To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.
I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.
One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”
It knocked me back.
I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”
I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.
That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.
I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.
I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.
People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.
I'll tell you why.
Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.
I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.
In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.
The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.
You just have to stop running.
Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.
Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.
It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.
I wonder who at The White House might be able to make this happen? This man has earned it, and what a GREAT thing he's doing for people in need around America! This is what "Love Thy Neighbor" is all about🇺🇸
81% on welfare. The other 19% own the companies billing Medicaid.
Foreigners are stealing Americans’ birthright.
This has to end. Our first hearing on Ohio’s Medicaid fraud scandal is tomorrow.
Just In! 🙏🏼Texas Pastor Josh Howerton rips the mask off Texas Democrat James Talarico, calling him out for exactly what he is: a false prophet leading people into hell — even though he’s in politics.
1. He misquotes Thomas (a disciple of Jesus) to make his words align with the LGBT agenda.
2. Claims “trans communities need abortions too” — whatever that means.
3. Believes there are 6 genders.
4. Openly stated in the Texas House that he believes God is non-binary.
If this doesn’t hit a nerve I don’t know what will.
Don’t forget numerous Oklahoma Senate “Republicans” voted on the bill to GIVE DRIVER LICENSES TO ILLEGALS!
THEY want people like this here.
And several of them are up for re-election on June 16th.
Brenda Stanley
Bill Coleman
Chuck Hall
John Haste
Vote them OUT!
No I won’t pay more for gas so some lefty millionaire can make money off his green energy company and donate to the Democratic Party in exchange for new green regulations.
Yes I’ll pay more for gas so Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon.
It’s not complicated.
At all.
James Talarico, you can’t claim to love your neighbor while supporting abortion, gender ideology that harms children, open-border policies that endanger Americans, or progressive justice policies that put violent offenders back on the streets.
You can’t love your neighbor while affirming sin, denying biblical truth, or preaching a gospel contrary to Christ.
The people harmed by these policies are your neighbors too.
You are an insult to Christianity. Your beliefs are an affront to the Imago Dei and I look forward to Texans showing you out of politics in November and hopefully you are shown out of the pulpit as well.
I've never asked people to share a Live Free episode before.
I would ask you to share this episode we did on @jamestalarico (that's pushing ~700k views across all platforms).
What he's doing requires a level of theological awareness to understand, which is why he's deceptive to a lot of Christians.
The woman who got rich and famous off of the song Independence Day won’t show up for the 250th anniversary of America on the National Mall in Washington D.C.? And then used some PR firm to put out this copy and paste
statement ? Pathetic.
The wicked plots against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him,
but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that his day is coming.
The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose way is upright;
their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.
Psalm 37:12-15
God’s justice is certain.
Thank you, Texas. Together, we just made history.
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VICTORY!
Congratulations to our Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton!
24-year incumbent Senator John Cornyn has been DEFEATED in a complete blowout!
This is a political earthquake that will shape the Senate for years to come.
Pass the SAVE America Act!
Dan Crenshaw. Gone
Bill Cassidy. Gone.
John Cornyn. Gone.
John Thune. You’re next.
Waiting on the rest of the states to dismantle all the RINOs we have.
It’s go time!
No one asked half the Philadelphia Eagles team for an explanation when they directly declined to go to the White House after the Super Bowl.
No one asked Stephen Curry for an explanation when he sat with Kamala Harris and endorsed her for President.
No one asks for an explanation every time Steve Kerr or any other TDS-inflicted coach goes on a rant against Trump.
So if I were Jaxson Dart, I wouldn’t say a blessed thing to anyone. He doesn’t owe anyone a thing.
I’m more pissed off because they’ve got me out here cheering on a Giants QB. As a lifelong Eagles fan, this pains me.