Douglas grew up Catholic in a small farm town in Nebraska, adopted by parents he never thought of as anything but his own, in the years when the family farm went bankrupt and the government was writing new rules to save farms like his. His dad died while he was still young. Then came the accident. In his telling, an engine component went into his chest, a blood clot sat in his carotid artery, and the doctors found a paper-thin aneurysm on an artery feeding the heart that they feared would burst the moment they opened him up. He describes what he remembers from the hour he says he was gone: waiting, looking down at his grandfather, and then his dad lifting him under the arms, telling him he loved him, that he looks in on the family, and that it was not his time to be there. He had to go back and follow the plan. He came back angry with God, in a wheelchair at the end of a hospital hallway, staring out a window at traffic and at strangers planting a garden. Nobody was doing therapy with him yet. And then one day they tried to wheel him out to his mom's car.

This conversation walks from that hospital hallway to a bedroom in his house with a $65 camera on a tripod he still uses. Along the way it covers a near-death experience and what he says his father told him, leaving Catholic ritual behind to read the New Testament for himself, learning to walk again after a catastrophic injury, the nurses he calls angels, a daughter who told him anybody could make YouTube videos and the five-year daily posting streak he says followed, the twenty thousand free articles he says he has written, going through the New Testament chapter by chapter from nine different perspectives, finding the principles of the self-help books already sitting in Scripture, and what it looks like to be a husband and a homeschooling father while showing up for strangers every morning.

Douglas did not give a web address on the recording, so none is listed here. He says the simplest way to find him is to put his name in Google, that his daily YouTube video goes out across the major social platforms, and that his channel has a playlist called the first 30 days where it all started. His articles, he says, are free of charge.

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"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. — Revelation 12:11 (KJV)"

Bria Isaac grew up in a minister's house. Her father knew the Bible front and back, and her earliest memory of God is a children's movie about Jesus told with little clay figures. She also describes a childhood marked by fear: a night she says she woke to angels standing around her bed, a dark presence she felt outside her bedroom door, and, in her telling, years of abuse at home that her parents later said never happened. By 22 she had flunked out of college, lost her job and was facing eviction. She shares that she turned to prostitution, and that one night, sitting on the floor with $300, she spoke to God for the first time: “if you get me out of this, like, I will never do this again.” Then came seven years of acting like nothing had happened. Her mother, she recalls, told her never to tell anybody, not even a future husband. One morning when she was 29, Bria says she woke up and heard a voice say, “your life is a lie.” She washed her face, brushed her teeth and tried to ignore it. It kept coming back.

In this conversation Bria walks through the whole road: growing up in church without feeling safe at home, leaving and refusing to go back, the years she kept everything buried, and the mornings she describes beginning to hear from God and learning to test what she was hearing. She talks about hearing God's voice and the Holy Spirit, about forgiving your parents after childhood abuse, about inner healing and deliverance, and about trusting God for provision when the rent is due and the numbers do not add up. These are her experiences as she tells them, in her own words.

Bria shares in the episode that she now serves in inner healing, deliverance and mentorship.

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Brittany Sivels grew up calling herself a Christian, but in her telling it was a title and nothing more. She describes a childhood with no memory of church, a father who played Scripture in the car until she asked him to turn it off — and it never came back on while she was riding — and a moment as a girl when she said "OMG," her mother asked "where is he?", and she immediately knew to look up without knowing who he was. By her own account she spent more than two decades submitting to lust and homosexuality. On the outside, she says, people saw someone doing great: a bachelor's degree in IT, a new house, a job. She describes surrendering her life to Christ in March 2020, hearing three words on her bed while worship music played in 2021 — "Prepare to move" — and eventually going into three days of prayer and fasting. She recounts bringing a trash can to the room with her, getting on her face, and staying in repentance. What she says happened next is where she asks listeners to hear her out.

Kyle and Brittany walk the whole arc: a childhood with no real understanding of who Jesus was, a college friendship with a group from church that had "what I wanted," the confession to people who had only ever known her one way, prayer and fasting, deliverance from homosexuality and lust as she describes it, and the warfare she says came afterward — thoughts about the mortgage, the house, and whether she could keep any of it. The conversation goes deep on deliverance and what she believes comes after it, on refusing to compromise whether or not anyone is watching, on why she thinks some people will testify about everything except one thing ("Why won't you ever share that?"), on falling in love with the Psalms and singing them during the fast, on godly desires and Philippians 2:13, on boundaries with people still in a lifestyle you were freed from, and on how her family responded once the truth was out. Near the end, Brittany prays for everyone listening.

