CODE RED - Dean Sikes

About this sermon

🔥 SUICIDE. ABUSE. SHAME. ADDICTION. 🔥 What if one voice could break through all of it? On this fiery episode of Code Red Talk with Zach Terry, we sit down with Dean Sikes—evangelist, school assembly speaker, and founder of www.youmatter.us —who has reached over 4,200 stages and spoken into the lives of millions of students across America’s public schools, detention centers, and even death row. 🎯 Hear how God used one broken life to spark a national movement of HOPE.💔 From sexual abuse at 15 to nearly entering politics... to encountering Jesus in a hospital hallway From lying his way through life to becoming a truth-teller in school assemblies nationwide.🛑 From silence to a prophetic voice calling a generation back from the edge of suicide. Dean gets real about trauma, therapy, forgiveness, fake Christianity, and how social media is discipling your kids more than the church. This is an urgent call for parents, pastors, and culture warriors. 💣 👀 WATCH if you want to understand the battle our teens are facing.🙌 STAY if you believe no one is too far gone.🎤 SHARE if you're ready to bring the hope of Jesus to the frontlines. 👉This is Code Red. 🚨 Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Meet Dean Sikes: evangelist, founder of You Matter, messenger of hope 02:20 4,200 events, 300,000 salvations! Dean’s call to reach students 04:45 Sexual abuse at 15 and the vow of silence that followed 07:20 The turning point: suicidal mom, divine intervention, and a hospital miracle 10:35 Dean’s supernatural call to ministry 13:05 Meeting Phil Driscoll and entering ministry through music 16:00 Christian celebrity culture vs. servant-hearted ministry 18:50 Real talk about accountability, humility, and emotional safety on the road 21:30 Ministering in schools: rough crowds, real change, radical honesty 24:00 How the most disruptive students often become the most transformed 27:15 Encountering his abuser 22 years later and choosing forgiveness 31:00 The long road of healing through counseling and the power of true therapy 35:20 Suicide epidemic: 5,600 teen attempts per day and the need for gospel hope 38:00 Social media’s impact on identity, purpose, and isolation in students 41:30 Helping parents re-engage: conversation, dinner tables, and tech boundaries Code Red is Produced by Maximum Life Studios DONATE- https://www.convergepay.com/hosted-payments/?ssl_txn_auth_token=EKHq4QO6SZGVA7Zxk5ER6QAAAXff8OZu#!/payment-method Facebook https://www.facebook.com/maximumlifewithzachterry Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zachterry Website http://www.zachterry.org Twitter https://twitter.com/zachterry Learn more about Dean's ministry here: https://www.youmatter.us