Locker Room - A Southland Christian Church Podcast

Our guest this week is James Dickey, a long time servant leader at Southland. James' mentality in life is "This is all about you Jesus, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to give?—the answer is yes." James has gotten to be a part of some really amazing God moments because he's stacked up a bunch of yes's, and trusted God to lead him into new opportunities. There's nothing better than a...

"When a good thing becomes an ultimate thing, it becomes a destructive thing!" It's so easy for us as men to pursue identity in external things. The enemy loves to deceive men to put our identity in anything and everything other than resting and being anchored in our God-given identity in Christ. We'll chase anything or anybody who will tell us that we're loved, valued and important. It doesn't ma...

Our guest today on the podcast is Matthew Bradford. Matthew is a decorated Marine veteran with many awards, a husband, and father. He has gotten to tell his story on 60-Minutes, the Jocko Podcast, literally all over the world. His story is unique. Matthew is a hero, but Jesus is the hero in his story! You may be a veteran. You may have veterans in your friend group or family. Regardless, this epis...

Your story doesn't have to end in betrayal. It doesn't have to end in addiction. It doesn't have to end in shame. In Christ, there is a path forward—one courageous step of honesty, one humble act of repentance, one powerful moment of grace at a time. What feels like the end may actually be the beginning. All you have to do is take the step. Join us today as Scott sits down with our guest Jonathan...

Marriage is hard. Parenting is harder, and the only thing harder is parenting in a blended family. This week on the podcast we are wrapping up our series on parenting. If you missed any of the other 3-weeks, feel free to go into the podcast feed and grab those. If you have a blended family—the other three weeks will be really helpful but we want to aim our focus on this specific topic today. You m...

"Prepare your child for the path, not the path for the child." — Tim Elmore. Our job as parents is not to remove all the obstacles in the road, on the path. We can try and spend too much time trying to clear all the obstacles on the path, but in reality our role is to prepare our kids for the path. It's up to us to teach, train, invest and equip our kids to navigate the path in front of them. This...

"In the Kingdom of God, it may not be what you did, what you achieved, or where you lived…but who you raised!" The Bible commands us as parents to teach and train our kids to grow up knowing Jesus and to walk in His way. It's important work. If you have them—it's a critical part of the mission that God has called you to.  Join us this week on the podcast as Scott sits down with Jason Byerly to dis...

Welcome back! This week on Locker Room we are kicking off a four week series on parenting. We've got some solid guests lined up each week to tackle a different aspect of parenting. FIrst up this week, Scott sits down with our guest Tim Aulick to talk about how to raise our children from a Christ-centered perspective. We'll also talk about some of the faulty parenting methods we can easily fall int...

This week on the podcast, we have a very special guest. Scott sits down this week with his wife, Sarah Hatfield. It's a special episode. Our topic of discussion this week is how we all need to build resilience and grit into our marriages. When we talk about resilient grit in marriage, we're talking about a relationship bond with the capacity to withstand all the hard things that are going to come...

Our topic this week is incredibly important—healthy communication. It's important in a dating relationship, and It's important in a marriage.  If there's a skill every relationship should be working on, it's learning how to better communicate with each other. Join us this week as we sit down with our guests Nate and Stefany Head to talk about how we can work together to build healthy communication...

This week on the podcast, we are talking about how to be financially wise in marriage. This topic is super important for married couples. A lot of us grew up in homes where finances were never talked about. We weren't taught how to spend wisely, or how to budget. Many of us grew up in homes that were upside down in all kinds of debt. Then we stand up on a stage in front of friends and family, say...

The path God has laid out for us in marriage is straightforward: You walk with Jesus and allow Him to transform you into the person another person is looking for. You pray for your future spouse. You date with Godly intentions; you date on purpose. You seek to keep Jesus in the middle and at some point, you take the step—and it's a daunting step—into marriage. You can do your due diligence, but at...

