Dale Trumble

Follower of Christ. Aiden’s Dad and Great Dane owner. Trying and sometimes failing to be a better person every day.

[NWS Omaha @NWSOmaha]

Still making payments on that hatchback? I'd find a way to park it indoors!

"Very large hail" is the most likely threat with storms developing in eastern Nebraska late tonight. Flooding, wind, and tornadoes are possible, too.

Have a way to receive warnings that can wake you up!

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@jimstewartson This is the same as when I saw them like 10 years ago

[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.

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me; turn your ear to me and save me.

Pslam 71:1-2

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@MLFootball @KingOfPhinland @B_Shousejr @NealDriscoll @VBSofficial_ Who cares

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 4:31-32

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

Matthew 16:25

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

Proverbs 14:29

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov Prayers for Abraham for a complete recovery.

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@schicknickshow Sorry one more, couldn’t resist. Last night of the same cruise. I was standing here hoping they’d sing “Bill MOOSE is out of the area!”

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@schicknickshow Oh the irony. On this same cruise I saw this poster in a restaurant. “On the cruise I saw Liza.” “In person?!” “No.”

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:16-19)

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@schicknickshow Oh the irony. On this same cruise I saw this poster in a restaurant. “On the cruise I saw Liza.” “In person?!” “No.”

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@schicknickshow Late to the party but here’s my cheers video. Love the show.

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@schicknickshow Late to the party but here’s my cheers video. Love the show.

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

2 Timothy 1:7

[Fox News @FoxNews]

“Tend to your faith not just when you’re broken, but when you’re whole.”

Eric Church returned to his alma mater, UNC Chapel Hill, and gave graduates a message bigger than music:

The country star told graduates that faith is the “low E” of life: the foundation every chord rests on, especially when the world gets overwhelming.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

WATCH: Heart-stopping bodycam footage shows NYPD officers rescuing a sobbing woman dangling off the edge of a Brooklyn high-rise.

At one point, an officer carefully inches toward the woman telling her “We care about you. We don’t want to see you hurt yourself.”

Emergency Services Unit officers later climbed over the ledge, sat beside her high above the street, and eventually pulled her back to safety.

[Dan Hoppen @danhoppen]

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Psalm 139:13-14

[Dale Trumble @daletrumble]

@LangmanVince Great commercial and he’s CLEARLY the best candidate. But the sad truth is that he has no chance because they’re just too many dummies living there.