Scott Strandell

Father of 5 and a Papa to 7. Proud dad of a USAF Airman, former pastor and now a certified master financial coach, musician, love dogs. Go Packers!!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

I’m fighting for a western civilization where none of them had to die.
We’re not fighting red vs. blue.
We’re fighting good vs. evil.
Darkness vs. light.
We must win.

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

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.

[Nicholas Giordano @PasReport]

The disease of performative virtue signaling is one hell of a force. When people become so obsessed with proving their moral purity that they abandon common sense and reality, innocent people pay the price. Civilization can’t survive when public safety is sacrificed at the altar of ideological idiocy.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

My politics is whatever this is

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

@EricTrump Classic DJT! 😂☝️🇺🇸

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Are You A Man? 12 Signs To Look For https://t.co/mTFQBjxrGo

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

@elonmusk @cb_doge Yes and amen!

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Hitler Defeated After Opposition Party Holds Up Tiny Signs On Paddles https://t.co/uZbBZdXs6C

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If ANY judge ANYWHERE can stop EVERY Presidential action EVERYWHERE, we do NOT live in a democracy.

[America @america]

President Donald Trump: “For the first time in history, we are locating and loading illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came — and made clear to every country they will be taking back their people.”

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

@TuckerCNews Yes

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

@TuckerCNews Yes

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

Interested in moving to Franklin, Tennessee? Here's a sneak peek at the Hamilton Community coming soon and the nearby Natchez Trac... https://t.co/Jq4vaMcTzQ via @YouTube

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

“You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.”
Psalms 119:114 NIV

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

@HawleyMO Yes and amen 🙏

[Robert J. O'Neill @mchooyah]

And just like that…

[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

Only Americans should vote in U.S. elections.

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Scott Strandell @ScottStrandell]

@Johnny_Joey You’re the man! Take care