Lee Strobel’s top supernatural stories to challenge your atheist friends



Atheists believe the universe is made up of only physical material. Souls, spirits, divinity, the afterlife — it’s all fiction.

But how do they reckon with phenomena — those hair-raising moments that shatter physics and turn our brains inside out? How do they make sense of miracles, like the terminal cancer patient who’s healed after prayer or the clinically dead person who wakes up with knowledge impossible for him to have?

The hardened skeptics will clutch their materialist beliefs even tighter, insisting there must be some scientific explanation. The more curious ones who allow themselves to venture down mystical rabbit holes, however, often find themselves in the position where disavowing the supernatural takes more effort than acknowledging its existence.

That was Lee Strobel — famous Christian apologist and author of the beloved book “The Case for Christ.” He set out to debunk Christianity, but his rigorous investigation into miracles and the veracity of biblical claims shattered his atheist beliefs and led him to the feet of Jesus.

In this fascinating interview with Glenn Beck, Lee shares several documented cases of miracles and wild stories that will challenge even the most committed atheist.

Proof of the soul

“There are 900 scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals over the last 40 years on the topic of near-death experiences. These are cases where a person is clinically dead — generally, no brain waves, no respiration, no heartbeat. Some of them have been on the way to the morgue. ... But then they’re revived,” Lee says.

“And when they come back, they say, ‘I was conscious the whole time. I was watching them try to resuscitate my body in the hospital.”’

Glenn and Lee revisit the spine-chilling story of a Hispanic woman named Maria, who suffered a severe heart attack in the 1970s and was resuscitated at a hospital in Seattle. When she regained consciousness, Maria reported having an out-of-body experience, claiming her spirit floated around the emergency room while she was being operated on.

Skeptics dismissed her initially, but then Maria told them there was a sticker on the top of the ceiling fan blade in her hospital room — a detail invisible from the ground. Hospital staff brought in a ladder and beheld the sticker exactly as Maria had described it.

Lee shares another story of a young girl who drowned in a YMCA swimming pool.

“[The doctors] just were keeping her body basically alive until they figured out what to do,” he says.

But three days later, she was miraculously revived. She told hospital staff that she was “conscious the whole time,” Lee recounts. But they scoffed at the girl until she began sharing confirmed details about what her parents were doing at home while she was clinically dead in the hospital.

The girl knew that her mother made chicken and rice for dinner; she knew what specific clothes her family was wearing and that her little brother had played with his G.I. Joe toys while alone in his room — “things she could not have known unless her body, unless her spirit really did follow them home.”

Documented miracles

In his recent book “Seeing the Supernatural,” Lee shares the story of a woman who was blind from birth due to an incurable condition.

“She married a pastor. And one night they’re getting ready to go to bed, and he comes over. ... He puts his hand on her shoulder, and he begins to cry and begins to pray, and he says, ‘God, I know you can heal my wife. I know you can do it, and I pray you do it tonight.’ And with that, she opened her eyes with perfect eyesight,” Lee says, adding that her vision was perfect for the remainder of her life.

“How do you explain that?” he asks.

He then shares another “well-documented case” of a woman named Doris, who had a deathbed vision.

“She sees the heavens open up, and she sees angelic beings, and she sees her father, who had died a couple years earlier. ... And then she gets this puzzled look on her face, and she said, ‘Wait a minute. What’s Vita doing there?”’ Lee recounts.

Vita was Doris’ sister, who had died a couple of weeks earlier. However, Doris’ family hadn’t told her the news for fear that it would worsen her waning condition.

Doris is one of many documented cases of people who “see something in the realm to come that they could not have known about.”

Radical redemption

Evel Knievel — the American daredevil and stunt performer famous for his death-defying motorcycle jumps in the 1960s and 1970s — radically encountered God at the very end of his life.

“He was a drunk. He was a womanizer and once beat up a business associate with a baseball bat and went to jail for assault,” Lee says, retelling the icon’s incredible conversion story.

Just a few months before his death, Knievel was “on the beach in Florida, and God spoke to him and said, ‘Robert ... I’ve saved you more times than you’ll ever know. Now, you need to come to me through my son, Jesus.”’

Freaked out by this profound spiritual encounter, Knievel called Frank Gifford, a renowned sportscaster and Christian, to ask about Jesus and Christianity. Gifford pointed him to Lee’s famous book “The Case for Christ,” and he came to faith in Jesus after reading it.

Knievel had a “180-degree change — more than anybody I’d ever seen in my life,” Lee says, noting that he and Knievel became friends as a result.

He was baptized in California’s Crystal Cathedral, and after he gave his powerful testimony, roughly 700 people spontaneously came forward to be baptized during the same service.

Angelic and demonic encounters

Well-known psychiatrist Dr. Richard Gallagher, who’s also a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College and a psychoanalyst on the faculty of Columbia University, has a hair-raising story about his first demon encounter that set him on a 25-year journey of studying the demonic.

He and his wife had two cats, who had never had an issue getting along with one another. One night, however, they randomly began to savagely attack each other, shocking Gallagher and his wife, who had to put the cats in separate rooms to stop the fighting.

