Touched By Heaven - Everyday Encounters With God

"My three-year-old daughter walked toward the window and placed her hands on the screen. She then pushed out the screen and began her 40-foot fall.”  ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Where do I start with Monica’s story? What if a photo from heaven fell right before your eyes?  Monica shares her incredible story of how, after her father’s passing, a long-lost picture of the two of them mysteriously floated down from nowhere—just when she needed a sign the most. But that’s not the only miracle in her life. She also recounts the impossible survival of her daughter, who fell four stories from a window. From divine reassurances to supernatural protection, Monica’s journey is filled with moments that defy explanation. Plus, a conversation on how AI is reshaping the way we learn, write, and even deepen our faith. Could God be working through technology as well? Listen to A Heavenly Message from Dad and My Daughter’s Miracle on Touched by Heaven, where everyday encounters with God remind us that we are nev

“She didn't know it was coming. We got to the top of Cross Mountain, with her mom secretly about to take the photo of the proposal. I dropped to one knee to ask her to marry me." The next few things that happened are hard to explain to anyone who hasn't been to Medjugorje. ---------- A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how bad things can happen in the blink of an eye. But what about when miraculous things happen just as fast? Enter Nate Wine, a man who never expected his life to change in an instant. Nate embarks on a trip to Medjugorje with his future wife, thinking only about the perfect mountain-top proposal. But God had other plans. What began as a simple gesture for social media clout turns into something much deeper—an encounter that rewires his entire faith. What exactly happened on that mountain? And why do so many people experience life-altering moments in this sacred place? This is a story of surrender, transformation, and the undeniable presence of God at the collision of heaven and eart

"My college roommate had a picture on her dresser of a guy with long brown hair and a beard. I asked, 'is that your boyfriend?' She looked at me like I was crazy. She said, 'his name is Jesus, and yes, he's my boyfriend.'"  ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. In this episode, I sit down with Debbie Herbeck to hear her incredible story of transformation. Raised in a devout Jewish home on the South Side of Chicago, Debbie grew up surrounded by family, friends, and an entire community that was almost exclusively Jewish. She had little exposure to Christianity and virtually no understanding of who Jesus was.  That all changed when she went off to college at the University of Michigan. For the first time, she encountered Christians—not just in passing, but as roommates, classmates, and friends. One of them stood out—a vibrant, confident Catholic student who lived her faith boldly. That friendship, combined with an unexpected assignment on the Book of Romans, opened the door to questions Debbie had never cons

“I was thrown a couple of hundred yards away from the vehicle. When I woke up, I heard a voice saying, ‘It’s okay. they’re looking for you.’” ---------- Hi, Trapper Jack here. It’s one thing to hear from the book of Romans, ‘God works for the good of those who love Him.’ It’s quite another to hear someone living it. In the blink of an eye, Susie’s life was changed forever. So was her marriage and family life. But Susie and Eric highlight what can happen when we invite God into the darkest of situations. At the end of our conversation, I asked for the most recent example of joy in their lives. I don’t want to give away what Susie said, but it is the perfect ending to a story with lots of bumps and turns. This conversation left me deeply inspired by how God can transform even the darkest moments into something good and meaningful, often ‘in the blink of an eye.’ Enjoy the podcast! ---------- Share Your Story If you have a Touched by Heaven moment that you would like to share with Trapper, please leave us

“I heard my son scream. The dart had ricocheted and hit Kyle directly in the eye. I began to negotiate with God.” ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. John and Shanita had their plans in place. Fame and fortune, along with a few kids, would be the goal for a successful life. But everything changed, literally in the blink of an eye. The eye belongs to their six-year-old son Kyle. A freak accident threatened to take away the vision of their boy. Shanita began negotiating with God. Does that work?  Shenita’s journey is a powerful testament to turning away from worldly pursuits and embracing faith and family. Enjoy the podcast. ---------- Share Your Story If you have a Touched by Heaven moment that you would like to share with Trapper, please leave us a note at https://touchedbyheaven.net/contact Our listeners look forward to hearing about life-changing encounters and miraculous stories every week. Stay Informed Trapper sends out a weekly email. If you're not receiving it, and would like to stay in touc

