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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

In An Outberger, founded in 1948, is one of America's most iconic brands.

Buns are still baked with slow-rising dough each morning.

The hamburgers are never frozen.

Heat lamps, microwaves, and freezers are banned from the premises.

Recipes for its burgers and fries have remained essentially the

same for seven decades, and in-and-out store outsells a typical McDonald's nearly twice over.

Revenue has doubled over the last eight years. The company is debt-free and is conservatively worth

$3 billion. But none of that is why I'm discussing the restaurant today. I'm intrigued

by in-and-out's owner, 37-year-old Lindsay Snyder. Her grandparents founded the chain. Her employees

love her. She was recently rated the number three CEO in the country. However, her life has been

anything but easy. It's a story of pain, redemption,

and courage that encourages each of us to be all we can be in Christ. Snyder's father

died when she was a teenager. She says she turned to drugs and alcohol to fill the void. She

also endured three failed marriages, one of which ended because of abuse.

In the depths of her pain, she came to the realization,

I finally found that the deep need in my heart can only be filled by Jesus and my identity in Him.

Rather than allowing her tragedies to define her future, she chose to

dedicate her life to serving the Lord. For instance, she's continued a tradition begun by her uncle,

who put Bible verses on in and out's cups and rappers in the early 1990s. He had just accepted the

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