The very next morning, Dr. Gallagher had an appointment to psychiatrically examine a woman named Julia, who claimed to be the high priestess of a satanic cult.

“She looks up at him, and she sneers, and she says, ‘How’d you like those cats last night?’” Lee says.

Later that day, Dr. Gallagher was speaking to a Catholic priest about Julia on the phone, and during their call, a “satanic voice” interrupted and said, “You let her go. She’s ours.”

After years of studying the demonic, Dr. Gallagher has accumulated many terrifying stories of demon possession. He’s documented a case where “a petite woman ... picked up a 217-pound Lutheran deacon and threw him across a room” and a case where “eight eyewitnesses saw a demon-possessed person levitate off a bed for half an hour.”

But there are just as many stories of angelic encounters too. One, which was documented in a doctoral dissertation, tells the story of a young girl in the hospital asking her mother if she could see the angels. “They’re so beautiful. Listen to their singing,” she told her mother, who was skeptical but played along.

“Oh, yeah, yeah, I see them. Look at their big wings,” she told her daughter, who confusedly responded, “Oh Mommy, you don’t have to lie. They don’t have big wings.”

“She went on to describe these angels in great detail. You would think if this was just something coming from the subconscious mind of a little kid, they would imagine what an angel would look like to them from a cartoon,” Lee says, but “that’s not what they see.”

To hear more documented cases of miraculous occurrences, as well as Glenn and Lee’s personal experiences with the supernatural, watch the interview above.

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Lee Strobel and Glenn Beck dive into America’s supernatural obsession: Miracles, evil, and the realm of angels and demons



Today, atheism and materialism — ideologies that reject the notion of a spiritual dimension and emphasize the primacy of physical matter — are on the decline. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in the supernatural in some capacity.

But sadly, this openness has led many astray. A significant percentage of people who consider themselves spiritual reject the biblical reality of angels, demons, heaven, hell, and the triune God. Instead of scripture, they consult Ouiji boards, tarot cards, and mediums, all of which have exploded in recent years, and adopt popular New Age spiritualist practices, which are merely gateways to occultism.

But what’s the truth about the unseen realm? What’s really going on behind a miracle or an act of heinous evil? And why are people suddenly so interested in knowing the answers to these kinds of questions?

To explore these queries, Glenn Beck interviewed award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and Christian apologist Lee Strobel, who dove deep into this subject in his new book, “Seeing the Supernatural: Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World.”

While many lost souls are seeking answers in all the wrong places, Lee is nonetheless heartened by the fact that so many people, especially youth, haven’t grown cold in their pursuit of truth. “I love the engagement that I get with young people — their curiosity, their questions, their sincerity. It's a real sincere quest,” he tells Glenn.

Neither he nor Glenn is surprised that there’s been an uptick in interest in the supernatural. For one, how does one explain miraculous healings, unmitigated evil, and phenomena? Second, with what modern science has uncovered in the fields of cosmology, physics, and biochemistry, among others, it’s hard to reckon with our universe without entertaining the idea of divinity.

“It makes more sense logically and rationally today to believe in God than I think any time in history,” says Lee.

For example, we now have hundreds of accounts of individuals who have clinically died and then been resuscitated. They return to consciousness with jaw-dropping stories that indicate “their spirit, their soul, their consciousness separates from their body and continues to live on,” says Lee.

But instead of believing in the eternal soul destined for one of two places, many will adopt the erroneous belief that ghosts haunt the earthly realm, unable to pass into a neutral afterlife. Glenn and Lee, however, reject the notion of lingering spirits of the dead. What people call ghosts, they call “demonic apparitions,” which certainly haunt and prowl the earth.

Lee tells several harrowing stories of demon-possessed people with supernatural abilities, like levitation, super strength, and spell casting.

He warns against two pitfalls when it comes to demons: “deny that they exist” or “see a demon under every bush.”

On the flip side, angels are another commonly misunderstood supernatural being. Many misguided spiritualists “believe that angels are relatives,” says Glenn, but they’re as deluded as those who believe in ghosts. While seeing dead relatives, especially on one’s death bed, is a common phenomenon, those are not angels people are seeing, as the Bible describes angels as being distinct from human beings.

“People on their deathbed will have a pre-death vision of what's to come, and often there are dead relatives who they will see,” says Lee, citing Acts chapter 7 as evidence that this phenomenon is biblical. Again, he shares several incredible stories of people who have had astounding visions before their death, many of which revealed information impossible for them to know.

Glenn also shares his own father’s strange deathbed experience and his daughter’s childhood encounters with angels.

Angels, Lee explains, are “a separate creation of God.”

“They are spirit. There's lots of them — millions. ... It says in the book of Hebrews in the Bible that they are there to serve God but also to serve His people,” he says, sharing a story about an angel who visited him when he was 12 years old.

The duo dive into several other subjects, including end times, the possibility of guardian angels assigned to individual people, the dangers of AI and technology, spiritual awakening in the Middle East, and several others. To hear the full conversation, watch the episode above.

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Dawkins is wrong: Why you should still believe in miracles



Philosophers and sociologists have observed that in the wake of the European Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, we now live in a disenchanted age.

