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The latest episode of “Sheepdog and Shepherd” takes viewers to the retreat center of The Church of Eleven22 in Woodbine, Georgia, where hosts Kyle Reyes and Pastor Greg Farah sit down with former law enforcement officer Adam Davis for one of the most raw and redemptive conversations of the season.
Davis, a former Alabama police officer, author, and speaker, shares his remarkable journey from trauma and despair to redemption through faith. “Separated from my wife, my kids — like I wanted to make them proud. I’m a law enforcement officer. I wanted my kids to be proud of me when somebody asked them on the playground, ‘Hey, what does your daddy do?’ … It’s one of the most noble and honorable professions in the world to be a law enforcement officer,” Davis recalls.
But beneath the uniform, Davis says years of pain were breaking him apart. After enduring childhood abuse, emotional wounds, and years of spiritual confusion, Davis describes how the weight of it all nearly ended his life.
“I turned them all against me, and nothing worth living for, man. I got pain that haunts me daily,” he says. “So that day I went, I did my four-hour block, I took my car back to a parking spot in front of an abandoned gas station on the south side of town, and I pulled my Glock out, and I stuck it right here, and I stopped. I say, I don’t know what caused me to stop, but I do — it’s the presence of a living God.”
That encounter, Davis says, changed everything. “I yelled at God… I said, ‘I don’t know if you can hear me. I don’t know where you’re at, but if you have a plan for my life, you can have it.’” In that moment, he says, “instantly this raging storm of hate and pain and torment went calm… I believe that I encountered a living God in a patrol car that day.”
From that day forward, Davis began rebuilding — first his marriage, then his faith, and ultimately a new ministry focused on healing and restoration for law enforcement officers and first responders.
“Instead of drinking every night, I started writing,” he says. “God restored my marriage… and since then, more than a million lives have been impacted.”
Pastor Greg reflected on Davis’s story as a testimony of grace and redemption. “Part of what I heard in your story is the redemption, the reconciliation, the restoration — all of that is the reason for the cross,” he said. “We have that fully through the cross of Jesus Christ.”
When Reyes asked about the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, Davis shared the lesson that has defined his ministry: “Faith, like love, is dynamic, meaning it must be expressed. I don’t have to go to those people who hurt me and say, ‘We’re good,’ but I can go to my Father and say, ‘I don’t want to get them back. I want to give you this.’ … The forgiveness is an act of faith and a step of obedience to the Word of my Father.”
Davis, now the author of several books including Behind the Badge, Bulletproof Marriage, and Unconquered, continues to minister to law enforcement and military families across the nation. “If it wasn’t for her love, I don’t know where I’d be,” he says of his wife. “Sometimes God will put people in our path so they can demonstrate to us the closest version of who He is in human form.”
In a powerful close, Davis issues a challenge to every viewer: “I’m a fourth-generation survivor of childhood trauma. I’m a first-generation curse breaker. If you’re a man and you’re watching this… find out what it is and cut its head off so your children don’t have to carry it. You can’t do it alone, though, man. No, you need Jesus.”
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