want to believe but cannot get there. What it actually looks like to tithe when every dollar feels accounted for.

Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with Josh Turner on this week's episode of Built 4 More. Josh is a pastor, the founder of the 10:10 Project, and the father of Riley, a 19-year-old with a rare genetic disorder who has had 33 surgeries, sleeps on a ventilator, and just graduated high school.

When Riley was born, three doctors walked into the hospital room and told Josh and his wife Becca she would live a year and they would have to decide when to let her go. Riley is now 19, preaches across the country, and one day told her dad to stop praying for her healing because God made her this way on purpose.

In this conversation, Josh opens up about walking through suffering publicly, why he stopped asking God why, what NT Wright told him that changed everything, and the morning he lost a friend in ministry that led him to start the 10:10 Project. Joby and Denny dig into burnout, why 42 percent of pastors want to leave the ministry, the danger of success, and what it actually looks like to build rhythms that keep you healthy for the long haul.

This is one of the most honest conversations we've had on Built 4 More about suffering, faith, and what God does when you can't figure out why.

Learn more about the 10:10 Project: 1010project.com