I was listening to Fr. Mike Schmitz talking about the five second rule in regard to food on the floor. But, at the same time I was reading a book about a different five second rule that can literally change your life, in five seconds. ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. You are familiar with the five second rule, right? It's when you drop a piece of food on the floor and proclaim, ‘five second rule,’ and it now becomes OK to eat. But there is another five second rule. While talking to Jenny, a God incident occurred, and a reference to a book called the Five Second Rule. Jenny heard something that she needed to hear to change her prayer life and deepen her relationship with God. It's one of those Touched by Heaven moments that's within the Touched by Heaven Podcast. It's always so cool when it happens. And it happens more than once in this episode. Amid all of this is Jenny's story. We see the hand of God in finding her husband. We see the hand of God in Jenny's dreams. We once again see how our ange

"I'm starting to see my guardian angels. My four-year-old said, ‘Mommy, what are those fireflies?’ I said, 'you see them too?'” -------- Hi there. Trapper Jack here. At age 36, Tiffany was living in a world of daily drug usage, nightmares, and demons, with only a small bit of relief by praying for the intercession of the archangel Saint Michael. Tiffany’s prayers to Jesus seemed to go unnoticed. She assumed that Jesus was not offering His help because she did not deserve God’s love. Tiffany soon discovered that nothing could be further from the truth. In this concluding episode, the plan of Jesus is fully exercised, and God’s glory is shown. The nightmares, demons, and drugs have all been annihilated swiftly and powerfully! The weapons that Tiffany used were efficient and available to us all. Enjoy the podcast! ---------- Share Your Story If you have a Touched by Heaven moment that you would like to share with Trapper, please leave us a note at https://touchedbyheaven.net/contact Our listeners look for

"For the first time I called upon St. Michael, the Archangel. There was a sudden bright light, and I heard a loud ‘whoosh'! It was like the entire house rumbled!" ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. I have found this to be an eye-opening, game changing interview and episode. It's totally altered how I pray. At age 4, Tiffany saw something that she could never un see. It changed her. It scared her. It let her down a particular path into substance abuse and paralyzing screaming nightmares with demons. Was there no end to this? Crying out to Jesus seemed to only make the demons angrier and more present. This made no sense at all. Tiffany read that praying to St. Michael the Archangel might be the answer for her. Shockingly, he arrived with light and fury! If only momentarily, Tiffany finally had some relief. With this supernatural door now open, Tiffany would soon discover what was necessary to receive the awesome Almighty power of Christ. Enjoy the podcast!      ---------- Share Your Story If you

"It's an abandoned house. There is nothing inside. But on the day that I sent my guardian angel to my husband, a Christmas angel ornament appeared out of nowhere." ---------- Hey there! Trapper Jack here. I can't say I've ever tried sending my guardian angel to anybody else. Anne gave it a try with spectacular results! Also spectacular… St. Anthony, famous for finding things, found an item that was lost for months. It only took a few minutes. St. Anthony continues his remarkable track record! ---------- Share Your Story If you have a Touched by Heaven moment that you would like to share with Trapper, please leave us a note at https://touchedbyheaven.net/contact Our listeners look forward to hearing about life-changing encounters and miraculous stories every week. Stay Informed Trapper sends out a weekly email. If you're not receiving it, and would like to stay in touch to get the bonus stories and other interesting content that will further fortify your faith. Join our email family by subscribing on

Social Media: "The gentleman walked up to me and said, 'That was…spine tingling! It seems mathematically impossible for that to appear on the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.'" ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. A 500-year-old miraculous tilma continues to come up with something new to say to us, even now. An Italian scholar has noticed something new in the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that seems virtually impossible. The stars within the image indicate that the Church and this age are just about done. The mathematical odds in this new discovery are seemingly impossible. Is there any question that God is speaking to us in this latest finding? Enjoy the podcast! ---------- Share Your Story If you have a Touched by Heaven moment that you would like to share with Trapper, please leave us a note at https://touchedbyheaven.net/contact Our listeners look forward to hearing about life-changing encounters and miraculous stories every week. Stay Informed Trapper sends out a weekly email. If you're not rece

