MS and the Voice that Said, "You'll be OK!" - TBH 403
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Release Date: 01/25/2026
40 Weeks Later - From Skeptic to Surrender - TBH 404
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
“I wasn't even sure I believed in God. But when I saw the miracle of the sun with golden raindrops falling off of it, I knew that God existed and that he loved me.” ---------- In the Bible, the number forty shows up when something is being tested, purified, or prepared. Forty days. Forty years. It is never random. It is the stretch between what God promises and what finally comes to life. When the music that bubbles up in my head began to take me back to a story from 40 weeks ago, I pushed back. Why would I do that? Wrong question. Just trust. OK. This episode returns to the conversion...
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MS and the Voice that Said, "You'll be OK!" - TBH 403
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"The doctor told me that I would be completely disabled within months with aggressive MS. I heard a voice, ‘Everything is going to be OK.’ What?” ---------- Chris is the kind of guy you might live next door to. A regular husband and dad, doing his best, never presenting himself as special or gifted in any way. Just humble and real. In this episode, he shares several moments where God quietly but unmistakably showed up. The most dramatic came in 2015, when his children were still very young and he was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of multiple sclerosis. Doctors told him he...
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When the Unseen Answers Back - TBH 402
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I was stuck in the snow, in my car, when these four huge-football-player-sized guys got out of this tiny little car and started walking toward me to help. Who were these guys? And how did they fit inside that car?” ---------- In today's episode, Sarah, a mental health therapist, shares how revisiting her life through the lens of faith revealed moments that no longer feel random. After discovering the Touched by Heaven podcast, memories began resurfacing--an icy road, a spinning car, and unexpected help that arrived in a way she still struggles to explain. Other experiences from childhood...
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Three Dangerous Stories with God's Perfect Ending - TBH 401
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
“We're all going to die. That's what's on my mind. I'm going to die, and I'm never gonna see my three-year-old again. I'm hot, I'm sweating, And I still don't get in the taxi and leave.” ---------- This week's episode plays like a movie. It began with a song that bubbled up unexpectedly: "Comedy Tonight." Not comedy as in jokes or punch lines, but comedy in the ancient Greek sense -- a story that ends with order restored, hope intact, life going on. The opposite of tragedy, where death or despair gets the final word. In this episode, three true stories from the Touched By Heaven archives...
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At the Time They Didn't Know It Was an Angel - TBH 400
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
"I heard his voice next to my ear. His arm was around my shoulder. I looked down, but I did not see shoes or his pant legs." ---------- Episode 400 brings Touched by Heaven back to where it all began. Before the themes expanded and the conversations deepened, it was angel stories that first drew many of you in. In this milestone episode, I return to real moments where help arrived quietly and unexpectedly. No wings were seen. No explanations were given. At the time, the people involved didn't even call it an angel. They simply knew something intervened. Through stories of guidance,...
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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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"The doctor told me that I would be completely disabled within months with aggressive MS. I heard a voice, ‘Everything is going to be OK.’ What?”
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Chris is the kind of guy you might live next door to. A regular husband and dad, doing his best, never presenting himself as special or gifted in any way. Just humble and real.
In this episode, he shares several moments where God quietly but unmistakably showed up. The most dramatic came in 2015, when his children were still very young and he was diagnosed with the most aggressive form of multiple sclerosis. Doctors told him he would likely be disabled within six to nine months.
Crushed and searching for meaning, Chris turned to prayer. Without even owning a rosary, he began counting prayers on his fingers. That's when the miracle happened. Since then, there have been other encounters, moments of protection, answered prayer, and reassurance. Not because Chris is extraordinary, but because God is.
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