Many modern people believe the universe is governed exclusively by impersonal physical laws and that the sacred and transcendent are illusory ideas belonging to a bygone era.

Given the impossibility of demonstrating God’s nonexistence, skeptics ultimately have no grounds for denying that miracles are possible.

According to Richard Dawkins, for example: “The nineteenth century is the last time when it was possible for an educated person to admit to believing in miracles like the virgin birth without embarrassment. When pressed, many educated Christians are too loyal to deny the virgin birth and the resurrection. But it embarrasses them because their rational minds know that it is absurd, so they would much rather not be asked.”

Some who propose to speak for Christianity adopt the same viewpoint.

Lutheran theologian and New Testament scholar Rudolph Bultmann declared, “It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles. We may think we can manage it in our own lives, but to expect others to do so is to make the Christian faith unintelligible and unacceptable to the modern world.”

Against the backdrop of our modern naturalistic worldview, it’s unsurprising that many people today reject miracles out of hand.

Yet there are good reasons to spurn this skepticism and to believe that miracles can and do happen. Christianity is founded on miracles (chiefly, the incarnation and resurrection), and if miracles were refuted, Christianity would crumble (1 Corinthians 15:13–14).

What is a miracle?

Before discussing whether miracles are possible, we should first establish what we mean by a miracle.

Christian philosopher Robert Larmer’s definition is helpful: “A miracle [is] an unusual and religiously significant event which reveals and furthers God’s purposes, is beyond the power of physical nature to produce in the circumstances in which it occurs, and is caused by an agent who transcends physical nature.”

A couple of things about this definition are worth highlighting. First, if nature is left to itself, a miracle will not occur. Miracles are brought about by transcendent agents — either God or angels. Several biblical passages refer to angels performing miracles (Matthew 28:2-4; Luke 1:19-20; Acts 5:19-20). Satan can also generate supernatural phenomena (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10), but such actions do not qualify as miracles in this definition.

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Second, in addition to being an extraordinary event, a miracle must also, in Larmer’s words, be “an event that has religious significance in the sense that it can reasonably be viewed as furthering God’s purposes.” Jesus’ resurrection, for example, provided evidence of His divine status and authority (John 2:19-22; Acts 17:31).

It’s not always immediately clear whether an extraordinary event will further God’s purposes; it sometimes takes time to see what the fruit of the occurrence will be and whether it should ultimately be viewed as a miracle from God.

Are miracles possible?

We now turn to the question of whether miracles, as defined above, are possible.

We begin by conceding this: If one accepts a naturalistic view of the world, then miracles are extremely improbable. The universe appears to follow physical laws, and we rarely observe phenomena that look like exceptions to the rules. Further, if we did observe something that looked like an exception, that would be evidence that we haven’t yet grasped whatever physical mechanism produced it.

On the other hand, if God exists, He is perfectly capable of acting within His creation, and we have good reason to believe that He would do so to interact with his creatures. The one who claims miracles are impossible would have to show that it is impossible that God exists, which is an insurmountably high burden of proof.

Thus, our background assumptions play a decisive role in how we view the question of miracles. If our worldview forbids a transcendent agent from intervening in the world, then we will deny miracles are possible. If, however, we grant that God exists, or may exist, miracles become possible and, perhaps, likely.

Allowing the possibility of miracles seems to bring up a worry: If we do so, the universe would suddenly become chaotic and unpredictable. Among other things, this would negate scientific study. But as philosopher Richard Purtill points out, we encounter exceptions to general rules all the time, yet these exceptions don’t nullify what we ordinarily expect.

For example, children sometimes skip grades in school, but this doesn’t disrupt the education system. We sometimes have holidays and vacations, but this doesn’t interfere with our ability to otherwise work normally. Governors of states can issue occasional pardons, but this doesn’t lead to the collapse of the justice system.

Similarly, a miracle can occur without obliterating all that we know and expect about the natural world. Thus, writes Purtill, “Scientists, as such, have no concern with miracles, for they cannot predict them, bring them about, or draw from them any conclusions about the future course of nature. A miracle is supernatural and therefore of no scientific interest.”

C.S. Lewis makes the even stronger point that the best guarantor of the uniformity of nature is God himself. (We can’t pursue this point here, but historians of science have argued that this is the very reason modern science arose only in Christian Europe — because of its belief in a rational God who created a law-abiding world.)

Lewis writes in his book “Miracles”:

Theology says to you in effect, “Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.” ... The alternative is really much worse. Try to make Nature absolute and you find that her uniformity is not even probable. By claiming too much, you get nothing. ... Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Contrary to Richard Dawkins’ assertion above, Christians should feel no embarrassment in affirming the miracles of Scripture or other bona fide miracles. Given the impossibility of demonstrating God’s nonexistence, skeptics ultimately have no grounds for denying that miracles are possible.

A related question naturally arises, whether we have any evidence that miracles have, in fact, happened.

Christian scholars have made very strong cases for the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection. Interested readers should consult books on the topic by William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, and Michael Licona. For a defense of biblical miracles, along with scores of documented cases of modern-day miracles, two excellent resources are “Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts” and “Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World,” both by Craig S. Keener.