The line I keep coming back to is Brittany asking, "Why won't you ever share that?" She wasn't pointing at anybody. She was describing the one thing most of us have decided we will take to the grave, and she said it out loud about herself first. That's the whole reason this show exists. If you're listening and there's a thing you've never told anyone — not a pastor, not a friend, not out loud — my prayer is that God would meet you exactly there, that he would give you back that first love Brittany prayed for at the end of this episode, and that you would not have to carry it alone one more year. He is not shocked by it. Lord, find them.

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"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." — Revelation 12:11 (KJV)

Criselle Mendoza was baptized at twelve, and in her telling it was not really a choice. She grew up in Iglesia Ni Cristo — the Church of Christ, a predominantly Filipino denomination based in the Philippines — where, she says, her whole family on both sides was baptized, her grandfather was a minister, and the teaching was that you had to be in that specific denomination to go to heaven. She describes name tags flipped at a registry every service, Christmas and Easter and Halloween treated as pagan, dating outside the church punished with expulsion, and the names of the expelled read out publicly. Of her own baptism she says simply, "I did it for my mom... I'll do it for you. I love you." At fifteen or sixteen she told her sister, three years younger, that she thought their dad had been right about that church all along, and her sister started crying and said she didn't want to go to the lake of fire. The two of them told their mother they were done. Years later, in college, Criselle says she started feeling empty inside and couldn't name what was missing — so she told the man who is now her husband that she thought they should pray every night. From 2023 on, they did.

The conversation walks through what it costs to leave a high-control church and then learn the faith from the beginning. Criselle describes the Acts 20:28 translation question she researched once she had decided to leave, the year her mother spent attending a locale an hour away after submitting letters of forgiveness, and what she and her husband found when they started going to a church in Dallas. From there it follows them to Wyoming, her work at a tribal health center, the sudden death of her husband's childhood best friend and the passage from John 11 he read in a Denver hotel the night they were stranded on the way to the funeral, and the pull they both began to feel to go back to Dallas. If those are the words you would type: leaving Iglesia Ni Cristo, ex-Church of Christ testimony, religious shame and public expulsion, anxiety and prayer, and the parable of the prodigal son.

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"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death." — Revelation 12:11 (KJV)

Mike describes himself as a lukewarm Sunday Christian — church on Sunday morning, football on Sunday afternoon, a construction superintendent running 35 houses at once with no time for God. Then came his son's wedding weekend in Ventura. Two hours of home run derby with the kids in the park, and by that night he was sick — he figured the flu, and toughed it out through the rehearsal dinner with a 104 fever rather than be a distraction at the wedding. It was a ruptured appendix, and it nearly cost him his life. In his telling, as they slid him onto the surgical table, he looked to his right and Jesus walked through the operating room door. What happened when he took His hand is where this conversation goes.

Mike walks Kyle through his near-death experience as he remembers it — grass he could count blade by blade, a white curtain pulled back on a city wrapped in fog, light breaking over the trees like white fireworks — then the crash cart bringing him back to a room full of shaken nurses. He describes Jesus returning to his hospital room and sitting with him for three hours, telling him, "I had to get you flat on your back away from all the distractions so you could hear me." From there the conversation covers the eight years he kept the story quiet, a childhood prayer he says God answered 40 years later, hearing God's voice, and what a near-death experience does to how a man prays. If you have questions about NDEs, heaven, or whether God still speaks, this episode sits right in the middle of them.

The line I haven't been able to shake is "He didn't say so you WOULD hear me — He said so you COULD hear me." How much of my own life is too loud for that? If that's you tonight — busy, capable, and nowhere near still — my prayer is that you won't need to be flat on your back before you listen. Lord, meet the person hearing this exactly where they are, and give them one quiet moment with You this week.

Mike tells the whole story in his book, I Held the Hand of Jesus in Heaven, available on Amazon and in bookstores. He gives his website in the episode — the transcript renders it as MikeMcKenzie.com, but the show's records spell his name McKinsey, so verify the correct URL with Mike before publishing rather than shipping either spelling unchecked.

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And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. — Revelation 12:11

Steve Kang was born into a Buddhist home in South Korea and moved to the United States at nine, and in his telling the faith was planted deep long before that — grandparents on both sides, an aunt who became a monk and left her family, a book of chants he read every morning as a kid. He describes spending entire weekends at the temples, even back in Korea during high school, trying to get a Buddhist statue to say something to him, to wink at him, to say hello Steve, and says never once did they ever talk to him. The monks gave him 36 rules; he says he broke them every day, that there was not one day he looked at those laws and said, I live the perfect life. Their remedy was more chanting — sometimes eight hours a day, he says, producing spiritual highs that would just disappear like three minutes later. He had a prestigious college behind him and law school ahead. Then, at nineteen, came the near-death experience he says landed him somewhere he had never believed existed.