There's something really powerful going on right now in our nation, on college campuses and in healthy, bible-based, mission-driven churches. We're seeing lots of people coming to church for the first time, people coming back to church and people investigating faith and then being baptized into Jesus. Why is this happening? One of the big reasons we've seen this significant movement of God is beca...

In our walk following Jesus, we have enemies. But our enemy is not only Satan and demons. We have another enemy that is even closer. If you want to know the other big enemy standing in the way of what God wants to do in your life…take your finger and touch your chest. It's you. It's  our flesh . We all have an inclination to buck against authority and rebel against God. We see it rooted in Adam an...

Today on the podcast we are talking about discipleship. This word is really important! It's important to Jesus, and it's plastered throughout the pages of the Bible. It's important to our church, and it should be important to us. Discipleship is the lifelong process of following Jesus, learning his ways, becoming more like him (Christ-like), and helping others do the same, involving deep commitmen...

God tells us from the very beginning that he is holy and he calls us to be holy. He also tells us sin leads to death. Here's the predicament our sin puts us in with God: He loves us. He's told us of the consequences of our sin. We've sinned. God loves us so much yet sin has to be paid for. God could simply punish us and He would be right if He did. God could turn and go back on what He said becaus...

This week on the podcast Scott sits down with Jon to reflect on topics from  this past season and talk about favorite moments from their many years of ministry. Circle up with us as we close out the season! If you're wrestling with Christianity, interested in getting baptized or need help figuring out your next step…shoot us an email at lockerroom@southland.church . Locker Room will be back in mid...

Every man listening has been invited by Jesus to follow Him, and be in relationship with Him. Jesus wants to be our Lord, Savior and Friend. This week on the podcast we will look at four characteristics we should have in our walk: We'll look at what it means to be fully devoted, responsible, intentional and resilient. Ross Barnette is our guest this week. Ross has been involved in leadership at So...

Today on the the podcast, we're going to talk about how we can light up the darkness in a place where we spend at least 8 hours a day, 5-days a week: our work. Some of us are fortunate to work in a place where we can freely proclaim our faith. But for many of us listening, that may not be the case. You may have some other people you work with who are Christ-followers, but for the most part you kno...

Jesus has changed the lives of most of us listening to this podcast. Your job is to talk about it; tell your story. Each of us needs to figure out ways to share our testimony. Your story is one of your greatest weapons!  Your testimony is simply God's rescue story in your life! And it doesn't matter what it is. Today on the podcast, Scott is joined by Aaron Ross and Clay Mossbarger. We'll get to h...

In this series on the podcast, we're talking about the importance of living on mission and sharing the Good News with people in our lives that don't know Jesus. In this episode we'll dig deeper: providing insight and practical tools to help you understand how God has already armed us with way more than we ever realized. We can do this. We should do this. We must do this. Our hope is that the Holy...

Evangelism simply means to share good news. It's the Greek word gospelize : to spread good news. It means to share, tell, proclaim and make known. Most of us are already good at it…we just don't realize it. We share good news all the time without even thinking about it. We share stuff that we like, that has worked or something good that we've experienced all the time. We share news about sports, m...

After the resurrection Jesus gives the disciples some daunting marching orders. It's called the Great Commission—not the great suggestion!—Jesus commanded them and He's commanding us to embody this mission. Men, if you're walking with Jesus, you've got to know the Great Commission isn't for someone else. It's for you. God's put a calling on your life. He's calling you to light up the darkness and...

Locker Room listeners: we truly believe God wants to help us in the middle of our pain.  Whatever it is you've experienced. He wants to draw close. The Holy Spirit wants to comfort, heal and restore whatever it is that has caused you so much pain. Jesus wants to give you the grace and  strength as you make the decision to forgive. In this episode, we want to make sure we unpack what forgiveness is...

"We truly live at the mercy of our ideas." —Dallas Willard. The ideas we believe in our minds and then let into our lives give shape to the trajectory of our souls. They shape how we live and who we become. No one talks more to you than you do! Most men would never let another man talk to them the way that they talk to themselves. You wouldn't be friends with them! You might even fight them! Men,...