This article is adapted from a post that originally appeared on the Worldview Bulletin Substack.

Not a fairy tale: Is science proving the Bible's supernatural claims?



Renowned Christian author Lee Strobel said Americans' interest in a "realm beyond that which we can see and touch" drove him to write his latest book — an exploration of the supernatural.

Strobel, who recently released "Seeing the Supernatural: Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World," said data showing the majority of Americans believe in these biblical topics led him to want to go deeper.

'It's not fraud, it's not fakery. There are documented cases.'

"It told me that this is a bridge where we can connect with people who may be far from God and yet have an interest in the supernatural," he told me and actress Jen Lilley on our new "Into the Supernatural" podcast. "It may be an entryway for them to really learn about what the Bible does teach about the world beyond our physical realm."

Strobel continued, "Being an evangelist, that was always my desire."

But the author, who called it an "adventure" to have the chance to dive into these topics over the past few years, said some Christians are hesitant to fully embrace each sentiment.

With that in mind, Strobel was careful to choose cases with a great deal of corroboration to help bring these issues to light. Near-death experiences are just one arena where he was fascinated to see powerful evidence that something supernatural had unfolded.

"You begin to see documented cases of near-death experiences where people see or hear things that would have been impossible for them to see or hear if they hadn't had an authentic out-of-body experience after their clinical death," Strobel said. "It just reinforces what scripture tells us about the supernatural realm, and I think it gives us more courage."

Strobel shared one such story about a woman who was clinically dead in a hospital and who claimed to have had her spirit separate from her body.

She said she traveled to the ceiling during the experience and could see her body being resuscitated.

"When she was ultimately revived, she said, 'Oh, by the way, on the ceiling fan here in the emergency room, on the upper part of the blade ... is a red sticker,'" he recounted. "And she couldn't have seen it. Nobody could see it from the room because it's on the upper part of the blade of the ceiling. So they got a ladder, and they went up, and, sure enough, there's the red sticker that she only could have seen from her perspective of her spirit floating near the ceiling of the emergency room."

Strobel encountered other examples like this, which he included in the book.

Issues like this are getting increasing attention in culture as faith seems to be making a resurgence. And Strobel said he's noticing something else — that for the first time in history, "People are doing scientific inquiries into miracles" in an attempt to prove their existence.

"In other words, they're testing them scientifically and with documentation in a way that I don't think has been done that much in the past," Strobel said. "And we're seeing cases of documented miracles that are really waking up people to the fact that this is not wishful thinking, it's not ... the placebo effect, it's not fraud, it's not fakery. There are documented cases."

He also cited the case of medical healing surrounding a blind woman whose husband prayed for her one night, imploring the Lord to heal her vision.

"He says, 'Lord, I know you can heal blindness. I know you can do it. And Lord, I pray you do it tonight. I pray you do it right now,'" Strobel recounted. "And she opened her eyes to perfect eyesight, and which has remained fine for 47 years so far."

Medically documented stories like this have Strobel convinced "something is going on" — something he believes is truly miraculous.

"And I think this is kind of opening people's eyes to the fact that these aren't just stories that you hear at Sunday school or whatever," he said. "But you dig down into many of these stories and you find substance, and you find people with eyewitnesses who have no motive to deceive. You have medical records and so forth."

This article originally appeared on CBN’s Faithwire.

Holy shot: Did Trump's assassination attempt survival prove miracles are real?



The world collectively gasped last July when Donald Trump — a then-candidate vying for a historic second presidential term — was nearly assassinated on live television.

In a series of events too shocking to seem impromptu, Trump turned his head just slightly, enough to inadvertently prevent a bullet from entering his skull.

One of the most remarkable facets of miracles is the corroborative proof they provide for the existence of a loving God.

The bizarre incident took place while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was a moment that left many pondering whether the hand of God had protected Trump, a boisterous billionaire who suffered little more than a surface injury when the bullet merely grazed his ear.

“The world saw a miracle before their eyes,” conservative activist Rocío Cleveland said at the time — and other spectators agreed. Then, when a second purported assassination attempt was thwarted not long after, miracle claims once again mounted.

Even first lady Melania Trump jumped into the mix, telling Fox News that “both of the events, they were really miracles, if you really think about it.”

“July 13th, it was a miracle like that much,” she added. “And he could, you know, he could not be with us.”

Not everyone bought in to the miracle narrative, though. Media outlets quickly seized upon those making such claims, with the Guardian publishing a essay titled “Christian right see God’s hand in Trump rally shooting: ‘The world saw a miracle.’”

And Politico added its own flare into the collective with this headline: “Republicans embrace ‘divine intervention’ for Trump’s near-miss into martyrdom.”

But while some headlines seemed to be near-mocking or at least dismissing the idea that Trump’s shocking survival somehow had divine elements, even the president’s former doctor felt the scenario qualified as a miracle.

Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, who served as a White House doctor for Trump and other presidents, stressed in a statement that the would-be assassin’s bullet came less than a quarter of an inch from entering Trump’s head.

