Chased Down by Miracles - The Tim Francis Story TBH 389
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Release Date: 10/19/2025
A Hail Mary You Didn't Even Throw - TBH 399
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I just saw this bright, golden, light. It encompassed me. And in the middle of that light was the most beautiful face." ---------- Fifty years ago today, with seconds left on the clock, a quarterback launched a desperate pass and later said, "I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary." The phrase stuck -- a last-ditch effort when human ability runs out. As I record this episode, I'm reading Project Hail Mary -- a story about humanity's final attempt to save the world. A last play. A long shot. A mission resting on grace. But tucked inside this episode is something even more striking. In Episode...
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A Christmas Gift of Heaven's Light - TBH 398
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
9/11. He saw a jet coming right for his office. The wing went through his window. Fire was everywhere as he cried out, "Lord, take over!" --------- This Christmas week episode is truly a gift. I'm joined by kindred spirit and author Mark Ellis, whose book When Kingdom Light Shines mirrors the heart of the Touched by Heaven podcast--60 powerful stories of divine intervention, angels, near-death experiences, and unmistakable encounters with God. Mark shares several unforgettable stories, including a man who survived the impact zone in the second tower on 9/11, and an astronaut whose life was...
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE: The Bible Verse that Silenced the Darkness - TBH 397
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"For 16 months, my body and mind shut down due to spiritual warfare. My doctor said, "I don't believe in your God, I believe in my medicine." ---------- Peter Nathan and his wife Christine from Australia, both of deep faith, experienced one brief encounter on the street that changed everything. In this extraordinary retelling of episode 243, a woman fixed Peter with what can only be described as a deliberate evil intention, and from that moment he entered a 16-month physical and mental shutdown. Priests were called. Prayers were offered. Nothing worked. Peter's psychiatrist dismissed the idea...
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Losing Dakota, Finding God - TBH 396
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I was living on the reservation, with my father, drunk, my mother, drunk, and pointing a rifle at me and my siblings." ---------- In this moving episode, we meet Susy—a woman whose life has been marked by deep loss, relentless struggle, and extraordinary moments of grace. Raised amid instability on an Indian reservation and searching for belonging across multiple faith traditions, Susy carried trauma into adulthood. She would lose her husband to cancer and later her daughter, Dakota, whose life was overshadowed by spiritual torment and addiction. Yet through every season, God kept...
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Why the Spirit-Filled Look Crazy and the Sober Look Lost - TBH 395
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I'm half in the bag," said the intoxicated Julia Roberts in the movie clip. And is this a message for the church? ---------- Why did Episode 394 disappear almost as fast as it was posted? Because I sounded strangely intoxicated—yet I hadn’t had a drop. Only later did I realize the Holy Spirit was using that moment to steer me toward this far more important episode. Here, I’m back in the impartial referee uniform, not rooting for a side, just holding up the puzzle pieces. And what they reveal about the Church today is unsettling. It all started when I watched four unrelated movies that...
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A Stone, A Cross, A Listener Named Claire - TBH 393
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
“We had a massive fire. We lost everything, with the exception of one thing. In the living room, within the ashes, one thing survived, our Bible." ---------- At the base of Cross Mountain in Medjugorje, our guide had us bend down and pick up a small stone. She said to place all our worries, fears, and crosses on this tiny rock. Then, she told us to carry it in our pocket to the top and to leave it at the foot of the cross, surrendering it all to Christ. In this episode, I bring you along for the ascent, with audio from my fellow pilgrims Ben and Paul and the 20-plus souls who climbed with...
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Miracles Happen When We Give God Our Problem, Not Our Solution - TBH 392
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"Everyone was flipping out. I was there. I witnessed this. Everyone was screaming and yelling at my mother's impossible prayer being answered." ---------- What happens when we stop telling God How to Fix It and simply hand Him the problem? This week’s Touched by Heaven takes us from a broken white cane on a Medjugorje pilgrimage, to a Cuban girl’s miracle education, and even to a can of tomato paste that shouldn’t exist. In each story, heaven responds to the same simple, powerful prayer that Mary modeled at Cana: “They have no wine.” When we stop micromanaging miracles and let God be...
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From Death to Life. Christian Lindsay's Lazarus Moment. - TBH 391
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"The Harley Davidson rider had hit a dog and was thrown from his bike. My dad did CPR on the guy for more than ten minutes. There was still no pulse, no breathing. That's when I remembered the story of Lazarus." ---------- In this episode, I sit down with 18-year-old Christian Lindsay, who didn’t turn toward God until just two years ago. Christian shares an unforgettable story from a cross-country trip with his family, when they witnessed a horrific accident — a man on a Harley Davidson struck a dog and was thrown from his bike. His father, who had never done CPR before, began desperately...
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They Thought People were Faking Miracles - Then God Healed Sandra's Brain Cancer in Medjugorje - TBH 390
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I'm a miracle healing. I am a living testimony of Medjugorje. I was healed there." ---------- Elizabeth and I just returned from two and a half weeks of incredible pilgrimages — first with some of our Touched by Heaven listeners in Medjugorje, and then with our parish in Italy. I literally just walked in the door, and what better time to revisit one of our most powerful miracle stories? In this episode, we go back to Episode 149 and the unforgettable story of Sandra and her miraculous healing of pituitary cancer in Medjugorje. When Sandra and her sister first visited, they wondered if...
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Chased Down by Miracles - The Tim Francis Story TBH 389
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I had three questions. Is it real? If it is real, is it from God? If it is from God, what does it mean?” ---------- Arguments about faith can sound a lot like the Genesis song “That’s All” — “Well, I could say day, you’d say night. Tell me it’s black when I know that it’s white.” We debate Eucharist, Church authority, and who’s “right,” but God’s desire is simple: a relationship. This week, Tim Francis shares how God broke through his skepticism. Raised Catholic but long fallen away, Tim joined a Texas megachurch until his persistent mom sent him miracle...
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"I had three questions. Is it real? If it is real, is it from God? If it is from God, what does it mean?”
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Arguments about faith can sound a lot like the Genesis song “That’s All” — “Well, I could say day, you’d say night. Tell me it’s black when I know that it’s white.”
We debate Eucharist, Church authority, and who’s “right,” but God’s desire is simple: a relationship. This week, Tim Francis shares how God broke through his skepticism.
Raised Catholic but long fallen away, Tim joined a Texas megachurch until his persistent mom sent him miracle videos—including an Australian documentary of a Bolivian woman who precisely predicted both the day and the hour that the stigmata of Christ would appear upon her body. This, among other encounters, reignited Tim’s faith.
For the past 15 years, Tim has traveled the country, leading countless young people back to God through the miraculous—just as God once awakened him.
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