"I can feel the coldness of the jail cell bars on my hands. I feel the concrete beneath my knees as I kneel. I am going to be executed for my faith. I hear footsteps coming for me. They are at my door." Tammie's original conversion story: https://touchedbyheaven.net/the-view-from-the-cross-tbh-96 ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. Have you seen the movie Bonhoeffer? A WWII Methodist Pastor joins a resistance organization that is attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While the pastor believed murder was evil, Bonhoeffer also believed that the action was justified because Hitler posed a greater evil. Ultimately, Bonhoeffer was martyred. Do you ever wonder what you would do if faced with saying yes or no to Christ when your life was on the line? Tammie has been pondering that question for about 18 years. It was then that she experienced a vision, or dream, of kneeling and praying in a jail cell knowing that she was about to be executed for her Christian faith. She heard the footsteps of the one coming

"The lady in blue was seen bilocating more than 500 times from her cloistered convent in Spain, to the indigenous people of what is now Southwest America. More than 60,000 were baptized here." ---------- Hi there! Trapper Jack here. How did this one slip by the historians? As we gathered around the Thanksgiving table this year, somebody brought up the original Thanksgiving story of Pilgrims and such. The 102 souls who ventured from Europe for religious freedom. It gave me an opportunity to share the much bigger story which occurred in the same timeframe. Few seem to know about the 60,000 indigenous people, otherwise known as Indians, who were baptized into Christianity, right here in what we now call America. Since I have not talked about this on the podcast for more than five years, let's have a go of it again. It opens the door to the saintly types who walk among us, in particular, the venerable Maria de Ágreda (Mary of Jesus) who bilocated to what is now the southwest of the United States from her co

“When my father was seeing another woman, God allowed my mother to hear everything my dad said or even thought.” ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Movie watching has led to our topic this week. The music that has bubbled up in my head comes from the movie Superman with Christopher Reeve. It's a particular piece of music that plays while Superman is taking Lois Lane on a flight over Metropolis. We hear her thoughts. As she wonders, 'Can you read my mind? 'I'm holding hands with a god.' Spiritualized, the scene leads us to the reality that God is always reading our minds. If you reflect on the last few episodes, it’s all about our minds. Are we sharing the mind of God, or have we created God in our image? Sadly, we are finding out how often we are in opposition to our heavenly Father, and His Biblical View. The upside in this episode is what the Holy Spirit can do within us, when we are in alignment with Him. It’s fantastic and supernatural! Enjoy the podcast! ---------- Share Your Story If you have a To

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? They pass through each other. Here, the Trump prophecy of 60 weeks ago passes through the 'why' he was saved. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. I said some crazy prophetic type of stuff 60 plus weeks ago in episode 280. The podcast mentioned how the music that bubbles up in my head led me to the possibility of an assassination of Donald Trump, but divine intervention would lead to an election victory. I kept wondering in that episode what all the little puzzle pieces might mean. Some of you have been wondering if I was going to bring this topic up again. The music that bubbles up in my head has indeed led me back to that episode of TBH, but only if the 'why' he was saved is within the podcast. So, I have now donned my referee shirt, and without opinion, have called the game as fairly as I am able. Enjoy the podcast! Link to episode 280: https://touchedbyheaven.net/size/5/?search=TBH+280 ---------- Visit Our Website: https://TrapperJackS

"We have to remember what Jesus said, ‘Unless we are like a child, we cannot enter into heaven.’” ---------- I literally just walked our daughter, Carolyn, down the aisle to her wonderful new husband, Daniel. My wife, Elizabeth, and I were just reflecting on a particular Sunday morning, five years ago, while we were headed home from Sunday mass. There was a song playing in my head, ‘For a man shall leave his mother, and a woman shall leave her home.’ It’s called The Wedding Song. When we arrived home, our daughter Carolyn was waiting for us. Carolyn said, 'You know how I've always said that I would not mention any guy’s name or bring anyone home until things were getting serious. Well, it's time to tell you about Daniel.’ In this episode, Carolyn opens the door to the heavenly connections that many children have in the first few years of their lives. By about age five, we develop amnesia to those special early memories. We then begin the process of walking away and then, back to, God and heaven. Here t