“I am extremely thankful his life was spared,” Jackson said. “It is an absolute miracle he wasn't killed.”

Regardless of whether Americans believe Trump’s survival was God-ordained or contend the claim is an absurdity, there are some factors worth unpacking. The moment came during a contentious and confounding time in America — an era during which moral confusion and a stunning turn back to faith seem to be coexisting.

At a time when people increasingly realize moral relativism is nonsensical and that something eternal is worthy of consideration, Trump’s Butler moment offered fodder for those who believe miracles are real and that God is still operating in the world.

And it provided something worthwhile to contemplate for those open to the eternal.

Even if people reject this miracle narrative in Trump’s case, there are other examples of healing and radical lifesaving events that simply can’t be ignored.

I’ve spent the past year and a half working on my new Christian Broadcasting Network documentary, “Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles,” a film exploring miraculous claims that would leave even the most skeptical among us questioning if something more might be afoot.

Here’s why all of this matters: One of the most remarkable facets of miracles is the corroborative proof they provide for the existence of a loving God. If it’s true that people are being healed in inexplicable ways — and if those healings are being guided by the Lord — then that evidence must be taken into account.

Of course, most Americans have no problem with miracles. A Pew Research Center poll from 2010 found that 80% of adults believe in miracles, with other subsequent polls coming to similar conclusions. In 2016, a Barna poll found that 66% of Americans “believe people can be physically healed supernaturally by God.”

So miracles are widely accepted, yet many of us still want provable evidence that they’re real. That’s why I’ve traveled the nation exploring stunning claims of miraculous medical healings for “Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles.”

The Trump debate aside, I discovered many ironclad cases of medical healings that leave little room for doubt that God is more than active in our world today.

Take Dr. Chauncey Crandall, for example — a respected cardiologist and internist who has witnessed extraordinary recoveries in his medical work. One of the most jaw-dropping? A man who was declared clinically dead for 40 minutes — only to come back to life.

As wild as it sounds, the case is thoroughly recorded and backed by evidence.

Then there’s Bryan Lapooh, a former police officer from New Jersey who spent 10 years paralyzed following a freak fall on ice. But after attending a prayer gathering, something inexplicable happened: He walked out of the building and has been fine ever since.

Those are just two examples. The accounts featured in “Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles” aren’t flimsy or hearsay — they’re medically documented, rigorously defended, and absolutely astonishing.

But just like Trump’s case — one in which innocent victim Corey Comperatore was tragically killed — there are tough questions that must be explored: Why do some get miracles and not others? How do miracles work in the modern era? And what, if anything, dictates who receives a miracle and who doesn’t?

We were forced to grapple with these queries as we traveled the nation to analyze and examine these remarkable stories, and what we found transformed us.

Watch “Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles” today to discover a truly powerful narrative that will leave you thinking differently about faith, prayer, and the meaning of modern-day miracles.

Deliverance requires memory — and America is forgetting



Passover has just ended — a central story for Jews and Christians alike but also a defining narrative for America.

America’s founders drew heavily from the Exodus and the Hebrew prophets. They studied Hebrew. Some even proposed it as the official language of the United States. Benjamin Franklin, for his part, suggested that the national seal feature Moses crossing the parted Red Sea. The reverence for this story runs deep in our national DNA. It’s no accident that Hollywood — the most American of art forms — has returned again and again to retell it.

We rightly see Pharaoh as the villain of Exodus — but how many of us stop to honor the quiet heroism of Pharaoh’s daughter?

And yet, as a nation, we’ve let some of our oldest traditions fade. But that’s nothing new. God always finds a way to remind us.

Today, many Americans have begun to realize we needed the pain of 2020 and the years that followed. Without that nightmare, President Trump wouldn’t have returned with the mandate to truly save America. Without those four bitter years, the country might never have awakened to remember who we are.

This moment echoes the Exodus. Just as we needed four years of national affliction to witness Trump’s political deliverance, the Israelites needed to see God’s hand to remember His power. That’s why scripture says God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart.” Not only to punish Egypt — but to remind His people of His unmatched might. To declare, for all to see, “that there is none like unto the Lord our God.”

And yet, even after 10 plagues and a miraculous escape, the Israelites faltered. Jewish tradition teaches that only one in five left Egypt; the rest chose the false comfort of slavery. Many who did leave lost faith before stepping into the Red Sea. Others bowed before the golden calf while Moses ascended Sinai.

Even in the face of miracles, it was easier for some to forget God than to trust Him.

Americans had forgotten even before 2020 — and God gave us a hard reminder.

So ask yourself: If we forgot who we are, what else have we forgotten?

Look again to the story of Passover. The book of Exodus begins with a chilling line: “There arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.”

It wasn’t just that Pharaoh forgot Joseph. He chose not to know him. Acknowledging Joseph would have meant acknowledging the Israelites and all they had done for Egypt. Joseph saved the Egyptians from famine. His descendants helped build up the nation. So Pharaoh erased them. He enslaved them. He ordered their sons drowned in the Nile.

