Stacks Farmstead tells how God opened the prison doors: from an abandoned Pittsburgh street kid and five years locked up to an off-grid farm.
An Interview Session with Matt Hepner on stealing cars at 14, not caring if he lived or died, forgiving his parents, and fixing what happened generationally.
Stacks grew up in Pittsburgh, abandoned and neglected, and turned to the streets at 14, stealing cars for a chop shop. He tells Matt he simply didn't care about life or death: 90 days in county jail for refusing a fine, selling drugs inside, then five years after beating up a deputy sheriff. Praying every night that he didn't want to live, he was told he was going home within 24 to 48 hours, and he says only God can explain it. From there: gutting houses, the electrical union, a house bought from a biker, an off-grid house built from job-site scrap, forgiving his parents, and the Bible habits he's building now.
Also in this episode: 1 Corinthians 3:9 · Matthew 11:28-30 · John 14:30
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:09 Stacks' Brutal Past: "I'm Lucky to Be Alive"
2:05 Abandoned and Abused Growing Up in Pittsburgh
4:05 Stealing Cars for a Chop Shop at 14
11:02 "I Simply Didn't Care About Life or Death"
19:50 Refusing a Fine: 90 Days in County Jail
20:53 Selling Drugs Inside the Jail
24:19 Beating Up a Deputy Sheriff: Five Years
26:19 The Halfway House and Back to Jail
30:08 Praying Every Night: "I Didn't Want to Live"
32:00 "You're Going Home in 24 to 48 Hours"
33:02 Walking Out With Nothing, and an Aunt in NA
37:07 Stacks Sees God Opening the Prison Doors
46:02 Gutting Houses With a Fireman's Axe
48:00 The Electrical Contractor That Wouldn't Pay
53:52 Everybody Has a Role in God's Building (1 Corinthians 3:9)
59:12 My Yoke Is Easy (Matthew 11:28-30)
1:00:50 Getting Into the Electrical Union
1:05:59 "I Was Not Going to Allow My Kids to Grow Up How I Did"
1:09:06 Buying a House From a Biker
1:14:06 Clearing the Land and Building an Off-Grid House
1:23:04 Chickens, Food and Being Prepared
1:28:03 The Enemy Has Nothing in Me (John 14:30)
1:35:51 Forgiving His Parents
1:37:58 "We Have to Do It Generationally to Fix"
1:39:50 "Without God, I'd Probably Be Dead or Worse"
1:40:02 Life on the Farm: Acres, Animals and Permaculture
1:51:44 Why Stacks Is Getting a Donkey
2:02:05 Stacks' Bible Habits: Listening While He Works
2:17:01 Going Back Into Institutions to Tell His Story
2:17:49 Where to Find Stacks Farmstead
2:19:07 Outro
Questions answered
• How did Stacks end up stealing cars for a chop shop at 14? (4:05)
• Why did he stop caring whether he lived or died? (11:02)
• What happened when the counselor said he was going home in 24 to 48 hours? (32:00)
• Why does Stacks say only God could have opened the prison doors? (37:07)
• How does Stacks think a generational cycle gets fixed? (1:37:58)
Related Straight Bible studies
• Building a Biblical Life: Stephen DeMattis on Straight Bible:
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