Nobody’s Too Far Gone: A Meth Addict, a Midnight Prayer, and a Radical Restoration

Join Shannon Bream as she welcomes Grammy-nominated worship leader and songwriter Stephen McWhirter to discuss his new book, Radically Restored: How Knowing Jesus Heals Our Brokenness. With the kind of raw honesty that stops you in your tracks, Stephen shares how he grew up watching his father preach about Jesus at revivals while abusing his mother at home, a contradiction that turned him into an enemy of the cross by age 11 and a full-blown crystal meth addict by 17. He recounts the moment everything changed: three o’clock in the morning, drugs on the nightstand, a copy of The Case for Christ in his hands, and an encounter with the living God that he describes as a pebble dropped in the ocean, with grace rippling out like a tsunami into every broken corner of his life. From forgiving his father to writing “Come, Jesus, Come” as a private basement prayer that went on to surpass 100 million streams, Stephen’s story is a vivid reminder that no one is too far gone, that forgiveness is one of the most powerful things we can do on this side of eternity, and that the songs God uses most are often the ones we first sing to Him when nobody else is listening.