But not everyone forgot. Pharaoh’s own daughter remembered. She rescued Moses — the one who would lead the Israelites out of Egypt, receive the Ten Commandments at Sinai, and pass down a faith that would eventually give birth to Christianity.

That’s something worth remembering. We rightly see Pharaoh as the villain of Exodus — but how many of us stop to honor the quiet heroism of Pharaoh’s daughter?

She saved Moses when it was unpopular, even dangerous, to do so. She defied her father’s command, choosing righteousness over convenience. Her courage made everything that followed possible.

Christians have long understood the wisdom of Romans: “If the root is holy, so are the branches.” Like that olive tree, we must guard the roots to grow strong branches. We must remember.

So let us remember who we are. Americans are a people who remember God. Like Pharaoh’s daughter, we remember Joseph — even when the world forgets. Like the Israelites, we walk away from slavery and into the unknown, trusting the God who delivers.

We are that people.

I just pray we don’t forget.

The shocking reality I found after investigating claims of miraculous healing



Are miracles real? And do they still happen today?

These questions have dominated my life over the past two years as I’ve traversed America exploring some of the most compelling claims of miraculous healing — stories that seem too bombastic to be believable.

The scenarios I was confronted with were mind-bending.

Yet the evidence in the cases I encountered while making my new documentary, “Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles,” was so compelling that it absolutely demanded a pertinent exploration as well as a verdict.

And if I’m honest, the determination I came to at the conclusion of filming will likely make the heads of some of the staunchest secularists implode.

It’s no secret that the vast majority of Americans believe miracles still happen today. In 2010, the Pew Forum on Religion found that 80% of Americans embraced miracles, and more recent data shows such beliefs continue to be prevalent among the general populace.

There’s a primary reason so many people persist in believing in the miraculous: their personal and lived experiences.

These individuals and their friends and loved ones have undoubtedly encountered inexplicable events and happenings throughout their lives — occurrences that have come to shape and enhance their openness to the supernatural.

Frankly, most people have seen happenings they simply cannot explain. Some have endured even more elevated experiences, including shocking medical healings and other incidents that have led them to definitively believe the divine is actively at work.

But my job in producing and hosting this film wasn’t to take these anecdotal examples of miracle claims at face value. Instead, it was to skeptically explore some of the supposedly ironclad miracle healing stories in a way that left absolutely no room for whims or personal opinion.

My primary task alongside Emmy-nominated director Jarrod Anderson was to examine the evidence and allow viewers to determine whether there truly are credible cases of medical healings that defy skeptics’ penchant for hole-poking.

Despite my staunchest efforts to approach the topic with skepticism and intense questioning, the scenarios I was confronted with were mind-bending, to say the least.

First, I met neuroscientist Dr. Joshua Brown, who was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, a condition for which there was no medical treatment. With no viable interventions, he and his wife turned to prayer — and his tumor vanished.

Again, it sounds unbelievable. But the medical documentation and experience speak for themselves, all details we unpack in “Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles,” allowing viewers to weigh all of the evidence at hand and decide for themselves what they believe led to Brown’s healing.

Some might seek to dismiss such an experience, but skeptics face an uphill battle, as the neuroscientist isn’t alone in his radical healing journey. In the film, you’ll also meet Bryan Lapooh, a former police officer in New Jersey who was paralyzed in a work accident and embarked on a horrific, 10-year period of paralysis that included excruciating pain and suffering.

During that time, Lapooh and his wife ventured on a monumental prayer and healing quest — but, at first, to no avail. After a decade of praying for healing, his wife, Meg, asked him to attend a Christian conference to try one final time.

At that event, Bryan made his way to the stage, where he was prayed for, received healing, and walked out of the building on his own — something that was deemed medically impossible. It’s a case that shocked his doctors as he, even today, remains out of his brace and fully functional.

The cases only intensify from there, with another man, Jeff Markin, suffering a massive heart attack. After being pronounced dead and remaining clinically deceased for 40 minutes, he came back to life with no brain damage.

Again, these cases seem otherworldly and almost incomprehensible, but our investigation led us to an ultimate realization: Something inexplicable was afoot.

Beyond this obvious conclusion, we were left with the most natural of questions: If tumors disappeared, paralysis was vanquished, and a man came back from the dead, what, exactly, sparked these incredible events?

And if miracles are real, what does that mean for our faith and how do we process the moments when healings don’t unfold, even despite our most fervent prayers?

Exploring these questions through the eyes of those who claim to have experienced miracles was eye-opening, convicting, and transformational, as it challenged everything I thought I knew about faith and miracles and left me with a renewed perspective.

“Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles” will do the same for those who watch. You can stream the film right now here.

Jesus keeps showing up in dreams. Are you paying attention?



Under the weight of reality, humans believe in miracles, although “believe” is an understatement. We “believe” in miracles the same way we “believe” in our own existence, our own two hands.

Sometimes it’s just latent — it needs to wake up.

If miracles don’t exist, then what are we even doing here, on this grassy, wet, populated cannonball spiraling through the Milky Way?

Revelation isn’t about wisdom; it’s about awakening.

Miracles are undeniable. Perhaps they are not scientifically provable, although this assumption, as you’ll see, is itself wobbly.