The Virgin has told us that the chastisement for the world is coming, as the world is not changing. The cup is filling up ~ Garabandal visionaries ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. Have you ever pondered the gospel where Jesus has locked up the house that is headed for heaven. In this parable, the crowd arrives and says, ‘open up,’ but Jesus says, ‘I do not know you. Go away you evil doers.’ You and I assume that we are inside the house, right? Well, that crowd had the same assumption. That big crowd had apparently never figured something out. Maybe I’ve missed something. In this episode we will see where the crowds are gathering, and where they are not. We will even see what they cheer about. We will then ask Jesus and Satan whether or not they would join in the cheering. Maybe then I will have a better picture of whether I am in or out. Enjoy the podcast. ---------- Visit Our Website - https://TrapperJackSpeaks.com   Patreon Donation Link - https://www.patreon.com/bfl   Purchase our Products CD Sales

“The caller on my radio show said that she always felt a presence in the car on her way into work. Maryann then said, ‘Yes, he’s in the back seat. He’s looking at your blue butterfly clip that holds your ponytail.’ The caller let out a huge scream!” ---------- I wasn’t sure if I believed in ghosts or not. Then, I met Maryann. For 25 consecutive Halloween mornings, Maryann Winkowski, who inspired the CBS television hit series Ghost Whisperer, would join me on the radio. We would take calls from listeners who believed they had a ghost in their house. Many did. I would push Maryanne to prove that she could see what she said that she could see. She did so with dazzling accuracy. I have never seen anyone prove the existence of ghosts better than Maryann. She turned the subject matter into a no-brainer for me and the listening audience. I’m going back into the archives ten years for this interview with Cleveland’s best-known ghostbuster. Beyond stating the case that ghosts are real, the overwritten message is

I had some knock down drag out arguments with God. ‘Where’s my husband? Everyone else is married.’ That’s when I had two dreams about my future husband. ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here.  I remember reading a much-publicized Newsweek article, almost 20 years ago, that said single women over 40 were more likely to be killed by a terrorist then to find a mate. Cheery thought, yes? Fortunately, it was nonsense, but caught on as a hapless truth of a middle-aged life.  Question… Did you pray to have God provide your spouse? Did you pray after marrying the ‘wrong’ one? Did you receive a sign that your mate was on the way. In other words, was God invited into the discussion? Love conquers all in this podcast episode as Jennifer finally had her marriage prayers answered at age 46. Vickie waited eleven years for the guy to show up that she had seen in a vision. Gina was apparently married to the wrong man for 25 years. Miraculously, a pilgrimage Gina and her husband made to Medjugorje had Gina asking her newly c

"As soon as I turned the corner and saw it behind the glass, the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I felt this incredible warmth. It was like ‘whoa!’" ---------- Hi! Trapper Jack here. As I think about it, it’s really a rather simple story. Rich wanted something. He prayed for it. He got it.  Did Rich pray directly to anyone of the three in the Trinity? No. The one he approached for his intercessory prayer happens to be the one known as the Saint of impossible causes. Here, God is awakening us to a basic truth. However you approach God, He is listening. In this case, it was the communion of Saints who were asked to intercede for Rich. Some ask, "Why would you pray to dead people?" Well, first off, they are not dead. Even Jesus was seen by some of His apostles talking to ‘dead’ people, namely, Moses and Elijah. Maybe a bigger question is, what does prayer while looking at the Saint’s bone remains, have to do with anything? In this case, Rich, was dealing with irreversible pain from a boating acci

Hi! Trapper Jack here. Many of our podcast guests have included their own Medjugorje stories of repentance, conversion, miraculous healings, and an overall turning back to the will of God. It is even more remarkable how many of these same guests have also experienced what is known as the warning, or the illumination of conscience. This is a period of several minutes where every sin ever committed is revealed. You see how God sees the present state of your soul. This is a moment that many believe we will all be sharing soon. The topic of the Warning leads us to another Marian shrine in Garabandal, Spain. The church has neither approved nor condemned the alleged apparitions of the early 60s. The church is waiting to see whether the three major prophecies come true. They are the warning, the miracle, and the permanent sign.  With the world in such rebellion with God, the upcoming illumination of conscience is the divine reset. It appears to be our last hope of repentance and eternal life. This experience als