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.
The family of a missing Eastpointe teen appeals to the public for help. 17-year-old Noah Winters disappeared May 14th after being picked up from his home on Saxony Ave. Patricia Johnson is his grandmother. Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.
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Tennessee softball star Emma Clarke praises Jesus after her walk-off home run
"I immediately just looked up and started to give God all the glory."
Jesus is Lord ✝️
Jimmy Kimmel is and continues to be a bootlicking democrat hypocrite of the highest order.
His money losing show is Disney’s charitable contribution to their godless church of Woke ideological claptrap👇
This is the car of an entire family that was ki11ed after a bus driver drove into the back of a stopped car.
The driver, Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York, is a Chinese born naturalized citizen who doesn’t read or speak English.
He attained his commercial driver’s license 2 years ago in New York, which doesn’t require any English literacy to be licensed to drive.
Dong drove the large coach bus through a construction zone into the back of a stopped car driven by a 25 year old woman, who was ki11ed.
Her car was slammed into the car in front of her, which caught on fire, ki11ing a mother, father, 13 year old girl and 7 year old little boy.
A whole family bvrned alive.
Could the driver not read the construction warning signs?
It is unacceptable that American lives are being lost because of these leftist policies.
Led by the Trump Administration, we’re launching one of the most ambitious federal efforts ever undertaken to combat Lyme disease, accelerate research, and improve care for patients and families.
This man, a veteran, was beaten and murdered because he supported President Trump, according to this report. He was 69 years old, alleged assaulted by a 32-year-old. How awful and disgusting. Let's see if this receives the national attention and widespread condemnation it certainly deserves. May God bless him and his family.
https://t.co/mGPuVm4DSq
Today is National Missing Children’s Day.
We honor missing children, families waiting for answers, and investigators working to bring them home.
If you suspect a child may be at risk or exploited, report it to @NCMEC’s CyberTipline: https://t.co/CErKVXvh8l
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.
We don't let minors vote, drive, or get a tattoo for a reason. They are not equipped to make life-altering decisions. Permanently altering their body is no exception.
Our Childhood Genital Mutilation Prevention Act protects children from irreversible gender surgeries and permanently shuts off taxpayer dollars for these procedures. It makes it a federal crime to mutilate children with gender procedures, hitting doctors and activists who push this agenda on kids with steep fines and up to 10 years in prison.
No parent should be pressured and no doctor should be protected for using kids to advance a political agenda. This is a line we will never let them cross.
Conspiracy 🚨
Anna Paulina-Luna entered into the record, the $32M dollars Adam Schiff misappropriated for the Russia Collusion hoax
As chairman of house Intel, Schiff launced a political campaign against a sitting President
It's time for Schiff to stand trial for his crimes
The federal government suddenly wants you to believe aliens are real because you just discovered the Epstein files and now you know that satanic pedophiles are real.