We don’t know how miracles happen. There’s no script or receipt. And this often, by nature, defies scientific examination. Over the past 2,000 years, one thing has proven true: All miracles come from Jesus of Nazareth, the Word.

In the digital network era of information, Christ has been gliding through the dreams of millions of nonbelievers.

Across the Middle East, where hostility toward Christianity runs deep, people have been dreaming of Jesus. Usually he introduces them to someone, a stranger, who miraculously appears in their life the next day.

Warning shot

When Abraham and Sarah entered Gerar, Abraham, afraid for his life, told everyone that Sarah was his sister.

King Abimelech, unaware of the truth, took Sarah into his household. That night, God appeared to him in a dream with a chilling message: "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman" (Genesis 20:3).

Abimelech pleaded his innocence; he hadn’t known that she was married. God acknowledged this, but warned him: Return Sarah, or suffer the consequences.

This dream was more than a warning. It was a rare moment when a non-Israelite received a direct message from God.

Dreams, in the biblical world, are deeper than unconscious thoughts — they are places where heaven and earth meet.

Synchronicity

A few years ago, I dove into the ideas of Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist who ushered in a new form of Christianity.

Jung saw dreams as a source of prophecy. He called them “paranormal phenomena” — things science can’t explain. If miracles had a theory, this might be it: events bound by meaning, not cause.

I like to think it’s playful. That the Creator, my Creator, leaves clues of His love.

One of his big ideas is synchronicity, the unexplainable occurrence of meaningful coincidences. Think “synchronized,” but the coordination is divine.

Mark Twain was born in 1835, a year in which Halley’s Comet passed Earth. He predicted he’d die when it returned. In 1910, the comet appeared again — the day after his death.

A song comes on just as you’re thinking of someone who died, like a message sent through static. Numbers, phrases, chance encounters. The book that finds you, the right person at the right time. Fate colliding in ways too romantic to ignore.

Synchronicity proves that everything is connected, often in beautiful ways. The whole experience is so well crafted that it feels literary, like a novel tangled with theme, foreshadowing, dramatic irony — all the devices of storytelling.

And dreams — they are agents of synchronicity.

Even before reading Jung, I doubted the idea of accidents and coincidences. But Jung gave me the science — the science of the unprovable. Suddenly, I was drowning in meaningful connections and vivid dreams. A bombardment of symbols. The outer world mysteriously syncs with the most private thing of all: my thoughts, the endless dialogue between a soul and itself.

Solomon’s dream of wisdom

Early in his reign, Solomon went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices. That night, God appeared to him in a dream and said: "Ask for whatever you want me to give you" (1 Kings 3:5).

It was a test. Solomon could have asked for power, wealth, or victory. Instead, he asked for wisdom — to rule well, judge rightly, and discern good from evil.

God was pleased. He gave Solomon wisdom beyond measure — and threw in riches and honor.

Unlike other biblical dreams, which often needed interpretation, this one was clear. No riddles. Just a conversation, a moment of divine intimacy. The dreams of Jesus have this same quality, as if he reveals himself in the sharpest, most cinematic way possible, like a preview for the final apocalypse.

The Greek apokalypsis doesn’t mean destruction. It means revelation. A dream given form, a vision laid bare. It is not about God’s wrath but His love. The Second Coming will not be a final explosion of divine fury — it will be love breaking through.

The apocalypse has already happened: at Golgotha, on a hill shaped like a skull. Year 33. The cross was the unveiling — the great revelation that shattered history into before and after.

Simone Weil and the dream of presence

Simone Weil is one of my favorite writers. Weil was a French-Jewish philosopher who, after having a mystical experience at the foot of a crucifix, became deeply influenced by Christian mysticism and theology.

Weil believed that we experience God’s love indirectly through the people and objects of the world.

She believed in a God who withdraws — not to abandon, but to make space for freedom.

His absence, she wrote, is what allows the world to breathe. Yet, in that very withdrawal, He leaves traces — signs scattered like constellations for the soul to follow.

Weil called this the “implicit love of God.”

At the heart of her thought is de-creation, a concept as startling as it is profound. Unlike destruction, which bulldozes and erases, de-creation is an undoing that reveals.

It is a return, not to nothingness but to origin, a movement backward to the moment before something was formed, when it existed in pure potential. In de-creation, Weil saw the soul’s highest calling: to be unmade and remade, to let go of the self until what remains is only presence itself — the light of love stripped of ego.

It is a dream of reversal, an unbuilding that does not diminish but restores. The world, Weil suggests, is not a prison to escape but a teacher guiding us toward that dream of return — toward the place where God waits, hidden and everywhere.

“Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.”

Hidden since the foundation of the world

Jacob, exhausted and alone, stopped for the night in a barren place. He laid his head on a rock and fell asleep. Then he dreamed a ladder, stretching from earth to heaven. Angels ascended and descended.

At the top, the Lord spoke: "Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth. ... I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go" (Genesis 28:14-15).

Jacob gasped awake. The ground beneath him suddenly felt sacred.

"Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. ... This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven" (Genesis 28:16).

