Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
This podcast blasts away all doubt of the awesome power of our God by highlighting the miraculous, daily collisions of heaven and earth. By exposing these encounters with angels, divine intervention, miraculous healings, near-death experiences, visions and plenty of other God-incidents, Touched by Heaven fortifies us and can help awaken our fallen away loved ones.
Episodes
Peace, an unexplainable peace.
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Elizabeth and I share our week in Medjugorje--the friendships, heavenly encounters, and a puzzling dream that came home with me.
Plus, Father Joe's homily connects our pilgrimage with our own St. Bernadette Parish, Lourdes, and the message of a Mother still calling us to her Son.
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"I was walking up this mountain with others. There was a light at the top. No way. My plan was to come back down."
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Moses climbed a mountain to meet God. Isaiah pictured people climbing up to Him.
During his near-death experience, Jose found himself climbing a mountain toward a light he knew was God's presence. Moments earlier, he had been...
"Bless me Father, for I am drunk."
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Larisa walked into the confessional, drunk. This would be the culmination of a life in which childhood abuse left her feeling unloved, and drinking became a way to escape the pain.
Along the way, she experienced terrifying encounters with evil—and heard the voice of Jesus inviting her toward someth...
"I am with you, always. It was a male voice. I immediately thought, Wait, I have more questions."
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What if God spoke on every radio and television station in the world? That's the premise of the 1950 movie The Next Voice You Hear, starring James Whitmore and Nancy Davis, the future Nancy Reagan.
His messages confront disbelief and p...
Joe is 50, looks 35, and prays like he is eight!
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Joe had reached the top of the horse world. Then his marriage, business, and home fell apart.
On a dark day in Ireland, with little hope left, he stepped outside and prayed: "Lord Jesus, if you're there, I need your help."
What Joe says he saw in the sky sent him search...
"As a nine-year-old in the ER, I was observing ev...
How many times must I forgive? Seven times? 77 times? In Jim's case, it was not once, in 20 years.
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For 20 years, Jim remained angry with a woman who had fought his decision to fire her and taken him to court.
Then, while praying before Mass, God brought her unexpectedly--and unmistakably--back into his mind. Forgive her. Jim had been thinki...
"By the grace of God, I would have been standing right there where they died, in the World Trade Center."
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Sixteen current and retired firefighters are riding 3,600 miles from the San Francisco Bay Area to Brooklyn to commemorate the 25th anniversary of September 11.
Among them is Danny Sheridan, who first appeared in Episode 110 to share ...
"I looked to my right, and I saw a red pickup truck. He is so close to my car that he's in my car. I'm looking and thinking, Wait, I should be feeling something and hearing metal."
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Three women discover that when God wants to get you somewhere--or get someone to you--He apparently is not opposed to directing traffic.
Heidi had barely processed her own impossib...
"While sitting on the school bus, I looked out the window and saw a tall lanky boy and suddenly heard a voice in my right ear, 'That's the one!' I turned toward the voice, and no one was there."
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Elijah was trying to hear God in the wind, fire, and earthquake. Which to us, sounds like today's episode…
Did another car just pass throu...
"I was at the bookstore and out of the corner of my eye I saw a book inching its way to the edge of the shelf, teetering, then falling to my feet, face up. And there she was."
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Dr. Cyndi Peterson had everything she thought should make her happy, yet something was missing. Then, a mysterious dream, a book about Medjugorje falling at her feet, and extraordinary ...
"I had missed a message somewhere. I had not been paying attention to God's call. So, when my daughter received her eyesight, it really smacked me in the face."
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For the third week in a row, Lourdes unexpectedly returns.
First through Greg's remarkable near-death experience, then through Kevin Matthews' story of a broken statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, and now through an unexpected...
"Who would do this? Next to the dumpster was a statue of the Virgin Mary. She was broken in half, hands missing, laying on her back and covered by dirt and garbage. And I heard the voice of Jesus saying to me, 'Will you deny me? Will you deny my mother?'"
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Former Chicago radio legend Kevin Matthews discovered an old, broken statue of the Blessed Mother that mo...
"All of this information was just flowing into me. I was hearing all the answers. This continual flow of answers. And I heard Him say, 'There are no questions here, only answers.'"
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Greg, known as the hydrogen man, spent much of his childhood wanting to die, convinced that God had ignored his cries for help.
Years later, while sitting besi...
"The doctor looked at us and said, 'Well, uh, it's not there.' What? 'We closed him up. It's not there.' We just joyfully laughed!"
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When Sara learned her unborn son, Anthony, had a life-threatening heart defect, she didn't know what to ask God to do. She simply brought Him the problem.
Like Mary at the wedding feast who quietly told Jesus...
"I had to be obedient, right? And the Voice within me said to take the train."
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When Anita heard an inner voice in prayer name another state where she was to go and live, she dismissed it. The voice returned with more clarity.
God was calling her to leave everything behind and go where He was sending her. The instruction was specific: take the train. Anita boarded, unaware that he...
"The mortar shells and rockets were falling all around us. There were loud explosions. So, I turned over and fell back to sleep"
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There is a war on. The battle over our minds.
Last week's conversation with Denny Thompson left me pondering one unforgettable sentence: "Nothing really matters except getting Home to God." Despite the loss of h...
"I was in this darkness. and this huge, wrinkly, beautiful old person's hand came down from above, and scooped me up, and I heard, 'Trust in me, and everything will be all right.'"
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Denny Thompson was 38 years old when a motorcycle accident left him in a coma for months. Doctors weren't optimistic. His family faced impossible decisions.
Bu...
"I stood up and I was in shock. It was the first time in 15 months, since breaking my back, I was completely pain-free."
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We revisit one of the most unforgettable stories in Touched by Heaven ...
"I had never heard of Fatima, Lourdes, or Guadalupe. And then I saw her. She was heavenly, and beautiful."
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Gina had never heard of Marian apparitions--Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe--none of them. And then suddenly, she began having visions she couldn't explain.
She discovered that this kind of experience could change where you go to church o...
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