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.
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
There’s a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And here’s what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You don’t forge a document 70 times.
That’s just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
That’s when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…
he’s one step away from the cross.
For those mainly Pakistani men who have inflicted the very worst pain imaginable on innocent British children, please know this.
There will come a day when the power of the British state that concealed your atrocious crimes for so very long is turned against you.
It will be swift. It will be brutal. It will be severe.
Because if Restore Britain gets a sniff of power, there will be a reckoning. I promise you that.
We will show you the same mercy you showed our girls.
Your race or religion will not protect you any longer.
A message will be sent that is heard right across the world.
If you rape our children, you will pay for it - and you will pay for it with everything.
That is what Restore Britain will do.
🚨DO NOT LOOK AWAY🚨
RUPERT LOWE CONFRONTS PARLIAMENT
He reads out testimony after testimony of rape gang victims
"Things would escalate around Eid"
"WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW. HAS YOUR GOD FORSAKEN YOU?"
The most disgusting crimes in our history, done against the most vulnerable little girls
SHAME ON EVERY SINGLE MP WHO TURNED AWAY
SHAME ON EVERY SINGLE MP WHO HAVE DONE NOTHING
Thank you to Rupert Lowe for pushing for this
The world needs to hear of these crimes
I did not meet Jesus in a church. And I definitely was not looking for Him.
I was not saved by a pastor.
I met Jesus while reading the Quran.
And the wildest part was this:
He was already there.
Surah 3:45 calls Him the Messiah, honored in this world and the next.
Surah 4:171 calls Him a word from Allah and a spirit from Him.
Surah 3:49 says He gives life to the dead, heals the blind and the leper, and creates from clay.
And I remember sitting there thinking:
There is no way this is “just another prophet.”
So I compared Him to Muhammad because I had to.
One gives life.
The other led wars.
One is called sinless.
The other prayed for forgiveness.
One raises the dead.
The other could not overcome death himself.
And I started asking questions I was never supposed to ask:
Why is Jesus the only one called the Messiah?
Why is He the only one born of a virgin?
Why is He the only one coming back to judge the world?
Why does the Quran give Jesus divine titles but never fully explain them?
That tension wrecked me intellectually.
Because the same book telling me not to worship Jesus could not stop elevating Him above every other prophet.
And eventually I realized something:
I did not leave Islam because I hated it.
I left because I followed the clues honestly.
And every single one of them led me to Jesus Christ.
🚨 REPORTER: What are your plans for 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?
SPENCER PRATT: "60% of 40,000 are NOT from LA. They were BUSSED IN by scam rehabs, scam NGOs...when I UNPLUG them from tax money, they'll go to Seattle where the mayor will welcome them!"
Holy based! 🔥🔥
"The people that want to KEEP doing drugs will leave. The other ones, the criminals, getting naked in front of kids? THEY'RE GOING TO JAIL! Torturing animals, THEY'RE GOING TO JAIL!"
🚨WOW! Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Charlie Kirk: “The more I learned about him, I thought this guy is a modern-day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knew what Jesus meant when he said, ‘The truth will set you free.’”
“Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God”
(Psalm 146:3-5)
Let me be honest. I wanted to stay Muslim so badly.
Not even because of God at first, but because of the life attached to it.
My dad’s businesses were waiting for me. Signed and ready.
My mom’s community. Doctors, lawyers, politicians. Connections everywhere.
Success was laid out in front of me.
There was even an arranged marriage lined up. A doctor. Beautiful future. House. Wedding. Stability.
All I had to do was say one sentence:
“Yeah, I still believe.”
That was it.
Keep the money.
Keep the family approval.
Keep the life.
But here’s what ruined it for me:
I could not unsee Jesus.
Once I really read the Quran and compared it to the Gospel, I couldn’t force myself back into pretending.
And honestly, knowledge becomes heavy at that point.
Because I didn’t leave Islam to rebel.
I left because I could not betray what I believed was true.
No business opportunity, no relationship, no comfortable future was worth denying the King who gave His life for me.
So yeah, my life would have been easier if I stayed.
But when Jesus says, “I am the way,” you don’t answer with, “But the other path feels safer.”
You pick up your cross and walk.
“Of all the possessions we hold dear, we must hold our souls closest, for they are God’s treasure, the only thing we can take out of our earthly experience to Heaven.” —Billy Graham
Father,
On this glorious Sunday morning, we thank You as we awaken in the greatest nation on Earth.
Our strength and freedoms are a testament to your divine mercy and faithfulness.
We praise You for President Trump, Your chosen servant, who is leading America back to our foundation as One Christian Nation Under God.
Lord,
This morning, we lift up the Rededicate 250 gathering happening all day at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Thank You for calling thousands of patriots to this historic day of prayer, praise, and rededication as we prepare for America’s 250th birthday.
In the spirit of the great Charlie Kirk, may this event ignite a spiritual revival across America of a renewed commitment to You and the principles that made this republic the greatest nation on earth.
Lord
We thank You for President Trump’s massive victory in Louisiana, where RINO Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted for Trump's impeachment, has been defeated and true America First warriors like Julia Letlow are rising to lead us.
Continue to expose and remove every traitorous politician that stands against Your will for this nation and let faithful Christian leaders emerge to help lead our country into its golden age.
Father,
We thank You for guiding President Trump through his summit with President Xi in Beijing, where he stood firm on Taiwan, fair trade, and confronting threats to America's freedom.
Lord,
Secure our borders from illegals and the Islamic stain that has cursed Europe and Britain, shield innocent Christians here at home and abroad, and bring peace through strength to our nation.
We rededicate ourselves, our families, and this United States of America to You on this blessed Sunday morning.
God bless our Christian nation
In Jesus name
🚨 They manufactured this.
This photo went mega-viral last year. Mainstream media everywhere. Millions of shares.
“Starving Gaza child amid the horror.”
Barefoot girl. Dirty clothes. Empty pot in hand. Hair dramatically blowing. Scattered pots in the dust. Smoke and destroyed buildings behind her.
It was 100% staged.
Watch the full 52-second video of exactly how they directed and shot it. The final frame is the exact photo that fooled the world.
This is Pallywood.
Not documenting suffering, but producing it for outrage and donations.
They lied. The camera caught them.
I agree with Charlie. I will not apologize for defending Israel.
Go there and one can literally walk where Jesus and the Apostles walked.
The Scripture is True.