This dream was a turning point. Jacob may have been a fugitive, but he was not abandoned. The ladder — a bridge between heaven and earth — marked the moment he began to understand that God’s presence was not confined to altars or temples. It reaches everywhere, like the wind, unseen yet undeniable.

God's presence in creation is a mysterious paradox. His revelation is also His concealment, so that He reveals Himself in the world but remains beyond our full comprehension.

Revelation isn’t about wisdom; it’s about awakening. It’s about looking up at the sky: “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” (Psalm 8:3-4).

Joseph, the dreamer

Joseph’s dreams shaped his life. As a boy, he saw visions of sheaves of wheat bowing before him; of the sun, moon, and stars bending in reverence. When he shared them with his brothers, their jealousy burned. Soon, they betrayed him, selling him into slavery in a foreign land.

But Joseph’s gift did not fade.

In an Egyptian prison, he interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh’s cupbearer and baker — one would be restored, the other executed. When Pharaoh himself was troubled by a dream of seven fat cows devoured by seven gaunt ones, no one could decipher its meaning except Joseph.

The dream was a warning: Seven years of plenty would be followed by seven years of famine. Pharaoh, recognizing Joseph’s divine wisdom, elevated him to power.

The dream that almost stopped the crucifixion

In the middle of history’s most pivotal trial, when Jesus of Nazareth stood before Pontius Pilate, another figure — almost forgotten — received a warning from beyond.

Pilate’s wife, unnamed in Scripture but later called Claudia Procula in tradition, had a dream — and it shook her.

As Pilate sat in judgment, trying to navigate the political and religious storm around Jesus, a message reached him from his wife: "Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him" (Matthew 27:19).

A dream. Not a whisper from the high priests, not a threat from Rome, but a dream.

We don’t know what she saw — only that it tormented her. Perhaps she witnessed the brutal execution before it happened, or saw Jesus in divine glory, or simply felt an overwhelming dread. Whatever it was, she suffered. And she warned her husband to walk away.

Dream logic

Beyond the tiny raindrops of grace that rescue each of us throughout our lives, there’s proof everywhere, like the enormity of our universe, coded into every mystery of life.

Childbirth is a miracle. From the moment of conception and the clustering of cells to the first flutter of a heartbeat, life itself is a divine act. Parenthood is a miracle. Children are perhaps the most miraculous of it all.

The other day my 4-year-old told me, “You’re my king.” It knocked me sideways, the way I felt so honored that my child, my miracle, would see me, in all my flaws, as her king.

And then I crunched sideways the other way when I realized that God may feel similarly. So I’ll say it because people hear it even when they’re dreaming: Jesus is King.

Sacred tabernacle miraculously survives devastation of California fires — fire captain hints it was saved for divine reason



California fires recently reduced a church to rubble. However, the church's tabernacle miraculously survived the overwhelming devastation of the wildfires. The Los Angeles fire captain who salvaged the religious treasure hinted that there was a divine reason why it was marvelously preserved despite being surrounded by complete annihilation.

According to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection data, the Palisades fire has scorched nearly 24,000 acres and destroyed or damaged an estimated 5,000 structures. One of the buildings obliterated by the massive fire was the Corpus Christi Church in Los Angeles, California.

'It was one of the most uplifting things.'

The roof of the Corpus Christi Church collapsed, its pews were destroyed, and its walls were reduced to ash. The nave of the church was buried under six feet of rubble.

Los Angeles Fire Captain Bryan Nassour said of the devastation in the area of the church, "The whole community has been decimated — it looks like a nuclear bomb has gone off and nothing is standing."

Nassour is familiar with the Corpus Christi Church because his brother was a parishioner there.

Sadly, his brother lost his home in the Palisades fire.

"My brother lost his home. I have close friends who lost everything but the shirts on their backs, and they belong to that church too," Nassour told Angelus News.

Nassour was sifting through the ruins of what was once a beautiful church when he made a miraculous discovery.

Amid the rubble, Nassour found that the granite altar and the solid brass tabernacle atop it remained intact — still containing the Blessed Sacrament.

Nassour suggested there was a divine reason for how or why the tabernacle survived the overwhelming destruction.

"Talk to any firefighter. In any religious building, what usually survives is the cross and certain specific items that are highly religious, unless they’ve been specifically set on fire," Nassour proclaimed.

The fire captain declared, "So if I could save just one thing, let it be this, so they have something to believe in."

Nassour requested the assistance of his crew to hoist the 300-pound tabernacle out of the ruins of the Corpus Christi Church.

Nassour contacted Monsignor Liam Kidney — pastor of Corpus Christi — to inform him that the tabernacle had been salvaged from the wildfires.

"He was in utter disbelief," Nassour stated.

The tabernacle was transported to the St. Monica Church by Gabe Sanchez, a retired FBI agent working with the archdiocese.

The following day, Monsignor Kidney held a Mass for the survivors of the cataclysmic California fires.

Nassour explained, "It was one of the most uplifting things. Not everyone is religious, but they saw that and they’re like, 'This is awesome.'"

The fire captain continued, "We’re doing something — at least one thing — that we can salvage for the community."

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