Kyle and Steve walk the whole arc in order: what karma and reincarnation actually felt like to live under, the conflicting counsel he says he got from the monks — one calling a nightmare a blessing, another calling the same dream a curse — the cousin who told him they had to kill ants so the ants could move on to their next life, the drug use he describes through 1998, and the night his mother, out of options, called a Christian friend. He describes what he says he saw and knew while unconscious, in detail, including what he calls the total absence of hope there. Then the voice, the years that followed, and where he is now: full-time pastor from 2004, missionary work in China, seminary at Talbot, travel to India, Korea, Burma, Indonesia, Cambodia and the UK, and today bi-vocational — IT sales plus ministry — preaching openly at restaurants, at Costco, at the gym. If you came looking for an ex-Buddhist testimony, a near-death experience and hell testimony, a Korean American conversion story, or a first-person account of spiritual warfare in a family that had never heard the phrase, this is that conversation. Steve closes the episode praying for whoever is listening.

The line I keep coming back to is Steve at the temple as a teenager, waiting for the statue to say his name, and it never did. He wasn't lazy about it. He was all in — eight hours of chanting, thirty-six rules, weekend after weekend — and the thing he was talking to had nothing to say back. My prayer is simple: that whatever you are chanting at, striving toward, or trying to earn your way out of, God would interrupt it the way Steve says He interrupted him — not with a rule, but with His own voice. That you'd be met, and not measured. That the hope Steve says is missing in one place would find you where you are.

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By testimony, we overcome. — Revelation 12:11

Michael Ray Lewis grew up in a home where everyone would have said they believed in God, and nobody ever talked about him. There was a Bible under a bed somewhere. Nobody opened it. The only Christians he ever actually met were on street corners with picket signs, telling him where he was going.

So he became an atheist — and a good one. He enjoyed it. Hard questions were easy to ask and Christians rarely had answers, and between Bill Maher and Zeitgeist he had all the material he needed.

Then his wife came home and told him she felt Jesus calling her back. He started going to church to prove it was nonsense. He started reading to prove it was nonsense. Three years later he was sitting in a theologian's living room with five pages of questions, checking them off one by one — and when he got to the end, the man closed his Bible and asked him a question back.

In this conversation: what it's like to discover the problem was never the evidence, the drive home where the fog lifted, the hospital room where he had everything to say and said nothing, and the documentary he made so that nobody else would have to search as long as he did.

The part that stays with me isn't the conversion. It's the hospital. He'd found the answer, he believed it completely, and when it mattered most he couldn't get the words out — and then it was too late. I think most of us have a version of that room. I'd love to know if this one lands the same way for you.

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"By testimony, we overcome." — Revelation 12:11 (KJV)

Sy Garte was a third-generation atheist. His grandparents were atheists and communists; his parents were atheists and members of the American Communist Party in the thirties. He grew up in Brooklyn knowing only that God did not exist and that religion was a tool for oppressing the working class. He became a chemist, then a biochemist with a PhD, and built his life on the conviction that science would eventually explain everything. Then quantum physics told him it wouldn't. Then the genetic code raised a question he couldn't answer. Then, in his late forties, a woman told him he had to forgive the people who had beaten him as a boy — and a man who had almost never cried in his life started crying. Years later he was driving from New York to Pittsburgh, six hours alone, when something happened that he can only call a vision.

In this conversation, Sy walks through all of it: the atheism he inherited, the cracks that physics and biochemistry opened in what he calls his wall of disbelief, two dreams he has never forgotten, the first church he ever walked into at nearly fifty, and the moment on a Pennsylvania highway when he pulled the car over and said out loud that he believed. He also talks about what it has been like to be a working scientist and a Christian at the same time — and why he thinks that supposed conflict is a recent invention rather than a historical fact.

The line I keep coming back to is the one he said inside the vision: that if Jesus can love even him, there is no one he can't love. Sy has spent his whole life being precise about things, and that was the least hedged sentence in the whole hour. There's a pause about halfway through where he tells me he still can't get through the story of the second dream without getting emotional — this is a man in his seventies, decades past it, and it still catches him. That's what I'd want you to listen for. If you're carrying something you're sure disqualifies you, I'm praying that line finds you the way it found him.

Sy's website is sygarte.com, where you can find his books and contact him directly. He writes a Substack called Faithful Science. His most recent book is Beyond Evolution: How New Discoveries in the Science of Life Point to God, published by Tyndale in 2025. His first book, The Works of His Hands: A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith, tells this story in more detail. He has also written Science and Faith in Harmony.

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