Make America Godly Again | Todd White & David Harris Jr. | Firestarters Podcast
Firestarters
Lifestyle Christianity
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the crux of the issue for me, Todd, is life. |
| 0:04.0 | That's right. |
| 0:05.0 | If somebody's moral compass is off on a baby being a baby in the womb, then what else |
| 0:10.0 | is off with their moral compass? |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, David Harris Jr. is with us and I just had a 45 minute period |
| 0:23.5 | where I was just crying and we were sharing testimonies and it was beautiful. And can you tell |
| 0:29.2 | people that don't know who you are, who you are, basically how you got saved. Like, let's start |
| 0:37.0 | there if you don't mind yeah i could do that uh |
| 0:40.4 | i'm uh married 31 years to my high school sweetheart we have two daughters our oldest daughter |
| 0:45.4 | gives giving us two grandbabies so i'm a father my grandfather been a business owner since i was 20 |
| 0:51.0 | i started my first company when i was 20 years old and I'm obviously a part of the black community. |
| 0:55.0 | My dad's black. My mom was white. So I had quite the identity crisis as a teenager growing up in Redding, California, mostly predominantly white area. |
| 1:05.0 | Most of my friends were white. And then most of the black kids all hung out together and they would, you know, take shots at me, you know, because I wasn't as dark as them. So I had a real identity crisis. Didn't really know who I was. I grew up in the church. I read years later in my mom's baby book that I was filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues at seven. And I had a scripture verse memorized for every letter of the alphabet. |
| 1:28.7 | And I'd get on a shoebox and I'd preach it. |
| 1:31.0 | And then my parents divorced at nine. |
| 1:32.7 | And I went through my dad and we didn't go to church anymore. |
| 1:36.9 | I felt the disconnect of having a father that's there for you and as a provider. |
| 1:42.7 | He's there for you as a protector. |
| 1:44.4 | But he wasn't there for me. I received love, the five love languages, you know, I received love, uh, words of affirmation and physical touch. And my dad just, that wasn't, that wasn't him, but he would provide and make sure that, uh, you know, had a roof on my head and close my back. And so I'd go live with my mom in the summers after they divorced. And she'd give me |
| 2:03.2 | words of affirmation and, you know, hugs and, you know, kisses and all the things moms do. And I would just feel so loved. And then I'd go back and look at my dad for 10 months out of the year and not get any of it. And so I grew really rebellious. I grew really resentment, angry towards my dad. |
| 2:19.3 | And then early on in my teenage years, 15, 16, somewhere there, I started smoking weed |
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